Special Encore Episode: BROADWAY COMES OUT!
BROADWAY NATION30 Jan 2025

Special Encore Episode: BROADWAY COMES OUT!

The progressive and disruptive social movements of the 1960s and 70s had a huge impact on the Broadway Musical and were reflected back into the culture by them. These include the Civil Rights movement, Women’s Liberation, Black Power, and the Gay Liberation Movement. The Stonewall Rebellion in 1969 brought gay issues into the mainstream and during the 1970s LGBTQ+ people would become “out, loud, and proud” in significant numbers. Of course, it makes sense that this new visibility and feeling of liberation would be felt on Broadway where there had always been a large representation of queer people throughout the industry, including in positions of leadership. As a result queer characters and stories began appearing on Broadway -- especially in plays -- but also in a few musicals as well. In this episode I explore the growing visibility of openly queer content on Broadway in musicals such as Hair, Coco, Applause, Seesaw, A Chorus Line, La Cage Aux Folles, and the works of William Finn. I also recount the devastating effect that the AIDS Crisis had on Broadway during the 1980s and 90s when a whole generation of creative talent was eliminated or sidelined by the disease. AIDS claimed the lives of hundreds of actors, singers, musicians, stage managers, production assistants, and designers -- as well as scores of dancers that had been trained by Bennett, Fosse, Champion, and Tune and might have one day become influential directors and choreographers themselves. The devastation of AIDS opened the door to the “British Invasion” that would soon dominate Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ep 199: MARC SHAIMAN ON BROADWAY

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...

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Ep 10: The Great Depression & The Silver Age of Broadway, Part 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Dec 202541min

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