Broadway To Main Street

A very personal tribute to Stephen Sondheim, through decades of discovering his works and playing my (and his) favorites. Songs and renditions, well-known and obscure, from COMPANY, SWEENEY TODD, PACIFIC OVERTURES and more.  

As a tribute to the greatest songwriter of Broadway's last half-century, we remember Stephen Sondheim with an encore of this 2018 broadcast--a musical march through the 20th Century, from the maestro's point of view.  A special  new memorial broadcast will appear next week.

One of the most enduring partnerships in American music, with songs sung by Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Rebecca Luker, Nina Simone--and the lyricist himself!

On Broadway, the people sing of progress, politics, and passion. Here are the great anthems for social change over the last century from Les Misérables, Hair, Ragtime, Caroline or Change, and more.

A celebration of the songwriting Candy Man behind Stop the World, Roar of the Greasepaint, Willy Wonka, Scrooge, and many more. Songs performed by Anthony Newley, Sammy Davis, Jr., Julie Andrews, along with other magical performers.  

Our annual Halloween special on "Blood-vay to Main Street" actually falls on Halloween this year--scary, kids!! Count Larry Maslon takes you on a tour of show tunes sung to characters in The Great Beyond--ghosts, ghouls, and zombies (sort of) from Carousel, Les Misèrables, The Lion King and more.

The great composer conquered the pop charts in the 1940s and 50s. Here are tremendous songs that span the entire arc of his career, rendered by, among others, Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Sammy Davis Jr., and, of course, Bobby Darin.  

C'mon along as we present a repertoire of the most important Tin Pan Alley songs of the early 20th Century, rendered by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Laurel and Hardy--and more!

A lovely day with the finest cabaret duo of our time, live in our virtual studio, selecting souvenirs of great Broadway songs from Hello, Dolly!, Li'l Abner, St. Louis Woman, Golden Boy and more.  

Film noir and film studios collide in this complex and comical Tony winner from 1989. We highlight Cy Coleman and David Zippel's score and all the cool jazz antecedents that inspired it.

The Queen of Soul had an impressive Broadway songbook--Aretha Franklin lends her passion and skill to songs from "Porgy and Bess," "Funny Girl, "Camelot," "Les Miz" and more.  

Our annual celebration of film composers is brought to a new level with our guest Steven C. Smith, who conducts us on a tour of great composers--Max Steiner, David Raksin, Bernard Herrmann, and more--and their work on film and on stage.

A quicker picker-upper to celebrate four decades of a true Broadway original. Songs from On The Town, Do Re Mi, plus rare recordings of Ms. Walker singing Sondheim, Kern, Gershwin and others.  

It’s still here. We welcome the return of live productions on Broadway with a bouquet of songs celebrating indomitability, change, and survival. Some of Broadway’s greatest—Merman, Streisand, Hudson, Bacall, Jolson, and more—clear the decks for a bright and rosy future.  

Goddard Lieberson produced some of the most admired and beloved Broadway cast albums of all time at Columbia Records: South Pacific, My Fair Lady, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line and more. A toast to the highlights of his incredible achievements.  

To honor Bay Street Theater's August concerts under the stars, we march through Lerner and Loewe's classic score with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, plus Richard Harris, Mel Torme, Chris Connor and more.

The most unique of all of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, discussed in exquisite detail with our special guest, Ted Chapin. Renditions by Tony Bennett, Audra McDonald, Coleman Hawkins, among others.

And the living is...you know the rest. Great songs from the Broadway stage about the joys of the season, from Grease to The Most Happy Fella to Porgy and Bess to Mamma Mia!  

Unsung champions of the Broadway songbook--if you don't know them, you should: Jackie and Roy, Lee Wiley, Buddy Clark, Felicia Sanders, Matt Monro, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and more.  

A tribute to one of the American Musical Theatre's most ambitious songwriters. We're joined by Steven Blier, artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, plus amazing renditions of Blitzstein's work by Patti LuPone, Rosemary Clooney, Audra McDonald, Paul Robeson and more.