226 Episodes

  1. Episode 133: 42nd STREET & the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

    Published: 2/22/2024

  2. Special Encore Episode: The Black Musical Returns!

    Published: 2/15/2024

  3. Episode 132: MARY & ETHEL & STEPHEN COLE

    Published: 2/8/2024

  4. Special Encore Episode: Tails Of Broadway - with theatrical animal trainer Bill Berloni

    Published: 2/1/2024

  5. Special Encore Episode: Inside The Creation of FOLLIES

    Published: 1/25/2024

  6. Special Encore Episode: Robbins, Fosse, Bennett & Gennaro! — The Craft and Art of Broadway Choreography

    Published: 1/18/2024

  7. Special Encore Episode: Katherine Dunham, Agnes de Mille & The Craft and Art of Broadway Choreography

    Published: 1/11/2024

  8. Special Encore Episode: "Sensory Abundance!": or, Why We Are Hooked On Musicals

    Published: 1/4/2024

  9. Episode 131: The Last NOEL!

    Published: 12/21/2023

  10. Episode 130: NOEL COWARD in LAS VEGAS

    Published: 12/14/2023

  11. Episode 129: Noel Coward In A Changing World, part 5

    Published: 12/7/2023

  12. Episode 128: The Lives of NOEL COWARD, part 4

    Published: 11/30/2023

  13. Episode 127: Private Lives, Gertrude Lawrence & The Lives of Lives of Noel Coward, part 3

    Published: 11/23/2023

  14. Special Encore Episode: GYPSY vs THE SOUND OF MUSIC in the Golden Age of Broadway

    Published: 11/17/2023

  15. Special Encore Episode: PAL JOEY & the Silver Age of Broadway

    Published: 11/9/2023

  16. Episode 126: THE LIVES OF NOEL COWARD, part 2

    Published: 11/2/2023

  17. Episode 125: MASQUERADE — THE LIVES OF NOEL COWARD

    Published: 10/26/2023

  18. Episode 124: A PASSION FOR PASTICHE!

    Published: 10/19/2023

  19. Special Encore Episode: Jesus Christ Superstar & the Rise of The Rock Musical!

    Published: 10/12/2023

  20. Episode 123: National Identity and the British Musicals, part 2

    Published: 10/5/2023

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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.