Broadway Bound

Series produced by Garrett Stack

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A 2-hour program of music from Broadway. Features a couple of dozen performances from classic Broadway, most from the 20th Century, with commentary and background information about the music and the performers. Developed for WMNR, since 2005 Broadway Bound radio shows have aired on this public radio station in Monroe, CT.

Broadway musicals have the power to inspire, entertain and teach. Broadway Bound features individual tracks from classic Broadway musicals mostly from the 20th century. Tributes, focus on themes, spotlights on select new recordings is just part of what makes this program entertaining and informative.


117 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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In a bygone era, the overture at the start of a Broadway musical created excitement and anticipation, teasing us about what was to come. Listen to...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Fill a stage with the whole company, dance, belt, lights. That's a production number. And we smile – at least.

Bought by WMNR


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Broadway musicals are loaded with difficult, intricate, dynamic, hard-to-sing songs. And, there is no shortage of emotionally devastating songs eit...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The musical theater is brimming with all things American. From events, to people, to crimes and politics.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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For producers, if the cast is right, revivals are money in the bank.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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With what Garrett Stack considers, with few exceptions, a dismal state of musical theater for the last decade, a new programming format focuses alm...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
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In the fall of 1999 we were getting ready for the new century. This is what was on Broadway.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Loss is inevitable. With it comes sadness. Mourning. Release. Bittersweet. Loneliness. Regret. These expressed on stage, in song.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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There are rare moments during live musicals that transport you somewhere else. It is truly magic. We all have our moments. These are mine.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In years past, pop recording artists would look to Broadway for songs to record for the radio. Companies would release them, they got played and be...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
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Sometimes arrogant, sometimes genuine, sometimes unexpected, friendship has many facets. But friendships born of love take the prize.

Bought by WMNR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Women who are confident, self-reliant, assertive, fair and just sing songs of personal and collective strength.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
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One of musical theater's most beloved stage turns is the production number. Lights, glitter, costumes, dance and full ensemble voices. It's Broadwa...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Some of the world's most beautiful, or poignant, or comical, or thought-provoking songs come from "love" songs composed for the musical theater.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
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Children have thrilled us on Broadway stages for decades. Here's a close look all in one place.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
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As 2022 opens, once again Broadway finds obstacles as it wars on through the COVID pandemic of the 21st Century.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jan 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Broadway is fertile ground for songs about mothers and their lives as wives, caregivers, protectors, and doing the best they can. (Yes, that's Ethe...

Bought by WMNR


  • Added: May 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Records are set on Broadway: Biggest, most, best, longest, shortest. They're "tops" in their class.

Bought by Raven Radio, KVNO, and WMNR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 3
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America's story is told through Broadway songs.

Bought by WORT, KVNO, and WMNR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:30
  • Purchases: 3