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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

With author ROBERT W. SCHNEIDER

With special guest DAN KNECHTGES

With authors Irene Sankoff and David Hein

A conversation with authors IRENE SANKOFF and DAVID HEIN

A new book series highlighting LOVE ME TONIGHT, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and LA LA LAND.

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

This episode features David Armstrong who is the author & podcast host of Broadway Nation

With special guest Albert Evans

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

A Special Bonus Episode

Author of HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

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In this episode I continue my review of Broadway’s Nostalgia Craze of the 1970s and beyond. Many of the musicals that emerged in the late 60s and very early 70s were also influenced by the incipient Nostalgia Craze, even if overall their shows were decidedly modern. HAIR, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Applause all included musical sequences that recalled the Vaudeville era and Silver Age of Broadway. So nostalgia was in the air, and then No, No, Nanette sent it into ...

With special guest Albert Evans

HASSARD SHORT & JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON

This week’s episode of Broadway Nation is the second half of my conversation with author Ron Fassler, whose latest book is titled The Show Goes On — Broadway Hirings, Firings, and Replacements . Among the outstanding Broadway performers and creatives who are at the center Ron’s fascinating stories include Abe Burrows, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Comden & Green, Cynthia Erivo, Fantasia, Frank Loesser, Gower Champion, Harold Prince, Howard Keel, Iva Withers, Jane Russell, Jeff Conaway, Jerry ...

With author RON FASSLER