Monthly Archives: July 2026

The Magic of The Musical S05E04: “All About Eliza”

July 18, 2026   Programming

This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud

Wel­come to July’s episode of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal, where host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the songs, sto­ries, and lore of the musi­cal the­atre. Tune in at 2pm slt/pacific on Sat­ur­day, July 18th for this month’s episode: “All About Eliza” — an episode that has been in var­i­ous stages of plan­ning for sev­er­al years. 

Alan J. Lern­er and Fred­er­ick Loewe’s My Fair Lady opened on March 15, 1956 at The Mark Hellinger The­atre on Broad­way. The show rep­re­sents not just the pin­na­cle of the artists’ work, but paid homage to the “clas­sics” of the 20thC musi­cal stage that came before it in the same breath as it pre­saged the changes that were on the way for musi­cals, and cul­ture in general.

Cale­do­nia is joined by first world col­league, direc­tor and chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Chris Nar­dine, to dis­cuss the show: its pro­duc­tion boons and chal­lenges, and why it remains a rel­e­vant piece of musi­cal lit­er­a­ture whose cen­tral issues can still be debat­ed and inter­pret­ed, even today.

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Award-Winning Songs of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Part 2

July 11, 2026   Programming

This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud.

Sun­day, July 12th at 2:00 pm SLT, Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er presents a live broad­cast from the per­for­mance area at Sean­chai Library, at the SL23B cel­e­bra­tions. She’ll con­tin­ue her explo­ration of the Acad­e­my Award-Win­ning Songs of Hol­ly­wood’s Gold­en Age in keep­ing with Sec­ond Life’s 23rd Birth­day Cel­e­bra­tion theme.

The 1950s saw a shift, as those ele­ments that brought about the close of Hollywood’s Gold­en Age came into play: the anti-trust break-up of the stu­dio sys­tem, the major changes in the radio indus­try, and the evo­lu­tion of tele­vi­sion. In this last decade we can observe changes in the music as well: clas­sic stu­dio sounds, songs that became sig­na­ture tunes, and a new cast of vocal tal­ent singing the last of the great radio covers.

Join the live audi­ence at Sean­chai Library at SL23B:
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Blissful/215/221/21

—or lis­ten live in the UK, US, Cana­da and Mexico:
https://vcradio.org

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First Sunday: Award-Winning Songs of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Part 1

July 5, 2026   Programming

Now avail­able on Mix­cloud.

Sun­day, July 5th at 2:00 pm SLT, Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er presents a live broad­cast from the per­for­mance area at Sean­chai Library, at the SL23B celebrations.

In keep­ing with this year’s Gold­en Age of Hol­ly­wood theme, today’s pro­gram is the first of two shows fea­tur­ing the  Award-Win­ning Songs of Hol­ly­wood’s Gold­en Age.

Begin­ning in 1930, the Acad­e­my of Motion Pic­ture Arts & Sci­ences (AMPAS) began rec­og­niz­ing as “best song” icon­ic tunes from films that set the tone of eras: The Con­ti­nen­tal, Over the Rain­bow, When You Wish Upon a Star, White Christ­mas, Swing­ing on a Star and many more.

Join the live audi­ence at Sean­chai Library at SL23B:
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Blissful/215/221/21

—or lis­ten live in the UK, US, Cana­da and Mexico:
https://vcradio.org

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