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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).
Location:
United States
Networks:
WFMU
Description:
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).
Language:
English
Website:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/AX
Episodes
In which we unsuccessfully petition to get them to dim the lights on Broadway for Brian Wilson from Jun 20, 2025
6/20/2025
Brian Wilson - "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) [vocal snippet]" - The Pet Sounds Sessions [Music: Brian Wilson] [0:00:00]
The Beach Boys - "I'm Waiting For The Day" - Pet Sounds [Music: Brian Wilson
Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Mike Love] [0:04:06]
The Beach Boys - "surfin' (demo)" - Becoming The Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Mike Love] [0:16:24]
The Beach Boys - "land ahoy" - Rarities [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [0:18:28]
The Beach Boys - "The Baker Man" - Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [0:20:22]
The Beach Boys - "I Do" - Surfer Girl/Shut Down Volume 2 [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Roger Christian] [0:22:18]
The Beach Boys - "Lonely Sea" - Surfin' U.S.A. [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Gary Usher] [0:23:43]
The Beach Boys - "Sandy" - Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 9 [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Russ Titelman] [0:26:57]
The Beach Boys - "The Little Girl I Once Knew" - The Little Girl I Once Knew [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [0:28:18]
Glen Campbell - "Guess I'm Dumb" - Guess I'm Dumb [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Russ Titelman] [0:31:13]
The Beach Boys - "I Know There's an Answer" - Pet Sounds [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson, Terry Sachen & Mike Love] [0:44:35]
The Beach Boys - "Look (Song for Children)" - The Smile Sessions [Music: Brian Wilson] [0:46:48]
The Beach Boys - "Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)" - The Smile Sessions [Music: Brian Wilson
Lyrics: Van Dyke Parks] [0:48:54]
The Beach Boys - "You're With Me Tonight - Sessions 6/6 - 6/7/67" - The Smile Sessions [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [0:52:02]
The Beach Boys - "Love to Say Dada" - The Smile Sessions [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [0:54:46]
The Beach Boys - "Wild Honey" - Wild Honey [Music: Brian Wilson
Lyrics: Mike Love] [1:07:57]
The Beach Boys - "Darlin'" - Wild Honey [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Mike Love] [1:09:50]
The Beach Boys - "Can't Wait Too Long" - Smiley Smile/Wild Honey [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [1:12:08]
The Beach Boys - "Wake the World" - Friends [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Al Jardine] [1:14:18]
The Beach Boys - "Be Here in the Mornin'" - Friends [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love & Al Jardine] [1:16:11]
The Beach Boys - "We're Together Again" - Friends/20-20 [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Ron Wilson] [1:18:06]
The Beach Boys - "Sail Plane Song" - Wake the World: The Friends Sessions [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson & Al Jardine] [1:26:47]
The Beach Boys - "Time to Get Alone" - 20/20 [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [1:28:10]
The Beach Boys - "Soulful Old Man Sunshine" - Endless Harmony Soundtrack [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson, Rick Henn & Don Ralke] [1:32:19]
The Beach Boys - "Time To Get Alone (vocals)" - Made in California [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [1:34:15]
The Beach Boys - "All I Wanna Do" - Sunflower [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Mike Love] [1:35:49]
The Beach Boys and the Alexander Hamilton Double Rock Baptist Choir - "That Same Song" - live recording [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Mike Love] [1:46:02]
The Beach Boys - "Let Us Go On This Way" - The Beach Boys Love You [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson & Mike Love] [1:47:50]
The Beach Boys - "Mike Come Back To L.A. (with commentary by Mike Love)" - no album [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [1:49:52]
The Beach Boys - "Roller Skating Child" - live recording [Music & Lyrics: Brian Wilson] [1:53:12]
The Beach Boys - "Sloop John B (vocals only)" - The Pet Sounds Sessions [Music & Lyrics: traditional (adapted by Brian Wilson)] [2:00:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153321
Duration:02:05:21
In which we finally stop ignoring the Tony Awards from Jun 13, 2025
6/13/2025
Darren Criss - "World Within My Room" - Maybe Happy Ending (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Will Aronson
Lyrics: Hue Park & Will Aronson] [0:00:00]
Real Women Have Curves Original Broadway Company - "Jugglin'" - Real Women Have Curves: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Joy Huerta & Benjamin Velez] [0:17:56]
Original Broadway Cast of Buena Vista Social Club - "El Cuarto de Tula" - Buena Vista Social Club (Original Broadway Cast Album) [Music & Lyrics: Sergio González Siaba] [0:20:21]
Andrew Durand - "Indian Train" - Dead Outlaw (Original Broadway Cast) [Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek & Erik Della Penna] [0:25:52]
Jason Gotay & Jeremy Jordan - "The Riddle Song" - Floyd Collins (Live Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel] [0:28:02]
John Gallagher Jr. & Swept Away Original Cast - "Satan Pulls The Strings" - Swept Away: A New Musical Tale [Music & Lyrics: The Avett Brothers] [0:33:36]
Jak Malone - "Dear Bill" - Operation Mincemeat (A New Musical) [Music & Lyrics: David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson & Zoë Roberts] [0:49:28]
Pirates! The Penzance Musical Ensemble - "Sail the Ocean Blue/Washboards" - Pirates! The Penzance Musical (Tony Awards performance) [Music: Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert (adapted by Rupert Holmes)] [0:53:28]
Nicholas Matos, Brooks Ashmanskas & Robyn Hurder - "Smash!" - SMASH (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Marc Shaiman
Lyrics: Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman] [0:56:27]
Jasmine Amy Rogers & Original Broadway Cast of Boop! The Musical - "A Little Versatility" - Boop! (Original Broadway Cast) [Music: David Foster
Lyrics: Susan Birkenhead] [1:00:05]
Nicole Scherzinger & Tom Francis - "New Ways to Dream" - Sunset Blvd. [Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics: Don Black & Christopher Hampton] [1:04:49]
Michelle Williams, Megan Hilty & Death Becomes Her Original Broadway Cast - "Siempre Viva" - Death Becomes Her (Original Broadway Cast) [Music & Lyrics: Noel Carey & Julia Mattison] [1:16:47]
Dionne Figgins & Jennie Harney- Fleming - "Some of These Days/After You've Gone" - A Wonderful World (Live Recording) [Music: Shelton Brooks ("Some of These Days"), Turner Layton ("After You've Gone")
Lyrics: Shelton Brooks ("Some of These Days"), Henry Creamer ("After You've Gone")] [1:20:48]
Jonathan Groff & Just in Time Ensemble - "Mack the Knife/That's All/Once in a Lifetime" - Just in Time (Tony Awards performance) [Music & Lyrics: various] [1:23:15]
Audra McDonald & Danny Burstein - "small world" - Gypsy Starring Audra McDonald (2024 Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim] [1:25:47]
Dick Latessa and Harvey Fierstein - "(You're) Timeless to Me" - Hairspray (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: Marc Shaiman
Lyrics: Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman] [1:28:21]
Cyndi Lauper & Alan Cumming - "The Ballad of the Pimp" - The Threepenny Opera (Tony Awards performance) [Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht (translated into English by Wallace Shawn)] [1:42:13]
Christopher Lloyd & Happy End Ensemble - "The Bilbao Song" - Happy End (Tony Awards performance) [Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht (translated into English by Michael Feingold)] [1:45:30]
Judy Kaye, Kevin Kline & John Cullum - "On the Twentieth Century Medley" - On the Twentieth Century (Tony Awards performance) [Music: Cy Coleman
Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green] [1:48:43]
Andrew Rannells - "I Believe" - The Book of Mormon (Tony Awards performance) [Music & Lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone] [1:56:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153079
Duration:02:06:32
New Found World from Jun 6, 2025
6/6/2025
Doris Day with Harry James and His Orchestra - "I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)" - I May Be Wrong/The Very Thought of You [Music: Henry Sullivan
Lyrics: Harry Ruskin] [0:00:00]
Joel Hatch, 'Come From Away' Company - "In the Bar/Heave Away/Screech In" - Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Irene Sankoff & David Hein ("Heave Away" is traditional)] [0:19:39]
Original Cast of Tell Tale Harbour - "Bar to the Church" - The Songs of Tell Tale Harbour [Music & Lyrics: Alan Doyle & Bob Foster] [0:23:00]
The Theory of Relativity Company - "Relativity" - The Theory of Relativity - a New Musical [Music & Lyrics: Neil Bartram] [0:26:11]
Samantha Williams - "Poetry" - Live at 54 Below [Music & Lyrics: Britta Johnson] [0:30:11]
Ann Golden & Jim Hugessen - "Teach Me How to Think Canadian" - My Fur Lady [Music: James Domville
Lyrics: Timothy Porteous] [0:33:23]
Georgia Engel, Edward Hibbert & the Drowsy Chaperone Original Broadway Cast - "Love Is Always Lovely in the End" - The Drowsy Chaperone: Original Broadway Cast Recording [Music & Lyrics: Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison] [0:35:44]
Portia White - "Think on Me" - Practice session [Music & Lyrics: Lady John Scott] [0:49:27]
Frances Irvin & Jack Duffy with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - "I Oughta Know More About You" - I Oughta Know More About You/C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) [Music: Victor Young
Lyrics: Edward Heyman] [0:51:57]
Seymour Richards with Freddy Ellis and His Orchestra - "Weary" - Moonburn/Weary [Music: Allie Wrubel
Lyrics: Mort Dixon] [0:54:31]
Neil Buckley with Don Bestor and His Orchestra - "The Simple Things in Life" - Animal Crackers in My Soup/The Simple Things in Life [Music: Ray Henderson
Lyrics: Ted Koehler] [0:56:41]
Ernie Bernhardt with Sam Donahue and His Orchestra - "It Happened in Monterey" - Dance Date with Sam Donahue [Music & Lyrics: Mabel Wayne] [0:59:10]
Norman Cloutier and His Merry Madcaps - "Flirtation Walk" - Flirtation Walk/I See Two Lovers [Music & Lyrics: Allie Wrubel & Mort Dixon] [1:07:22]
Kenneth Williams, Maggie Smith & Philip Gilbert - "Bubble Man" - Share My Lettuce [Music: Keith Statham & Patrick Gowers
Lyrics: Bamber Gascoigne] [1:10:00]
Peter Lind Hayes and Tommy Rettig - "Dream Stuff" - The 5000 FIngers of Dr. T OST [Music: Friedrich Hollander
Lyrics: Dr. Seuss] [1:11:40]
Linda Hopkins - "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" - Me and Bessie (Linda Hopkins Sings Songs from the Broadway Musical) [Music & Lyrics: Eddie Green] [1:13:55]
Virginia Capers - "A Whole Lotta Sunlight" - Raisin (Original Broadway Cast) [Music: Judd Woldin
Lyrics: Robert Brittan] [1:20:35]
Zenda Ensemble - "A Whole Lot of Happy" - Zenda (bootleg) [Music: Vernon Duke
Lyrics: Lenny Adelson, Sid Kuller & Martin Charnin] [1:26:06]
Robert Preston - "I'm A Star" - The Prince of Grand Street (bootleg) [Music & Lyrics: Bob Merrill] [1:28:13]
Vivien Leigh - "You'd Make an Elegant Butler/I'd Make an Elegant Maid" - Tovarich (bootleg) [Music: Lee Pockriss
Lyrics: Anne Croswell] [1:30:41]
Angela Lansbury & Bea Arthur - "camouflage" - Mame (rehearsal recording) [Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman] [1:32:24]
Paula Wayne - "Cherry's Soliloquy" - Cherry (demo) [Music: Tom Baird
Lyrics: Ron Miller] [1:35:56]
Mark Hardwick & Pump Boys and Dinettes Ensemble - "The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine" - Pump Boys and Dinettes (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Jim Wann] [1:47:10]
Steven Pasquale - "The World Inside a Frame" - The Bridges of Madison County - Original Broadway Cast [Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown] [1:48:48]
Norbert Leo Butz & Kate Baldwin - "Daffodils" - Big Fish (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa] [1:51:04]
Robert Goulet - "a certain girl" - The Happy Time (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [Music: John Kander
Lyrics: Fred Ebb] [1:58:31] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152842
Duration:02:06:14