Tag Archives: musical theatre

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

July 18, 2026   Programming

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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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TMoTM: S05E03 – And the Award Goes to … 2026 Edition!

June 20, 2026   Programming

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Wel­come back to 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, June 20th for this month’s episode.

It’s Awards Sea­son again! It’s been an inter­est­ing year begin­ning in April with the Olivi­er Awards in Lon­don, then the Dra­ma Desk Awards in greater New York in May, and final­ly the Antoinette Per­ry (“Tony”) Awards on Broad­way this June. Cale observes the win­ners from all three in the cat­e­gories of Musi­cal and Musi­cal Revival, shares songs and mus­es on what trends are rep­re­sent­ed in this year’s nominees.

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Christmas on the Musical Theater Stage

December 21, 2024   Programming

Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 21st sees the repeat of a sea­son­al episode of our orig­i­nal series, “The Mag­ic Of The Musi­cal” with your host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er, at 2pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT.

This month the theme is “Christ­mas on the Musi­cal The­ater Stage” and Cale­do­nia’s spe­cial guest is Chris Ser­face, Man­ag­ing Artis­tic Direc­tor of Taco­ma Lit­tle The­atre and Past Pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre.

Fea­tured music for the day con­sists of a touch of nos­tal­gia with an inter­leav­ing of sea­son­al tunes, and the lat­est edi­tion of our Sec­ond Life explo­ration show goes out at noon and 4pm SLT.

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