BROADWAY NATION

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177 Episodes

  1. Episode: 138: The Evolution of the American Musical

    Published: 4/22/2024
  2. Episode 137: Broadway Melody — A Novel Approach to Broadway History

    Published: 4/11/2024
  3. Carolyn, Dorothy, David, and More: Cy Coleman's Lyricists with special guest David Zippel

    Published: 4/4/2024
  4. Encore Episode: Patricia Zipprodt and the Women Who Invented Broadway

    Published: 3/27/2024
  5. Special Encore Episode: Irene Sharaff And The Women That Invented Broadway

    Published: 3/21/2024
  6. Episode 136: THE MUSICALS THAT NEVER CAME TO BROADWAY

    Published: 3/14/2024
  7. Episode 135: GO INTO YOUR DANCE: The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 3

    Published: 3/7/2024
  8. Episode 134: Before GYPSY there was STAGE MOTHER — The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 2

    Published: 2/29/2024
  9. Episode 133: 42nd STREET & the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

    Published: 2/22/2024
  10. Special Encore Episode: The Black Musical Returns!

    Published: 2/15/2024
  11. Episode 132: MARY & ETHEL & STEPHEN COLE

    Published: 2/8/2024
  12. Special Encore Episode: Tails Of Broadway - with theatrical animal trainer Bill Berloni

    Published: 2/1/2024
  13. Special Encore Episode: Inside The Creation of FOLLIES

    Published: 1/25/2024
  14. Special Encore Episode: Robbins, Fosse, Bennett & Gennaro! — The Craft and Art of Broadway Choreography

    Published: 1/18/2024
  15. Special Encore Episode: Katherine Dunham, Agnes de Mille & The Craft and Art of Broadway Choreography

    Published: 1/11/2024
  16. Special Encore Episode: "Sensory Abundance!": or, Why We Are Hooked On Musicals

    Published: 1/4/2024
  17. A Special Encore Episode: "White Christmas" — The Story Behind The World's Most Popular Song, part 2

    Published: 1/1/2024
  18. Special Encore Episode: The Story Behind White Christmas, part 1

    Published: 12/28/2023
  19. Episode 131: The Last NOEL!

    Published: 12/21/2023
  20. Episode 130: NOEL COWARD in LAS VEGAS

    Published: 12/14/2023

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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.