“The Broadway Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 30 January and repeated at 11pm on Monday 31 January. The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1968
1968 saw revolutionary change on Broadway with the opening of the rock musical, ‘Hair’. Also popular was Burt Bacharach’s ‘Promises, Promises’. There were also the more conventional shows, ‘Zorba’, based on ‘Zorba The Greek’ and ‘The Happy Time’ with Robert Goulet.
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows including ‘Easy To Be Hard’ (from ‘Hair’), ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again’ (‘Promises, Promises’), ‘No Boom Boom’ (‘Zorba’), ‘The Happy Time’ (‘The Happy Time’).
Performers include Robert Goulet, Patricia Routledge, Herschel Bernardi, Steve Lawrence, Joel Grey and Jerry Orbach.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
