226 Episodes

  1. Episode 74: Sweeney, Merrily, Dreamgirls & Gemignani

    Published: 8/4/2022
  2. Episode 73: Sondheim, Prince & Gemignani

    Published: 7/28/2022
  3. Episode 72: Broadway's First Choice - Paul Gemignani. part 1

    Published: 7/21/2022
  4. Special Encore Episode: Eubie Blake & The Black Artists Who Invented Broadway

    Published: 7/14/2022
  5. Special Encore Episode: Irving Berlin & The Immigrants Who Invented Broadway

    Published: 7/7/2022
  6. Encore Episode: "Yearning To Breathe Free": George M. Cohan & The Immigrants Who Invented The Broadway Musical

    Published: 7/4/2022
  7. Ep 71: Politics & Musicals: 20 Years of HAIRSPRAY

    Published: 6/30/2022
  8. Episode 70: "The Show Must Go On" - Behind The Scenes Of The New Documentary

    Published: 6/23/2022
  9. Episode 69: Barry Bostwick & Marilu Henner - Fifty Years Of Grease, Part 3

    Published: 6/16/2022
  10. Episode 68: Fifty Years Of Grease, Part 2

    Published: 6/9/2022
  11. Episode 67: Fifty Years Of GREASE, part 1

    Published: 6/2/2022
  12. Episode 66: "A Story Worth Telling": Inside The Creation of THE PROM

    Published: 5/26/2022
  13. Episode 65: "Getting To Know Him": The Letters Of Oscar Hammerstein II

    Published: 5/19/2022
  14. Episode 64: The Other Broadway, Part 2 - "Satan's Circus" & The Lobster Palaces

    Published: 5/12/2022
  15. Episode 63: THE OTHER BROADWAY, part 1: The Origins of New York Nightlife

    Published: 5/5/2022
  16. Special Encore Episode: "Let The Sun Shine": The Rise Of The Pop/Rock Musical

    Published: 4/28/2022
  17. Episode 62: Exploring The Roots Of Broadway Dance

    Published: 4/21/2022
  18. Special Encore Episode: Bye Bye Birdie & The Golden Age of Broadway, Part 3: The 1960s

    Published: 4/14/2022
  19. Episode 61: The Craft And Art Of Broadway Choreography , part 2

    Published: 4/7/2022
  20. Episode 60: Katherine Dunham & Agnes de Mille - The Craft & Art of Broadway Choreography

    Published: 3/31/2022

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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.