“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 13
February and repeated at 11pm on Monday 14 February. The show is produced and narrated by Len
Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1987
1987 saw the opening of one of the most popular musicals of all time – ‘Les Miserables’. Stephen Sondheim had a hit with the fairy tale musical with a sting, ‘Into the Woods’, and Andrew Lloyd Webber gave us ‘Starlight Express’, his roller skating musical about trains. There was also ‘Teddy And Alice’, a musical about the relationship of President Theodore Roosevelt with his feisty daughter, Alice.
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows and others including ‘Only He’ (from ‘Starlight Express’), ‘No-one Is Alone’ (‘Into the Woods’), ‘Stars’ and ‘On My Own’ (‘Les Miserables’) and ‘But Not Right Now’ (‘Teddy & Alice’).
Performers include Roger Allam and Frances Ruffelle (‘Les
Miserables’), Stephanie Lawrence (Starlight Express’), Joanna Gleeson (‘Into
The Woods’), as well as Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia Brown and Hoagy Carmichael.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
