“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 20
March and repeated at 11pm on Monday 21 March.
The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic,
music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1976
1976 saw two American Bi-Centennial musicals on Broadway – Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Pacific Overtures’ and Leonard Bernstein’s ‘1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’. It was also the year of Richard Rodgers’ last musical, ‘Rex’, about Henry The Eighth. And there was a musical whodunit called ‘Something’s Afoot!’
You’ll hear songs from these shows and others including ‘Chrysanthemum Tea’ (from ‘Pacific Overtures’), ‘Take Care Of This House’ (‘1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’), ‘From Afar’ (‘Rex’), ‘I Don’t Know Why I Trust You (But I Do)’ (from ‘Something’s Afoot’), ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’ (‘Bubblin’ Brown Sugar’) and ‘The Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Boogie’ (‘Rockabye Hamlet’).
Performers include Barry Gibb, Patricia Routledge, Nicol Williamson, Colleen Hewett, Sab Shimono and Barry Bostwick.
