226 Episodes

  1. Episode 44: Children Will Listen

    Published: 11/4/2021

  2. Episode 43: TAILS OF BROADWAY! with theatrical animal trainer BILL BERLONI

    Published: 10/28/2021

  3. Episode 42: Fifty Years On Broadway with Lee Roy Reams!, Part 3

    Published: 10/21/2021

  4. Episode 41: Fifty Years On Broadway -- with Lee Roy Reams!

    Published: 10/14/2021

  5. Episode 40: FIFTY YEARS ON BROADWAY! with LEE ROY REAMS

    Published: 10/7/2021

  6. Episode 39: Carolyn, Dorothy, David and More: Cy Coleman's Lyricists

    Published: 9/30/2021

  7. Episode 38: 100 Years of Shuffle Along, Part 2

    Published: 9/23/2021

  8. Episode 37: 100 Years of SHUFFLE ALONG!, Part 1

    Published: 9/16/2021

  9. Episode 36: Everything Sondheim: Inside the Creation of The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia with author Rick Pender

    Published: 9/9/2021

  10. Episode 35: "Sensory Abundance!": or, Why We Are Hooked On Musicals

    Published: 1/22/2021

  11. Episode 34: Community: The Major Themes Of The Broadway Musical, part 3

    Published: 1/14/2021

  12. Episode 33: Equity, Justice & Inclusion: The Major Themes of the Broadway Musical, part 2

    Published: 1/7/2021

  13. Special Bonus Episode: "White Christmas": The Story Behind The World's Most Popular Song, Part 2

    Published: 12/30/2020

  14. Special Bonus Episode: "White Christmas": The Story Behind The World's Most Popular Song, Part 1

    Published: 12/24/2020

  15. Episode 32: Transgressive Women: Major Themes of the Broadway Musical, part 1.

    Published: 12/16/2020

  16. Episode 31:"Defying Gravity" - The Broadway Musical in the 21st Century

    Published: 12/9/2020

  17. Episode 30: "Razzle Dazzle": The Broadway Musicals Of The 1990s, Part 2

    Published: 12/2/2020

  18. Episode 29: "The Triumph Of Broadway": The Musicals Of The 1990s, part 1 - with special guest Michael Riedel

    Published: 11/25/2020

  19. Episode 28: Cameron Mackintosh & The British Invasion of Broadway (or Sondheim vs the Poperetta)

    Published: 11/18/2020

  20. Episode 27: Broadway Comes Out: Gay Liberation & The AIDS Crisis On Broadway - The Modern Era, part 6

    Published: 11/11/2020

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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.