“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 5
June and repeated at 11pm on Monday 6 June.
The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic,
music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1921
1921 saw the first of Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revues. Al Jolson was a big hit in ‘Bombo’ and one of the first major black cast musicals, ‘Shuffle Along’, was also a hit. Fanny Brice starred in ‘Ziegfeld Follies of 1921’ and another big hit was the operetta, ‘Blossom Time’.
You’ll hear songs from these shows and others including ‘Toot Toot Tootsie’ (‘Bombo’), ‘I’m Just Wild About Harry’ (‘Shuffle Along’), ‘My Man’ (Ziegfeld Follies’) ‘Song Of Love’ (‘Blossom Time’) and ‘Everybody Step’ (‘Music Box Revue’).
Performers include Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Ella Fitzgerald, Gregory Hines, Barbara Cook and Blossom Dearie.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
