“On Broadway,” with host Stuart Brown, features chats and interviews in this bi-weekly podcast, a companion to ‘Sounds of Broadway’ – our 24/7 online Broadway music radio. New episodes are released every other Friday. Full information for each episode including playlists is available at BroadwayRadioPrograms.com/podcasts. Or click on the links below for the latest shows.
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RECENT EPISODES:
- Interview with Patrick Pacheco (4/26) – I chat with Patrick Pacheco who helped the late Chita Rivera write her autobiography – Chita: A Memoir. Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero – Chita – created some of Broadway’s most iconic roles, including Anita in West Side Story‚ Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Claire in The Visit. We talk about these shows and such luminaries as John Kander, Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr., Gwen Verdon, and more.
- Interview with Matt Gould (4/12) – Composer Matt Gould talks about his new musical Lempicka, which opens in April.
- Interview with Stephen Cole (3/29) – Author Stephen Cole talks about his fictional, time-traveling novel, MARY & ETHEL…and Mikey Who?, which has taken the real-life friendship with Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, tossed them into a blender and come up with a fantasy about a nerdy super-fan.
- Interview with Martin Fitzgibbon (3/15) – I chat with Martin Fitzgibbon, who was a young drummer in the band during the creation of the The Rocky Horror Show in 1973. In his memoir, Behind the Curtain: My Life and Rocky Horror, he discusses the show, giving his unique insight into how the musical and its participants became an overnight success and created a cultural phenomenon still going strong over 50 years later.
- 2024 Bracket Challenge (3/8) – In this special 5 minute segment, I talk about our latest Bracket Challenge now in its fifth edition. This time we are featuring Broadway shows from “The Golden Age” which we are here defining as beginning with Oklahoma! in 1943 through the year 1964.
- Interview with Van Dean (3/1) – Van Dean is a Grammy and Tony-winning producer who has just launched a new record label, Center Stage Records. Previously, he ran Broadway Records. Center Stage will take over the management and distribution of about two-thirds of Broadway Records’ back catalog, with intent to collaborate with Broadway Records on select future releases.
- Episode 18 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (2/16) – Stephen Sondheim scholar Rick Pender discusses the musical The Frogs. The show is “freely adapted” by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove from The Frogs, an Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes.
- Interview with Brian Stoll (2/2) – I chat with Brian Stoll, an uber Broadway fan who has seen over 285 shows in the past decade, all at under $60 a ticket. He has developed a presentation, “Broadway on a Budget,” that he has presented at libraries and other venues, where he shares his money-saving tips on how to see Broadway shows, his love for Broadway, and even the history of the Playbill.
- Interview with Douglas J. Cohen (1/19) – I chat with the composer, lyricist, and librettist Douglas J. Cohen about his book, How to Survive a Killer Musical: Agony and Ecstasy on the Road to Broadway.
- Episode 17 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (1/5) – Stephen Sondheim scholar Rick Pender is our guide as we discuss Saturday Night. The show with music and lyrics by Sondheim was intended to open on Broadway in 1955. However, after the sudden death of its lead producer, the show was shelved. Sondheim then went on to make his professional premiere in 1957, as the lyricist for West Side Story. The show finally made it to New York, opening at Off-Broadway’s Second Stage in 2000.
- Interview with Eddie Shapiro (12/15) – Interview theater journalist Eddie Shapiro about his new book, “Here’s to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater.” In the book, a follow-up to his work, “Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater,” he sits down for intimate, career-encompassing conversations with yet more of Broadway’s most prolific and fascinating leading women.
- Interview with Danny Kornfeld (12/1) – Interview Danny Kornfeld who stars as “Young Rabbi” in the new Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical Harmony. The show tells the true story of the six-person Comedian Harmonists, a musical performance ensemble from Germany in the late 1920’s – 1930’s. They were one of the most popular groups in the world but, due to their composition of three Jewish and three non-Jewish members, were eventually forced to disband as the Nazis rose to power.
- Episode 16 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (11/17) – Stephen Sondheim scholar Rick Pender discusses the original production of the musical Bounce (also known as Wise Guy and Gold). He talks about how writer John Weidman and Sondheim collaborated on the show to create the story of Addison Mizner and his brother Wilson Mizner’s adventures across America from the beginning of the twentieth century during the Klondike gold rush to the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s.
- Episode 15 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (11/1) – Stephen Sondheim scholar Rick Pender discusses the original production of 1994’s Passion. He will talk about how writer/director James Lapine and Sondheim collaborated on the show to create one of the composer’s most unique musicals.
- Interview with Robert Viagas (10/20) – Robert Viagas talks about his book Good Morning, Olive: Haunted Theatres of Broadway and Beyond. The work is about the ghosts that haunt theatres in New York and around the world. A perfect Halloween read.
- Interview with Laurence Maslon (10/6) – Chat with Laurence Maslon, the author of the book, I’ll Drink to That!: Broadway’s Legendary Stars, Classic Shows, and the Cocktails They Inspired.
- Episode 14 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (9/22) – Stephen Sondheim scholar Rick Pender discusses Into the Woods. He will talk about one of Sondheim’s most popular musicals. Rick will also present general information about the show, awards, plus interesting fun facts.
- The Da Vinci Code (9/8) – I chat with Michael Urie, who plays Professor Robert Langdon; and Hannah Cruz, who plays Cryptologist Sophie Neveu in the American premiere of the runaway best-seller, The Da Vinci Code. The production runs through September 23 at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine.
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