Episode 16: Jule Styne, Frank Loesser & The Golden Age of Broadway, Part 2
The Golden Age of Broadway’s new revolutionary way of writing musicals did not just apply to musical plays like those of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe – it also transformed the Musical Come...
26 Aug 202029min
Episode 15: Trude Rittman & The Women That Invented Broadway
You may not know the name, Trude Rittman, but you have certainly heard her music. During the "Golden Age of Broadway" (and beyond) she composed music for 33 Broadway musicals including Carousel, Briga...
19 Aug 202029min
Episode 14: Lerner & Loewe and the "Golden Age of Broadway", Part 1
Over the last few episodes we explored how Oklahoma! and Carousel created a groundbreaking disruption that changed the Broadway Musical forever, and ushered in the “Golden Age of Broadway” -- which in...
12 Aug 202030min
Episode 13: How "The Bench Scene" Changed Broadway
Stephen Sondheim considers "The Bench Scene" in Rodgers & Hammerstein's CAROUSEL to be “the singular most important moment in the evolution of contemporary musicals.” In this episode the amazing Albe...
5 Aug 202028min
Episode 12: The Harbach, Hammerstein, Sondheim, Miranda Connection, Part 2
In this episode Albert Evans and I continue our exploration of the amazing "legacy chain" during which the art and craft of writing Broadway Musicals was handed down directly from Otto Harbach to Osca...
29 Jul 202032min
Episode 11: The Harbach, Hammerstein, Sondheim, Miranda Connection, Part 1.
The art and a craft of creating Broadway Musicals has been passed down directly from one artist to the next, generation to generation, for more than 125 years. We can literally trace the first-hand co...
22 Jul 202026min
Ep 9: George Gershwin & "The Silver Age" of Broadway!
Most historians have labeled the entire period from the 1920’s through the 1960’s, “The Golden Age of Broadway”, but I find it much more useful to call the era that spans from the end of WWI to the op...
8 Jul 202028min
Ep 8: Agnes DeMille & The Women That Invented Broadway
Women have played a much more significant role in the history of the Broadway Musical than they are generally given credit for. In this episode, I share the often overlooked stories of Broadway's grou...
24 Jun 202027min
