LGBTQ Creators Episodes

TONY Award-winning Composer/Lyricist and Author of NEVER MIND THE HAPPY

With special guest Albert Evans

With special guest Albert Evans

This week Albert Evans joins me once again as we go “In Search of Lost Broadway.” Specifically, the 1934 smash-hit musical The Great Waltz, conceived, directed, and lighted by Hassard. Short, with a book by Moss Hart, choreography by Albertina Rasch, based on the Viennese operetta and London hit, Waltzes From Vienna with English lyrics by Desmond Carter, and featuring the music of both Johann Strausses, I and II. If you missed the first episode in this series, you may want to catch up with that ...

With special guest Albert Evans

This episode was recorded in 2021 just five days after it was announced that Stephen Sondheim had died and as it happened my friend, colleague and frequent co-host and contributor to Broadway Nation, Albert Evans, was spending the Thanksgiving weekend with me, and so we were together when this news began to break and during the incredible reaction and response this loss over the days that followed. The coverage of Sondheim’s life and legacy in both traditional and social media had been phenomena...

With author ROBERT W. SCHNEIDER

With author ROBERT W. SCHNEIDER

With author ROBERT W. SCHNEIDER

With special guest DAN KNECHTGES

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

With special guest Albert Evans

HASSARD SHORT & JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON

With special guest Lee Roy Reams

This is the second half of this week's Encore presentation of my conversation with Tony-award-winning lighting designer Ken Billington. Last week, Ken received rave reviews for his lighting design of the new Broadway musical SMASH, which amazingly is his 108th Broadway production. So, I thought it was an ideal time to revisit this fascinating conversation about the history of lighting design on Broadway and Ken’s own tremendous contribution to it. If you missed part one you may want to cat...

This is a special encore episode of my 2022 interview with Tony-award-winning lighting designer Ken Billington. This past week, Ken received rave reviews for his lighting design of the new Broadway musical SMASH, which amazingly is his 108th Broadway production. So, I thought it was an ideal time to revisit this fascinating conversation about the history of lighting design on Broadway and Ken’s own tremendous contribution to it. This is a two-part conversation and I will be rereleasing both part...

On this episode, I have a big announcement, so I asked my buddy, friend, colleague, and Broadway Nation’s favorite co-host and guest host, ALBERT EVANS, to join me today to turn the tables on me and ask me the questions rather than me being the interviewer. As you may have guessed from the episode title, the announcement is that I have a book coming out called BROADWAY NATION (sound familiar?) and the subtitle will be similar to what you've heard before as well: HOW IMMIGRANT JEWISH, QUEER...

Gay Liberation and the Modern Era of the Broadway Musical

"Goodbye to Blueberry Pie"

with Andrew L. Erdman author of Beautiful: The Story of Julian Eltinge, America's Greatest Female Impersonator.