BROADWAY NATION

On this episode, author DEBRA LEVINE joins me to discuss her new book, JAZZED —JACK COLE and TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DANCE.

The legendary JACK COLE is arguably the most influential Broadway and film choreographer of all time! Still, his name is largely unknown to the general public.

In this engaging conversation, Levine leads us through the highs and lows of this mid-century gay artist's remarkable life and career, including his collaborations and interactions with dance legends Ruth St. Dennis, Ted Shawn, Alvin Ailey, and Bob Fosse, as well as Broadway and Hollywood superstars Gwen Verdon, Carol Haney, Betty Grable, Ann Miller, Jane Russell, and Marilyn Monroe.

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My guest today is author Adam Rush, whose latest book is titled Adaptation in Musical Theatre.

Adam is a Program Leader and Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre at the University of Winchester in the UK. Listeners may remember him from his previous appearance on this podcast when he and co-author Millie Taylor
joined me to discuss their book, Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the
Narrative. The book delves into a wide range of musicals, from Show Boat to Beetlejuice, with a main focus on three selected case studies: Legally Blonde, Fun Home, and Wicked.

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This is the third and final segment of my conversation with
Albert Evans, in which we explore the Double Songs of Broadway, which, as you will hear, have an incredibly long and action-packed history stretching from the earliest decades of the Broadway musical right up to today.

Today we explore how this show-stopping song-form made its way
from the Golden Age to the Modern Era of Broadway via songwriters such as Jerry Herman, Leonard Bernstein, Bock & Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Maltby and Shire, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Menken, Duncan Sheik, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more in their musicals Follies, Godspell, The Magic Show, Dear World, A Little Night Music, Little Mary Sunshine, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, 70 Girls 70, A Chorus Line, Spring Awakening, Wicked, and In the Heights.

If you missed the first two episodes in this series, you may
want to catch up with those before listening to this one.

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This is the second part of my conversation with my frequent co-host, Albert Evans, in which we investigate the Double Songs of Broadway.

In this episode, we highlight the amazing work of songwriters Jerome Kern & Anne Caldwell, Cole Porter, Arthur Schwartz & Dorothy Fields, Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim, Lionel Bart, and especially Meredith Willson in their Broadway musicals The Night Boat, Anything Goes, By the Beautiful Sea, Damn Yankees, Gypsy, Oliver!, Here's Love, The Music Man, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

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If you are a fan of Broadway Nation, I invite you to become a PATRON! For as little as $7.00 a month, you can receive exclusive access to never-before-heard, unedited versions of many of the discussions that I have with my guests — in fact, I often record nearly twice as much conversation as ends up in the edited versions. You will also have access to additional, in-depth conversations with my frequent co-host, Albert Evans, that have not been featured on the podcast. And all patrons receive special “on-air” shout-outs and acknowledgement of your vital support of this podcast.

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Welcome to Season Four!

Broadway Nation is back with a new season of all-new episodes
that will take you deep inside the history of the Broadway musical with a
special emphasis on the Immigrant Jewish, Queer, and Black artists who invented it.

I have a fantastic slate of guests and topics lined up over the coming weeks and months, and today we kick it all off with the return of my frequent co-host and partner in crime, Albert Evans, and the first in a series of episodes exploring the Double Songs of Broadway.

These show-stopping musical stunts span the entire history of the Broadway musical and have been utilized by many of the greatest songwriters, from Irving Berlin to Meredith Willson to Jerry Herman to Sondheim, Schwartz, and Miranda.

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This episode is made possible in part by the generous support of our Patron Club Members, including our newest patron, PAULA & STEVE REYNOLDS.

If you are a fan of Broadway Nation, I invite you to become a PATRON! For as little as $7.00 a month, you can receive exclusive access to never-before-heard, unedited versions of many of the discussions that I have with my guests — in fact, I often record nearly twice as much conversation as ends up in the edited versions. You will also have access to additional, in-depth conversations with my frequent co-host, Albert Evans, that have not been featured on the podcast. And all patrons receive special “on-air” shout-outs and acknowledgement of your vital support of this podcast.

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