THE BROADWAY MUSICALS
YEARBOOK 1981
“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 3
April and repeated at 11pm on Monday 4 April.
The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic,
music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the
musicals of 1981
1981’s ‘Sophisticated Ladies’, a Duke Ellington musical revue,
was a big success, as was Michael Bennett’s ‘Dreamgirls’, about the rise of a
black all-girl singing group. Stephen
Sondheim had a big flop with ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ and Lauren Bacall was the
toast of Broadway in ‘Woman Of The Year’.
You’ll hear songs from these shows and others including ‘And
I Am Telling You I’m Not Going’ (from ‘Dreamgirls’), ‘The Grass is Always
Greener’ (‘Woman Of The Year’), ‘Hit Me With A Hot Note And Watch Me Bounce’
(‘Sophisticated Ladies’) and ‘Not A Day Goes By’ (‘Merrily We Roll Along’).
Performers include Lauren Bacall, Jennifer Holiday, Lonny
Price, Chita Rivera, Donald O’Connor, Jim Walton, Gregory Hines, Ann Morrison
and Marilyn Cooper.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
