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Songs I Like/Shows I Don't (Encore Edition)

Broadway to Main Street

Release Date: 11/10/2025

High Spirits (2026) show art High Spirits (2026)

Broadway to Main Street

Our crystal has a ball with this "Improbable Musical Comedy"--coming back to Encores! next week. Original cast (Bea Lillie, Tammy Grimes) and London recordings--plus Mel Tormé, Petula Clark, and the Master, Noël Coward, himself.

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A Matinee with Matt Monro show art A Matinee with Matt Monro

Broadway to Main Street

Nothing but class--an hour with one of the smoothest singers of the 1960s:  Matt Monro as he does Broadway tunes from My Fair Lady, Golden Boy, Cats, and many more.

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Silk Stockings show art Silk Stockings

Broadway to Main Street

Cole Porter and George S. Kaufman teamed up to bring Billy Wilder's "Ninotchka" to the musical stage in 1955; here's a cornucopia of songs, featuring Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald, Don Ameche, Bobby Short, and more.

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Performers I Love show art Performers I Love

Broadway to Main Street

It's the beginning of our 15th year on the air, so let's share it with some of the performers who always make me happy: Idina Menzel, Barbara Harris, Eddie Cantor, Alfred Drake, Pearl Bailey, André De Shields and so many more.

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Holiday Hangovers show art Holiday Hangovers

Broadway to Main Street

Consider this a round of Bromo-Seltzers to bring you back to real life after a busy set of holidays; songs about drinks and their aftermath from Tammy Grimes, Jackie Gleason, Patti LuPone, and more.

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Memories of You 2025 show art Memories of You 2025

Broadway to Main Street

We remember the vast possibilities of the giants of the musical stage who left us in 2025: Linda Lavin, Tom Lehrer, Cleo Laine, Charles Strouse and more.

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The 2025 Holiday Show show art The 2025 Holiday Show

Broadway to Main Street

What better way to celebrate 2025 than on the air with the Broadway performer who made it her favorite year: Jasmine Amy Rogers. She joins us for classic songs for the holidays by Nat “King”Cole, the Jackson 5, Eddie Cantor and of course some Boop!

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Monty Python and Spamalot show art Monty Python and Spamalot

Broadway to Main Street

We're sending songs in your general direction with two implacable knights of the musical Round Table--Eric Idle and John Du Prez--the songwriters of Spamalot in our studio; plus numerous other Python musical treats.

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Sammy Davis Jr. Centenary Celebration (Part Two) show art Sammy Davis Jr. Centenary Celebration (Part Two)

Broadway to Main Street

We take Sammy from his Broadway triumph in Golden Boy onward, through songs from Sweet Charity, Golden Rainbow, The Phantom of the Opera and more.

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Sammy Davis, Jr. Centenary Celebration (Part One) show art Sammy Davis, Jr. Centenary Celebration (Part One)

Broadway to Main Street

We celebrate Mr. Entertainment himself and the first half of his extraordinary career in advance of what would have been his 100th birthday. Songs from Mr. Wonderful, West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, and more.

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As a follow-up to our "Songs I Don't Like from Shows I Do" (and a precursor to our upcoming 600th episode), an encore presentation of tunes from Wonderful Town, Pippin, The Music Man and more--everybody's favorites but mine.