“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 7th
November and repeated at 11pm on Monday 8th of November. The show is produced and narrated by Len
Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1933
In 1933, Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s revolutionary musical from Germany, ‘The Three Penny Opera’, opened on Broadway. George and Ira Gershwin produced two shows that year – ‘Pardon My English’ and ‘Let ‘Em Eat Cake’. Irving Berlin provided the music for the revue, ‘As Thousands Cheer’ and Broadway first heard the exquisite music of Jerome Kern’s ‘Roberta’.
Songs in this program include ‘Heatwave’, ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’, ‘Isn’t It A Pity’, ‘Yesterdays’, ‘If I Love Again’ and ‘Mack The Knife’.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
