226 Episodes

  1. Episode 107: Sandy Wilson's THE BOYFRIEND, London Theatre and Gay Culture

    Published: 5/11/2023
  2. Encore Episode: Celebrating 63 Years of THE FANTASTICKS

    Published: 5/4/2023
  3. Episode 106; ITAMAR MOSES — From THE BAND"S VISIT to AN AMERICAN TAIL

    Published: 4/27/2023
  4. Episode 105: Two Degrees of George Abbott, The Abbott Touch, part 2

    Published: 4/20/2023
  5. Episode 104: The Abbott Touch — The Theatre of George Abbott, part 1.

    Published: 4/13/2023
  6. Episode 103: More Scandalous Gertrude Hoffmann

    Published: 4/6/2023
  7. Episode 102: The Scandalous Life & Career of GERTRUDE HOFFMANN

    Published: 3/30/2023
  8. Episode 101: Round In Circles — The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein's CAROUSEL, part 3

    Published: 3/23/2023
  9. Episode 99: ROUND IN CIRCLES, part 2

    Published: 3/9/2023
  10. Episode 98: Round In Circles — The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein's CAROUSEL

    Published: 3/2/2023
  11. Special Bonus Encore Episode: When Broadway Was Black, part Two!

    Published: 2/26/2023
  12. Encore Episode: When Broadway Was Black!

    Published: 2/23/2023
  13. Episode: 97: Coming Out Of The Dark — A Conversation with Sheldon Epps, part 3

    Published: 2/16/2023
  14. Episode 96: How To Transform An American Theatre

    Published: 2/9/2023
  15. Episode 95: A Black Man's Journey In The American Theatre

    Published: 2/2/2023
  16. Episode 94: More On The Life of MARY RODGERS

    Published: 1/26/2023
  17. Episode 93: "Under Richard Rodgers Piano" — A Conversation with JESSE GREEN

    Published: 1/19/2023
  18. Episode 92: Fosse vs. Schwartz — 50 Years of PIPPIN, part 2

    Published: 1/12/2023
  19. Episode 91: 50 Years of PIPPIN, part 1

    Published: 1/5/2023
  20. A Special Encore Episode: "White Christmas" — The Story Behind The World's Most Popular Song, part 2

    Published: 12/29/2022

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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.