Join host Stuart Brown for music, interviews, and commentary. This podcast is a companion to ‘Sounds of Broadway’ - a 24/7 online music radio station featuring the best in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the London stage. Visit BroadwayRadioPrograms.com.
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This week, we explore the music of Charles Strouse. Long-time listener, Sharon Kahn , made a generous contribution to the Sounds of Broadway studios and earned herself the right to create a playlist for our streaming radio station or serve as a guest host for this podcast. She chose the latter and talks about the career of Charles Strouse. We play a generous number of selections from the musicals…
My guest this week is Ethan Popp, a Grammy®, Olivier®, and three-time Tony® Award nominee, who is nominated this year for the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for The Lost Boys . He is also the Music Director for the show. He has worked with some of the biggest musical acts in the recording business, including Queen, Tina Turner, Elton John, Stevie Nicks, Bono, Alice Cooper, and Smokey Robinson.…
I chat with Dr. Kristin Stultz Pressley, a Broadway historian and lecturer and the co-host of the Dr. Broadway Podcast. We talk about her new book - Jukebox Musicals: Crazy for You to MJ the Musical (Essential Musicals) . The book explores a style of show that's dominated Broadway for the better part of two decades. Through a chronological look at the development of long-running hits, like Mamma…
On this week’s episode of On Broadway, I chat with Adam Gwon, an American composer and lyricist. He made his off-Broadway debut in 2009 with Ordinary Days . He has written eight other musicals that have premiered Off-Broadway and at major regional theaters across the country. Gwon has been a recipient of the Fred Ebb Foundation Award, presented to aspiring composer/lyricists, as well as the Kleban…
This week I speak with the composing team of Tom James McGrath and Amy Clare Tasker about their new musical Rising . Songs from the show are incorporated into the episode. Rising reimagines the 1916 Dublin rebellion through the inner life of Patrick Pearse, its most enigmatic leader. As he leads the charge against the British Empire, Patrick must reconcile his public role with the private self he…
I speak to Nicholas Brown-Cáceres, acting chief of the Music Division, and Cait Miller, senior music reference specialist, at the Library of Congress. They talk about Inside the Vault , a collaborative, interactive and virtual exhibit that will be accompanying the national tour of The Sound of Music .
On this episode of On Broadway, I speak with Amnon Kabatchnik, the author of the book, Bloody Broadway – Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery – Volume 1 900-1930. The book’s entries are presented chronologically and include a plot synopsis, production data, opinions by critics, and biographical sketches of playwrights and key actors-directors.
This week I speak with Frank Verlizzo , on his first book of the Retro Broadway Mystery Series – Scenery of the Crime . Before becoming an author, Frank Verlizzo was a legendary graphic designer, the man behind such iconic poster art as the original Broadway productions of Disney's The Lion King ; Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George , and Ira Levin's Deathtrap .
I speak with actress and cabaret performer Klea Blackhurst , who will be starring in the new Off-Broadway musical, Just Desserts: A Musical Bake-Off . The show opens at the AMT Theater (354 West 45th Street) beginning January 30 and running through February 22. Her podcast episode will available by Friday, January 23.
On this episode of On Broadway, I speak with Henry H. Sapoznik, a Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR's Yiddish Radio Project, about his book - The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City . The book offers a new look at over a century of New York's history of Yiddish popular culture, telling the story in over a baker's dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks and…
