Our orig­i­nal series of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal, con­tin­ues today — Sat­ur­day, July 20^th @ 2pm SLT/Pacific Time.  Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores songs, sto­ries and lore from  the world of musi­cal theatre.

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Join our live audi­ence at Ceiluiradh Glen on Sat­ur­day at 2pm SLT — slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/196/131/21 or tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio on the web site, plug this URL into a net­work play­er: http://main.vcradio.org — or ask your smart speak­er to “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!”

Also today on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, enjoy our fea­tured music On Broad­way, the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” with the final broad­casts of our “Live from SL21B” episodes in Sec­ond Life, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific. And don’t miss The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am SLT.

This Month:  Reflec­tions of America

U.S. Pol­i­tics are del­i­cate mat­ters to dis­cuss, espe­cial­ly in a year like 2024. Look­ing back, Cale­do­nia exam­ines four award-win­ning musi­cals and how they reflect the issues and self-iden­ti­ty of Amer­i­can cul­ture con­tem­po­rary to when they debuted. What does Amer­i­ca think of itself and how does that change from the 1930s through today? Fea­tur­ing the award-win­ning pro­duc­tions Of Thee I Sing, Fiorel­lo!, 1776, and Hamil­ton.

Relat­ed Links

Of Thee I Sing (1931) — Music and lyrics by George Gersh­win and Ira Gersh­win. Book by George S. Kauf­man and Mor­rie Ryskind.

Fiorel­lo! (1959) – Book by Jerome Wei­d­man and George Abbott, drawn sub­stan­tial­ly from the 1955 vol­ume Life with Fiorel­lo by Ernest Cuneo, with lyrics by Shel­don Har­nick, and music by Jer­ry Bock.

1776  (1969) – Music and lyrics by Sher­man Edwards and book by Peter Stone.

Hamil­ton (2015)  — Music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miran­da. Based on the 2004 biog­ra­phy Alexan­der Hamil­ton by Ron Chernow.