Ep 199: MARC SHAIMAN ON BROADWAY
This is the second half of my recent conversation with Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, arranger, and music producer MARC SHAIMAN about his new, New York Times bestselling book, NEVER MIND THE H...
5 Mar 49min
Ep 10: The Great Depression & The Silver Age of Broadway, Part 2
During the 1930s Broadway was severely impacted by the economic disaster of the "Great Depression". However, somehow out of all that hardship and struggle came an extraordinary period of artistic achi...
28 Feb 37min
Ep 198: FIVE DECADES OF SHOW BIZ with MARC SHAIMAN
My guest today on Broadway Nation is the Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, arranger, and music producer, MARC SHAIMAN, who has found spectacular success in nearly every aspect of the entertainmen...
19 Feb 34min
Ep 197: Matching Minds With Sondheim with author Barry Joseph
My guest this week is Barry Joseph, the author of the recent book, Matching Minds with Sondheim. Since his death, there have been so many books about Stephen Sondheim and various aspects of his lif...
7 Feb 1h 5min
Ep 196 The Last Waltz — In Search of Lost Broadway, part 4
This is the fourth and final episode in which Albert Evans and I go in search of the 1934 smash-hit musical The Great Waltz, one of the longest-running shows of the 1930s. The goal of this occasional...
29 Jan 1h 4min
Ep 195: 40 Years of CHESS
Because this is a Broadway history podcast, I don’t usually comment on recently opened productions, since we can’t know yet whether they will be historically significant. The exceptions, of course, ar...
17 Jan 47min
Ep 194: The Great Waltz on Radio & TV
On this week’s Broadway Nation podcast, Albert Evans and I once again go “In Search of Lost Broadway,” as part of our occasional podcast series in which we try to rediscover significant hit Broadway m...
9 Jan 54min
Irving Berlin, Bing Crosby and the Story of "White Christmas," America's Most Popular Song, part 2
This is the second of two special holiday episodes of Broadway Nation. Just like the first, this is an audio version of a Broadway Nation Live! performance that was given in December of 2019 at the Va...
31 Des 202541min
