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24 June – Grind (Larry Grossman & Ellen Fitzhugh) – 1985 original Broadway cast recording + an interview with award-winning composer Larry Grossman

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An American in Paris (George & Ira Gershwin) – 2015 original Broadway cast recording + selections from the 1951 MGM motion picture soundtrack recording

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Goodtime Charley (Larry Grossman & Hal Hackady) – 1975 original Broadway cast recording + an interview with award-winning composer Larry Grossman

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Chicago (John Kander & Fred Ebb) – 1975 original Broadway cast recording + an interview with original cast member Pamela Sousa + selections from And The World Goes 'Round – The Songs of Kander & Ebb – 1991 original off-Broadway cast recording

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Glamorous Night (Ivor Novello and Christopher Hassall) – original 1935 London cast highlights recordings plus plus additional numbers from the 1968 BBC radio production + introduction by Rex Bunnett + a selection of songs from the musicals of Ivor Novello, including Careless Rapture, Crest of the Wave, The Dancing Years, Perchance to Dream and King's Rhapsody.

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The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley) – 1965 original Broadway cast recording + an archival interview with Leslie Bricusse from 2013 + How to Win an Election (or Not Lose by Much) (devised & written by Leslie Bricusse) – 1964 British comedy album starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan

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Flora, The Red Menace (John Kander & Fred Ebb) – 1965 original Broadway cast recording + selections from Liza with a "Z" – 1972 New York 'live" concert recording

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Damn Yankees (Richard Adler & Jerry Ross) – 1955 original Broadway cast recording + selections from the 1955 London cast recording of The Pajama Game (Richard Adler & Jerry Ross)

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Jeeves (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Alan Ayckbourn) – 1975 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + a selection of songs from the musicals of Jerome Kern and P.G. Wodehouse, including The Beauty of Bath, Have a Heart, Oh, Boy!, Leave it to Jane, Oh, Lady! Lady!! and Sitting Pretty.

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Perchance to Dream (Ivor Novello) – 1945 original London cast highlights recordings + additional numbers from the 1968 BBC radio cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + a selection of songs with music by Ivor Novello – recorded 1929 - 1947

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Carousel (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) – 1945 original Broadway cast recording, plus additional numbers from the 1956 film soundtrack & 1994 Broadway revival cast recordings + interview with former President of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization Ted Chapin

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Tell Me More (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & B.G. DeSylva) – 1995 Los Angeles studio cast recording + an interview with Aaron Gandy + selections from the 1998 CD compilation album From Gershwin’s Time – The Original Sounds of George Gershwin 1920 - 1945

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Philemon (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt) – 1975 original off-Broadway cast recording + an archival interview with Tom Jones (from December 2021)

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Billy Elliott – The Musical (Elton John & Lee Hall) – 2005 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett

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Do I Hear a Waltz? (Richard Rodgers & Stephen Sondheim) – 1965 original Broadway cast recording + interview with former President of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization Ted Chapin + selected highlights from the 1973 New York "live" concert recording of Sondheim: A Musical Tribute

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The Mikado (WS Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan) – 1957 D'Oyly Carte Opera Company recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett

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La Cage aux Folles (Jerry Herman) – 1985 original Australian cast recording + an interview with original Australian cast member Geraldene Morrow + highlights from Tap Your Troubles Away! – The Words & Music of Jerry Herman – 2001 Los Angeles concert recording

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Silk Stockings (Cole Porter) – 1955 original Broadway cast recording + selections from the 1957 MGM motion picture soundtrack recordings for Silk Stockings

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Baker Street - A Musical Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Marian Grudeff & Raymond Jessel) – 1965 original Broadway cast recording + demo recordings of songs "cut" from the score performed by Marian Grudeff and Ray Jessel + Ray Jessel recorded “live” in cabaret at The Gardenia in Hollywood, California in 2002, from the CD album The First Seventy Years.

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Up in Central Park (Sigmund Romberg & Dorothy Fields) – 1953 US radio cast + introduction by Peter Filichia (recorded in 2012) + selections from My Maryland (Romberg & Dorothy Donnelly), The New Moon (Romberg & Oscar Hammerstein II), Viennese Nights (Romberg & Hammerstein) and May Wine (Romberg & Hammerstein) – 1945 to '50 studio recordings conducted by Sigmund Romberg

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Divorce Me, Darling! (Sandy Wilson) – 1965 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett

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Plain and Fancy (Albert Hague & Arnold B. Horwitt) – 1955 original Broadway cast recording + Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall – 1975 “live” concert recording

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Our Man Crichton (David Lee & Herbert Kretzmer) – 1964 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + scenes and songs from Peter Pan including incidental music for the play composed by John Crook – 1940 London studio cast recordings

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The Wiz (Charlie Smalls) – 1975 original Broadway cast recording + radio promotion of the MGM motion picture musical The Wizard of Oz (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg) – 1939 U.S. radio transcription recording

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Shenandoah (Gary Geld & Peter Udell) – 1975 original Broadway cast recording + an interview with the co-writers of the new British musical The Queen is Mad – Amy Clare Tasker and composer Tom McGrath + excerpts from the 2024 original London cast recording

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On the Town (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green) – 1960 New York studio cast recording + a selection of alternate songs from the MGM film version by Roger Edens, Betty Comden & Adolph Green – 1949 film soundtrack recordings

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Mary Poppins (Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman, plus new songs by George Stiles & Anthony Drew) – 2004 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett

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I Had a Ball (Jack Lawrence & Stan Freeman) – 1964 original Broadway cast recording + selections from Bajour (Walter Marks) – 1964 original Broadway cast recording

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Watch Your Step (Irving Berlin) – 2001 off-Broadway revival cast recording + selections from Irving Berlin - "This is the Life!" – 2015 CD album featuring the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra conducted by Rick Benjamin with vocalists Bernadette Boerckel and Daniel Marcus

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Lady, Be Good! (George & Ira Gershwin) – 1992 U.S. studio cast recording + original recordings by Fred & Adele Astaire, George Gershwin & Cliff Edwards

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Anything Goes (Cole Porter) – 1988 London studio cast recording + recordings by Cole Porter

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The Wayward Way (Lorne Huycke & Bill Howe) – 1964 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + Maria Marten or, The Murder in the Red Barn – 1932 English cast recording starring Tod Slaughter & Company + A Fruity Melodrama – Only a Mill Girl (or, The Doings Up at the Hall) (John James Melluish) - 1938 original English cast recording + songs by Stanley Holloway & Gracie Fields

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Fanny (Harold Rome) – 1954 original Broadway cast recording + an interview with Walter Willison about Grand Hotel: The 35th Anniversary Original Broadway Cast Reunion at 54 Below, in New York City + private demo recordings of Robert Wright and George Forrest singing songs from their score for the 1989 musical, and recordings of additional songs written for their 1962 version entitled At the Grand.

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The Only Girl (Victor Herbert & Henry Blossom) – 2015 Light Opera of New York revival cast recording + The Red Mill (Victor Herbert & Henry Blossom) – 1962 Reader's Digest New York studio cast "highlights" recording

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The Hired Man (Howard Goodall) – 1992 "live" London concert cast recording (with members of the original 1984 West End production) + introduction by Rex Bunnett

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Robert and Elizabeth (Ron Grainer & Ronald Millar) – 1964 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + selections from The Third Kiss (Fred G. Morritt) – 1963 New York demo recordings

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Peter Pan (Mark Charlap & Carolyn Leigh; Jule Styne, Betty Comden & Adolph Green ) – 1954 original Broadway cast recording + an interview with original cast member Sondra Lee + song selections from alternate versions of Peter Pan (John Crook, Leonard Bernstein, Sammy Fain & Sammy Cahn)

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Golden Boy (Charles Strouse & Lee Adams) – 1964 original Broadway cast recording + The Musicality of Strouse featuring songs from the musicals of Charles Strouse – 2005 CD compilation album

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Mack & Mabel (Jerry Herman) – 1974 original Broadway cast recording + introduction by Peter Filichia (recorded in 2012) + highlights from Hello, Dolly! (Jerry Herman) – 1967 "new" Broadway cast recording starring Pearl Bailey & Cab Calloway

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Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick) – 1964 original Broadway cast recording + interview with Sheldon Harnick (recorded in 2014) + demo recordings of "cut" songs written for Fiddler performed by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick

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The Woman in White (Andrew Lloyd Webber & David Zippel) – 2004 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett 

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Maggie May (Lionel Bart) – 1964 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + cover recordings by Judy Garland

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Rose Marie (Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II) – 1958 London studio cast recording + orchestral and vocal selections from Rudolf Friml’s The Vagabond King, High Jinks and Katinka - 1986 U.S. recording

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Life Begins at 8:40 (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin & E.Y. Harburg) – 2010 New York studio cast recording + introduction by Aaron Gandy 

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Song of Norway (Greig adapt. Robert Wright & George Forrest) – 1944 original Broadway cast recording + introduction by Walter Willison + selections of additional songs from the 1970 motion picture soundtrack recording of Song of Norway (Wright & Forrest)

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Salad Days (Julian Slade & Dorothy Reynolds) – 1994 London studio cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + selections from the 1980 album Looking For a Piano featuring composer-lyricist Julian Slade at the piano performing songs from his repertoire. 

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Donnybrook! (Johnny Burke) – 1961 original Broadway cast recording + an interview with leading lady Joan Fagan Marshall – (repeat broadcast from 18 May 2021.)

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Instant Marriage (Laurie Holloway & Bob Grant) – 1964 original London cast recording + introduction by Rex Bunnett + selections from She Loves Me (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick) – 1964 original London cast recording 

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The Frogs (Stephen Sondheim) – 2004 original Broadway cast recording + selections from Side By Side By Sondheim – 1977 original Australian cast recording

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Bloomer Girl (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg) – 1944 original Broadway cast recording + selections from A Star is Born (Harold Arlen & Ira Gershwin) – 1954 motion picture soundtrack recording

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