Tag Archives: The Magic of The Musical
The Magic of The Musical: Celebrating Summer
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*!
(*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: “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.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded three more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 37, “De-Mystifying the Tarot”; Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 15: Hello Kitty Tribute Theme Park; and The MOST — Music from the Original Sound Track, Episode 10.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded two more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 34, on Tarot Etiquette; and Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 12: Elven Forest.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded two more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 33, on the Occult Tarot; and Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 11: The Pilgrimage.
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded three more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 32, on the Tarot de Marseille; Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 10: May The Art Be With You, and the second in our new series on the Musical Theatre: The Magic Of The Musical: Showboat.
