The 2006-2007 Season

September 1-3: (06-G-66-72992, 8/29/06) 35: “Pins and Needles”.  We begin our 2005-2006 Season with a Labor Day Weekend recognition of working people with the hit Broadway show staged by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

September 8-10: (06-G-66-72993, 9/5/06) 36: The Summer’s New Paper and Plastic.  The season’s new books, records and videos.

September 15-17: (06-G-66-72994, 9/12/06) 37: Food Glorious Food.  Good eats from Broadway.

September 22-24: (06-G-66-72995, 9/19/06) 38: Margaret Whiting and Dick Haymes Sing Jerome Kern.

September 22-October 1: (06-G-66-72996, 9/26/06) 39: “Forty-five Minutes from Broadway”.  A new recording of the 1906 show by George M. Cohan.

October 6-8: (06-G-66-24121, 10/3/06) 40: “The Music Man”.  Robert Preston charms Barbara Cook in Meredith Willson’s musical set in River City

October 13-15: (06-G-66-24122, 10/10/06) 41: Politics and Poker.  The Broadway spin on next month’s election.

October 20-22: (06-G-66-24123, 10/17/06) 42: The New Season Preview.  What’s planned for Broadway in the 2006-2007 season.

October 27-29: (06-G-66-24124, 10/24/06) 43: The Great Ziegfeld.  The producer who made Broadway expensive.

November 3-5: (06-G-66-24125, 10/31/06) 44: Jo Stafford and Johnny Mercer.  Swinging down Broadway with two of the best.

November 10-12: (06-G-66-24126, 11/7/06) 45: DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson.  A triple threat on Broadway in the 1920s.

November 17-19: (06-G-66-24127, 11/ 14/06) 46: Second Act Trouble.  Even the best Broadway composers had flop shows.

November 24-26: (06-G-66-24128, 11/21/06) 47: Memories.  The tricks your mind can play.


December 1-3: (06-G-66-24129, 11/28/06) 48: The Fall’s New Paper and Plastic.  The season’s new books, records and videos.

December 8-10: (06-G-66-24130, 12/05/06) 49: Capitol Women.  By this we don’t mean members of Congress, but singers recorded on Capitol Records.  

December 15-17: (06-G-66-24131, 12/12/06) 50: West Side Story.   The classic that turns 50 in 2007.

December 22-24: (06-G-66-24132, 12/19/06) 51: “Holiday Inn” and “White Christmas”.  Irving Berlin’s two movies and the current stage version of a holiday favorite.

December 29-31: (06-G-66-24133, 12/26/06) 52: Frank and Ella and Rodgers and Hart.  Have a swinging New Year’s.  

January 5-7:  (07-G66-35857, 1/2/07) 1: “Follies”.  This year is the hundredth anniversary of the first Ziegfeld Follies, which began the Glorification of the American Girl in 1907.  We’ll celebrate the centennial with Stephen Sondheim’s tribute. 

January 12-14:  (07-G66-35858, 1/9/07) 2:  The Lives and Works of Adolph Green and Betty Comden.  Betty Comden died last month, and we’ll remember her and the late Adolph Green with some of the hundreds of songs they wrote for Broadway and Hollywood. 

January 19-21:  (07-G66-35859, 1/16/07) 3: “Oklahoma!”.   This year, Oklahoma is celebrating its centennial— it became a state in 1907.  This week we recognize the event with the legendary Broadway show of the same name.

January 26-28:  (07-G66-35860, 1/23/07) 4: Susannah McCorkle and Mel Tormé and Broadway.  Great singers, great songs.
 
February 2-4:  (07-G66-35861, 1/30/07) 5: Overtures!.   Songs without words. 

February 9-11:  (07-G66-35862, 2/6/07) 6: “Du Barry Was a Lady”.  There wasn’t a cast album of Cole Porter’s “Du Barry Was a Lady”, so this week Broadway Revisited cobbles together a variety of sources to assemble the good score.

February 16-18:  (07-G66-35863, 2/13/07) 7: Stereotypes.  The theater depends on stereotypes, sometimes using them, sometimes working against them.  This week Broadway Revisited offers several case studies.

February 23-25:  (07-G66-35864, 2/20/07) 8: The Winter’s New Paper and Plastic.  The season’s new books, records and videos.

March 2-4: (07-G66-49708, 2/27/07) 9: Revues. Broadway shows with song, dance, and comedy— but no plots.

March 9-11: (07-G66-49709, 3/06/07) 10: Cole Porter in Paris.  Along with homes and London and New York, Cole Porter had a place in Paris, the setting for several of his shows.  Today we sample four of them: “Paris”, “Fifty Million Frenchmen”, “Can Can”, and “Silk Stockings”.

March 16-18: (07-G66-49710, 3/13/07) 11: The Funny Papers.  This week we’ll sample several show based on comic strips.  From the newspapers to Broadway this week, on Broadway Revisited. 

March 23-25: (07-G66-49711, 3/20/07) 12: The Words and Music of Frank Loesser.   “Guys and Dolls” was just one of the shows and film scores of Frank Loesser, and this week Broadway Revisited will examine his life and words and music.  The songs and shows of Frank Loesser, this week on Broadway Revisited.

March 30-April 1: (07-G66-49712, 3/27/07) 13: “Girl Crazy”.   All the songs from the 1930 hit by George and Ira Gershwin.

April 6-8: (07-, 4/03/07) 14: Unexpected Standards. Did you know that As Time Goes By and How High the Moon entered the American musical scene on Broadway?  They did, along with Body and Soul and many other permanent standards.  This week Broadway Revisited salutes an hour’s worth of these evergreens.

April 13-15: (07-, 4/10/07) 15: Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short sing Porter, Coward, and Gershwin.  For decades, Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short kept good songs current in New York cabarets.  This week we’ll hear them sing several, many of them not often heard now.

April 20-22: (07-, 4/17/07) 16: Hoagy Carmichael—  Songwriter.  This week Broadway Revisited celebrates the life and music of Hoagy Carmichael, including the score of his only Broadway show.

April 27-29: (07-, 4/24/07) 17: “On the Town”.  Leonard Bernstein’s first Broadway show.

May 4-6: (07-, 05/01/07) 18: Broadway on Decca.  The pioneer of original cast records is still recording the new shows.

May 11-13: (07-, 05/08/07) 19: Economics 101. An MBA in an hour, with lessons from Broadway.

May 18-20: (07-, 05/15/07) 20: Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark.  Fine singers who gained fame not on Broadway or the movies, but on radio.   

May 25-27: (07-, 05/22/07) 21: Spring New Paper and Plastic.  The season’s new books, records, and videos. 

  June 1-3: (07-, 05/29/07) 22: “Call Me Madam”.   Irving Berlin’s 1950 hit, Call Me Madam, is one of those rare shows in which every song is a good one.  This week on Broadway Revisited we’ll hear the original cast, starring Ethel Merman and Paul Lukas. 

June 8-10: (07-, 06/05/07) 23: Preview of This Year’s Tony Awards. Hear songs from all the nominees on this week’s review of the Broadway season.  A Tony Awards Preview, on Broadway Revisited.

June 15-17: (07-, 06/12/07) 24: A Broadway Marriage Manual. That venerable song from the Ziegfeld Follies defines the theme for this week’s Broadway Revisited, in which we recognize the marriage month with some duets by happy couples.  A Broadway marriage manual this week on Broadway Revisited. 

June 22-24: (07-, 06/19/07) 25: Three by Gilbert & Sullivan. This week Broadway Revisited visits Gilbert & Sullivan, the immediate precursors of the Broadway musical.  Hear selections from Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado  this week on Broadway Revisited.
A Broadway Summer of Shows for July and August. 

There are many shows with good songs, but only a select few have fine complete scores. 
This summer we revisit several of the best.


June 29-July 1: (07-, 06/26/07) 26: “Porgy and Bess” in Jazz. Porgy and Bess is an opera, but when the arias become songs, it could also be a Broadway musical.  We explore the thought with Louis Armstrong and others this week when Broadway Revisited presents Porgy and Bess in jazz.

July 6-8: (07-, 07/03/07) 27: “Sherry” and “Merrily We Roll Long”.  Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along is one of two musicals based on plays by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman we’ll visit this week.  Along with Merrily, we’ll hear selections from Sherry, based on The Man Who Came to Dinner.  Kaufman and Hart on Broadway Revisited.

July 13-14: (07-, 07/10/07) 28: “Show Boat”.  This is radio, so you can’t see the Show Boat, but this week on Broadway Revisited you can hear quite a bit of the classic score by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern, from Make Believe to Ol’ Man River.  Life upon the floating stage this week, with Broadway Revisited and Show Boat. 

July 20-22: (07-, 07/17/07) 29: “The Pajama Game” and “Damn Yankees”.  That song is from Damn Yankees, one of the two hit shows of Jerry Ross and Richard Adler.  We’ll sample that this week on Broadway Revisited, along with their The Pajama Game, when we revisit the shows of Adler and Ross.

July 27-29: (07-, 07/24/07) 30: “Finian’s Rainbow”.  Ella Logan was one of the stars of the 1947 Broadway hit Finian’s Rainbow, and we’ll hear her and the original cast along with Frank Sinatra and others from a movie version.  Finian’s Rainbow  this week on Broadway Revisited.   

August 3-5:  (07-, 07/31/07) 31: “Brigadoon”.  This week, Broadway Revisited is devoted to Lerner and Loewe’s 1947 hit, Brigadoon, with a rare recording starring Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy.  Brigadoon, on Broadway Revisited.

August 10-12:  (07-, 08/07/07) 32: Adam and Eve and “The Apple Tree”.  The Book of Genesis has often been revised, and this week Broadway Revisited presents Mark Twain’s version.  We’ll blend readings from Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve with songs from the Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical version.  The Apple Tree, this week on Broadway Revisited.

August 17-19:  (07-, 08/14/07) 33: “Bells Are Ringing”.  This week’s Broadway Revisited is devoted to the career of the actress Judy Holliday, with songs including some from Bells Are Ringing, the Broadway hit for which she won a Tony.  Judy Holliday is the subject this week on Broadway Revisited.

August 24-26:  (07-, 08/21/07) 34: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”.  “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” is the feature on this week’s Broadway Revisited, with songs from the musical, and Carol Channing reading from “Lorelei’s Diary”, bracketed with a review of Channing’s career.

August 31-September 2: (08/28/07)  07-35: Working.    A Labor Day Weekend visit with the musical version of Studs Terkel's “Working”, sampling three different productions.


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