“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 26
June and repeated at 11pm on Monday 27 June.
The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic,
music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1945
1945 saw the second of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s major musicals, ‘Carousel’. There was also ‘Billion Dollar Baby’, set during the late 1920s Prohibition era, with music by Morton Gould and lyrics by Comden & Green. Lerner & Loewe continued to show promise of great things to come with their musical, ‘The Day Before Spring’, and ‘Up In Central Park’, a musical about political corruption, was Sigmund Romberg’s final work for Broadway.
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows including ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ and ‘If I Loved You’ (from ‘Carousel’), ‘Close As Pages In A Book’ (‘Up In Central Park’), ‘My Love Is A Married Man’ (‘The Day Before Spring’) and ‘Bad Timing’ (‘Billion Dollar Baby’).
Performers include John Raitt, Jan Clayton, Nell Carter, Christine Johnson, Christianne Noll, Eddie Korbich, Karen Mason and Kerry Butler.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
