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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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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

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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

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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

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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