Fifty Key Stage Musicals: The Podcast is a supplement to the Routledge Press publication Fifty Key Stage Musicals. Each episode focuses on an iconic musical that altered the landscape of the genre and features interviews with theatre professionals and scholars. Hosts: Andrew Child and Robert W. Schneider.
https://www.routledge.com/Fifty-Key-Stage-Musicals/Schneider-Agnew/p/book/9780367444426
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 23 hours 46 minutes
episode 31: DREAMGIRLS
Individually successful and well-established creative team members often butted heads through the workshop process, which allowed the show more intensive rewrites than the conventional out-of-town tryout process.
episode 30: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
The inspiration for Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd is examined by Alison Morooney.
episode 29: AIN'T MISBEHAVIN
Richard Dueñez Morrison’s highlights the significance Ain’t Misbehavin’ had as a highly regarded, character-driven Broadway revue.
episode 28: ANNIE
Amidst an increasingly concept-oriented Broadway lineup, the traditional book musical with a message about optimism from an orphan girl living through the Great Depression took cynical New York by storm, surprising critics and reminding producers of the possibilities of traditional material.
episode 27: A CHORUS LINE
Chronicling the lives of seventeen Broadway dancers as they audition for an ensemble, A Chorus Line shattered expectations as a new kind of musical.
episode 26: THE WIZ
Accessing the universal themes in L Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wiz retold the classic story through a contemporary African-American lens. T
episode 25: NO, NO, NANETTE (1971)
Robert W Schneider illustrates the surprising success held by the 1971 revival of the 1925 musical comedy, No, No, Nanette.
episode 24: COMPANY
Stephen Sondheim had tremendous early success as a Broadway lyricist, but until the success of Company, his work as a composer could not be regarded as successful.
episode 23: PROMISES. PROMISES
David Spencer outlines the evolution of cohesive orchestrations which carried through the scores of Broadway musicals, examining the significance of the sound composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David lent to the musical Promises, Promises.