August 31-September 2: (01-G-45-00035, 08/28/01):
Working. Broadway Revisited begins the 2001-2002
season with a Labor Day Weekend visit with the musical version of Studs
Terkel's “Working”, sampling three different productions.
September 7-9: (01-G-45-00036, 09/4/01): The Life and Lyrics of Johnny Mercer. Johnny Mercer wrote scores of memorable songs for Broadway and Hollywood, with the music of Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, and others, and this week you’ll hear several on Broadway Revisited.
September 14-16: (01-G-45-00037, 09/11/01): The Thurber Carnival. A 1960 Broadway show brought the works of writer-artist James Thurber to the stage. Along with selections from the show, we’ll also hear numbers from the stage and film versions of Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. “A Thurber Carnival” this week on Broadway Revisited.
September 21-23: (01-G-45-00038, 09/18/01): The New Fall Line. Summer brought a fine batch of new records, musical videos, and theater books. This week we’ll review the best of all this plastic and paper.
September 28-30: (01-G-45-00039, 09/25/01): Stephen Sondheim in Translation. Stephen Sondheim is often praised for his lyrics, but his music is equally prime. To demonstrate, this week on Broadway Revisited we’ll hear his lyrics in Basque, German, Portuguese, and other tongues, which tends to help concentration on the music.
October 5-7: (01-G-45-00040, 10/02/01): The 2001-2002 Broadway Season. A preview of the musicals planned for the new Broadway season.
October 12-14: (01-G-45-00041, 10/09/01): ‘Tis Autumn. Broadway Revisited notes the season with songs about the fall quarter. Performers include Bolcom & Morris, Walter Huston, and the original cast of Second City. ‘Tis autumn on Broadway Revisited.
October 19-21: (01-G-45-00042, 10/16/01): Dancing Up Broadway. The Charleston, The Varsity Drag, and The French Mistake are just a few of the dance steps invented in musicals. Hear a baker’s dozen of them this week on Broadway Revisited.
October 26-28: (01-G-45-00043, 10/23/01): The Warner Musicals of Doris Day. A retrospective of the Broadway shows filmed by Warner Brothers with Doris Day, including The Pajama Game, No No Nanette, and Rodgers and Hart’s Jumbo.
November 2-4: (01-G-45-00044, 10/30/01): Bobby Short and Susannah McCorkle. Jazz and cabaret have given long legs to the music of Broadway, and this week we sample the contributions of two of the best performers.
November 9-11: (01-G-45-00045, 11/6/01): The Shows of Cy Coleman. Cy Coleman has been writing the music for new old-fashioned song-and-dance musicals for decades, and this week Broadway Revisited samples ten of them.
November 16-18: (01-G-45-00046, 11/13/01): “Du Barry Was A Lady”. There was no original cast album for Cole Porter’s “Du Barry Was a Lady”, so this week Broadway Revisited cobbles together a variety of sources to recreate the good score.
November 23-25: (01-G-45-00047, 11/20/01): Turkey Leftovers. For our post-Thanksgiving show, Broadway Revisited is stuffed packed with good songs from shows that closed almost before they opened. Turkey leftovers on Broadway Revisited.
November 30-December 2: (01-G-45-00048, 11/27/01): New Paper and Plastic. Another of Broadway Revisited’s samplings of new books, records, and videos.
December 7-9: (01-G-45-00049, 12/4/01): “The Music Man”. Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” is set in River City, a stand-in for Willson’s home town, Mason City, Iowa. This week, Broadway Revisited blends Willson’s real life with the selections from the show.
December 14-16: (01-G-45-00050, 12/11/01): Literary Digest— Balzac and his Buddies. Broadway sends up plays, novels, and poetry in songs and skits.
December 21-23: (01-G-45-00051, 12/18/01): The Disney Musicals. For this holiday week, Broadway Revisited salutes Walt Disney in this centennial year of his birth with selections from the Disney musicals on stage and screen.
December 28-30: (01-G-45-00052, 12/25/01): Sinatra’s Broadway. For New Year’s Eve weekend, there’s none better to entertain than the ultimate saloon singer, Frank Sinatra.
January 4-6: (02-G-45-00001, 1/1/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: A Rodgers Jukebox. 2002 is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Richard Rodgers, and to kick off the centennial, this week’s Broadway Revisited is a sampling of his entire career, on a Richard Rodgers Jukebox.
January 11-13: (02-G-45-00002, 1/8/02): Adam and Eve The Book of Genesis has often been revised, and this week Broadway Revisited presents Mark Twain’s version. We’ll blend readings from Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve with songs from the Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical version. The Apple Tree, this week on Broadway Revisited.
January 18-20: (02-G-45-00003, 1/15/02): Broadway on Record— the Early Years. For several years, Britain’s Pearl label has been issuing compact discs of material from American musicals recorded before the lp and cd eras. This week, Broadway Revisited samples this vast collection
January 26-27: (02-G-45-00004, 1/22/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Rodgers and Hart. Composer Richard Rodgers’s first lyricist partner was Lorenz Hart, and this week we’ll review their collaboration from “The Garrick Gaieties” to “By Jupiter”.
February 1-3: (02-G-45-00005, 1/29/02): “Pacific Overtures”. When Commodore Perry made Japan an offer it couldn't refuse, he called it Pacific Overtures, which is also the title of the Stephen Sondheim show featured on this week's Broadway Revisited.
February 8-10: (02-G-45-00006, 2/5/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: “Pal Joey”. Continuing our recognition of Richard Rodgers’s centennial, this week’s Broadway Revisited presents a reconstruction of the 1952 revival of “Pal Joey”, one of the best of the Rodgers and Hart shows.
February 15-17: (02-G-45-00007, 2/12/02): The 1952 Broadway Season. This week, Broadway Revisited looks back fifty years to review the 1952 season of Broadway musicals, including “New Faces”, written by the young Mel Brooks.
February 22-24: (02-G-45-00008, 2/19/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Rodgers and Hammerstein. This week Broadway Revisited picks up the career of Richard Rodgers when Oscar Hammerstein’s lyrics replaced Lorenz Hart’s and the new team produced hits from “Oklahoma” to “The Sound of Music”.
March 1-3: (02-G-45-00009, 2/26/02): Winter New Discs, Books, and Videos. Another Broadway Revisited survey of the latest paper and plastic.
March 8-10: (02-G-45-00010, 3/05/02): The Education Program. Everyone talks about education and no one does anything about it. This week, Broadway Revisited steps in on the issue.
March 15-17: (02-G-45-00011, 3/12/02): “The Fantasticks”. The longest running musical in history just closed. This week, Broadway Revisited looks back.
March 22-24: (02-G-45-00012, 3/19/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: “South Pacific”. This week Broadway Revisited revisits one of the best of the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows.
March 29-31: (02-G-45-00013, 3/26/02): Mabel Mercer and Robert Clary. Mabel Mercer came form England and Robert Clary is from France. Both are masters at singing Broadway.
April 5-7: (02-G-45-00014, 4/02/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Rodgers after Hammerstein. After the death of Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers continued writing shows, with lyrics by Sondheim, Harnick, Charnin, and himself.
April 12-14: (02-G-45-00015, 4/09/02): Sondheim at the Kennedy Center. This summer, seven Stephen Sondheim shows will be presented in repertory by Washington’s Kennedy Center, and this week we’ll preview them all.
April 19-21: (02-G-45-00016, 4/16/16): Broadway Revisited Lite. For pledge week, an abbreviated program will feature an assortment of choice selections designed to encourage good feeling and open checkbooks.
April 26-28: (02-G-45-00017, 4/23/02): The Shows of Jule Styne. Along with songs for movies and Frank Sinatra, Jule Styne wrote a string of Broadway hits including “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “Bells Are Ringing”, and “Gypsy”. These and others this week on Broadway Revisited.
May 3-5: (02-G-45-00018, 4/30/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Richard Rodgers Overtures. No words, just music this week when the finale in our recognition of the Richard Rodgers Centennial presents dozens of his songs as they appeared in the overtures of his shows.
May 10-12: (02-G-45-00019, 5/7/02): The New Spring Line. New discs, books, and videos.
May 17-19: (02-G-45-00020, 5/14/02): The Broadway Restaurant Guide.
May 24-26: (02-G-45-00021, 5/21/02): “Gypsy”. The autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee set to music by Sondheim and Styne.
May 31-June 2: (02-G-45-00022, 5/28/02): The 2002 Tony Awards Preview. And a review of the 2001-2002 season.
June 7-9: (02 G-45-00023, 6/4/02): Literary Digest— Balzac and his Buddies. Broadway sends up plays, novels, and poetry in songs and skits.
June 14-16: (02 G-45-00024, 6/11/02): “Du Barry Was A Lady”. There was no original cast album for Cole Porter’s “Du Barry Was a Lady”, so this week Broadway Revisited cobbles together a variety of sources to recreate the good score.
June 21-23: (02 G-45-00025, 6/18/02): Dancing
Up Broadway. The Charleston, The Varsity Drag, and The French
Mistake are just a few of the dance steps invented in musicals. Hear
a baker’s dozen of them this week on Broadway Revisited.
The Richard Rodgers Centennial Summer
June 28-30: (02 G-45-00026, 6/25/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: A Rodgers Jukebox. Richard Rodgers was born on June 28, 1902, and to kick off our centennial summer celebration, this week’s Broadway Revisited is a sampling of his entire career, on a Richard Rodgers Jukebox.
July 5-7: (02-G-45-00027, 7/2/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Rodgers and Hart. Composer Richard Rodgers’s first lyricist partner was Lorenz Hart, and this week we’ll review their collaboration from “The Garrick Gaieties” to “By Jupiter”.
July 12-14: (02-G-45-00028, 7/9/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Two by Rodgers and Hart: “On Your Toes” and “The Boys from Syracuse”. They may have been written sixty years ago, but the clever lyrics of Lorenz Hart and the beautiful melodies of Richard Rodgers are still fresh as paint.
July 18-21: (02-G-45-00029, 7/16/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: “Pal Joey”. Continuing our recognition of Richard Rodgers’s centennial, this week’s Broadway Revisited presents a reconstruction of the 1952 revival of “Pal Joey”, one of the best of the Rodgers and Hart shows.
July 26-28: (02-G-45-00030, 7/23/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Rodgers and Hammerstein. This week Broadway Revisited picks up the career of Richard Rodgers when Oscar Hammerstein’s lyrics replaced Lorenz Hart’s and the new team produced hits from “Oklahoma” to “The Sound of Music”.
August 2-4: (02-G-45-00031, 7/30/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Two by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Two Rodgers and Hammerstein classics are on this week's menu when Broadway Revisited samples a rare recording of "The King and I" with Robert Merrill and Dinah Shore and the original cast recording of "Oklahoma".
August 9-11: (02-G-45-00032, 8/6/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: “South Pacific”. This week Broadway Revisited revisits one of the best of the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows.
August 16-18: (02-G-45-00033, 8/13/02): The Richard Rodgers Centennial: Rodgers after Hammerstein. After the death of Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers continued writing shows, with lyrics by Sondheim, Harnick, Charnin, and himself.
August 23-25: (02-G-45-00034, 8/20/02): The Richard
Rodgers Centennial: Richard Rodgers Overtures. No words,
just music this week when the finale in our recognition of the Richard
Rodgers Centennial presents dozens of his songs as they appeared in the
overtures of his shows.