“The Broadway Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 7 August and repeated at 11pm on Monday 8 August. The show is produced and narrated by Len Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1999
In 1999, with the show ‘Fosse’, Broadway paid homage to one of its greatest director-choreographers, Bob Fosse, and the movie, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, became a Broadway musical. Bernadette Peters returned to Broadway in a revival of Irving Berlin’s ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ and Audra McDonald starred in a new musical, ‘Marie Christine’.
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows including: ‘Mr. Bojangles’ (from ‘Fosse’), ‘I Will Love You’ (‘Marie Christine’), ‘Staying Alive’ (‘Saturday Night Fever’) and ‘Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly’ (‘Annie Get Your Gun’).
Performers include Bernadette Peters, Michael Rupert, Audra McDonald, Ben Vereen, Adam Garcia, Mary Testa, Kevin Sharp, Ann Hampton Callaway and Tom Wopat.
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
