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The Broadway Hour Show #113 Originally taped May 25, 1995 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON, from the New York Daily News ________________________________________________________________________ tonight's guests:
from the musical "JELLY ROLL" PETER LAWRENCE
CYNTHIA NIXON
JAMIE DeROY
PETER JACOBSON
ROSETTA LENOIRE
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #32 originally taped October 21, 1993 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic
today's guests: Actor BRIAN BEDFORD starring in TIMON OF ATHENS is known for both acting in and directing Shakespeare productions. He received seven Tony nominations, the second most for a male actor behind Jason Robards, who had eight.
Broadway Update CD Song: "I'd Rather Be Blue" ( Billy Rose / Fred Fisher) from FUNNY GIRL performed by BARBRA STREISAND
JULIA LEVY talks about Dewars Singles Series
DOC CHEATHAM at age 88 performs live!! with CHUCK FOLDS at the Lobby Court Steinway: "Manhattan" and "OK Baby"
LOVADA JUNE ROBERTS author and cast member of MARILYN MONROE, CLARK GABLE & ME performs: "Day To Day" ______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more information, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
B'WAY HR 63 MMcGOVERN ANN MILLER SWoods +
06 Jun 2025
01:03:10
B'WAY HR 94 MMcGOVERN ANN MILLER SWoods +
Broadway Hour show #94 - Originally recorded on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) May 26, 1994 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, 53rd and 7th Ave., in the lovely, Lobby Court Lounge
The Broadway Hour #19 with your host: STEWART KLEIN Taped live on July 15, 1993 for WEDV-AM
Pia Zadora is an American actress and singer. She came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the highly criticized[2]Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year[3] while simultaneously winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress and the Worst New Star for the same performance. As a singer, she has released several albums featuring popular standards, often backed by a symphonic orchestra. She was nominated for a Grammy in 1984.
Harvey Sabinson was an American theatrical press agent and the executive director of the Broadway League. Over a career of 30 years he promoted hits such as Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, Hello, Dolly!, and 1776, as well as doing publicity for stars such as Carol Channing, Barbra Streisand, Jason Robards, and others.[2] In 1976 Sabinson retired as an agent. He next went to work for the League of New York Theatres and Producers, now called the Broadway League. He became the executive director of the League, from 1982 to 1995.
Harry Groener He is an actor, known for A Cure for Wellness (2016), Patch Adams (1998) and Road to Perdition (2002). He was nominated for three Tony Awards: as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) in 1980 for a revival of "Oklahoma!", in 1983 for "Cats", and as Best Actor (Musical), in 1992 for "Crazy for You".
Michael A. Kerker has been Director of Musical Theatre for ASCAP since 1990. In addition to coordinating ASCAP's Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, he works with Disney Theatricals to produce the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles, (both of which are led by composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz). Together with Michael Feinstein, Michael Kerker produces a regular series of concerts at Carnegie Hall highlighting the catalogue of both legendary and contemporary songwriters.
Craig Carnelia composer and lyricist
1978 Tony Award Best Original Score Working – Music & Lyrics (nominee)
2002 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lyrics Sweet Smell of Success (nominee)
2003 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lyrics Imaginary Friends (nominee)
executive producer: KATE McGRATH engineer and sound editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
Show #50 originally taped February 24, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guests: MAURY YESTON-Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: in 1982, as Best Score, both music and lyrics, for "Nine;" and in 1997, as Best Original Musical Score, both music and lyrics, for "Titanic." He was also nominated in 1990, as Best Score (Musical), in collaboration with Bob Wright and Chet Forrest, both music and lyrics, for "Grand Hotel, the Musical." Song: "Please Let's Not Even Say Hello" from "December Songs" - a song cycle by musical theatre composer-lyricist Maury Yeston. The work is a "retelling" of Franz Schubert's Winterreise, (a song cycle of art songs), with a cabaret sensibility.
Song: "Every Street's A Boulevard In Old New York" from "Hazel Flagg", a 1953 musical, book by Ben Hecht, based on a story by James H. Street. The lyrics are by Bob Hilliard, and music by Jule Styne. The musical is based on the 1937 screwball comedy film "Nothing Sacred".
JOSH MOSTEL - Co-starring in "The Flowering Peach" with ELI WALLACH and ANNE JACKSON
K TODD FREEMAN - Tony nominated for "Song Of Jacob Zulu" currently (in Feb '94) in "Free Fall"
PAT McCORKLE - Casting Director (Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, Californication, Premium Rush- to name a few)
DARCI PICOULT - appearing in "My Virginia" -Text and Performance Darci Picoult / Direction Suzanne Shepard --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Host: STEWART KLEIN- FOX 5 New York TV Critic Taped live in front of an audience at the: SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd St. and 7th Ave. New York City
B'WAY HR 124 GMacDermot NTicotin MMaxwell - 4 live performances
25 May 2024
01:00:52
The Broadway Hour Show #124 Originally taped August 10, 1995 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON, from the New York Daily News ________________________________________________________________________ tonight's guests:
GALT MacDERMOT & NANCY TICOTIN - performing live- the cast of: "Time And The Wind" song: "Ah, It's Love" (G.MacDermot-music/Norman Matlock-lyrics) Johnetta Alston, Carol Denise, Carl Hall, Russell Joel Brown, Suzanne Griffin, Chris Jackson
MITCHELL MAXWELL Producer "JEFFREY" - live song: "It's Never That Easy" from "Closer Than Ever" NANCY TICOTIN with Steve Lutvack on piano
JACQUELYN PIRO (Les Mis) sings with Matthew Sklar on piano
AUBREY RUBIN Broadway photographer
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
The Broadway Hour Show #56 Originally taped April 7, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film & Theatre Critic ________________________________________________________________________ tonight's guests:
performing live- the cast of: "OH, BROTHER!" "Opec Maiden" and "A Loud & Funny Song" featuring Brian Sutherland, KT Sullivan, Laura Burton, Judy Malloy with Larry Hochman on piano.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
BARBARA COOK
DENNIS McGOVERN & DEBORAH GRACE WINER co authors of: "Sing Out Louise"
BROTHER RICK CURRY founder of : "National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped"
Pre-recorded song: "So Long Dearie" -by Pearl Bailey from the 1976 production of Hello Dolly!
**** SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE **** Stewart Klein Fox 5-TV review 1981!! Larry Marshall in OH, BROTHER! (1981, Broadway)o (youtube.com) ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
B'WAY HR 140 HELLO, DOLLY! 1995 Revival Carol CHANNING, LeeRoy REAMS and more
26 Feb 2024
00:57:27
Broadway Hour Show #140 Recorded November 30, 1995 Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News
The 1995 revival of HELLO, DOLLY! Opening Date: Oct 19, 1995 Closing Date: Jan 28, 1996
CAROL CHANNING (Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi )
LEE ROY REAMS - Director and Choreographer
CHAUNCEY HOWELL - NYC television journalist
song: "It Only Takes A Moment" sung by Michael DeVries
MICHAEL DE VRIES (Cornelius Hackl)
FLORENCE LACEY (Irene Molloy)
song snippet: "Ribbons Down My Back" sung by Florence Lacey
JOHN SALVATOR - Stage Manager for the show
Songs were from the Varèse Sarabande cast recording. _______________________________________________________________________ Live taping at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, New York City Executive Producer - Kate McGrath Engineer, Sound Editor - Chris Breetveld
The BROADWAY HOUR Show #38 Host: Stewart Klein - Fox-5 New York TV News - Film & Theatre Critic Originally taped December 2, 1993 before a live audience
The entire cast of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1994 perform live Brad Oscar / Craig Wells / Suzanne Blakeslee - with Brad Ellis on piano
4 Women Producers: Heidi Landesman (Ettinger) Margo Lion Susan Quint Gallin Elizabeth Williams
Song on tape: "Friendship" - by Ethel Merman & Bert Lahr from Du Barry Was A Lady (1939)
Actor: Kathleen Chalfant ("Angels In America")
Cabaret star: Steve Ross on piano sings Noel Coward
________________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in the Lobby Court Lounge.....on scenic 7th Avenue Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gm
B'WAY HR #105 recorded March 30, 1995 for WPAT-AM Your Host: LARRY SUTTON, of the NY Daily News __________________________________________________________________________ Evan Matthews performs live- "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat" with/ Daryl Kojak-piano & Jonathan Gilley-bass
Tom Viola (Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS) Alton White (SmokeyJoe's Cafe)
Rosemary Loar (Sunset Boulevard) sings-"The Ribbon Red" with Bruce Coyle-piano
KT Sullivan & Karen Prunzik (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) perform live with Michael O'Flaherty-musical director & piano
Dominick Allen's (Blood Brothers, Foreigner) recording: "Red Red Rose"
Broadway Update & Trivia Question (from trivia expert, Jim Breetveld)
David Bryant-MAC Awards-Manhattan Association of Cabaret & Clubs _____________________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in the Lobby Court Lounge.....on scenic 7th Avenue Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gm
BROADWAY HOUR #60...... originally taped May 4, 1994
JAMIE FARR - He is best known for playing the cross-dressing Corporal turned Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H. At time of this taping, he was appearing in the revival of GUYS & DOLLS.
Jazz musicians: KENNY DAVERN - clarinet CHUCK FOLDS - piano JEAN PAOLO - drums perform a couple of classy numbers
Song on tape: "I GOT LOVE" - MELBA MOORE...original cast of PURLIE
LEE WILKOF - (then appearing in SHE LOVES ME). An American actor and veteran of the Broadway stage. He originated the roles of Samuel Byck in Assassins and Seymour Krelborn in Little Shop of Horrors, later earning a Tony Award nomination for the 2000 revival of Kiss Me, Kate. Biography Early life Wilkof is from Canton, Ohio. -Wikipedia
BILLY BOESKY and SHANNON CONLEY from the off-Broadway musical "FALLEN ANGEL."
also THE BROADWAY UPDATE, TRIVIA and classic radio spots for then-current shows and cabaret performances.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Host: STEWART KLEIN- FOX 5 New York TV - Theatre and Film Critic Taped live in front of an audience at the: SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd St. and 7th Ave. New York City
Show #137 originally taped November 9, 1995 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News today's guests:
A little post St. Patrick's Day Irish music featuring the great Frank Patterson!! And not to mention the amazing:
TONY RANDALL star of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - first perfomed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London (1777), later a silent film starred Basil Rathbone (1923), followed by a now lost sound version in 1930 and two BBC television versions in 1937 (starred Greer Garson) and in 1959. Mr. Randall co-starred in TV's "The Odd Couple" and much much much much more... FRANK PATTERSON Irish tenor, talking about his new CD, "BROADWAY" CD track - "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" (E.Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) (4:11) performed by Frank Patterson / from FINIANS RAINBOW (1947)
BRENDAN GILL, drama critic
MICHAEL EVERS, celebrity portrait artist SAMUEL COHEN & DEBRA REBI, Freestyle Repertory Theatre
live performances by:
KAT COGSWELL with Lani Myers "Queens" (Francesca Blumental) from LIFE IS NOT LIKE THE MOVIES
MICHAEL MAROTTA with Lani Myers "Everyone Wants To Be Astaire" (Francesca Blumental) from LIFE IS NOT LIKE THE MOVIES ______________________________________________________________________
**New** enjoy our other shows: "BROADWAY HOUR-Algonquin Hotel 1989" coming soon!
Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones. ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
B'WAY HR 64 ....... TONY Nominees-1994
13 Jun 2022
00:59:08
This show is lovingly dedicated to the memories of Marin Mazzie (Oct 9, 1960–Sep 13, 2018) and Gary Beach (Oct 10, 1947–July 17, 2018).
DAVID IVES - is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form".[1] Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series.[2][
JANE ADAMS - (An Inspector Calls) She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991,[4] and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls.[5] -all bios, Wikipedia. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Host: STEWART KLEIN- FOX 5 New York TV - Theatre and Film Critic Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL
B'WAY HR 18 Betty Buckley, Forever Plaid, Louis Botto, Nunsense
13 May 2022
00:50:09
Stewart Klein hosts: "The Longest Running Broadway Show on Radio" -The BROADWAY HOUR. Six live musical performances highlight this week's show, originally taped July 8, 1993.
BETTY BUCKLEY - sings live:
Unexpected Song (Lloyd Webber, Black)
Memory (Lloyd Webber, Nunn, Eliot)
The cast of FOREVER PLAID - performs: from CD: No Not Much (James Raitt)
Gotta Be This Or That (James Raitt)
Crazy Bout You Baby (James Raitt)
LOUIS BOTTO, Sr. Editor PLAYBILL magazine
Cast of NUNSENSE - performs:
Just A Coupla' Sisters (Dan Goggin)
I Just Want To Be A Star (Dan Goggin)
_____________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Avenue, New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th ave." Creator/Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Program Coordinator: LESLIE MARTELLI Engineer & Sound Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD Director of Advertising: JACQUELINE R. MEYER special thanks to - Music Coordinator: JIM BREETVELD and WEVD-AM's - BOB AUGUST For more info, comments, fanmail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
B'WAY HR 130 BonnieFRANKLIN ClintHOLMES and more!
07 Apr 2022
00:56:01
The Broadway Hour show# 130 | Recorded onto DAT (Digital Audio Tape) 21-Sep-1995 featuring guests:
Bonnie Franklin |
Clint Holmes & Angelo Del Rossi |
Neil Pepe & Mary McCann |
George Wachtel |
Aubrey Rueben |
Executive Producer: Kate McGrath Engineer & Editor: Chris Breetveld
"Willow Weep For Me" (A. Ronell) Marion McPartland
24 Mar 2022
00:02:41
The great, Marion McPartland live on show #29, recorded September 30, 1993, from the upcoming full-length podcast, from The Broadway Hour NYC taped at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, NYC. Check back soon.
Show #29 Originally taped on September 30, 1993 for WPAT-930AM Radio at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, W53rd and 7th Avenue.
**AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic ... tonight's guests:
Comedian and actor Alan King (born Irwin Alan Kniberg; December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of films and television shows. King wrote several books, produced films, and appeared in plays. In later years he helped many philanthropic causes. -Wikipedia
Jazz pianist, Marion McPartland performs on the Lobby Court Steinway grand. Margaret Marian McPartland OBE, was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011. After her marriage to trumpeter Jimmy McPartland in February 1945, she resided in the United States when not travelling throughout the world to perform. Wikipedia
Michael Learned is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981). She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly. Three of the wins were for The Waltons (1973, 1974, 1976), while the other was for Nurse (1982). -Wikipedia ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th ave." Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments, fanmail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
This show is dedicated to the memory of LISA BANES, R.I.P.
B'WAY HR #111 originally recorded May 11, 1995 for WPAT-AM Your Host: LARRY SUTTON, of the NY Daily News
JEFF HARNAR backed by ALEX RYBECK, piano performs live. Multiple Award-Winning New York Cabaret, Concert, and Recording Artist. "The most important male cabaret performer to emerge since Michael Feinstein.". THE NEW YORK TIMES. -jeffjarnar.com
MIMI TURQUE She is an actress, known for Law & Order (1990), The Nurses (1965) and Je suis Alice (2015) She played and sang the role of Antonia, Don Quixote's niece, in the original 1965 Broadway stage production of "Man of La Mancha". -iMDb
CHARLES STROUSE Strouse has written scores for over 30 stage musicals, including 14 for Broadway. He has also composed scores for five Hollywood films, two orchestral works and an opera. He has been inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Theatre Hall of Fame. He is a three–time Tony Award winner, a two–time Emmy Award winner, and his cast recordings have earned him two Grammy Awards. His song "Those Were the Days" launched over 200 episodes of All in the Family and continues to reach new generations of television audiences in syndication. With hundreds of productions licensed annually, his musicals Annie and Bye Bye Birdie are among the most popular of all time–produced by regional, amateur and school groups all over the world. -charlesstrouse.com
LISA BANES was an American actress known for more than 80 film and television roles, as well as stage appearances on Broadway and elsewhere. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1984 for Isn't it Romantic? and won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison Porter Off-Broadway in Look Back in Anger. At the time of this recording, she was appearing in the original Broadway cast as Lady Croom in ARCADIA. -Wikipedia. Ms. Banes died following injuries she sustained in a hit and run accident after being hit by a scooter that ran a red light in Manhattan's Upper West Side on June 4, 2021 -CNN. Ms. Banes is survived by her wife, Kathryn Kranhold.
JOHN GRIFFIN credits include: Bare [Los Angeles]World Premiere, 2000 Jason/ Arcadia Broadway ] Original Broadway Production, 1995 Augustus Coverly-Gus Coverly/ Applause [West End] London Production, 1972/ Funny Girl [West End]London Production, 1966
IRVING FIELDS performs on the Lobby Court Steinway Grand to close the show ________________________________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in the Lobby Court Lounge.....on scenic 7th Avenue Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gm
Best Of The Broadway Hour NYC - ONE
18 Dec 2021
01:30:41
SEASONS GREETINGS from The BROADWAY HOUR NYC!!
Here, for your holiday enjoyment, is an hour of live performances from season three of our show, first broadcast for Christmas-Dec. 27, 1993. This was the first of three seasons of live tapings from The Sheraton Hotel and Towers, 53rd St and Seventh Avenue in New York City.
Today's roster of performers:
DOC CHEATHAM
BETTY BUCKLEY
"THE 4 PLAIDS" (from FOREVER PLAID)
"SISTER BOB" (from NUNSENSE)
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
THE WARREN VACHE QUARTET
ANN HAMPTON CALLOWAY
JONATHAN DOKUCHITZ (from The WHO'S TOMMY)
SHERIE SCOTT (from The WHO'S TOMMY)
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO
MARTY GROSZ & DICK MELDONIAN
AL GREY
MARILYN CASKY & MARK JAY McVEY (sing "Tonight")
CRAIG CORNELIA
BUCKY PIZZARELLI & GENE BERTONCINI
ROSLYN KIND
B'WAY HR 96 anneMEARA babaraBARRIE rueMcCLANAHAN live music+more
08 Dec 2021
00:54:09
how #96 originally taped January 26, 1995 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News
today's guests:
From "Sam's Funky 50s Funhouse" stars: Sam Riegel, Danny Girard, Jed Cohen, Sean Dooley
The stars of Jesus Christ Superstar: Ted Neeley (Jesus) + Carl Anderson (Judas)
Anne Meara the incredibly gifted comedienne-actress is known for her efforts alongside husband-comedian, Jerry Stiller; together, they were 'Stiller and Meara'. They gained popularity on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). Meara went on to a variety of television roles, notably the Golden Globe-winning Sally Gallagher in Rhoda (1974), and Veronica Rooney in Archie Bunker's Place (1979). In later years, Meara played reoccurring characters in Sex and the City (1998) and The King of Queens (1998). - IMDb: arv.0705@gmail.com
Barbara Barrie Barrie won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for One Potato, Two Potato (1964) . Barrie portrayed Evelyn in Breaking Away (1979), which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and later, an Emmy nomination, when she reprised the role on television. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her performance as Sue Berlin in Judy Berlin (1999). - IMDb A.R. Vario; M. Wallace
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in the Lobby Court Lounge.....(you know the rest of this tag.....) Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Originally taped March 17, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic ... tonight's guests:
jonathan FREEMAN Known for providing the iconic voice of Jafar in the 1992 animated film of Aladdin and originating the same role on Broadway, Jonathan Freeman is one of the most distinguished performers on the Broadway Plus roster. In his incredible 5-decade career, Jonathan has also garnered a Tony Award nomination, appeared in 10 other Broadway shows, provided voices for other Disney characters, and racked up dozens of other television and film credits. - BroadwayPlus
susan LEE an innovator and an industry leader working with many theatrical producing companies and non-profit arts organizations. She introduced Camp Broadway LLC in 1995 and has since managed the brand, business and program development. In addition founder and managing member of the company, she is the Chief Marketing Officer for The Nederlander - CampBroadway.com
john JILER - a writer of both drama and prose. He was the recipient of both the Richard Rodgers Award and the Kleban Librettists' Award for his musical AVENUE X, which played in New York at Playwrights' Horizons and in some fifty cities around the world .
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
ow #106 originally taped April 5, 1995 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News
Guests include:
cherryJONES Cherry Jones is an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, she has twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play: for the 1995 revival of The Heiress and for the 2005 original production of Doubt. Wikipedia
meganMULLALLY She is best known for playing Karen Walker on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, for which she received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning twice in 2000 and 2006. Wikipedia
lilianeMONTEVECCHI & davidSTALLER - with joelSILVERMAN-piano Ms. Montevecchi started her career as a ballerina in the company of Roland Petit. She moved to Hollywood in the 1950s, where she worked as an MGM contract player. She had small roles in such films as The Glass Slipper with Michael Wilding, Daddy Long Legs with Fred Astaire, and The Sad Sack with Jerry Lewis. In 1958, she made her Broadway debut in the musical revue La Plume de Ma Tante. After that, she had a starring role in the Folies Bergere, appearing throughout the 1970s in a touring company.
Mr. Staller is an American theatre director and actor. He is the founding artistic director of the Off-Broadway theatre company, Gingold Theatrical Group. Wikipedia
gerryBECKER Gerry Becker was an American theatre, film, and television actor. He passsed away at age 70 in 2019. Wikipedia
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Tonight's Producer: BERNADETTE DUNCAN Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more information, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #65 originally taped June 9, 1994 for WPAT 93AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION** Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York Critic today's guests -
KT SULLIVAN appearing at RAINBOW & STARS - On Broadway, Sullivan appeared as Suky Tawdry in the 1989 revival of The Threepenny Opera and as Lorelei Lee in the 1995 revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She toured in Annie Get Your Gun with Cathy Rigby and also performed in Sugar and Born Yesterday. She, Mark Nadler, and Ruth Leon wrote American Rhapsody: A New Musical Revue, which she and Nadler performed at the off-Broadway Triad Theatre between November 2000-June 2002. -Wikipedia KT Sullivan performs live: "The Lies Of Handsome Men" (Francesca Blumenthal)
Show #94 taped January 12, 1995 for WPAT-AM 93AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Today's guest host: MICHAEL RIEDEL - of the New York Daily News
Special focus of today's show: the 92nd St. Y's series, Lyrics & Lyricists, started by Maurice Levine in 1970 and hosted by him until his death in 1997.
today's guests -
Deborah TRANELLI- singing live. Ms. Tranelli is best known for her recurring role in the soap opera Dallas as Phyllis, secretary to Bobby Ewing (played by Patrick Duffy).[1] She appeared in the series from 1981 to its end in 1991. Her acting career has included roles on television series from Nero Wolfe "Might as Well Be Dead" (1981) to Law & Order "Seed" (1995). She starred in and performed the song "Still Got a Love" in the 1985 movie Naked Vengeance,[1] and released a 2004 jazz album "A Lot of Livin'" which won three BackStage Bistro awards. She has more recently been performing theatre in New York City. -WIKIPEDIA
Peter HOWARD - piano and vocals. Peterworked on two Broadway revivals of Hello, Dolly!, the 1997 revival of 1776 and the 1996 revival of Chicago, repeating the same tasks he had on the originals. He also worked on the movie versions of 1776, Annie and Stepping Out. In later years, Mr. Howard toured with a show called Peter Howard's Broadway. He passed away in April 2008 at the age of 80. -PLAYBILL
Maurice LEVINE and Hadassah MADSON from the 92nd St Y
Sheldon HARNICK-lyricist. He is an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as Fiorello! and Fiddler on the Roof. Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, "The Merry Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio.[1][2] It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Lehrer. Mr. Harnick is 97 years young at time of this writing. - WIKIPEDIA
John KANDER-composer. American composer John Kander is the musical partner of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb, who together created at least sixteen Broadway shows, Flora the Red Menace (1965), Cabaret (1966), Chicago (1975), and Curtains (2007) among them. -WIKIPEDIA
Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.
BONUS Mickey Rooney plays pre-show piano August 12,1993
Show #23 originally taped August 12, 1993 for WEVD-AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN- FOX 5 New York TV - Theatre and Film Critic
today's guests:
MICKEY ROONEY - the one and only!
the WARREN VACHE' QUARTET performing live jazz
DON SCARDINO - Director, Playrights Horizons
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Creator/Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Engineer & Sound Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
"Mouse Story" from Mickey Rooney conversation: August 12, 1993
09 Jul 2021
00:01:19
| From Broadway Hour show#23 | 12-Aug-1993 | Mickey Rooney | Warren Vache Quartet* | | Don Scardino
complete show coming soon/
LIVE "Eyesight To The Blind" (THE WHO'S TOMMY) by michaelCERVERIS w/ leeMORGAN
08 Jul 2021
00:02:35
From The Broadway Hour episode #25
LIVE-docCHEATHAM "OK Baby" with chuckFOLDS-piano. From Broadway Hour files
08 Jul 2021
00:02:20
LIVE-Brent Barrett- "From This Day On" (Lerner/Lowe) Christopher Denny-piano
08 Jul 2021
00:02:58
BRENT BARRETT Although decidedly a tenor, American actor and singer Brent Barrett is known for playing slick and colorful characters in the tradition of baritones Alfred Drake and Howard Keel. His striking performances as the leading man in Grand Hotel, Chicago, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, and The Phantom of the Opera have taken him all over the English-speaking world, from New Zealand to the West End, and from Las Vegas to Broadway (-Masterworks Broadway)
*Brent performs "From This Day On" (Lerner/Lowe - from BRIGADOON) live with Christopher Denny-piano
Show #57 originally taped April 14, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic
today's guests:
JULIE WILSON (October 21, 1924 - April 5, 2015) was an American singer and actress "widely regarded as the queen of cabaret". She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1989 for her performance in Legs Diamond. (-Wikipedia) *Performs "Storybook Lives" (Paul Katz) with Paul Katz on piano.
ALEX KORY from the League of Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids
BRENT BARRETT Although decidedly a tenor, American actor and singer Brent Barrett is known for playing slick and colorful characters in the tradition of baritones Alfred Drake and Howard Keel. His striking performances as the leading man in Grand Hotel, Chicago, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, and The Phantom of the Opera have taken him all over the English-speaking world, from New Zealand to the West End, and from Las Vegas to Broadway (-Masterworks Broadway) *Performs "From This Day On" (Lerner/Lowe - from BRIGADOON) live with Christopher Denny-piano
VINCENT SARDI - restauranteur
CD Song: "Guys & Dolls" (Frank Loesser) 1950 performed by Stubby Kaye and Johnny Silver
FREDERICK VOGEL from the Commercial Theatre Institute (C.T.I.)
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #87 originally taped November 10, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News
today's guests: CD Song: "Who's Got The Pain?" music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. from DAMN YANKEES performed by GWEN VERDON
GWEN VERDON- Gwyneth Evelyn "Gwen" Verdon, an American actress and dancer (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000). She won four Tony Awards for her musical comedy performances, and served as an uncredited choreographer's assistant and specialty dance coach for theater and film. -Wikipedia
JEAN CLAUDE BAKER (April 18, 1943 – January 15, 2015) a French-American restaurateur ("Che Josephine") and adopted son of Josephine Baker.
UTA HAGEN - was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, who called her "a profoundly truthful actress". -Wikipedia and WILLIAM CARDEN, Artistic Director, HB Playwrights Foundation
BROADWAY UPDATE
CD Song: "I'll Try" music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields; from REDHEAD performed by GWEN VERDON & RICHARD KILEY
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more information, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #49 originally taped February 21, 1994 for WPAT-AM 93AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic
today's guests in order of appearance-
WARREN VACHE' TRIO - Warren Vaché is a jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and flugelhornist born in Rahway, New Jersey. He came from a musical family as his father was a bassist. In 1976 he released his first album. He has often worked with Scott Hamilton and has some popularity among swing audiences. -Wikipedia performing with: Janice Friedman-piano / Joe Puma-guitar/ Murray Wall-bass/ Warren Vache'-cornet "I Want To Be Happy" lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, music by Vincent Youmans - 1925 from NO NO NANETTE and "Get Happy" written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler-1950 for SUMMER STOCK
BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL - "Valentin" in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Brian Stokes Mitchell is an American actor and singer. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the 1990s. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2000 for his performance in Kiss Me, Kate. -Wikipedia
Broadway Update
CD song: "Plank Song" from PETER PAN sung by Boris Karloff ℗ 1951 Sony Music Entertainment Composer: Leonard Bernstein Producer: Lewis Shayon
FRANK RICH is an American essayist and liberal op-ed columnist, who held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011. He has also produced television series and documentaries for HBO. -Wikipedia ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
The Broadway Hour #74 Taped live to DAT on August 11, 1994 for WPAT-93am
with guest host: MICHAEL REIDEL _______________________________________________________________________________ Guests: TOM JONES (Book and Lyrics) and HARVEY SCHMIDT (Music), wrote THE FANTASTICKS for a summer theatre production at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in May 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in the history of the American stage and one of the most frequently produced musicals in the world. -https://jonesandschmidt.com The Fantasticks premiered at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, a small off-Broadway theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, on May 3, 1960, with Jerry Orbach as El Gallo, Rita Gardner as Luisa, Kenneth Nelson as Matt, and librettist Tom Jones (under a pseudonym) as the Old Actor, among the cast members.[17] The sparse set and semicircular stage created an intimate and immediate effect. - wikipedia
RAUL ARANAS -the Engineer in Miss Saigon - was born on October 1, 1947 in Manila, Philippines. He is an actor and composer, known for Burn After Reading (2008), JFK (1991) and Manhattan Night (2016). NEGA from SUBURBIA 1994 - imdb.com
LIVE "The Girl I Love" (G & I Gershwin) MICHAEL FEINSTEIN performs
14 Apr 2021
00:04:20
LIVE "Neverland" (PETER PAN) Jule Styne-piano + Hugh Pannaro-vocal
13 Apr 2021
00:02:37
Hear the composer himself (at age 89) perform at the piano with Mr. Pannaro joining on vocals.
LIVE- LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO (Song Of Jacob Zulu) from unreleased show
ANTHONY EDWARDS (10 BELOW ) / known on television's NORTHERN EXPOSURE as "The Man In The Plastic Bubble"
NANCY TIMPANARO (TOTIE) the two time MAC Award actress/ singer was also in "Tony And Tina's Wedding" live: "Don't Remind Me" performed by Nancy Timpanaro with piano
chef Scott Garrity and TRIVIA
GOSSIP TIME with BRIAN LIPTON and MICHAEL REIDEL
CD song: "Willamania" (from WILL ROGERS FOLLIES) (Music Composed & Arranged by Cy Coleman / Lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Creator/Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH Producer: ANTHONY CONNOLLY Program Coordinator: ROBERT CURTISS Engineer & Sound Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD Director of Advertising: JACQUELINE R. MEYER Special thanks to BOB AUGUST, WEVD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
B'WAY HR 55 annieROSS/ mortSAHL/ dorothyLOUDON
29 Jan 2021
00:53:13
Show #55 originally taped March 31, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic today's guests:
ANNIE ROSS - Annabelle McCauley Allan Short, who passed away in July 2020, known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
In July 2006 a one-woman play entitled TWISTED: The Annie Ross Story by Brian McGeachan premiered at The Space Theatre in London, starring Verity Quade. It focused on her stormy relationship with her aunt, Broadway legend Ella Logan, her brief affair with the comedian Lenny Bruce and other elements of her life.
MORT SAHL an American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire which pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop. Television host Steve Allen claimed that Sahl was "the only real political philosopher we have in modern comedy." He inspired many later comics to become stage comedians, including Lenny Bruce, Jonathan Winters, George Carlin and Woody Allen. Allen credits Sahl's new style of humor with "opening up vistas for people like me.
**New** enjoy our other shows: "BROADWAY HOUR-Algonquin Hotel 1989" https://www.buzzsprout.com/1491625/episodes ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #54 originally taped March 24, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic today's guests:
Mayor RUDY GUILIANI -an American attorney and politician who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He served as United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. The rest is fuzzy. GERRY SCHOENFELD, Chairman of the Shubert Organization and GEORGE WACHTEL, Director of Research for the League of American Theatres and Producers
CD Song: "Little Tin Box" (Bock/Harnick) 1959 from FIORELLO performed by Howard DaSilva
Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones. ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #99 originally taped April 16, 1995 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News today's guests:
"Live" performances and conversations with: DAVID STALLER, PHILLIP OFFICER and TOM ANDERSEN, with DICK GALLAGHER at the Lobby Court Steinway- appearing in BOYS NIGHT OUT at the 92nd Street Y. Also, the show's producer, PETER LIGETI.
HELEN REDDY-Grammy award winning singer & actress starring on Broadway in BLOOD BROTHERS. During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles on the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the top 10 and three reached number one, including her signature hit "I Am Woman"
BARBARA FELDON-star of TV, film and theatre appearing off-Broadway in LOVE FOR BETTER & VERSE. She was cast in GET SMART as "Agent 99," she starred opposite comedian Don Adams, who portrayed Maxwell Smart, Secret Agent 86. She played the role for the duration of the show's production from 1965 until 1970, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1968 and 1969. Feldon made guest appearances five times on The Dean Martin Show,Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. And guest-starred in several 1970s television series, including The Carol Burnett Show, Thriller, The Name of the Game and McMillan & Wife . She wrote a book, Living Alone and Loving It, in 2003. and FREDERIC B. VOGEL, founding Executive Dir., Commercial Theatre Institute ______________________________________________________________________
Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones. ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more information, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #68 originally taped Jun. 30, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News
today's guests:
LESLEY GORE - an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16 (in 1963), she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party" (a US number one), and followed it up with other hits, including the #2 hit "You Don't Own Me", and seven further Billboard top 40 hits. Gore also worked as an actress and composed songs with her brother, Michael Gore, for the 1980 film Fame, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She hosted an LGBT-oriented public television show, In the Life, on American TV in the 2000s, and was active until 2014.
DONNA MURPHY A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in Passion (1994–95) and as Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1996–97)
MARIN MAZZIE an American actress and singer known for her work in musical theater. Mazzie was a three-time Tony Award nominee, for her performances as Clara in Passion (1994), Mother in Ragtime (1998), and Lilli Vanessi/Katherine in Kiss Me, Kate (2000).
THE BROADWAY UPDATE & TRIVIA
MIGUEL ALGARIN + TRACIE MORRIS, poets/organizers SERIOUS FUN FESTIVAL
Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones. ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more information, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
B'WAY HR 75 jackieMASON/ jeremyGERARD/ billROBINSON performs live
29 Oct 2020
00:48:36
Show #75 originally taped August 18, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News
today's guests:
JEREMY GERARD Senior Editor, VARIETY
JACKIE MASON star of "Politically Incorrect" at the GOLDEN THEATRE Jackie Mason is an American stand-up comedian and film and television actor. He is ranked #63 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all-time. His 1986 one-man show The World According to Me won a Special Tony Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ace Award, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy nomination. Wikipedia
THE BROADWAY UPDATE & TRIVIA
BILL ROBINSON with TED BRANCATO-piano & BRIAN GLASSMAN, bass live performances : "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" (Lerner & Lowe) from MY FAIR LADY (1956) "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (George & Ira Gershwin) introduced in the Fred Astaire film SHALL WE DANCE (1937)
Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones. ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #58 originally taped April 21, 1994 for WPAT 93AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION** Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic
today's guests -
Performing Live!! DR. BILLY TAYLOR (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina. Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador.
From Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization: BERT FINK + OSCAR YOUNG Founded by the legendary team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and headquartered in New York City, Rodgers & Hammerstein owns the rights to the world's most popular stage and film musicals, including OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, SOUTH PACIFIC, THE KING AND I and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. As an agency, R&H encompasses a music publishing company; a concert rental library; and a theatrical licensing branch that collectively represent more than 5,000 songs, 900 concert pieces, 200 writers, and 100 musicals, including works by Irving Berlin, Stephen Schwartz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Guettel, Rodgers & Hart, Kern & Hammerstein, and many more.
HARRY HAUN -Playbill columnist, a Contributor for the Sun. Mr. Haun is a New York-based writer covering film and theater. He is author of “The Movie Quote Book,” “The Cinematic Century” and the forthcoming “TinselTime: On This Day in the Reel World As seen in: Playbill, Flipboard, Observer, BroadwayWorld, The Village Voice, NewsBreak, South Florida Theater
______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #21 originally taped July 29, 1993 for WEVD 1050AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic ________________________________________________________________________________________ today's guests -
CD intro: "She Loves Me" from SHE LOVES ME
SHELDON HARNICK lyricist for SHE LOVES ME (with Jerry Bock 1963), HER FIRST ROMAN (with Bock 1968), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (with Bock 1964), FIORELLO! (with Bock 1959), NEW FACES OF 1952 (music 1952) CD song: "If I Were A Rich Man" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF performed by ZERO MOSTEL, Original Cast Album (1964)
THE BROADWAY UPDATE
MARTIN VIDNOVIC and MAUREEN BRENNAN perform live: from "The LERNER & LOWE REVIEW" at RAINBOW & STARS "The Night They Invented Champagne" from GIGI and "The Heather On The Hill" from BRIGADOON
BRIAN MITCHELL "Jelly" in JELLY'S LAST JAM, TV's "Trapper John M.D."
Chef SCOTT GARRITY of BISTRO 790
PAMELA SHAFER and CHARLES GEYER perform live from YOURS, LULU-BROADWAY TO BERLIN: Pamela Shafer as Louise Brooks, Charles Geyer-piano, vocals "Little Men" (Charles Geyer) "Charlie My Boy (Charles Geyer)
CD song: "Tradition" (Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock) from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF performed by ZERO MOSTEL, Original Cast Album (1964) ________________________________________________________________________________________
Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #24 originally taped August 19, 1993 for WEVD 1050AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic
today's guests -including 5 live performances:
CD intro: "Too Marvelous For Words" (Richard A. Whiting) by Michael Feinstein
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN singer & pianist-The Great American Songbook performs live: "The Girl I Love" (George & Ira Gershwin) (1924)
The BROADWAY HOUR UPDATE
CD intro "The Grand Canal" (Maury Yeston) (1982) from NINE
WILLIAM IVEY LONG Costume designer- NINE, GUYS & DOLLS, CRAZY FOR YOU discusses his new show, LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR
WARREN VACHE' QUARTET - JANICE FREEDMAN-piano, JOE PUMA-guitar, MURRAY WALL-bass, WARREN VACHE'-cornet - performing live: "I've Never Been In Love Before" (Frank Loesser) (1950)
BROADWAY TRIVIA
CD Intro: by Ann Hampton Calloway
ANN HAMPTON CALLOWAY singer & pianist-coming to RAINBOW & STARS performs live: "Time After Time" (Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn) (1947)
WARREN VACHE' QUARTET return with 2 more "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler) (1930) and Outro music
Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones. ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
Show #25 originally taped August 26, 1993 for WEVD 1050AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic
today's guests:
CD intro "All The Young Girls Love Alice" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) performed by Elton John
LINDA LAVIN appearing in THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
CD intro "I Believe My Own Eyes" (Peter Townshend) THE WHO'S TOMMY performed by Jonathan Dokuchitz and Marcia Mitzman
MICHAEL CERVERIS star of THE WHO'S TOMMY at the St. James Theatre live performances: "Pinball Wizard" (Peter Townshend) with LEE MORGAN "Eyesight To The Blind" (Sonny Boy Williamson) with LEE MORGAN
JOE MASTEROFF author of the books for SHE LOVES ME and CABARET
GRETA MARTIN of the Hot Box Chickees - GUYS & DOLLS 1992 revival
CD song: "A Bushell And A Peck" (Frank Loesser) from GUYS & DOLLS (1992 Revival) performed by Tina Marie DeLeone/ Denise Faye/ Pascale Faye/JoAnn Hunter/ Nancy Lemenager/ Greta Martin/ Faith Prince
CD song: "Once In Love With Amy" (Frank Loesser) from WHERE'S CHARLEY? (1952) performed by Ray Bolger (based on CHARLEY'S AUNT) ______________________________________________________________________
Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones. ______________________________________________________________________ Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com
B'WAY HR 33 leslieUGGAMS/ cliveBARNES/ bobbySHORT
20 Oct 2020
00:53:26
Show #33 originally taped October 28, 1993 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic ________________________________________________________________________________________ today's guests:
LESLIE UGGAMS starring in new show at RAINBOW & STARS CD track - "The Wrong Man" (Ervin Drake) (3:04) by Leslie Uggams From HER FIRST ROMAN (1968) Original Cast
THE BROADWAY UPDATE and Trivia Question CD track - "Hey There" (Richard Adler & Jerry Ross) (2:36) performed by Rosemary Clooney, originally from THE PAJAMA GAME (1954)
CLIVE BARNES Dance & Theatre Critic, for the New York Times, then New York Post
BOBBY SHORT his 26th anniversary as Cafe Carlyle song & piano man CD track - "Swing That Music" (Horace Gerlach, Louis Armstrong) (3:38) performed by Bobby Short
Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue" Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD For more information, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com