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Stuart Brown relaxing in the theater“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:
2025

  • Interview with James Magruder (4/11) – 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) – 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) – 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) – 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) – 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.

2024

  • Interview with Karen Mason (12/27) – i interview Karen Mason about her career and latest recording, Karen Mason and All That Jazz!, which celebrates the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. We also play a few selections from the recording.
  • Interview with Karen Mason (12/27) – I chat with Karen Mason about her career and latest recording, Karen Mason and All That Jazz!, which celebrates the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. I also play a few selections from the recording.
  • BroadwayHD (12/6) – I chat with Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, co-founders of the on-demand digital streaming service BroadwayHD. The company records and distributes live theater performances and previously recorded theatrical productions through its platform.
  • Interview with Ellis Nassour (11/15) – This week I interview Ellis Nassour, author of Jesus Christ Superstar: Behind the Scenes of the Worldwide Musical Phenomenon.
  • Episode 20 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (10/25) – This week marks our finale episode in the series, “The Complete Stephen Sondheim.” Rick Pender and I will discuss all the Sondheim musicals and rank our favorites.
  • Evil Dead – The Interview (10/18) – Just in time for Halloween, I chat with George Reinblatt, playwright, television and comedy writer and lyricist and co-composer to Evil Dead – The Musical.
  • Interview with Laura Frankos (10/4) – I interview composer, conductor, pianist, arranger, music journalist and author Joshua Rosenblum on his book, Closer than Ever: The Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire.
  • Interview with Laura Frankos (9/13) – A brand new season of ‘On Broadway’ launches. This week, I interview Laura Frankos, author of Broadway Revival: What if Gershwin had lived?
  • Interview with Laura Frankos (7/19) – I speak with Kate Navin, Head of Audible Theater. They just celebrated their 5th year anniversary producing works at the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village.
  • Interview with Michael John LaChiusa (7/5) – I chat with Michael John LaChiusa, the American musical theatre and opera composer, lyricist, and librettist. He is best known for musically esoteric shows such as Hello Again, Marie Christine, and The Wild Party.
  • Interview with Kevin Winkler (On Bette Midler) (6/21) – I interview Kevin Winkler, the author of On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide. Kevin chronicles her career from the New York City Continental Baths through her recording, stage and movie careers.
  • Interview with Susan Dormady Eisenberg (6/7) – This week’s podcast episode is a conversation with Susan Dormady Eisenberg, the author of the historical fiction novel, One More Seat at the Round Table.
  • Episode 19 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (5/24) – We continue with our series of discussing every Stephen Sondheim musical with the Off-Broadway musical revue Marry Me a Little. Our intrepid tour guide is Sondheim scholar, Rick Pender.
  • Interview with Robert W. Schneider (5/10) – Robert W. Schneider, an award-winning Director, Producer, Author, Educator, Podcast Host, and Artistic Director of The J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company, is my guest. We talk about his new podcast – BROADWAY BOUND: THE MUSICALS THAT NEVER CAME TO BROADWAY. It features musicals that had set their sights on Broadway but missed the mark.
  • Interview with Patrick Pacheco (4/26) – I chat with Patrick Pacheco who helped the late Chita Rivera write her autobiography – Chita: A Memoir. Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero – Chita – created some of Broadway’s most iconic roles, including Anita in West Side Story‚ Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Claire in The Visit. We talk about these shows and such luminaries as John Kander, Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr., Gwen Verdon, and more.
  • Interview with Matt Gould (4/12) – Composer Matt Gould talks about his new musical Lempicka, which opens in April.
  • Interview with Stephen Cole (3/29) – Author Stephen Cole talks about his fictional, time-traveling novel, MARY & ETHEL…and Mikey Who?, which has taken the real-life friendship with Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, tossed them into a blender and come up with a fantasy about a nerdy super-fan.
  • Interview with Martin Fitzgibbon (3/15) – I chat with Martin Fitzgibbon, who was a young drummer in the band during the creation of the The Rocky Horror Show in 1973. In his memoir, Behind the Curtain: My Life and Rocky Horror, he discusses the show, giving his unique insight into how the musical and its participants became an overnight success and created a cultural phenomenon still going strong over 50 years later.
  • 2024 Bracket Challenge (3/8) – In this special 5 minute segment, I talk about our latest Bracket Challenge now in its fifth edition. This time we are featuring Broadway shows from “The Golden Age” which we are here defining as beginning with Oklahoma! in 1943 through the year 1964.
  • Interview with Van Dean (3/1) – Van Dean is a Grammy and Tony-winning producer who has just launched a new record label, Center Stage Records. Previously, he ran Broadway Records. Center Stage will take over the management and distribution of about two-thirds of Broadway Records’ back catalog, with intent to collaborate with Broadway Records on select future releases.
  • Episode 18 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (2/16) – Stephen Sondheim scholar Rick Pender discusses the musical The Frogs. The show is “freely adapted” by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove from The Frogs, an Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes.
  • Interview with Brian Stoll (2/2) – I chat with Brian Stoll, an uber Broadway fan who has seen over 285 shows in the past decade, all at under $60 a ticket. He has developed a presentation, “Broadway on a Budget,” that he has presented at libraries and other venues, where he shares his money-saving tips on how to see Broadway shows, his love for Broadway, and even the history of the Playbill.
  • Interview with Douglas J. Cohen (1/19) – I chat with the composer, lyricist, and librettist Douglas J. Cohen about his book, How to Survive a Killer Musical: Agony and Ecstasy on the Road to Broadway.
  • Episode 17 – The Complete Stephen Sondheim (1/5) – Stephen Sondheim scholar Rick Pender is our guide as we discuss Saturday Night. The show with music and lyrics by Sondheim was intended to open on Broadway in 1955. However, after the sudden death of its lead producer, the show was shelved. Sondheim then went on to make his professional premiere in 1957, as the lyricist for West Side Story. The show finally made it to New York, opening at Off-Broadway’s Second Stage in 2000.

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