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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

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 ...

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

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

A quick update on what's going on with Broadway Nation podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 ...