Hosted by Laurence Maslon, BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is a weekly radio program devoted to the greatest songs of the American Musical Theater. Originating from WPPB 88.3FM on Long Island's East End, each weekly episode celebrates the shows, stars, songwriters, and cultural phenomena that makes Broadway a legendary place. Music taken from classic original cast albums, film, cabaret, rare recordings, and unique interpretations, with commentary, guest appearances, and news from Broadway.
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It's a new season and new beginnings abound: rousing numbers for the fall from Sweet Charity, The Wiz, 13, Mame, Seesaw, and more.
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Woof! To showcase the current production of Young Frankenstein The Musical at Bay Street Theater, we look again at Mel Brooks's many forays into musical theatre: Madeline Kahn, Nathan Lane, Mel himself and more.
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It's a Man-cin-tennial: great songs with music by legendary composer Henry Mancini, performed by an all-star ensemble: Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis, Jr., Steve Lawrence, Julie Andrews and more.
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Glowin', crowin', and still goin' strong--we look at the Divine Miss M's career and her devotion to the Broadway songbook with author Kevin Winkler.
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Mature characters and mature perspectives: let's listen to the wisdom of age. Songs from Pippin, A Little Night Music, Knickerbocker Holiday, Take Me Along and more.
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Few pop singers captured the Broadway songbook as well as Margaret Whiting; here's to her 100th with show tunes by Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart and many more.
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Look--a new broadcast has begun. Our first episode on this groundbreaking show, meow and forever. Original London cast, Broadway cast and a few surprises.
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Novels, short stories, historical events, comic strips, even paintings--they said it couldn't be done, but the geniuses of the American musical did it! My Fair Lady, 1776, Annie, Sunday in the Park Hamilton and more!
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The perfect Fourth of July musical. So, sit down for an hour with this classic as we hear the Broadway cast and the rare film soundtrack, united for posterity.
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An overview of this year's 2024 Tony Awards. Selections from all the major nominees: Hell's Kitchen, The Outsiders, Suffs, Merrily We Roll Along, and more.
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In our run-up to the 2024 Tonys, we look at Broadway 50 years ago: Raisin, Seesaw, Over Here! plus performances by Christopher Plummer, Michelle Lee, Alfred Drake, Lewis J. Stadlen and more.
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Since Stephen Sondheim's passing in 2021, there have been several exciting revivals and revitalizations; here are a few: Merrily We Roll Along, Here We Are, Into the Woods, Melissa Errico, Liz Callaway and more.
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To tee up the "Rodgers and Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert" on Great Performances l PBS on May 31st, I've selected some of my favorite things: performances by Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Nina Simone, Ray Charles and a surrey full of others.
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In preparation for the PBS/Great Performances concert of Audra McDonald from the London Palladium (May 17), we play some of her finest moments from across her storied career: rarities and Tony-winners.
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We're kicking off WLIW's "Broadway and Beyond" television/radio programming with a special episode of Game Changers and Groundbreakers: Show Boat, Pal Joey, Company, The Producers, Hamilton, and more.
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In classic American musicals, there's usually a supporting--other--couple. Here's a tribute to Nathan and Adelaide, Ado Annie and Will Parker, Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz, and many more.
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We travel the world for great international performers singing show tunes--Maurice Chevalier, Jacques Brel, Astrud Gilberto--and rare international cast albums, like Mi Bella Dama.
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Broadway's troubadour of the 1950s, Frank Loesser was a master of melody. Some of the greatest pop and jazz performers--Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Bobby Darin, Eliane Elias--roll the dice with Loesser's tune.
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One of the greatest singers of the 20th Century, Sarah Vaughan gets her centennial moment in the show tune spotlight. Songs from Babes in Arms, West Side Story, Golden Boy, South Pacific and more.
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This week's episode is all about quantum physics and the American musical--just fooling! We celebrate the fools and the foolhardy with performances from Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, Ed Wynn, Sutton Foster and many more.
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Is the game we're in, celebrating the musical's 70th anniversary this spring. All the classic Adler/Ross songs in renditions by Doris Day, Harry Connick Jr., Rosemary Clooney, and more.
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Our tribute to a Broadway star and one of the very best singers of the Broadway songbook. Musical numbers, of course, from What Makes Sammy Run? and Golden Rainbow, and songs from She Loves Me, Golden Boy, High Spirits, and more.
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OSCAR BAIT We're hopelessly devoted to the Academy Awards. This episode, we look at the songs written expressly for film adaptations of Broadway shows. Sinatra, Madonna, Streisand, Minnelli, and many more.
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A tribute to the indomitable creator of Oliver!, From Russia With Love, and so many more--songs performed by Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, Bernadette Peters and many others: whatever we got, we share!
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We're turning back time to indulge in the jukebox musicals of the last 25 years: The Cher Show, Movin' Out, Jersey Boys, MJ the Musical and so much more.
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Highlights from the great songs in Porter's film musicals, rendered by a sensational company of greats: Bing Crosby, Barbra Streisand, Fred Astaire, Nancy Wilson, and more.
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Everything is Rosie as we honor a Broadway legend with songs from all her major hits (and some off-beat notes as well).
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We look at some of the most perfect harmonic moments from the Broadway canon; four-part wonders from Harmony, Sunday in the Park with George, The Music Man and more.
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Celebrating the start of our 13th (!) lucky year on the air, I look at the eclectic compendium of the shows that made such a strong impression on me growing up: "It's a Bird . . .It's a Plane. . . .It's SUPERMAN!," Baker Street, Minnie's Boys, Golden Boy and more.
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To frame the new biopic of Leonard Bernstein (courtesy of Bradley Cooper), we look at all of the Maestro's Broadway music used in the film, plus additional performances by Comden and Green, Audra McDonald, Boris Karloff, Nell Carter and more.
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Our annual look at the musical theatre giants who left us in 2023: Fiddler on the Roof's Topol, Sheldon Harnick, and Joanna Merlin, as well as Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Inga Swenson, and more.
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We're all alone with Christopher Fitzgerald--currently shouldering a heavy load in SPAMALOT--as we stir up a holiday punch bowls of Yuletide classics and songs from Waitress, Young Frankenstein, and many more.
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Here's a Santa's bag full of potential purchases for the show tune fan in your life (like you!). Selections from cast albums to Merrily We Roll Along, Harmony, Sweeney Todd, plus performances by Petula Clark, Julie Benko and more.
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Our follow-up companion to Streisand's new memoir (hey, it's a long book..!). This features Babs from 1978 to the present day; songs by Sondheim, Lloyd Webber, Anthony Newley and more.
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It's hot up here! We're live at New York's Museum of Broadway with its co-founder Julie Boardman Join us on a journey through its myriad charms, underscored with music from The Phantom of the Opera, Six, Oklahoma!, and more.
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Well, the book is out, so you might as well buy it, get a comfy chair, and listen along. Streisand's major work up through 1973, keyed to major moments in her new memoir--"A Sleeping Bee," "My Man, and many more.
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Harold Rome, that is. In honor of the new revival of I Can Get It For You Wholesale, we've an all-star cast celebrating his work, including Tony Bennett, Eddie Fisher, the Andrews Sisters, Mel Tormé, and a gal named Barbra.
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Goood eeeevening! This is Count Larry Maslon from Blood-vay to Main Street. This week's Halloween special features numbers from Frozen, Next to Normal, Billy Elliot, and the London cast album of Young Frankenstein. Wooo-ooo!
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Smile on us as we play ditties of the deities to tee up the concert version of The Frogs, produced by MasterVoices. Out of This World, Two by Two, Xanadu, Hadestown, and more.
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Friendship--old friends, new friends, buddies, and pals. Inspired by the new Merrily We Roll Along revival, we support camaraderie in all its forms: singers include Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, James Monroe Inglehart, Bryce Pinkham, and more.
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The joint is jumpin' as we look at an extraordinary era of achievement on the Broadway stage: shows like Purlie, Raisin, Ain't Misbehavin' and the talents of Melba Moore, Andre De Shields, Debbie Allen, Gregory Hines, and more.
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We look at Sweeney's latest resurrection via the newly released cast album, plus exceptional performances from the past including Angela Lansbury, Bryn Terfel, Audra McDonald and more; it's too good at least.
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Wonderful songs from shows that never got an original cast album, performed by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne, Bing Crosby, Robert Goulet and more.
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A zippy overview of original film musicals that transformed on Broadway: movie and stage versions of Gigi, 42nd Street, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, and more.
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The sweetest sounds on Broadway are songs about, well, songs--and how the stage is alive with the sound of music. Performers include Barbra Streisand, Lea Michele, John Travolta, Keith Michell and much more.
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Come with us and we'll make music--honoring the beloved leading lady Inga Swenson who recently left us. All the highlights from 110 in the Shade, Baker Street, and many more rare recordings.
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Our annual salute to great film composers flies around the world in the '60s and '70s: Mancini, Rota, Morricone, John Addison, and John Williams abetted by Streisand, Céline Dion, Shirley Bassey, Julie Andrews and more.
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Still more unsung champions of the Broadway songbook--if you don't know them, you should: Veronica Swift, Wesla Whitfield, Joe Mooney, Toni Tenniille, and more--even a little Johnny Mathis.
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It's good to hear her, isn't it? We're devoting an entire episode to Kristin Chenoweth--who joins us in the virtual studio! Songs from Wicked, On the 20th Century, Schmigadoon and more.
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Once upon a time, there was a giant of the American popular songbook. We put together a special tribute to Tony Bennett and his incomparable repertoire of Broadway songs.
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