The 2007-2008 Season

August 31-September 2: (08/28/07)  07-35: Working.    Broadway Revisited begins the  2004-2005 season with a Labor Day Weekend visit with the musical version of Studs Terkel's “Working”, sampling three different productions.

September 7-9: (09/04/07) 07-36: The Summer’s New Paper and Plastic.  The season’s new books, records and videos.

September 14-16: (09/011/07) 07-37: Songs without Words.  Jazz converted operetta to Broadway and Broadway returned the favor when jazz was enriched with show tunes.  This week we hear jazz performances of the classic songs.

September 21-23: (09/18/07) 07-38: Gershwin on Columbia.  Over the decades, Broadway shows and songs have been recorded by Columbia records, and this week we sample some of the label’s use of Gershwin tunes.

September 28-30: (09/25/07) 07-39: The Cinderella Story.  The Cinderella fable has been converted to a musical more than half a dozen times.  We’ll hear selections from the Rodgers and Hammerstein production that uses the Perrault version, and Stephen Sondheim’s take on the Brothers Grimm.

October 5-7: (10/2/07) 07-40: Early Sinatra.    Frank Sinatra had two careers— first as teen idol, then as the swinging Chairman of the Board.  This week, we’ll illustrate those early years with songs from his records and radio programs. 

October 12-13: (10/9/07) 07-41: The Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre.  Frank Sinatra and friends, including Dean Martin, Dinah Shore, and Bing Crosby, recorded four classic musicals back in the ‘sixties.  This week Broadway Revisited revisits the Reprise Musical Repertory Theater.

October 19-21: (10/16/07) 07-42: The New Broadway Season.  What to expect in 2007-2008.

October 26-28: (10/23/07) 07-43: Two by Vincent Youmans: “Hit the Deck” and “Great Day”.  Classic scores and silly plots.    

November 2-4: (10/30/07) 07-44: “Company”.  The Sondheim show about marriage and ambivalence.

November 9-11: (11/06/07) 07-45: Ira without George.  Ira Gershwin’s lyrics with music not by his brother.

November 16-18: (11/13/07) 07-46: The Broadway Restaurant Guide.  Where to eat at home and abroad. 

November 23-25: (11/20/07) 07-47: Mickey & Judy.  Garland and Rooney, together at M-G-M.

November 30-December 2: (11/27/07) 07-48: New Fall  Paper and Plastic.  The seasons new compact discs, books, and videos.

December 7-9: (12/04/07) 07-49: “A Thurber Carnival”.  A Broadway show brought the works of  writer-artist James Thurber to the stage.  Along with selections from the show, we’ll also hear numbers versions of Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.  “A Thurber Carnival” this week on Broadway Revisited.

 December 14-16: (12/11/07) 07-50: It Takes Two.  All Broadway duets this week, none of them love songs.

December 21-23: (12/18/07) 07-51: A Broadway Christmas.  This week Broadway Revisited sends holiday greetings with selections from the Broadway version of Dickens’s  A Christmas Carol, along with seasonal songs by Sheldon Harnick, Frank Loesser, and others.   A Broadway Christmas on Broadway Revisited. 

December 28-30: (12/25/07) 07-52: A Year-end Cabaret.  Good, songs, good singers, and you can hear them at home for free.

January 4-6: (1/1/08) 08-1: “Lost in the Stars”.  Kurt Weill’s musical transformation of Alan Paton’s novel “Cry, the Beloved Country”.

January 11-13: (1/8/08) 08-2: “The Band Wagon”. In 1931, the Dietz and Schwartz show The Band Wagon was a hit on Broadway, and twenty years later it became a successful movie.  We’ll hear the original casts of both versions this week when Broadway Revisited revisits The Band Wagon.

January 18-20: (1/15/08) 08-3: There’s Something About a War.  The musical about World War One, Oh What A Lovely War, will be the main item in this week’s Broadway Revisited, along with some related show tunes in a program we’re calling There’s Something about a War.     

January 25-27: (1/22/08) 08-4: “Androcles and the Lion”.  Several musicals have been written just for television.  This week on Broadway Revisited we revisit one of them: Richard Rodgers’ musical version of Bernard Shaw’s “Androcles and the Lion”.

February 1-3: (1/29/08) 08-5: Victor Herbert’s Greatest Hits.   Victor Herbert was the pioneer of American operetta.  This week we’ll hear songs from several of his fifty-four Broadway shows. Victor Herbert’s Greatest Hits, on Broadway Revisited.

February 8-10: (2/5/08) 08-6: My Funny Valentine.  For Valentine’s Day weekend, Broadway Revisited presents an assortment of theatrical love songs, some of them tender, but some comic Valentines, too.  My Funny Valentine, this week on Broadway Revisited.

February 15-17: (2/12/08) 08-7: “Pacific Overtures”.  Back in 1853, when President Fillmore sent Commodore Perry to make Japan an offer it couldn't refuse, he called it Pacific Overtures, which is also the title of a Stephen Sondheim Broadway show.  Get a century and a half of Japanese history in an hour, when Broadway Revisited revisits Pacific Overtures.

February 22-24: (2/19/08) 08-8: Mary & Ethel.   For more than thirty years, the biggest stars on Broadway were Mary Martin and Ethel Merman.  Hear selections from all of their hit shows this week when Broadway Revisited covers the careers of Mary and Ethel.

February 29-March 1: (2/26/08) 08-9: The Winter’s New Paper and Plastic.  The season’s new compact discs, books, and videos.

March 7-9: (3/4/08) 08-10: The Depression.  The Depression of the 1930's hit Broadway hard, and some of the songs of the period reflected the national condition.  This week on Broadway Revisited we’ll have some songs of despair and some of denial.  Singing through the Depression, on Broadway Revisited.

March 14-16: (3/11/08) 08-11: Tony Bennett & Sarah Vaughan & The American Songbook.  Classy singers and classic songs.

March 21-23: (3/18/08) 08-12: Noël Coward.  A celebration of the multi-talented Noel Coward, with an extended sampling of his score for Sail Away, along with an assortment of other Coward songs sung by him and others.

March 28-31: (3/25/08) 08-13: Before Broadway.  While the upper classes were attending European operas and operettas, the masses were entertained by minstrels, music hall, vaudeville, and burlesque, the subjects of this week’s Broadway Revisited. 

April 4-6: (4/1/08) 08-14: Spring Is Here.  The calendar says “spring”, so this week Broadway Revisited welcomes the season with an assortment of songs about April, May, and June from Rodgers & Hart, Tom Lehrer, William Shakespeare, Sigmund Romberg and other authorities.  Swing into Spring on Broadway Revisited.

April 11-13: (4/8/08) 08-15: April in Paris.  Broadway composers liked to write songs about Paris.  This week on Broadway Revisited  we’ll hear nineteen of them, by Stephen Sondheim, Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg, Cole Porter, and others.  Paris in April, this week on Broadway Revisited.

April 18-20: (4/15/08) 08-16: Broadway Goes to College: “Leave It to Jane” and “Good News.”  Shows from the distant past, when a university was a fountain of knowledge where students came to drink, and when students cared whether their school won a football game or not.

April 25-27: (4/22/08) 08-17: Dave Frishberg and Ann Hampton Callaway.  Two singer-songwriters who would be on Broadway if there were still sophisticated revues.
 
May 2-4: (4/29/08) 08-18: The Shows of Charles Strouse.  “Annie”, “Bye Bye Birdie”, and more. 

May 9-11: (5/6/08) 08-19: Cole Porter’s Kates.   Cole  Porter had fun writing songs about his mother, Kate Cole. We'll hear  some of them on Broadway Revisited this Mother's Day weekend, along  with those from his classic tribute, “Kiss Me, Kate”.

May 16-18: (5/13/08) 08-20: “L’Homme de La Mancha” and “Hair”.  Broadway hits of the ‘sixties— en Français.

May 23-25: (5/20/08) 08-21: The Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick.   This week, Broadway Revisited will sample some of the best of the songs of Sheldon Harnick, including a generous sampling of “Fiddler on the Roof”.

May 30-June 1: (5/27/08) 08-22: The Spring’s New Paper and Plastic.  The season’s new books, records, and videos.

June 6-8: (6/3/08) 08-23: Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory.  Songs from the soundtracks of great M-G-M musicals.

June 13-15: (6/10/08) 08-24:  Preview of This Year’s Tony Awards. Hear songs from all the nominees on this week’s review of the Broadway season.

June 20-22: (6/17/08) 08-25: Songs without Words.  Jazz converted operetta to Broadway and Broadway returned the favor when jazz was enriched with show tunes.  This week we hear jazz performances of the classic songs.

June 27-29: (6/24/08) 08-26: The Cinderella Story.  The Cinderella fable has been converted to a musical more than half a dozen times.  We’ll hear selections from the Rodgers and Hammerstein production that uses the Perrault version, and Stephen Sondheim’s take on the Brothers Grimm.