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The Magic of The Musical: “Three by Lerner & Loewe”
THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Originally broadcast Saturday, September 16th 2023. This Month: “Three by Lerner & Loewe”
THIS SHOW IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MIXCLOUD
For this month’s episode we return to the Gold Hall at the elegant Angel Manor Estate. Join our live audience in Second Life or on-the-air!
Also on the air today: tune in at 12 noon or 4pm SLT for an edition of “Where Have You Been?”. 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: Series 2 Episode 1 now on Mixcloud
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!
The Magic of The Musical: The Tony Awards
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.
The Magic of The Musical: “Musicals for the Win!”
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.
This show is now available on Mixcloud
This month’s episode features musicals that have been honored with the Pultizer Prize for Drama. The Drama category of this prestigious award recognizes a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life. It is an impressive list that includes everything from Gershwin to Steven Sondheim, to Lin-Manuel Miranda. The list fascinates as much for what is missing from it as the shows that were honored.
Today Host Caledonia Skytower explores the list with a few side trips. Join us today: Saturday, November 19th at 2pm pacific at the Virtual Community Radio Theater on Chestnut Hills, or tune in to listen on-the-air, for The Magic Of The Musical:
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The Magic of The Musical: “With Cat-Like Tread” Now On Mixcloud
“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.
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.
The Magic of The Musical Episode 05: “Every Song is a Scene”
*This show is now available on Mixcloud.
Join us at the VCRadio Theater on Chestnut Hills in #Secondlife at 2pm pacific/slt on Saturday, August 20, or tune in and listen to the show live on Virtual Community Radio.
This month we feature the work of the late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who passed at age 91 in 2021. Sondheim was the most important figure in the American musical theater of the last half century. Host Caledonia Skytower is joined on-the-air by special guest, David Duvall.
Duvall has been an ardent student and teacher of musical theater for over 40 years. He is a composer, arranger, musician and director whose work has been primarily theatrical, but who has also worked in television, earning 2 Emmy nominations.
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.
Links of Interest for this episode:
The Magic of The Musical Episode 04: “A New Vision”
The Magic of The Musical, Episode 04 “A New Vision”
… featuring the life and works of Oscar Hammerstein II. Join us at the VCRadio Theater on Chestnut Hills in #Secondlife at 2pm pacific/slt on Saturday, July 16, or tune in and listen to the show live on Virtual Community Radio.
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 keeping with today’s show, “On Broadway!” is our Featured Music theme through the day. And don’t miss the latest episode of Where Have You Been? which this time visits the Unity Project at Rainbow Painters Gallery, and Engines of Our Ingenuity every four hours from 4am Pacific.
