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America's Greatest Broadway Hits

Friday Night is Music Night celebrates America's Greatest Broadway Hits with Paul Gambaccini, live from London. Plus Baylen Leonard on Broadway in the interval.

Friday Night is Music Night celebrates America's Greatest Broadway Hits with Paul Gambaccini - live from the Mermaid Theatre in London.

Every Saturday on Radio 2 Paul Gambaccini guides us through a selection of America's Greatest Hits focussing on US chart hits of the last six decades. In this special edition of Friday Night is Music Night Paul turns his attention to the greatest hits of Broadway.

Broadway - the Great White Way . Originally little more than a track - the Wickquasgeck Trail - cut by the native Americans across the swamps of Manhattan island. Today - 40 theatres on a street between 42nd and 53rd Streets make up the heart of America's theatre land.

Paul introduces Broadway hits from Jerome Kern's Showboat premiered on December 27, 1927 at the Ziegfeld Theatre and considered the first ever Broadway musical. Alongside songs from the great Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein catalogue of shows such as Oklahoma; Carousel; South Pacific and the Sound of Music. Then amongst the razzamatazz of the big home grown American musicals a big splash of Union Jack pride with hits from - Cats; Phantom of the Opera as well as Les Miserables and Miss Saigon.

Mike Dixon conducts the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra with guest vocalists - Sarah Fox; Lucy Williamson; Fra Fee and Keel Watson.

During the interval Baylen Leonard takes a virtual trip round the musical mecca called Broadway in the company of Olivier-award winning actress Leigh Zimmerman and our First Lady of Musical Theatre Elaine Paige.

The concert was first broadcast in August 2013.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Fri 18 Oct 2013 20:00

Music Played

  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Friday Night Is Music Night

    Conductor: Mike Dixon.
  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    Overture: Girl Crazy

  • Lucy Williamson

    SOME PEOPLE

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
  • Keel Watson

    OLD MAN RIVER

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    Carousel Waltz

  • Fra Fee, 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Younger Than Springtime

  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    March of the Siamese Children

  • Sara Fox, 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Climb Every Mountain

  • Fra Fee, 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Something's Coming

  • Sarah Fox, 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Somewhere

  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    Guys 'n' Dolls Selection

  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    Overture: The Producers

  • Lucy Williamson and the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    If He Walked Into My Life

  • WATSON, KEEL & 大象传媒 CONCERT ORCHESTRA

    I Got Plenty of Nuttin'

  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    Jellicle Ball

  • Sarah Fox, 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Show Me

  • Fra Fee, 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    Overture: Fiddler on the Roof

  • Lucy Williamson and the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Send in the Clowns

  • WATSON, KEEL & 大象传媒 CONCERT ORCHESTRA

    Music of the Night

  • 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra CB Mike Dixon

    Overture: Oklahoma

  • 大象传媒 CONCERT ORCHESTRA C.B. MIKE DIXON

    Friday Night Is Music Night

Broadcasts

  • Fri 2 Aug 2013 20:00
  • Fri 18 Oct 2013 20:00