Tag Archives: musicals
The Magic of The Musical: Season 3 Begins!
We’re pleased to announce the start of the third season of our original series of The Magic of The Musical, where your host Caledonia Skytower takes a monthly look at the world of musical theatre with songs, stories and lore surrounding some of our most popular musicals.
Saturday, April 20 @ 2pm SLT/Pacific Time sees the first show of the season: Unexpected Broadway. This show is now available on Mixcloud.
This episode features performances by actors and actresses that you would not have expected to find in a Broadway musical, but they were! In some cases we’ll feature the production, and in some the performance. Who knew that a quirky film actor started out as a dancer for Liza Minelli? Or that “the boy who lived” would appear in the Broadway Revival of a 1961 Frank Loesser musical?
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 here 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!”
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Related Videos (some mentioned in this episode)
Christopher Walken Dances: “Weapon of Choice” Fatboy Slim
Christopher Walken Dances: “Let’s Misbehave” from Pennies from Heaven
1776 (Roundabout 1997) featuring Brent Spiner as John Adams
The Magic of The Musical: Another Openin’ Another Show!
THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Saturday, November 18th @2pm Pacific/slt. This Month: “Another Openin’, Another Show — Cole Porter”
THIS SHOW IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MIXCLOUD — CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
For this month’s episode we return to the Gold Hall at the elegant Angel Manor Estate. Join our live audience in #SecondLife or on-the-air!
Also on the air today: tune in at 12 noon or 4pm SLT for the latest 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*!
(*If this doesn’t work first time, say “Enable Skill” and when asked what skill to enable, say “Virtual Community Radio”)
The Magic of The Musical: Ghostly and Spooky!
THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Saturday, October 21st @2pm Pacific/slt. This Month: “Ghostly & Spooky: The Haunting Side of Gilbert & Sullivan”
This episode is now available on Mixcloud — click here to listen
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 the latest 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*!
(*If this doesn’t work first time, say “Enable Skill” and when asked what skill to enable, say “Virtual Community Radio”)
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*!
(*If this doesn’t work first time, say “Enable Skill” and when asked what skill to enable, say “Virtual Community Radio”)
The Magic of The Musical: Saturday, July 15th Live!
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!”.
The Magic of the Musical: Saturday, June 17th Live!
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.
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: “With Cat-Like Tread”
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 …
- Featured Music: Musicals!
- The Engines of Our Ingenuity plays every four hours beginning at 4am slt/pacific
- Where Have You Been? visits The Elven Forest (replay) — https://www.elvenforest.net/
Region: Elven Forest (Adult)
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Elven%20Forest/241/110/23
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: “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.