A lively and opinionated cultural history of the Broadway Musical that tells the extraordinary story of how Immigrants, Jews, Queers, African-Americans and other outcasts invented the Broadway Musical, and how they changed America in the process.In Season One, host David Armstrong traces the evolution of American Musical Theater from its birth at the dawn of the 20th Century, through its mid-century “Golden Age”, and right up to its current 21st Century renaissance; and also explore how musicals have reflected and shaped our world -- especially in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and equality.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 22 hours 56 minutes
episode 135: GO INTO YOUR DANCE: The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 3
With MAYA CANTU author of GREASEPAINT PURITAN: Boston to 42nd Street In The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes
episode 134: Before GYPSY there was STAGE MOTHER — The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 2
With MAYA CANTU author of GREASEPAINT PURITAN: Boston to 42nd Street In The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes
episode 133: 42nd STREET & the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes
With MAYA CANTU author of GREASEPAINT PURITAN: Boston to 42nd Street In The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes
episode 132: MARY & ETHEL & STEPHEN COLE
Author of the new Broadway novel "MARY & ETHEL and Mikey Who?"
Tails Of Broadway - with theatrical animal trainer Bill Berloni
Go behind the scenes of Annie, Legally Blonde, and more!
Robbins, Fosse, Bennett & Gennaro! — The Craft and Art of Broadway Choreography
with special guest Liza Gennaro author of Making Broadway Dance
Katherine Dunham, Agnes de Mille & The Craft and Art of Broadway Choreography
With special guest Liza Gennaro
"Sensory Abundance!": or, Why We Are Hooked On Musicals
A Special Encore Episode with special guest Albert Evans