Episodes

  • Positively B'way to Main Street
    May 19 2025

    As a run-up to the Great Performances l PBS broadcast of "Girl from the North Country" (May 23), we gather 'round the Bob Dylan legacy and the Broadway songbook, including many renditions by Dylan himself.

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    54 mins
  • Happy Families, Unhappy Families
    May 4 2025

    Following Tolstoi's dictum, we look at all sorts of families across the years on Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Next to Normal, Falsettos, The Addams Family and more.

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    54 mins
  • The Heart and Music of William Finn
    Apr 27 2025

    We march through a tribute to the composer/lyricist with a variety of performances--Mary Testa, Christian Borle, Malcolm Gets, Finn himself--with classics and rarities.

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    54 mins
  • Bobby Darin's Broadway Bag
    Apr 20 2025

    Look out--Bobby Darin is back, in Just in Time with Jonathan Groff on Broadway. Here is Darin working his magic with more than a dozen Broadway classics--giving you the real thing,

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    55 mins
  • Wonderful Town
    Apr 13 2025

    Unless you just want to conga, join us to enjoy this great Bernstein-Comden-Green score; renditions by Rosalind Russell, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews and more.

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    54 mins
  • Cartoon Tunes
    Apr 6 2025

    We open up the funny papers and celebrate Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman, Little Orphan Annie and all the other great cartoon and comic strip characters that made it to Broadway.

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    54 mins
  • The Songs That Won The War
    Mar 23 2025

    Taking our cue from the new Broadway musical Operation Mincemeat, we look at songs that inspired--and were inspired by-- the WWII homefront here and in the UK: Bernstein, Berlin, Coward, Weill, Bart and more.

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    54 mins
  • Love Life
    Mar 16 2025

    To celebrate the upcoming Encores! concert of this rare Kurt Weill/Alan Jay Lerner musical, we're putting together a version of the score with performances by Jo Stafford, Nanette Fabray, Kaye Ballard and Victoria Clark and others.

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    54 mins