226 Episodes

  1. Episode 59: Four Visions Of West Side Story

    Published: 3/24/2022
  2. Episode 58: The Genius Of Sondheim

    Published: 3/17/2022
  3. Special Encore Episode: Agnes de Mille & The Women Who Invented Broadway Choreography & Lighting Design

    Published: 3/10/2022
  4. Episode 57: The Fall And Rise of Yiddish Theater -- How The Yiddish Theater Influenced Broadway, part 2

    Published: 3/3/2022
  5. Episode 56: From 2nd Avenue To Times Square - How The Yiddish Theater Influenced Broadway

    Published: 2/24/2022
  6. Special Encore Episode: "Forgotten Forefathers" - The Black Artists Who Invented Broadway

    Published: 2/17/2022
  7. Special Encore Episode: West Side Story vs. The Music Man

    Published: 2/10/2022
  8. Episode 55: The King Of Broadway - The Genius Of Tommy Tune, part 3

    Published: 2/3/2022
  9. Episode 54: "You Gotta Take Care Of Business" - The Genius of Tommy Tune, part 2

    Published: 1/27/2022
  10. Episode 53: The Theatrical Genius Of Tommy Tune, part 1

    Published: 1/20/2022
  11. Episode 52: The Other Musicals Of Meredith Willson

    Published: 1/13/2022
  12. Episode 51: The Musicals of Meredith Wilson, Part 1

    Published: 1/6/2022
  13. SPECIAL ENCORE EPISODE: "WHITE CHRISTMAS" -- THE STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR SONG, part 2

    Published: 12/30/2021
  14. SPECIAL ENCORE EPISODE: "WHITE CHRISTMAS": THE STORY BEHIND THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR SONG, Part 1

    Published: 12/22/2021
  15. Episode 50: 100 YEARS OF SHUFFLE ALONG, part 4

    Published: 12/16/2021
  16. Episode 49: 100 YEARS OF SHUFFLE ALONG!, part 3

    Published: 12/9/2021
  17. Episode 48: MY FIRST SONDHEIM with special guest Albert Evans

    Published: 12/2/2021
  18. Episode 47: "Listening To The Audience"

    Published: 11/25/2021
  19. Episode 46: "ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS"

    Published: 11/18/2021
  20. Episode 45: CHILDREN WILL LISTEN, part 2

    Published: 11/11/2021

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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.