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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not...
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United States
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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).
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English
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http://wfmu.org/playlists/AX
Episodes
Share my empire and be my vampire from Apr 24, 2026
4/24/2026
Kay Coulter, Bobby Van & Joshua Shelley - "On Your Toes" - On Your Toes (Broadway Revival Cast 1954) [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:00:00]
Todd Duncan & Eva Jessye Choir - "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin" - Porgy and Bess: Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Dubose Heyward] [0:14:23]
Sara Ann Mitchell - "If I Were on the Stage (Kiss Me Again)" - Mlle. Modiste [Music: Victor Herbert
Lyrics: Henry Blossom] [0:19:46]
Ohio Light Opera - "Finale: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" - Naughty Marietta [Music: Victor Herbert
Lyrics: Rida Johnson Young] [0:21:47]
Maria Jette & Dan Chouinard - "I'm the Old Man in the Moon" - The Siren's Song: Wodehouse and Kern on Broadway [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: P.G. Wodehouse] [0:25:00]
Noel Coward with Ray Noble & His Orchestra - "Mad About the Boy" - Mad About the Boy: Complete Recordings vol. 3 [Music & Lyrics: Nöel Coward] [0:28:07]
Ella Fitzgerald - "oh, lady be good" - Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:30:23]
Julia Shore & Piccadilly Dance Orchestra - "Manhattan" - I Won't Dance [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:42:25]
Avon Long & Thelma Carpenter - "I'm Just Wild About Harry" - Songs from Shuffle Along [Music: Eubie Blake
Lyrics: Noble Sissle] [0:44:00]
Barbara Ruick & Oh, Kay! Ensemble - "Oh, Kay!" - Oh, Kay! (Studio Cast Recording) [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:45:22]
Jason Graae & Orchestra New England - "You've Got That Thing" - Fifty Million Frenchmen [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [0:47:44]
Carolee Carmello & Mario Cantone - "Fine And Dandy" - Fine And Dandy [Music: Kay Swift
Lyrics: Paul James] [0:50:53]
Bert Williams - "Here It Comes Again" - Here It Comes Again [Music: Will Marion Cook & Bert Williams
Lyrics: Jesse A. Shipp & Alex Rogers] [1:03:59]
Harry MacDonough - "Sammy" - Sammy [Music: Edward Hutchison
Lyrics: James O'Dea] [1:05:44]
Louis Levy and His Gamount British Symphony - "Firefly - Selection" - Firefly - Selection [Music: Rudolf Friml
Lyrics: Otto Harbach] [1:07:57]
The Arcadians Chorus - "Arcadians We Are" - The Arcadians [Music: Lionel Monckton & Howard Talbot
Lyrics: Arthur Wimperis] [1:12:38]
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - "Finale to Act II (Opera Medley)" - "This Is the Life!": The Breakthrough Years: 1909-1921 [Music & Lyrics: irving Berlin] [1:17:42]
Steve Ross - "I've a Shooting Box in Scotland" - Close [Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter] [1:31:00]
Anne Sciolla with Brian Kovach - "The Edinboro Wriggle" - Jerome Kern: Lost Treasures [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: M. E. Rourke] [1:33:40]
Julie Hill - "Nobody But You" - The George Gershwin Songbook [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: B.G. DeSylva] [1:36:25]
Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - "Wild Flower" - Who's Sorry Now/Wild Flower [Music: Herbert Stothart & Vincent Youmans] [1:38:53]
Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - "Dancing In The Dark" - High and Low/Dancing in the Dark [Music: Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics: Howard Dietz] [1:40:39]
Christopher Fitzgerald & Jessica Stone - "You're A Builder-Upper" - Life Begins at 8:40 [Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin & Yip Harburg] [1:48:37]
Fisk University Choir - "Run Lil Chillun" - live recording [Music & Lyrics: Hall Johnson] [1:52:02]
Judy Holliday - "I'm One of God's Children" - Trouble Is a Man [Music: Louis Alter
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II & Harry Ruskin] [1:55:03]
Honky-Tonk Highway Ensemble - "Music in This Mountain" - Honky-Tonk Highway: A Mountain Musical (Studio Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Robert Lindsey Nassif] [2:04:29] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163590
Duration:02:06:41
Jellicles Can and Jellicles Do from Apr 10, 2026
4/10/2026
Reed Jones & Cats Broadway Cast - "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" - Cats: Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics: T.S. Eliot] [0:00:00]
André DeShields & Ken Page - "The Ladies Who Sing with the Band" - Ain't Misbehavin' Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music: Fats Waller
Lyrics: George Marion, Jr.] [0:23:21]
juanita hall - "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" - The Original Bloody Mary Sings the Blues [Music & Lyrics: Jimmie Cox] [0:24:54]
Sandy Stewart & Dick Hyman - "Nobody else but me" - Sings the Songs of Jerome Kern [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [0:26:49]
Barbara Lea - "the spider and the fly" - Songs from the Original Broadway Production of Pousse-Cafe [Music: Duke Ellington
Lyrics: Marshall Barer] [0:29:59]
Chuck Berry - "Havana Moon" - You Can't Catch Me / Havana Moon [Music & Lyrics: Chuck Berry] [0:33:26]
Susannah McCorkle - "The Girlfriend Of The Whirling Dervish" - The Music of Harry Warren (There Will Never Be Another You) [Music: Harry Warren
Lyrics: Al Dubin & Johnny Mercer] [0:44:40]
Banu Gibson - "Ten Cents A Dance" - Oh, Jazz Me [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart] [0:46:02]
Roberto Faz y Su Conjunto - "Mi Corazonada" - Latinismo: Famous Cuba [Music & Lyrics: Unknown] [0:49:25]
Arthur Lyman - "midnight sun" - Call of the Midnight Sun [Music: Lionel Hampton & Sonny Burke] [0:51:55]
Glenn Miller - "The Booglie Wooglie Piggy" - Boulder Buff/The Booglie Wooglie Piggy [Music & Lyrics: Roy Jacobs] [0:56:20]
Linda Ormiston - "Cheerily Carols the Lark" - Ruddigore [Music: Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert] [1:05:06]
Rosalind Elias, John Hauxvell & Lehman Engel Orchestra - "I'll See You Again" - Glorious Songs, Golden Memories [Music & Lyrics: Noel Coward] [1:08:52]
Robert Nagy, Lee Cass, William Lewis & Peter Palmer - "Serenade" - Treasury of Great Operettas [Music: Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly] [1:13:36]
Burke Moses & Christiane Noll - "An Interrupted Love Song" - The New Moon (2004 Encores! Cast Recording) [Music: Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:16:34]
Eric Idle & Felicity Palmer - "There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast" - The Mikado [Music: Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert] [1:20:18]
Rosemary Hardy, Mary King & London Sinfonietta - "Max Alone" - Where The Wild Things Are [Music: Oliver Knussen
Lyrics: Maurice Sendak] [1:29:39]
Carol Brice - "Night Could Be Time to Sleep, Night Could Be Time to Weep" - Regina [Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein] [1:31:45]
Grace Chang - "Habanera" - The Wild, Wild Rose [Music: Georges Bizet
Lyrics: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy (translated into Mandarin by Lee Tsin-chin)] [1:35:11]
Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra - "Danse Boheme" - Plays Popular Western Classics [Music: Georges Bizet] [1:38:48]
Li Wei - "Ode to the Litchi" - Classical Chinese Folk Songs & Opera [Music & Lyrics: Anonymous] [1:43:18]
Ezio Pinza & William Tabbert - "I Like You" - Fanny (Original Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Harold Rome] [1:54:03]
Lucille Ball & Keith Andes - "You're a Liar" - Wildcat (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Cy Coleman
Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh] [1:55:35]
Marie Christine Ensemble - "Before the Morning" - Marie Christine (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa] [1:59:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163103
Duration:02:00:16
Trust the man with the stigmata from Apr 3, 2026
4/3/2026
The Meistersingers of Ursinus College - "Godspell (Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord/By My Side/Day By Day/All Good Gifts/We Beseech Thee/Long Live God)" - The 38th Season: 1975 [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz] [0:00:00]
Alan Titus, the Norman Scribner Choir & the Berkshire Boy Choir - "A Simple Song" - mass [Music & Lyrics: Leonard Bernstein] [0:24:52]
Ella Fitzgerald - "Oh, Doctor Jesus" - porgy & bess [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin] [0:27:42]
Second Canaan Baptist Church Porter Singers - "When I Touch His Garment" - Tambourines to Glory - Gospel Songs by Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley [Music: Jobe Huntley
Lyrics: Langston Hughes] [0:30:12]
Delores Hall - "I Love You So Much Jesus" - Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (Original Broadway Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Alex Bradford] [0:33:02]
Shenandoah Ensemble - "Pass the Cross to Me" - Shenandoah [Music: Gary Geld
Lyrics: Peter Udell] [0:36:45]
Imogene Coca - "Repent" - On the Twentieth Century [Music: Cy Coleman
Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [0:45:36]
Jennifer Simard - "The Lord's Prayer" - Disaster! (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Arnold Strals
Lyrics: Jesus Christ] [0:48:16]
Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe & Swept Away Original Broadway Cast - "Lord Lay Your Hand on My Shoulder" - Swept Away: A New Musical Tale [Music & Lyrics: The Avett Brothers] [0:50:25]
Hands on a Hardbody Ensemble - "Joy of the Lord" - Hands On A Hardbody (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Trey Anastasio & Amanda Green
Lyrics: Amanda Green] [0:51:44]
Cast of Ghost - The Musical - "Are You a Believer?" - Ghost: The Musical (Original Cast Recording) [Music: Dave Stewart & Glen Ballard
Lyrics: Dave Stewart, Glen Ballard & Bruce Joel Rubin] [0:55:37]
Dennis Cunningham - "Into the Light Review" [1:12:07]
Happy End Cast - "Lieutenants of the Lord" - Happy End (Original A.C.T. Cast) [Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht (translated into English by Michael Feingold)] [1:15:58]
Josie de Guzman, John Carpenter & Eleanor Glockner - "Follow the Fold" - Guys and Dolls (New Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser] [1:17:55]
Jim Jansen - "Every Day I Do a Little Something for the Lord" - Onward Victoria (bootleg) [Music: Keith Herrmann
Lyrics: Charlotte Anker & Irene Rosenberg] [1:19:35]
Robert Shaw & Rita Moreno - "We Can All Give Love/Show Him the Way" - Gantry (Live on Ed Sullivan) [Music: Stanley Lebowsky
Lyrics: Fred Tobias] [1:21:18]
John Raitt - "The Highest Judge of All" - Carousel [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:27:01]
Summer Ensemble - "i believe in jesus" - Summer: The Donna Summer Musical [Music & Lyrics: Donna Summer] [1:37:38]
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Ensemble - "Thank God" - Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? [Music & Lyrics: James Quinn & Alaric 'Rokko' Jans] [1:39:20]
Josh Gad & The Book of Mormon Original Broadway Cast Company - "Man Up" - The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone] [1:41:28]
Altar Boyz - "Church Rulez" - Altar Boyz (Original Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker] [1:45:30]
Christine Lakin, Robert Torti & Reefer Madness Original Ensemble - "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" - Reefer Madness (2-CD Collectors Set) [Music: Dan Studney
Lyrics: Kevin Murphy] [1:47:52]
Ben Vereen - "Superstar" - Jesus Christ Superstar [Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics: Tim Rice] [1:59:52] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162852
Duration:02:01:06
Mr. Peaceful, Mr. Happy, that's what I wanna be from Mar 27, 2026
3/27/2026
Alan Cumming - "Mein Herr" - I Bought A Blue Car Today [Music: John Kander
Lyrics: Fred Ebb] [0:00:00]
Morgan James & Bridget Everett - "King Herod's Song" - She Is Risen: Volume Two [Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics: Tim Rice] [0:04:18]
Norbert Leo Butz - "I Don't Know How to Love Him" - MISCAST20 [Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics: Tim Rice] [0:07:24]
Smoking Popes - "The Party's Over" - The Party's Over [Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [0:11:17]
Aaron Tveit & Gavin Creel - "Take Me or Leave Me" - MCC Theater's Miscast: The Studio Sessions [Music & Lyrics: Jonathan Larson] [0:14:40]
Tony Bennett - "Maybe This Time" - Here's to the Ladies [Music: John Kander
Lyrics: Fred Ebb] [0:33:01]
nancy walker - "I Can't Get Started" - Lyrics by Ira Gershwin [Music: Vernon Duke
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:34:55]
Michael Feinstein - "The Girl I Love" - Pure Gershwin [Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:39:58]
Betty Buckley - "Come Back to Me" - Ah, Men! (The Boys of Broadway) [Music: Burton Lane
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner] [0:44:30]
jeff buckley - "the man that got away" - Mystery White Boy: Live '95-'96 [Music: Harold Arlen
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin] [0:47:44]
Richard Fleeshman, Matthew Seadon-Young & George Blagden - "You Can Drive a Person Crazy" - Company (2018 London Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:01:51]
Linda Lavin - "The Boy From..." - The Mad Show - A New Musical Revue Based on MAD Magazine [Music: Mary Rodgers
Lyrics: Esteban Rio Nido] [1:03:10]
Aaron Morishita - "I Never Do Anything Twice" - Singing Sondheim [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:06:06]
Mandy Patinkin - "In Someone's Eyes" - Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:09:57]
Melissa Errico - "Sorry-Grateful" - Sondheim in the City [Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:12:25]
Linda Eder - "Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)" - it's time [Music: Mitch Leigh
Lyrics: Joe Darion] [1:25:44]
Philip Chaffin - "Will He Like Me?" - Will He Like Me? [Music: Jerry Bock
Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick] [1:27:17]
The Boy & The Gentle-Men - "Mad About the Boy" - Mad About the Boy [Music & Lyrics: Nöel Coward] [1:30:38]
Francis Cruz & William Reilly - "We Kiss in a Shadow/I Have Dreamed" - How I Love You [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:32:58]
Jimmie Herrod & Pink Martini - "Tomorrow" - Tomorrow [Music: Charles Strouse
Lyrics: Martin Charnin] [1:38:24]
Bud Freeman - "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" - Can't Help Lovin' That Man [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:48:08]
Tiny Tim - "I Enjoy Being a Girl" - A Ghoul at the Pussycat: Live 1963 [Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [1:50:04]
Cliff Edwards - "Come Up and See Me Sometime" - Can't Help Lovin' That Man [Music: Louis Alter
Lyrics: Arthur Swanstrom] [1:53:32]
Aretha Franklin - "Ol' Man River" - Soul Sister [Music: Jerome Kern
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II] [2:00:07] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162622
Duration:02:02:46