Broadway to Main Street

Return to the thrilling days of yesteryear, when Broadway stars ruled the radio airwaves! Here's an all-star line-up of great Broadway performers and songwriters delivering rare and exciting moments only heard live on radio: Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Groucho Marx, and many more.

We celebrate the singing--in the rain and otherwise--of one of our greatest song-and-dance men. Joining Gene are Judy Garland, Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, as well as some rare Pal Joey recordings.

You've been invited to a swell-egant, elegant party. On the guest list: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Idina Menzel, Nat King Cole, Judy Holliday, Sammy Davis, Jr. and more.

Adam Guettel's astonishing song cycle transforms into a multiple-episode virtual presentation by MasterVoices. Its artistic director, Ted Sperling, joins us to look at this work along with performances by Audra McDonald, Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, Mandy Patinkin and more.

Truer than the red, hot, and blue! A valentine to our listeners with love songs from Carousel, Show Boat, The Color Purple, and many more.

Our concluding look at the fascinating idiosyncratic gems that didn't transfer directly to Broadway, from the mid-1970s to today: The Last Five Years, Little Shop of Horrors, Hello Again, Floyd Collins and so many more.

The little shows that could--from every corner of Manhattan--beginning in the 1950s through the mid-1970s: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Fantasticks; The Threepenny Opera; Jacques Brel; Godspell and so many more.

At the conclusion of challenging year, we remember the talents who sang and danced off to another venue, stage right: Ann Reinking, Jerry Herman, Terrence McNally, and more.

Start spreading the news: we're celebrating one of the greatest creative partnerships in musical theater. Liza's classics and some rarities from The Act, Cabaret, Flora the Red Menace, and more.

There's nothing that Broadway likes better than a proper musical "farewell." Here are some graceful "exit stage right"s from Hamilton, She Loves Me, Hello Dolly!, Promises Promises, and more.

To celebrate the upcoming PBS/Great Performances airing of "Holiday Inn," we'll face the music and dance along with Irving Berlin's great Hollywood songs, performed by Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and more.

Here's our program would be like back in 1971; songs from shows currently running--Follies, No No Nanette--and a special visit in our studio with the young Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber with their concept album, Jesus Christ Superstar.

We're starting--and finishing--this episode with songs by the quintessential queen of lyric writing. Renditions by Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, and shows such as SEESAW and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN.

Our annual Halloween show on "Blood-vay to Main Street" is charged with electricity as we send up Frankenstein and his monster--join Count Larry Maslon for an hour of show tunes with a lot of heart--and brains!

It's election time and show tunes are sweeping the country. Here are great campaigns songs and tributes to participatory democracy about from Annie, Of Thee I Sing, Hamilton, and more.

Spend a little time with this astonishing Coleman/Fields score. Performers include Gwen Verdon, of course, but also Shirley MacLaine, Bobby Short, Juliet Prowse, and Sammy Davis, daddy-o! Fun, laughs, good times!

Composer John Barry was best-known as the musical muse of 007, but he spun gold in many songs and a few stage shows. Check out Michael Crawford, Barbra Streisand, Louis Armstrong, Shirley Bassey and more in this tribute episode.

Johnny Mercer was not only one of America's greatest lyricists, he was a fabulous singer of his own material and others. We set up more than a dozen Mercer songs, sung by Johnny with Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and more.

Tap your troubles away.  Move the coffee table and get up and dance; great numbers from West Side Story, Hairspray, Gypsy, Damn Yankees and more.

There have been many great musicals--Where's Charley?, Pal Joey, Love Life--that never had an original cast album. Here are some wonderful songs from these shows, performed by Frank Sinatra, Lotte Lenya, Jo Stafford, and more.

David Merrick was one of Broadway's greatest producers--and greatest scoundrels. C'mon along and listen to a banquet of songs from great hits--Hello, Dolly!, Oliver!, 42nd Street--terrible flops, and outrageous anecdotes.

Hello, gorgeous! It's about time--the fantastic 1964 Broadway collaboration among Barbra Streisand, Jule Styne, and Fanny Brice. Guest appearances by Diana Ross, Barbara Cook, Idina Menzel, and Brice herself.

Travel is also a state of mind. Great songs from Newsies, As Thousands Cheer, Guys and Dolls, and written by the Gershwins, Frank Loesser, Rodgers and Hart and more conjure up our nostalgia for wanderlust.

Even minor Rodgers and Hammerstein is major American music. Hear Dick Haymes, Judy Garland, John Coltrane, Bing Crosby, Bernadette Peters and more perform songs from off the beaten track.

The samba beat meets the Broadway songbook; classic tunes sung and swayed by Sinatra and Jobim, Sarah Vaughan, Astrud Gilberto, Quincy Jones, Sammy Davis and more.

A follow-up to our popular celebration of the legendary performances that DIDN'T win Tony Awards (some not even nominated!). Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, plus Elaine Stritch, Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Broderick, and more.

For our annual July 4th program, we turn to "1776"--this time, the entire recording of the extremely rare 1970 West End production; if you like this musical, you'll want to sign on to this extraordinary hour.

Miss Peggy Lee was a once-in-a-lifetime singer who treasured the Broadway songbook. Spend a little time with us as we celebrate her centenary with Lee's impeccable renderings of the show tune canon.

A celebratory look at the legendary performances that DIDN'T win Tony Awards (some not even nominated!). We hand out prizes to Julie Andrews, Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand, and more.

For over a century, champions—Sammy Davis, Paul Robeson, Lena Horne, Brian Stokes Mitchell—gave voice to the black experience on Broadway; here are the songs and shows that broke down barriers.

Fifty years ago at the Tonys, Broadway audiences were rendering their applause to Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Cleavon Little, Melba Moore--and to special guests Noel Coward and Barbra Streisand. Take a step back in time and revel in their accomplishments.

The great Kander and Ebb score to Chicago is a tribute to vaudeville. Here are the original inspirations for the songs--Helen Morgan, Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor--side-by-side with their Broadway counterparts. It's all show business, kid.

A spotlight on the songs--all tunes originally from Broadway--performed by America's greatest song-and-dance man.  Fred Astaire takes a tuneful spin through the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Schwartz and Dietz and more.

Ready or not--here comes Momma! A musical bouquet for Mother's Day, featuring songs from all sorts of shows--Gypsy, Hairspray, Minnie's Boys--and all sorts of songwriters--Noel Coward, Kander and Ebb, David Yazbek.

Princesses have played the Palace for decades; here's a long list, from Snow White to Anne Boleyn to Ariel--in songs from Cole Porter, Elton John, Kurt Weill, Richard Rodgers and the new musical, Six.

That effervescent jazz singer, Carmen McRae, celebrates her centenary this week--we think. Listen to an hour of Carmen gracing the songs of the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Noel Coward, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser and more with her unique style.

Even in our own little corners, we can enjoy the great show tunes of separation and distance. Connect virtually with Julie Andrews, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, and Brian Stokes Mitchell--so far and yet so near.

Yassou! We dance to the magnificent Kander and Ebb score to the 1968 Zorbá. Herschel Bernardi, Nancy Wilson, and the iconic Zorba the Greek, Anthony Quinn (among others) join our circle.

Here she is, boys! Here she is, girls! The legendary Merman, on our first full broadcast to feature her. All her Broadway hits, in her inimitable manner, from Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, Anything Goes and more.

Broadway's legendary songsmith turns 90--isn't it rich? So we send in the tunes, our personal Sondheim favorites, sung by Steve Lawrence, Mel Tormé, Audra McDonald, Barbara Cook and more.

The great hits from Broadway--in their West End incarnations. Our second part, with Ute Lemper in Chicago, Mary Martin in Dolly!, Topol in Fiddler, Angela Lansbury in Gypsy and more. This Sunday at 3PM, live or streaming.

The great hits from the West End that have sailed across the pond to make Broadway history: Oliver!, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Me and My Girl and more.

Fortune and Fate in the American musical: high rollers and spinning wheels from Guys and Dolls, Show Boat, Hamilton, St. Louis Woman and more.

We're at the microphone, live, with Brian Stokes Mitchell the greatest singing actor of his generation, following his career from Ragtime to Man of La Mancha to his latest solo album. 

The groundbreakers of the 2010s: Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Fun Home, Book of Mormon, and more.

Begin the Beguine with a full hour of great Broadway tunes played by the finest dance bands-- swing and sway with Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stan Kenton, Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Harry Connick, Jr, and more.

Here's our nightlife show tunes pub crawl with the best practioners of the cabaret arts: Bobby Short, Mabel Mercer, Steve Ross, Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano and more.

The full spectrum of E. Y. "Yip" Harburg's Broadway lyrics, sung by Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Pearl Bailey, Petula Clark, Carmen McRae, and the wordsmith himself.

It's the beginning of our ninth year on the air, so, of course, it's Nine: The Musical. Listen to Antonio Banderas, Raul Julia, Jonathan Pryce, Barbra Streisand, and others on this Fellini-esque musical farrago.

The greatest director/choreographer of the last century, Jerome Robbins, gives us something to talk about; in conversation with his biographer, Amanda Vaill, with dance music from On The Town, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof and more.

We remember Jerry Herman, a great American songwriter, with his biggest hits and some rarities sung by Angela Lansbury, Joel Grey, Barbra Streisand, and Jerry himself, among others.

This holiday season, territory folks should stick together. We're backstage with Mary Testa, Aunt Eller in the current Oklahoma!, for a passel of the best holiday music from Broadway and beyond.

We remember the great legends of the Broadway songbook who left us in 2019: Carol Channing, Harold Prince, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Doris Day, Albert Finney, and more.

Hey, cats--head down to the Village for an hour of beatniks, hepcats, and hippies in the American musical: Hair, of course, but also Wonderful Town, The Nervous Set, Bob Dylan, and more.

Pearlie Mae--so nice to have you back where you belong. Pearl Bailey in a jaw-dropping series of performances of songs by Gershwin, Weill, Berlin, Rodgers, and from the scores to St. Louis Woman and Hello, Dolly!

Make someone happy and enjoy this ambitious score from Comden/Green/Styne. Do Re Mi was a good old-fashioned show and we'll hear Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, plus Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald and more.

Sometimes Broadway is luckier the second time around: revivals that made us rethink great masterpieces. Alan Cumming in Cabaret, Audra McDonald in Carousel, the Yiddish Fiddler and more.

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Look around, look around: it's autumn in the greatest city in the world. New York in a melancholy mood--songs performed by Ethel Merman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bobby Short, Mel Tormé and more.

Velcome to Blood-vay to Main Steet! Count Larry Maslon stirs up a cauldron of Halloween classics: witchy warblings from Bette Midler, Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Idina Menzel and a circle of sorceresses!

On the 60th Anniversary of Billy Wilder's classic film, we'll play music from the movie, as well as a syncopated medley of tunes from various stage adaptations; performers include Robert Morse, Tommy Steele, and, of course, Marilyn Monroe.

We're sending of loads of lovely love in memory of the divine Diahann Carroll: her stunning performances from House of Flowers, No Strings, Sunset Blvd, and the American Songbook, joined by Pearl Bailey, Judy Garland and more.

The eternal music of George Gershwin: here are some of his greatest songs, played by the composer himself, with a contrasting assist from Sarah Vaughan, Fred Astaire, and Ethel Merman.

The spotlight remains on Judy Garland, as we listen to her glorious renditions of the Broadway songbook of the 1950s and 60s, joined by Howard Keel, Ethel Merman and daughter Liza.

Judy Garland is back in the spotlight and, in an unprecedented two-part episode, we look at her glorious commitment to the Broadway songbook from the first part of the 20th Century, joined by friends such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra

Here are performances that leap out of the recording studio and into your heart and soul. Sammy Davis, Jr. and Carmen McRae, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Hartman from pop music and Robert Morse, Elaine Stritch and Audra McDonald from Broadway.

This is for those of you with an interest in pirates: we'll sail the musical seas on this vacation weekend with songs from Titanic, Sail Away, The Last Ship and more.

Richard Rodgers' 1962 score--for which he wrote lyrics and music--is a little-known Broadway treasure.  Diahann Carroll, Nat King Cole, Marilyn Maye and others take us on a tour. 

A sampling of the great songs that Broadway composers wrote just for Hollywood pictures: Tinseltown tunes by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Kander and Ebb, Sondheim and more.

Sin, seduction, and Satan: the infernal side of musical theater from Hadestown, Damn Yankees, The Apple Tree--all the way back to Offenbach and Irving Berlin.

We give our regards to the dawn of the American musical: greats songs by Kern, Cohan, Berlin, and Herbert, sung by Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Tony Bennett, Nina Simone and more.

The greatest jazz pianist of our time joins us to take a tour of wonderful tunes--by Bernstein, Loesser, Kern and others--played by Bill and his trio, joined by Tony Bennett, Sherie Rene Scott and more.

It's an hour of great big stuff as the composer/lyricist of The Band's Visit, Tootsie, The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels joins us live in the studio.

In honor of the immense contribution of the LGBTQ community--on and off-stage--to the heart of Broadway, we look at La Cage aux Folles, Fun Home, The Prom, some unforgettable songs by Noel Coward, Cole Porter, and more.

In advance of the new 2019 revival recording, we'll look at the history of how this seminal score appeared in different versions throughout the years, with Decca A&R man Brian Drutman. Plus a sneak preview of the new recording and others.

Get ready for Sunday night's Main Event--the 2019 Tony Awards--with a buffet of all the nominees: Hadestown, Tootsie, The Prom, Ain't Too Proud and more. Your one-stop shopping for Broadway glory.

THE 1969 TONY AWARDS
In anticipation of next week's Tonys, we look at the winner's circle from 50 years ago: 1776, Promises Promises, Hair, Zorbà, and more from the original cast recordings.

Around the world with this great songwriter: bon voyage and sing along with Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Short, Fred Astaire and many more to various ports of call.

Boys will be girls and vice versa--cross-dressing in the American musical from Tootsie to The Mystery of Edwin Drood; from Victor/Victoria to La Cage aux Folles. Who knows--this might be a surprise party!?

C'mon along and listen to an episode filled with the terrific songs of this groundbreaking musical movie and show.  Jerry Orbach, Ruby Keeler, Al Jolson and more take us to the crossroads of the world.

Doris Day's voice is one of the glories of the 20th Century; here's a 97th birthday bouquet of Rodgers classics, from early days with Hart to the final songs with Hammerstein.

In advance of the MasterVoices concert at City Center, we're joined by Ted Sperling as we survey the saga of this Weill/Gershwin classic, with a bevy of ladies including Gertrude Lawrence, Lotte Lenya, Julie Andrews, and Ute Lemper.

Git along little dogies and listen to the finest cowboy and cowgirl songs ever to come from the Great White Way: Annie Get Your Gun, Girl Crazy, Blazing Saddles and a little thing called Oklahoma!

Who's got the fame when we play Fosse? As a prelude to the FX series Fosse/Verdon, we'll listen to some of the best moments of Broadway's dancin' man: The Pajama Game, Redhead, Cabaret, Chicago, Cabaret, and more.

This is our quest: to celebrate one of the most moving and optimistic scores of the Broadway stage. Original cast members, plus Jacques Brel, Placido Domingo, Johnny Mathis, and more.

You're gonna hear from the brilliant composer, arranger, and pianist as we celebrate Previn's life and extraordinary career with music he wrote for the stage, as well as his first-rate piano accompaniment. Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Dinah Shore, Gene Kelly are among some of Previn's company.

Here's Lucy!--and Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason and Irene Ryan and David Hyde Pierce and many other TV stars who graced the Broadway musical stage in starring performances.

One of Broadway's very best current performers, Betsy Wolfe, serves up a full menu of tremendous songs--from Waitress, The Last Five Years, Edwin Drood, and more--as well as some sneak previews from her upcoming 54 Below gig

To kick off two major Sammy Davis events in February (PBS and 92Y), we're doing a major retrospective of Mr. Entertainment. Songs from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, Vegas, and Hollywood as only Sammy can.

The incomparable and vast career of one of Broadway and television's most cherished comediennes. Songs from Cinderella, The Golden Apple, Carnival, and many more; an episode where everything's Oh, Kaye!

A practically perfect episode in every way: the original 1964 movie, the current sequel, the stage version, Julie Andrews, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dick Van Dyke, Louis Armstrong--what more could you ask for?

It's our eighth season on the air, so we polish up some buried treasure: great songs from forgotten musicals, tuneful charmers given their proper due, sung by Phil Silvers, Rose Marie, Robert Goulet, Bobby Short, Noël Coward and more.

With The Cher Show on Broadway, we look at some of the great divas of the musical theater, opera, and pop worlds: Streisand, LuPone, Audra, Judy, Diana Ross, Marilyn Horne, Renee Fleming and Cher herself--all crowding the spotlight.

Celebrating the extraordinary range of Nancy Wilson's repertoire of the Broadway songbook; unforgettable takes of tunes from Funny Girl, No Strings, Hello Dolly!, Golden Boy and more.

We'll welcome in the New Year with a panorama of holidays from the calendar year ahead; songs from Fiorello!, Jesus Christ Superstar, 1776, Promises Promises and more.

Our holiday date from Broadway's The Prom is Christopher Sieber, live in our studio from Times Square, sharing beloved songs from Scrooge, Annie, Spamalot and a brand-new cut from The Prom.

From our radio studio in the Hotel Astor, high above Times Square...a recreation of a 1930s broadcast, featuring songs performed by Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Johnny Mercer, and our special guest, George Gershwin, who will play his latest songs.

A thoughtful retrospective of the Broadway artists we lost in 2018, including Marin Mazzie, Barbara Harris, Gary Beach, Patricia Morison and more.

The mist of May is in the gloaming and it's time to celebrate this classic Lerner and Loewe score with a sneak preview of the 2017 New York City Center cast recording with Kelli O'Hara, joined by other great renditions from Robert Goulet, Shirley Jones, and others.

Front and center, the most fierce and fearless heroines of the America musical demonstrate their performative persistence. Jennifer Holliday, Barbra Streisand, Tammy Grimes, Julie Andrews, and more.

A merry march through the music of the madcap Marxes--the songs of Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and sometimes Zeppo, from the movies and the Broadway shows they inspired. Hooray, hooray, hooray!

BLOOD-Vay to Main Street's annual Halloween broadcast, taking you on a haunted houseful from the Broadway beyond! Songs from Fiddler on the Roof, The Lion King, Next to Normal, Ghost and more.

Go into your trance as we look at the "improbable" 1964 musical version of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, with a mélange of the Broadway cast, the London cast, a dash of cabaret singers, and Noel Coward himself.

MEDIEVAL MUSICALES
Forsooth! We're having a Middle Ages crisis on our program, verily, with songs from Camelot, A Connecticut Yankee, Spamalot, Canterbury Tales and others.

Cabaret virtuoso Eric Comstock joins us in the studio to honor the supreme musicianship of Mel Tormé; songs by Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Jule Styne, Cy Coleman, and the Velvet Fog himself.

Great shows--Funny Girl, South Pacific, Evita, Les Misérables--and the great songs you forgot were in them: the stealth ballads that fly under the radar and break your heart. Streisand, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Julie Andrews and more.

The sidekicks and supporting players that kept Broadway in stitches for decades: scene-stealers from The Producers, Waitress, Guys and Dolls, and more.

A survey of songs discussed in your host’s brand-new book—yes! “Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America,” recently published by Oxford University Press. If you listen to this program every week, this one’s for you!

We celebrate "Doc" Simon's bountiful contribution to the American musical, with selections from Promises, Promises; Sweet Charity; Little Me; and more.

We motor our way to Detroit with the radio on: Motown's best artists--Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, the Jackson 5--get it together and knock some Broadway classics out of the ballpark!

During vacation week, we're trading in Broadway for Hollywood and Vine: great title movie themes from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, sung by Andy Williams, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Tom Jones, Sinatra and many more.

Oh, what a star role, oh, what a show!  We'll tango through Lloyd Webber and Rice's score with a roundelay of Evas: Patti LuPone, Elaine Paige, Elena Roger, and Madonna.

The decade of the 1940s was Broadway's greatest game changer: original cast recordings of Pal Joey, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific and so much more.

We present the Wham of Sam at its swingingest: Broadway songs rendered over four decades from The Pajama Game, Carousel, Sweet Charity, Les Miz, and more.

The Lerner/Lane score returns (fittingly) from the past with versions from Barbra Streisand, Barbara Harris, Steve Lawrence, Oscar Peterson, and the current Daisy, Melissa Errico.

Find your own special island as we hop from one musical spot to the next: songs from Once on This Island, Come From Away, South Pacific, Pacific Overtures, and more.

What better way to spend July 4th weekend than with the original John Adams from 1776? An encore episode as William Daniels spends a special hour, live in our studio, talking about his distinguished career. I say vote "Yes!"

We're joined by Deborah Grace Winer to celebrate those great ladies--Betty Comden, Dorothy Fields, Carolyn Leigh and more--in anticipation of the concert "Baby Dream Your Dream" at East Hampton's Guild Hall.

Celebrate proud papas and powerful patriarchs with a special sneak preview of Joshua Henry's "Soliloquy" from the current Carousel, rounding out an hour of songs from Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables, Ragtime and more.

Ease into Sunday night's telecast with the Tony Awards from 50 years ago! All the major nominees and winners, including Robert Goulet, Leslie Uggams, Steve Lawrence, Melina Mercouri and more--what a wacky time!

Get ready for the 2018 Tony Awards with musical selections from The Band's Visit, Frozen, SpongeBob, Mean Girls, Carousel, My Fair Lady, and the other nominees. Your one-stop shopping for this season's hits.

We’re joined in the studio by author Todd S. Purdum to discuss the wonderful world of Rodgers and Hammerstein from his brand-new book that chronicles their revolutionary collaboration. Songs from all the major shows performed by Julie Andrews, Leslie Odom, Jr., Barbara Cook, and many others.

We provide a sneak preview of Audra McDonald's latest album--weeks ahead of its release in stores. Backed by the New York Philharmonic, Audra turns her titanic talents to Kander and Ebb, Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Adam Guettel and more.

ROYAL WEDDING
Get ready for a front-pew seat celebrating next week's dynastic nuptials; framed by the score from the Fred Astaire/Jane Powell film, we'll look at musical marriages from Annie Get Your Gun, Company, and Fiddler on the Roof.

With the team's My Fair Lady ensconced at Lincoln Center, wouldn't it be loverly to hear some Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe? Popular recordings of their masterpieces from Frank Sinatra, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, Nat "King" Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and the songwriters themselves.

We welcome Harry Potter and his chums to Broadway with felicitations from the musical theater's canon of wizards, witches, sorceresses, and enchantresses:  songs from Frozen, The Wizard of Oz, Camelot and more. 

Movie-maker, musical maven, and meshugguner--it's springtime for Mel Brooks and his wonderful wacky world of song. Performances from Madeline Kahn, Nathan Lane, Harry Connick, Jr. and Mel himself.

In anticipation of the revival of My Fair Lady, we spend a tuneful day in London Town, from Baker Street to Berkeley Square; singers include Julie Andrews, Noel Coward, Petula Clark, Eric Comstock and more.

Friendship is the perfect blendship on this week's show: best of pals include Mame and Vera; Hope and Crosby; Frankenstein and Igor; and many more.

The charm and smarm of Broadway's Great Profile can be heard in tremendous vocals from She Loves Me, Superman, Brigadoon, and more. Plus duets with Shirley Jones and others.

We finally arrive at the groundbreaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical on the eve of its 75th anniversary. A bright golden haze of music with the original cast, Hugh Jackman, Coleman Hawkins and more.

The musical march of the 20th Century, as seen by Stephen Sondheim in a chronological decade-by-decade collection of his songs; from Follies to Merrily We Roll Along to Assassins and more.

The digital age ushered in some astonishing voices, recording masterful renditions in the studio: Kiri Te Kanawa, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Nathan Lane and others reveal the treasures in West Side Story, South Pacific, Allegro and more.

From the 1940s to the 60s, immortal renditions of great Broadway songs made only for the recording studio featuring Vivienne Segal, Mary Martin, Alfred Drake, Nelson Eddy, Doris Day and more, from Pal Joey, Oklahoma!, and Annie Get Your Gun.

Each day is Valentine's Day with classic first dates from the Broadway musical stage. Selections from She Loves Me, Irma La Douce, Evita, Hamilton, and more.

To celebrate Leonard Bernstein's centennial, we're playing highlights from On The Town, West Side Story, Candide and more, featuring Audra McDonald, Johnny Mathis, Chita Rivera and others.

The classic original Broadway charmer from 1960 with pop renditions by Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis, Jr., plus a lotta rock'n'roll courtesy of Elvis Presley, Bobby Vee, the Marcels and more.

I'd rather be right in the middle of the 1930s than any other decade in musical theater history: eternal songs by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hart, performed by Ethel Merman, Bert Lahr, Paul Whiteman and many others.

We're playing the palace on this broadcast. If you're done binge-watching the series, tune into songs by merry musical monarchs from Camelot to Hamilton to music associated with the current Her Royal Highness.

Look out--Bobby Darin is back! We're joined in an hour-long celebration of the multi-talented Darin's Broadway repertoire by Ted Chapin, producer of the 92Y's upcoming tribute to the singer.

For our Broadway look at the holidays, we're joined by T. Oliver Reid from the new revival of Once on This Island, with songs performed by Judy Garland, Kathleen Battle, Sammy Davis, Jr., Barbara Cook, and more.

One of most delightful leading ladies of '60s.

Great film soundtracks based on great stage shows

A big parade of Broadway bands.

The most popular entertainer of the '20s and '30s.

Musicals that live happily ever after.

Our annual Halloween show with full moon songs.

The monumental classic with a Bernstein/Sondheim score.

Jazz pianist Bill Evans and the Broadway catalogue.

Those two sophisticates: Cole Porter and Noel Coward

Musical bonanzas of the 21st Century.

Great tunes from Broadway played by the great dance bands.

Irving Berlin's masterpiece hits the bull's-eye.

The groundbreaking work of producer/director Harold Prince.

The joint is jumpin’ with Broadway legend Andre De Shields.

A blooming bouquet of Broadway bounties.

A detour to Hollywood for the greatest movie themes and the songs written for them.

Celebrating Sinatra's 100th birthday, an all-Broadway tribute to his music.

A showcase of three musical theater events in the Hamptons

The classic Frank Loesser score, rendered by all sorts of guys--Sinatra, Mel Torme, Nathan Lane--and dolls: Vivian Blaine, Dinah Washington and more.

Three jazzbirds--Anita O'Day, June Christy, and Chris Connor--lend their "cool" stylings to the Broadway songbook.

One of the most glamorous couples of today's Broadway stage share their latest releases and the stories behind them.

From The Wizard of Oz to A Star is Born, the hearfelt musical relationship between Judy Garland and Harold Arlen.

The greatest composers of Broadway waltz you around the floor; explorations in 3/4 time with Lehar, Rodgers, Loewe, Sondheim, Cy Coleman, Jule Styne, and Andre Previn, with performers such as Julie Andrews, Frank Sinatra, Judi Dench & Tony Bennett.

Listen to Broadway to Main Street’s exclusive preview of the major musical nominees: stars such as Chita Rivera, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian D’Arcy James, and shows such as An American in Paris, Fun Home, and Something Rotten!

What was being awarded 50 years ago this week.

Broadway royalty is celebrated in this episode, with a tribute to the brilliant singer-dancer-actress Chita Rivera

Marriage is where it's been and where it's at in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company.

BROADWAY TO MAIN STREET is leaving the Theatre District with this program and playing a wide variety of songs that have NOTHING to do with Broadway: great, great songs from the movies, the pop charts, bossa nova, French chanson and more.

Princes come, princes go – but there was never a prince of Broadway like Alfred Drake.

The only Broadway musical to feature a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David – and what a score it is!

The Broadway bell has rung and it's time to take your seats. We go "back to school" with a full syllabus of songs about teaching, learning, and everything in between.

Nothing's quite the same as the Pajama Game – or the talented team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross who brought Broadway two of its biggest hits in the 1950s: the back-to-back smashes The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees.

In honor of Labor Day, this episode is a tribute to our nation's working men and women. Workers from cops to dance hall girls to cleaning women to whalers to union organizers sing for their supper.

A tribute to the composer who took the mid-1970s by storm and won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, a Grammy, and a Pulitzer Prize.

The first of our two-part tribute to the Master, featuring songs originating from England in the 1920s and 1930s.

A retrospective of Noel Coward's influence on the American scene; starting with his Las Vegas appearances in 1955, through the Broadway musicals Sail Away, The Girl Who Came to Supper, and High Spirits.

Highlights from the "Comedy Tonight!" concert from Guild Hall in East Hampton (July 29, 2012).

Jazz writer and critic Will Friedwald joins us in bringing the Broadway songbook to the boites and hangouts along 52nd Street.

An overview of Broadway's greatest comic figures who rose from the bottom of the bunch to become superstars.