“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 31
July and repeated at 11pm on Monday 1 August.
The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic,
music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1955
There was a mixed bag of shows on Broadway in 1955. Rodgers and Hammerstein opened ‘Pipe Dream’ and Cole Porter produced ‘Silk Stockings’. ‘Ankles Aweigh’ was aimed at the tired businessman and Gwen Verdon was devilishly hot in ‘Damn Yankees’.
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows including ‘You Gotta Have Heart’ (from ‘Damn Yankees’), ‘All At Once You Love Her’ (‘Pipe Dream’), ‘Stereophonic Sound’ (‘Silk Stockings’) and ‘Headin’ For The Bottom Blues’ (‘Ankles Aweigh’).
Performers include Harry Belafonte, Gwen Verdon, Barbara Cook, Joyce Grenfell, Don Ameche, Gretchen Wyler, Ray Walston and Hildegarde Neff.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
