226 Episodes

  1. Episode 148: Julian Eltinge In Hollywood!

    Published: 7/25/2024
  2. Episode 147: The Musical Theater of Julian Eltinge

    Published: 7/18/2024
  3. Episode 146: Julian Eltinge — America's First Drag Superstar, part 1

    Published: 7/11/2024
  4. Special Encore Episode: SONDHEIM AND ME

    Published: 6/27/2024
  5. Episode 145: "Still Goin' Strong" — 60 Years of HELLO DOLLY!

    Published: 6/20/2024
  6. Episode 144: One More For The Road — The Theater of Bette Midler, part 3

    Published: 6/13/2024
  7. Episode 143: Bette On The Half Shell: The Theatre of Bette Midler, part 2

    Published: 6/6/2024
  8. Episode 142: The Theater of Bette Midler

    Published: 5/27/2024
  9. Encore Episode: Everything Sondheim: Inside The Creation of the Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia

    Published: 5/20/2024
  10. Episode 141: Exceptional Storytelling Is Possible

    Published: 5/13/2024
  11. Episode 140: The "Rigorous Creative Science" of the American Musical

    Published: 5/6/2024
  12. Episode 139: Birth Of An Art Form — Evolution of the American Musical, part 2.

    Published: 4/29/2024
  13. Episode: 138: The Evolution of the American Musical

    Published: 4/22/2024
  14. Episode 137: Broadway Melody — A Novel Approach to Broadway History

    Published: 4/11/2024
  15. Carolyn, Dorothy, David, and More: Cy Coleman's Lyricists with special guest David Zippel

    Published: 4/4/2024
  16. Encore Episode: Patricia Zipprodt and the Women Who Invented Broadway

    Published: 3/27/2024
  17. Special Encore Episode: Irene Sharaff And The Women That Invented Broadway

    Published: 3/21/2024
  18. Episode 136: THE MUSICALS THAT NEVER CAME TO BROADWAY

    Published: 3/14/2024
  19. Episode 135: GO INTO YOUR DANCE: The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 3

    Published: 3/7/2024
  20. Episode 134: Before GYPSY there was STAGE MOTHER — The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 2

    Published: 2/29/2024

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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.