226 Episodes

  1. Episode 177: THE SHOW GOES ON — BROADWAY HIRINGS, FIRINGS, AND REPLACEMENTS, part 1

    Published: 5/29/2025
  2. Episode 176: In Memory of CHARLES STROUSE

    Published: 5/20/2025
  3. Happy Birthday Broadway Nation!: Special Anniversary Encore

    Published: 5/13/2025
  4. Episode 175: THE OTHER GERSHWIN, part 3, with MICHAEL OWEN

    Published: 5/6/2025
  5. The Other Gershwin, part 2, with author Michael Owen

    Published: 4/29/2025
  6. Episode 173: THE OTHER GERSHWIN — with MICHAEL OWEN, author of IRA GERSHWIN — A LIFE IN WORDS

    Published: 4/22/2025
  7. Encore Episode: Razzle Dazzle: A Brief History of Lighting Design, part 2.

    Published: 4/20/2025
  8. Color and Light — A Brief History of Broadway Lighting Design with Tony Winner Ken Billington

    Published: 4/15/2025
  9. Travel with Broadway Nation to New York, New York — Your Top Questions Answered

    Published: 4/14/2025
  10. Episode 172: THE ART & CRAFT of BROADWAY ORCHESTRATION with 3-Time Tony Winner DOUG BESTERMAN

    Published: 4/8/2025
  11. Episode 171: MALTBY & SHIRE, part 2.

    Published: 4/1/2025
  12. Episode 170: The Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of MALTBY & SHIRE

    Published: 3/20/2025
  13. Encore Episode: TRUDE RITMANN & THE WOMEN WHO INVENTED BROADWAY

    Published: 3/13/2025
  14. Episode 169: If They Asked Me I Could Write A Book

    Published: 3/6/2025
  15. Episode 168: ACADEMY AWARD WINNING MUSICALS — The Movie Musicals That Won the Oscar for Best Picture

    Published: 2/27/2025
  16. Episode 167: HELEN MORGAN, part 3

    Published: 2/20/2025
  17. Episode 166: HELEN MORGAN, part 2.

    Published: 2/13/2025
  18. Episode 165: HELEN MORGAN — THE ORIGINAL TORCH SINGER & ZIEGFELD'S LAST STAR

    Published: 2/6/2025
  19. Special Encore Episode: BROADWAY COMES OUT!

    Published: 1/30/2025
  20. Episode 164: THE MYTHS & LEGACIES OF GEORGE M. COHAN

    Published: 1/23/2025

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A lively and opinionated cultural history of the Broadway Musical that tells the extraordinary story of how Immigrants, Jews, Queers, African-Americans and other outcasts invented the Broadway Musical, and how they changed America in the process.In Season One, host David Armstrong traces the evolution of American Musical Theater from its birth at the dawn of the 20th Century, through its mid-century “Golden Age”, and right up to its current 21st Century renaissance; and also explore how musicals have reflected and shaped our world -- especially in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and equality.