Episodes

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 hisexperiences on Broadway, including CATCH ME IF YOU CAN , CHARLIE ANDTHE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and, most especially, the behind-the-scenes history and develo...

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, MatchingMinds 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 S...

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, ...

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 i...

A Broadway Nation Live Recording

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 ...

You are invited to join me on December 11 at 5:00 PM at The Museum of Broadway where Tony and Olivier Award-winning lyricist , David Zippel, will be interview me about my new book, Broadway Nation: How Immigrant, Jewish, Queer, and Black Artists Invented the Broadway Musical . Reserve your FREE seats now at https://www.themuseumofbroadway.com/calendar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 DAN ELISH

With author ROBERT W. SCHNEIDER

With author ROBERT W. SCHNEIDER