Episodes

Summer of Sondheim Series

Summer of Sondheim Series

Summer of Sondheim Series

Summer of Sondheim

With Elizabeth T. Craft author of Yankee Doodle Dandy — George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage

With Elizabeth T. Craft author of Yankee Doodle Dandy — George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage

With Maya Cantu, author of GREASEPAINT PURITAN

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

With Andrew L. Erdman author of "Beautiful — The Story of Julian Eltinge, America's Greatest Female Impersonator."

With Andrew L. Erdman author of "Beautiful — The Story of Julian Eltinge, America's Greatest Female Impersonator."

With author Deborah Phillips

With author Deborah Phillips

"Now I know why these people have hits!"

With author BARRY KESTER

With authors Paige Allen & Stacy Wolf

With authors Paige Allen & Stacy Wolf

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 HAPPY. During his five-decade career, Marc has found enormous success in nearly every aspect of show business, but in this episode, we focus on his experiences on Broadway, including CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and, most especially, the behind-the-scenes history and develop...

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

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 life and his career, including an amazing number of really terrific books, and I have had the honor of having many of the authors of those books as guests on this podcast. And Barry Joseph’s book is right up there with the best of them, but it is also a completely unique and original way of looking at So...

With special guest Albert Evans

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, are major revivals of Broadway musicals from the past. And since I’ve been around for a while and had the opportunity to see the original 1986 London production of Chess, which ran for three years, as well as the 1988 Broadway production, which closed after only 68 performances, and a few weeks ago, t...

With special guest Albert Evans

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 Vashon Center For The Performing Arts on Vashon Island, WA. If you prefer to watch a video of this performance you can stream it on their website at: vashoncenterforthearts.org In Part One we looked at how the Jewish-Russian immigrant songwriter, Irving Berlin — in addition to being one of the prime ...

A Broadway Nation Live Recording