Sounds of Broadway

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BroadWayRadioPrograms.com“On Broadway,” with host Stuart Brown, features chats and interviews in this triweekly podcast, a companion to ‘Sounds of Broadway’ – our 24/7 online Broadway music radio. New episodes are released every three weeks on a Friday. Full information for each episode including playlists is available at BroadwayRadioPrograms.com/podcasts. Or click on the links below for the latest shows.

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RECENT EPISODES:

2026

  • The Music of Charles Strouse (6/5/26) – Long-time listener, Sharon Kahn, made a generous contribution to the Sounds of Broadway studios and earned herself the right to create a playlist for our streaming radio station or serve as a guest host for this podcast. She chose the latter and talks about the career of Charles Strouse. We play a generous number of selections from the musicals for which he composed the music.
  • Interview with Ethan Popp (5/29/26) – My guest is Ethan Popp, a Grammy®, Olivier®, and three-time Tony® Award nominee, who is nominated this year for the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for The Lost Boys. He is the Music Supervisor, Arranger, and Orchestrator for the show.
  • Interview with Kristin Stultz Pressley – Jukebox Musical (5/15/26) – I chat with Dr. Kristin Stultz Pressley, a Broadway historian and lecturer and the co-host of the Dr. Broadway Podcast. We talk about her new book – Jukebox Musicals: Crazy for You to MJ the Musical (Essential Musicals). The book explores a style of show that’s dominated Broadway for the better part of two decades.
  • Interview with Adam Gwon (4/24/26) – I chat with Adam Gwon, an American composer and lyricist. He made his off-Broadway debut in 2009 with Ordinary Days, the first musical production in Roundabout Theatre Company’s black box space. He has written eight other musicals that have premiered Off-Broadway and at major regional theaters across the country.
  • Rising – a new Irish musical (4/3/26) – This week I interview the composing team of Tom James McGrath and Amy Clare Tasker about their new musical, Rising. Songs from the show are incorporated into the episode.
  • Inside the Vault (3/20/26) – I speak to Nicholas Brown-Cáceres, acting chief of the Music Division, and Cait Miller, senior music reference specialist, at the Library of Congress. They talk about Inside the Vault, a collaborative, interactive and virtual exhibit that will be accompanying the national tour of The Sound of Music. .
  • Interview with Frank Verlizzo (3/6/26) – I chat with Amnon Kabatchnik , author of Bloody Broadway – Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery – Volume 1 1900-1930. Beginning in 1900, a number of prolific melodramatists whipped up various four-act plays featuring plays of crime and punishment populated by flamboyant villains, brawny heroes, and damsels in distress.
  • Interview with Frank Verlizzo (2/13/26) – This week, I speak with Frank Verlizzo, on his first book of the Retro Broadway Mystery Series – Scenery of the Crime. Before becoming an author, Frank Verlizzo was a legendary graphic designer, the man behind such iconic poster art as the original Broadway productions of Disney’s The Lion King, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George, and Ira Levin’s Deathtrap.
  • Interview with Klea Blackhurst (Just Desserts) (1/23/26) – I spoke with actress and cabaret performer Klea Blackhurst, who will be starring in the new Off-Broadway musical, Just Desserts: A Musical Bake-Off. The show opens at the AMT Theater (354 West 45th Street) beginning January 30, 2026, and running through February 22.
  • Interview with Henry H. Sapoznik (1/2/26) – I speak with Henry H. Sapoznik, a Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project, about his book – The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City. The book offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular culture, telling the story in over a baker’s dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism.

2025

  • Interview with David Armstrong (12/12/25) – Interview with David Armstrong, an American stage director, writer, producer, podcaster, and educator, about his book, Broadway Nation: How Immigrant, Jewish, Queer, and Black Artists invented the Broadway Musical..
  • Interview with Rupert Holmes (11/21/25) – I interview Rupert Holmes (yes, the guy responsible for “The Pina Colada Song” aka “Escape”, about his adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Pirates of Penzance. Retitled Pirates!, retitled Pirates!
  • Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (10/31/25) – We welcome back Sondheim scholar Rick Pender, who talks about his new book, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: Behind the Bloody Musical Masterpiece.
  • Interview with Frankie Dailey (10/10/25) – I interview Frankie Dailey. He is the New Works Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. The organization’s 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals will take place on October 23-24, 2025 at New World Stages in New York City.
  • Interview with Rob Ruggiero (9/26/25) – This week, I speak with Rob Ruggiero, the Artistic Director of TheaterWorks Hartford, who has directed the 50th Anniversary production of A Chorus Line at the venerable Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. The show is outstanding – I saw it last week – and is faithful to the original in both sound and dance.
  • Interview with Mike Hadge (9/12/25) – Our 2005-06 podcast season kicks off with an interview with Mike Hadge. He’s the creative force behind the musical DoofyLand – a satire of theme parks and Disney adults. It’s to Disney World what Avenue Q is to Sesame Street.
  • Interview with Jeffrey Seller (6/27/25) – I interview Jeffrey Seller about his memoir, Kid Theater, which is a coming-of-age tale from the most successful American producer of our time. He is one of the masterminds behind the Tony Award winning musicals Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, and Hamilton. He is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals—Hamilton and Rent. He also revolutionized theater accessibility with the $20 ticket lottery for Rent, making theater accessible for many.
  • Dead Outlaw (6/6/25) – I interview David Yazbek (music and lyrics) and Erik Della Penna (lyrics) about their new Broadway musical Dead Outlaw
  • Interview with Daniel Jenkins (5/23/25) – This week, I interview Daniel Jenkins (Big River, Big – the Musical), who is appearing in the new Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire revue, About Time.
  • Interview with John Yun (5/2/25) – I interview John Yun, the music director and conductor for the current Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending. He was previously the associate music director on Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, associate music director on Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, and associate conductor on Hell’s Kitchen.
  • Interview with James Magruder (4/11/25) – I interview author, playwright and teacher James Magruder, who has written the book, The Play’s the Thing, a chronicle of the first fifty years of the Yale Repertory Theatre.
  • Interview with Ted Vives (3/21/25) – I chat with Ted Vives, who wrote the score and book to a musical entitled Scientific Method. The show is unproduced, but did recently receive an honorable mention by the American Prize for Excellence in the Arts. We chat about the genesis of the musical, its plot and structure and hear a few songs from the show.
  • Interview with John Kendrick (2/28/25) – I interview John Kendrick, author, teacher and theatre and film historian. His book Musical Theatre: A History is a comprehensive history of musical theatre from ancient times to the present. His website, Musicals101.com, is titled “The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film.”.
  • Interview With Trevor Boffone (2/7/25) – I chat with Trevor Boffone about his latest book – TikTok Broadway: Musical Theater Fandom in the Digital Age. If you are not that familiar with TikTok, like myself, you want to listen to Trevor explain it all, and more.
  • The Queen Is Mad (1/17/25) – I chat with Tom James McGrath (book, music & lyrics) and Amy Clare Tasker (book & lyrics) who wrote the new British musical – The Queen is Mad.


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