The Broadway Hour #74 Taped live to DAT on August 11, 1994
for WPAT-93am with guest host: MICHAEL REIDEL
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Guests:
TOM JONES (Book and Lyrics) and HARVEY SCHMIDT (Music), wrote THE FANTASTICKS for a summer theatre production at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in May 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in the history of the American stage and one of the most frequently produced musicals in the world.
-https://jonesandschmidt.com
The Fantasticks premiered at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, a small off-Broadway theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, on May 3, 1960, with Jerry Orbach as El Gallo, Rita Gardner as Luisa, Kenneth Nelson as Matt, and librettist Tom Jones (under a pseudonym) as the Old Actor, among the cast members.[17] The sparse set and semicircular stage created an intimate and immediate effect. - wikipedia

STEWART F. LANE (born May 3, 1951) is a Broadway producer, director, playwright and former actor. He has also written books, including Let's Put on a Show![1] and Jews of Broadway. He has also produced in Dublin. In addition to publishing two plays, he has directed across the country, working with Stephen Baldwin, Shannen Doherty, Chazz Palminteri, and more. He is co-owner of the Palace Theatre (Broadway) with the Nederlander Organization and a partner in the Tribeca Grill with Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Mikhail Baryshnikov.[2] He has written three books: Let's Put on a Show!, Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers, and Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way. - https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Stewart_F._Lane

RAUL ARANAS -the Engineer in Miss Saigon - was born on October 1, 1947 in Manila, Philippines. He is an actor and composer, known for Burn After Reading (2008), JFK (1991) and Manhattan Night (2016). NEGA from SUBURBIA 1994 - imdb.com

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Taped live in front of an audience at the:
SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd St. and 7th Ave. New York City

Executive Producer-KATE McGRATH
Engineer & Sound Editor-CHRIS BREETVELD

Show #58 originally taped April 21, 1994 for WPAT 93AM Radio
**AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic

• today's guests -

Performing Live!!
DR. BILLY TAYLOR (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador.

From Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization:
BERT FINK + OSCAR YOUNG Founded by the legendary team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and headquartered in New York City, Rodgers & Hammerstein owns the rights to the world's most popular stage and film musicals, including OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, SOUTH PACIFIC, THE KING AND I and THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
As an agency, R&H encompasses a music publishing company; a concert rental library; and a theatrical licensing branch that collectively represent more than 5,000 songs, 900 concert pieces, 200 writers, and 100 musicals, including works by Irving Berlin, Stephen Schwartz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Guettel, Rodgers & Hart, Kern & Hammerstein, and many more.

HARRY HAUN -Playbill columnist, a Contributor for the Sun. Mr. Haun is a New York-based writer covering film and theater. He is author of “The Movie Quote Book,” “The Cinematic Century” and the forthcoming “TinselTime: On This Day in the Reel World
As seen in: Playbill, Flipboard, Observer, BroadwayWorld, The Village Voice, NewsBreak, South Florida Theater

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Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City
in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue"
Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
For more info, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com

Show #47 originally taped February 07, 1994 for WPAT 93AM Radio
**AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic

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Musical composer and legend, JULE STYNE, hanging out around the Steinway with his weekly poker playing buddy, STEWART KLIEN, for another hour of tales and songs from his remarkable Broadway career!

And on this return visit to The Broadway Hour, JULE brought along his buddy, singer HUGH PANARO to help.

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JULE STYNE-piano & vocals - Look him up if you need to.

HUGH PANARO-vocals
Hugh's pre-Broadway and regional roles include 'Mary Sunshine' in Chicago, and the lead in Jesus Christ Superstar. He made his Broadway debut as Marius in Les Misérables, a role he originated in the first U.S. national touring company. Hugh created the roles of Buddy in Side Show and Julian in Jule Styne's last musical, The Red Shoes.[2] He made his West End debut in the original London company of Harold Prince's Show Boat as Ravenal, the role he played on Broadway and in Toronto.[3]. And that is just the tip of the iceberg!

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**Coming Someday** "BROADWAY HOUR-Algonquin Hotel 1989"

Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, Jay David Saks (RCA Records producer), Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men), Mort Goode, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many more-with host Bob Jones.
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Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City
in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue"
Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
For information, comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com

Show #45 originally taped January 24, 1994 for WPAT 93AM Radio
**AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**
Host: STEWART KLEIN - Fox 5 TV New York - Movie & Theatre Critic

Enjoy an hour with one of the immortals of the songwriting world:
JULE STYNE a British-American song writer and composer best known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became successful films: Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes, with Sammy Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan (additional music), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Lorelei, Sugar (with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby!. His collaborators included Sammy Cahn, Leo Robin, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Bob Merrill. Carol Channing was the lead in many of his musicals as were Ethel Merman and Barbra Streisand......and this is only part ONE, be sure to join The Broadway Hour for JULE STYNE part TWO!
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**New** enjoy our other shows: "BROADWAY HOUR-Algonquin Hotel 1989"
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1491625/episodes|Guests include: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Clooney, and many more-with host Bob Jones.
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Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City
in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue"
Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: Chris Breetveld
Email: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com

Broadway Hour Show #132 Recorded October 5, 1995 - 30th year anniversary!!
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News

Guests:

• VALERIE HARPER + KELLY BISHOP - "Death Defying Acts" -both ladies cast members in the 1995 Off-Broadway play Death Defying Acts, an evening of three one-act plays by Woody Allen, David Mamet, and Elaine May. The production ran at the Variety Arts Theatre in New York and also featured John Rothman, and Brian Reddy in its cast.
• JED BERNSTEIN Jed Bernstein is the former president of The Broadway League and of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. For more than 25 years, Jed Bernstein has been a leader in theatrical production, venue management, arts administration, and marketing and promotion. Wikipedia
• RICHARD JAY-ALEXANDER is an American Broadway producer and director. He served as Executive Director of the North American Flagship Headquarters, Cameron Mackintosh Inc., for twelve years, known for productions which include Les Misérables, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Oliver! and Putting It Together. Wikipedia
• SUPER MARIUS BROTHERS
• MELINDA CAM PORTER
• Live music from MARK WALDROP & Guests
  with MATT WARD on piano

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Live taping at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, New York City
Executive Producer - Kate McGrath
Engineer, Sound Editor - Chris Breetveld

Broadway Hour show #16 - Originally taped June 24, 1993
at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, 53rd and 7th Ave., in the Lobby Court Lounge

Host: STEWART KLEIN

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Tonight's Guests:

• LESLIE UGGAMS

• BILL FINN

• SALLY MAYES

• MICHAEL REIDEL

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Executive Producer : KATE MCGRATH

Engineer and sound mixer: CHRIS BREETVELD

B'WAY HR 94 MMcGOVERN ANN MILLER SWoods +

Broadway Hour show #94 - Originally recorded on Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
May 26, 1994 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, 53rd and 7th Ave.,
in the lovely, Lobby Court Lounge

Host: STEWART KLEIN

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Tonight's Guests:

• MAUREEN McGOVERN American songstress performs 2 songs live on the show - (then appearing at Rainbow and Stars)

• the One and Only.... ANN MILLER Talks about her amazing, long, career!

• Song on tape: "BROADWAY BABY" performed by ELAINE STRITCH from the album, "Follies In Concert"
• Broadway news & gossip..... and Trivia

• SUSAN WOODS (then in GREASE as Sandy Dombrowski)
  Song on tape: "Since I Don't have you" by Susan Woods

• GEORGE WACHTELL and AUDRA McDONALD

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Executive Producer : KATE MCGRATH

Engineer and sound mixer: CHRIS BREETVELD

The Broadway Hour #19 with your host: STEWART KLEIN
Taped live on July 15, 1993 for WEDV-AM

Pia Zadora is an American actress and singer. She came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the highly criticized[2] Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year[3] while simultaneously winning the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress and the Worst New Star for the same performance. As a singer, she has released several albums featuring popular standards, often backed by a symphonic orchestra. She was nominated for a Grammy in 1984.

Harvey Sabinson was an American theatrical press agent and the executive director of the Broadway League. Over a career of 30 years he promoted hits such as Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, Hello, Dolly!, and 1776, as well as doing publicity for stars such as Carol Channing, Barbra Streisand, Jason Robards, and others.[2]
In 1976 Sabinson retired as an agent. He next went to work for the League of New York Theatres and Producers, now called the Broadway League. He became the executive director of the League, from 1982 to 1995.

Harry Groener He is an actor, known for A Cure for Wellness (2016), Patch Adams (1998) and Road to Perdition (2002). He was nominated for three Tony Awards: as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) in 1980 for a revival of "Oklahoma!", in 1983 for "Cats", and as Best Actor (Musical), in 1992 for "Crazy for You".

Michael A. Kerker has been Director of Musical Theatre for ASCAP since 1990. In addition to coordinating ASCAP's Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, he works with Disney Theatricals to produce the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles, (both of which are led by composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz). Together with Michael Feinstein, Michael Kerker produces a regular series of concerts at Carnegie Hall highlighting the catalogue of both legendary and contemporary songwriters.

Craig Carnelia composer and lyricist

• 1978 Tony Award Best Original Score Working – Music & Lyrics (nominee)
• 2002 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lyrics Sweet Smell of Success (nominee)
• 2003 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lyrics Imaginary Friends (nominee)

executive producer: KATE McGRATH
engineer and sound editor: CHRIS BREETVELD