Tag Archives: Broadway

TMoTM: S05E01 — Musical Questions

April 18, 2026   Programming

SATURDAY April 18th at 2pm SLT/Pacific - Wel­come to Sea­son 5 of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal - where host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the songs, sto­ries, and lore of the musi­cal theatre.

What kind of fool am I? Why would a fel­la want a girl like her? What do the sim­ple folk do?

These are all exam­ples of songs in the inter­rog­a­tive case al la musi­cal the­ater. Join Cale­do­nia as she kicks off the newest sea­son of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series, The Mag­ic of the Musi­cal with “Musi­cal Questions.”

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TMoTM: S04E02: “Once Upon a Time” Fairytales on Broadway

July 19, 2025   Programming

Wel­come to The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal –on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio – where we explore the blend­ing of music and dra­ma fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry and lore that make up the musi­cal the­ater canon. 

As Sec­ond Life’s 22nd birth­day came to a close, “The Mag­ic of the Musi­cal” cel­e­brat­ed this year’s theme of “Myths and Leg­ends” with an explo­ration of folk­tales and fairy­tales on the musi­cal the­ater stage. Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er presents. Orig­i­nal­ly broad­cast Sat­ur­day, 19th July, live from the VCRa­dio stu­dio at SL22B

This show is now avail­able on Mixcloud

Explore videos of some of the shows and songs fea­tured in this episode.

Rodgers & Ham­mer­stein’s Cin­derel­la (1957, Kinescope) — Julie Andrews, Jon Cypher, Edie Adams

Once Upon a Mat­tress “Shy”  (1959, Car­ol Burnett)

Once Upon a Mat­tress “Shy” (1972, Car­ol Burnett)

Into the Woods “Agony” (Motion Pic­ture) – Chris Pine, Bil­ly Magnussen

Into the Woods “Finale” (1991 Orig­i­nal Broad­way Production)

Wicked “Defy­ing Grav­i­ty” (Orig­i­nal Broad­way Pro­duc­tion Tony Award per­for­mance) Idi­na Men­zel & Kristin Chenoweth

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TMoTM: S04E01 – And the Award Goes to … !

June 21, 2025   Programming

Wel­come to Sea­son 4 of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal, where host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the songs, sto­ries and lore of the musi­cal theatre.

Now avail­able on Mixcloud!

This episode, broad­cast live at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time on Sat­ur­day, June 21st, is our annu­al look at the biggest awards events in the New York and Lon­don the­ater sea­sons: The Olivi­er Awards bestowed in April, and the Dra­ma Desk and Antoinette Per­ry (“Tony”) Awards bestowed in June. The win­ners are in, and we take a look at the nom­i­nees and win­ners in the cat­e­gories of new musi­cal and musi­cal revival.

Cale­do­nia presents the show live from the VCRa­dio stu­dio at SL22B.

TMoTM S04E01 Use­ful Links:

The Olivi­er Awards

Best Revival of a Musical

Fid­dler On The Roof — WINNER

music by Jer­ry Bock, lyrics by Shel­don Har­nick, book by Joseph Stein

Regen­t’s Park Open Air Theatre

YouTube Trail­er

Best New Musical

The Curi­ous Case Of Ben­jamin But­ton ‑WINNER

music & lyrics by Dar­ren Clark, book & lyrics by Jethro Compton

Ambas­sadors Theatre

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The Dra­ma Desk Awards

Best Revival of a Musical

Gyp­sy — WINNER

Best New Musical

Maybe Hap­py End­ing — WINNER

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The Antoinette Per­ry Awards (Tony)

Best Musi­cal

Bue­na Vista Social Club

Dead Out­law

Death Becomes Her

Maybe Hap­py End­ing — WINNER

Oper­a­tion Mince­meat: A New Musical

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The Magic of The Musical: Celebrating Summer

August 19, 2023   Programming

THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Sat­ur­day, August 19th @2pm Pacific/slt. This Month: “CELEBRATING SUMMER”!

This show is now avail­able on Mix­cloud — click here to listen.

August’s episode will be LIVE from the Gar­dens at beau­ti­ful Angel Manor, and on-the-air: join the audi­ence in-world!

Also on the air today: tune in at 12 noon or 4pm for the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” where we Jour­ney to the Cen­tre of Sec­ond Life. Plus “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am. Fea­tured Music today will, of course, be “On Broadway!”.

TUNE IN  at main.vcradio.org, or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speaker*!
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The Magic of The Musical: Saturday, July 15th Live!

July 15, 2023   Programming

THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Sat­ur­day, July 15 @2pm slt. This Month: The Unsink­able Music Man: Mered­ith Willson

THIS SHOW IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MIXCLOUD — click here

July’s episode will be LIVE from the Gar­dens at beau­ti­ful Angel Manor, and on-the-air, at 2pm SLT — join the audi­ence in-world!

Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s orig­i­nal series “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal” con­tin­ues this Sat­ur­day, July 15th, at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time, live from its home in Angel Manor — and this episode comes from the beau­ti­ful Gar­dens on the estate — click to go there!

Also on the air today: tune in at 12 noon or 4pm for the lat­est, spe­cial SL20B edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” where we sug­gest loca­tions and strate­gies to get the best out of your vis­its to the Sec­ond Life 20th Birth­day regions. Plus “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am. Fea­tured Music will, of course, be “On Broadway!”.

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The Magic of the Musical: Saturday, June 17th Live!

June 17, 2023   Programming

This show is now avail­able to Lis­ten Again on Mix­cloud — click here.

@2pm slt THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Sat­ur­day, June 17

June’s episode will be LIVE from Angel Manor and on-the-air, at 2pm SLT — join the audi­ence in-world!

Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s orig­i­nal series “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal” con­tin­ues this Sat­ur­day, June 17th, at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time, live from its home in the Gold Hall at the ele­gant Angel Manor Estate

This Month: Tony Retro Count­down Part 2 with Guest Mor­rie Enders 

Cale­do­nia wel­comes back guest Mor­rie Enders for anoth­er look at the con­tests for Best Musi­cal from the Tony Awards of years past; dis­cussing which shows have stood the test of time, and which make us tilt our heads and puzzle.

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The Magic of The Musical: Series 2 Episode 1 now on Mixcloud

April 24, 2023   Programming

MUSICAL THEATER FANS:  Our sec­ond sea­son of month­ly shows, live from Angel Manor, began on April 15… but if you missed it, here’s your chance to catch up: Lis­ten again on Mixcloud!

THIS EPISODE:
“Musi­cals with­in Musicals”

Every­thing is “meta” these days, but just a few cul­tur­al rev­o­lu­tions ago a young and devel­op­ing Amer­i­can musi­cal the­ater dis­cov­ered the val­ue of self-ref­er­en­tial sto­ry­telling. This episode looks at musi­cals which “break the fourth wall” by acknowl­edg­ing the audi­ence — and even include their own musicals!

Lis­ten again on Mixcloud!

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The Magic of The Musical: The Tony Awards

February 18, 2023   Programming

Our new sea­son of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal with Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er begins in April, but in the run-up to that time, we’re repeat­ing some of last sea­son’s pro­grammes, so today, Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 18th at 2pm slt/pacific you can hear our show on the Tony Awards, orig­i­nal­ly broad­cast live from SL19B last year.

The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal explores the blend­ing of music and dra­ma — fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry, and lore that make up the musi­cal the­ater canon. Learn more about some of your favorite shows and com­posers as we cue the orches­tra, and the over­ture begins.

In this, Episode 03: “Count­down to The Tony Awards” your host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er talks to guest Mor­rie Enders, the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Lin­coln Com­mu­ni­ty Play­house in Nebras­ka. Togeth­er they explore some “what ifs” and “might have been“s from var­i­ous Best Musi­cal races from the Amer­i­can The­ater Wing’s Tony Awards past.

In keep­ing with the show, “On Broad­way!” is our Fea­tured Music theme through the day. And don’t miss the episode of Where Have You Been? where we vis­it Svar­ga, and Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity every four hours from 4am Pacific.

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The Magic of The Musical: “With Cat-Like Tread”

January 21, 2023   Programming

Tune in on Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 21st at 2pm pacific/slt for anoth­er chance to hear a show in our orig­i­nal series, “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal”! The series con­tin­ues with brand new episodes from April, but until then we are repeat­ing a few of our favourite episodes in the third Sat­ur­day of the month slot.

In this edi­tion, “With Cat-Like Tread” focus­es on the influ­ence of the dis­tinc­tive operettas of W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sul­li­van on Amer­i­can musi­cal theater’s evo­lu­tion years lat­er in the 20th C.  Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er is joined by guest Elrik Mer­lin as they com­pare and con­trast with views from both sides of “the pond.”

At the height of the Vic­to­ri­an era in Eng­land, a part­ner­ship devel­oped between drama­tist W.S. Gilbert and com­pos­er Arthur Sul­li­van that result­ed in a form of operetta so unique that it is reg­u­lar­ly referred to as its own genre: “G&S” – Gilbert and Sul­li­van.  Their dozen musi­cal shows direct­ly influ­enced musi­cal the­ater in the 20th C, intro­duc­ing inno­va­tions in con­tent and form that are still part of the lan­guage of musi­cals today. They’ve stood the tests of time, pol­i­tics, and par­o­dy – often­times encour­ag­ing the lat­ter. Their shows are still wide­ly per­formed in the Eng­lish speak­ing world, and Gilbert and Sul­li­van soci­eties abound in North America.

The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal explores the blend­ing of music and dra­ma — fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry, and lore that make up the musi­cal the­ater canon. Learn more about some of your favorite shows and com­posers as we cue the orches­tra, and the over­ture begins.

Also Today … 

NOTE: The actor men­tioned in this episode who por­trayed the Police Con­sta­ble in the 1980 New York Pub­lic The­ater pro­duc­tion was actu­al­ly Tony Azi­to, not Tony Ansel­mo. Azi­to was an Amer­i­can eccen­tric dancer and char­ac­ter actor.  Ansel­mo is an Amer­i­can voice actor, best known as the voice of Don­ald Duck.

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