“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 28
August and repeated at 11pm on Monday 29 August. The show is produced and narrated by Len
Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the
musicals of 1926
In 1926 George Gershwin had another hit with ‘Oh, Kay!’ Rodgers and Hart opened three new musicals - ‘Peggy
Ann’, ‘The Girlfriend’ and ‘Betsy’. ‘Americana’
was a successful revue and Sigmund Romberg’s ‘The Desert Song’, was a big hit.
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows and others including:
‘The Riff Song’ (from ‘The Desert Song’), ‘Blue Skies’ (‘Betsy’), ‘Choo Choo
Love’ (‘Kitty’s Kisses’), ‘That Lost Barbershop Chord’ (‘Americana’) and
‘Someone to Watch Over Me’ (‘Oh, Kay!’)
Performers include: Gertrude Lawrence, Marc Kudisch, Sutton
Foster, Patrick Cassidy, Audra McDonald, Steve Ross, Dawn Upshaw and Blossom
Dearie.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
