“The Broadway
Musicals Yearbook” will be heard on Artsound FM 92.7 at 5pm on Sunday 25
September and repeated at 11pm on Monday 26 September. The show is produced and narrated by Len
Power, Canberra theatre critic, music critic and radio presenter.
This week – the musicals of 1918
In a vibrant year on Broadway, 1918 saw Al Jolson’s huge success in ‘Sinbad’, an Arabian Nights musical comedy. Irving Berlin produced some hit songs in his army revue, ‘Yip Yip Yaphank’ and Nora Bayes starred in ‘Ladies First’, a show about the suffragette movement. There was also the World War One-themed British import, ‘The Better ‘Ole’’ as well as the ‘Ziegfeld Follies’ and Jerome Kern’s tuneful marital mixup comedy, ‘Oh, Lady! Lady!’
You’ll hear songs from all of these shows and others including: ‘Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody’ (from ‘Sinbad’), ‘It's A Hard, Hard World For A Man’ (‘Oh, Lady! Lady!’), ‘Mandy’ (‘Yip Yip Yaphank’), ‘The Real American Folk Song Is A Rag’ (‘Ladies First’), ‘When You Look In the Heart Of A Rose’ (‘The Better ‘Ole’’) and I'm Gonna Pin My Medal On the Girl I Left Behind’ (‘Ziegfeld Follies Of 1918’).
Performers include: Al Jolson, Nora Bayes, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Feinstein, Gladys Moncrieff, Peter Dawson, Paige O’Hara, John McCormack and even Irving Berlin himself!
Listen Now: https://artsound.fm/shows/the-broadway-musicals-yearbook/
