The 2 Best Broadway to Main Street Podcast Episodes
1) Mancini at 100
It's a Man-cin-tennial: great songs with music by legendary composer Henry Mancini, performed by an all-star ensemble: Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis, Jr., Steve Lawrence, Julie Andrews and more.
2) Margaret Whiting at 100
Few pop singers captured the Broadway songbook as well as Margaret Whiting; here's to her 100th with show tunes by Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart and many more.
3) Monty Python and Spamalot
We're sending songs in your general direction with two implacable knights of the musical Round Table--Eric Idle and John Du Prez--the songwriters of Spamalot in our studio; plus numerous other Python ...Show More
4) Sammy Davis Jr. Centenary Celebration (Part Two)
We take Sammy from his Broadway triumph in Golden Boy onward, through songs from Sweet Charity, Golden Rainbow, The Phantom of the Opera and more.
5) Sammy Davis, Jr. Centenary Celebration (Part One)
We celebrate Mr. Entertainment himself and the first half of his extraordinary career in advance of what would have been his 100th birthday. Songs from Mr. Wonderful, West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, ...Show More
6) Dick Van Dyke at 100
Our celebrity centenary celebration for 2025 begins with a tribute to Dick Van Dyke, beloved star of stage (Bye Bye Birdie) and screen (Mary Poppins, etc.). Guests include Chita Rivera, Mary Tyler Moo...Show More
7) Songs I Love from Shows I Love
To celebrate our 600th episode, we're highlighting my favorite songs from my favorite shows--Broadway winners, every one, from On the Twentieth Century, Show Boat, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, and more...Show More
8) Songs I Like/Shows I Don't (Encore Edition)
As a follow-up to our "Songs I Don't Like from Shows I Do" (and a precursor to our upcoming 600th episode), an encore presentation of tunes from Wonderful Town, Pippin, The Music Man and more--everybo...Show More
9) Boy Bands and Girl Groups
The close harmony sounds of music groups have embraced Broadway and been presented there, too: Jersey Boys, Motown the Musical, Beatlemania, plus the dulcet tones of the Pied Pipers, the Boswell Siste...Show More
10) Dionne Warwick Makes Over Broadway
One of the 20th Century's greatest singers turns her glorious pipes to the Broadway canon: songs from West Side Story, Sweet Charity, Purlie, and of course, Promises, Promises.