"Mouse Story" from Mickey Rooney conversation: August 12, 1993

Broadway Hour Show #140     Recorded November 30, 1995
Host: LARRY SUTTON of the New York Daily News

The 1995 revival of HELLO, DOLLY!  
Opening Date:  Oct 19, 1995                      Closing Date: Jan 28, 1996 

• CAROL CHANNING (Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi )
• LEE ROY REAMS - Director and Choreographer
• CHAUNCEY HOWELL - NYC television journalist

song: "It Only Takes A Moment" sung by Michael DeVries

• MICHAEL DE VRIES (Cornelius Hackl)
• FLORENCE LACEY (Irene Molloy)

song snippet: "Ribbons Down My Back" sung by Florence Lacey

• JOHN SALVATOR - Stage Manager for the show

Songs were from the Varèse Sarabande cast recording.
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Live taping at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, New York City
Executive Producer - Kate McGrath
Engineer, Sound Editor - Chris Breetveld

The BROADWAY HOUR  Show #38
Host: Stewart Klein - Fox-5 New York TV News - Film & Theatre Critic
Originally taped December 2, 1993 before a live audience 

•  The entire cast of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1994 perform live
                      Brad Oscar  / Craig Wells  /  Suzanne Blakeslee
                                           - with Brad Ellis on piano
•  4 Women Producers: 
  Heidi Landesman (Ettinger) 
  Margo Lion
  Susan Quint Gallin
  Elizabeth Williams
  
  
•  Song on tape: "Friendship" - by Ethel Merman & Bert Lahr
                                     from Du Barry Was A Lady (1939)
  
  
• Actor: Kathleen Chalfant ("Angels In America")
  
  
• Cabaret star: Steve Ross on piano sings Noel Coward

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 Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City
  in the Lobby Court Lounge.....on scenic 7th Avenue
 Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
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BROADWAY HOUR #60...... originally taped May 4, 1994

JAMIE FARR -  He is best known for playing the cross-dressing Corporal turned Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H.  At time of this taping, he was appearing in the revival of GUYS & DOLLS.

Jazz musicians:
KENNY DAVERN - clarinet
CHUCK FOLDS - piano
JEAN PAOLO - drums
perform a couple of classy numbers

Song on tape: "I GOT LOVE" - MELBA MOORE...original cast of PURLIE

LEE WILKOF - (then appearing in SHE LOVES ME).  An American actor and veteran of the Broadway stage. He originated the roles of Samuel Byck in Assassins and Seymour Krelborn in Little Shop of Horrors, later earning a Tony Award nomination for the 2000 revival of Kiss Me, Kate. Biography Early life Wilkof is from Canton, Ohio. -Wikipedia

BILLY BOESKY and SHANNON CONLEY from the off-Broadway musical "FALLEN ANGEL."

also THE BROADWAY UPDATE, TRIVIA and classic radio spots for
then-current shows and cabaret performances.


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Host: STEWART KLEIN- FOX 5 New York TV - Theatre and Film Critic
Taped live in front of an audience at the:
SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd St. and 7th Ave. New York City 

Executive Producer-KATE McGRATH
Engineer & Sound Editor-CHRIS BREETVELD

The Broadway Hour #28   with your host: STEWART KLEIN
Taped live on September 23, 1993 for WPAT-93am
 
 tonight's guests:

Actors: Anne Jackson & Eli Wallach

performing live: Debbie Shapiro Gravitte - with Pam Drews on piano

Broadway gossip with Michael Reidel



executive producer: KATE McGRATH
engineer and sound editor: CHRIS BREETVELD

This show is lovingly dedicated to the memories of Marin Mazzie (Oct 9, 1960–Sep 13, 2018) and Gary Beach (Oct 10, 1947–July 17, 2018).

                                                              Show taped June 2, 1994.
TERRY BURRELL performs with Peter Howard on piano / Terry Burrell is an actress, known for You Can't Hurry Love (1988), Eubie! (1981) and The 39th Annual Tony Awards (1985)

MARIN MAZZIE (Passion) was an American actress and singer known for her work in musical theatre. Mazzie was a three-time Tony Award nominee, for her performances as Clara in Passion (1994), Mother in Ragtime (1998), and Lilli Vanessi/Katherine in Kiss Me, Kate (1999). For her work in Kiss Me, Kate, Mazzie was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award and Olivier Award, and she won an Outer Critics Circle Award.

GARY BEACH (Beauty & The Beast) His roles included Roger De Bris in both the stage and film productions of The Producers, which won him a Tony Award, and Lumiere in the stage musical version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.

DAVID IVES - is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form".[1] Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series.[2][

JANE ADAMS - (An Inspector Calls) She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991,[4] and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls.[5]
-all bios, Wikipedia.
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Host: STEWART KLEIN- FOX 5 New York TV - Theatre and Film Critic
Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL 

Stewart Klein hosts: "The Longest Running Broadway Show on Radio"
 -The BROADWAY HOUR.
Six live musical performances highlight this week's show,
originally taped July 8, 1993.

BETTY BUCKLEY - sings live:

• Unexpected Song (Lloyd Webber, Black)
• Memory (Lloyd Webber, Nunn, Eliot)

The cast of FOREVER PLAID - performs:
from CD:  No Not Much (James Raitt)

• Gotta Be This Or That (James Raitt)
• Crazy Bout You Baby (James Raitt)

LOUIS BOTTO, Sr. Editor PLAYBILL magazine

Cast of NUNSENSE - performs:

• Just A Coupla' Sisters (Dan Goggin)
• I Just Want To Be A Star (Dan Goggin)

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Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Avenue,
New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE
. . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th ave."
Creator/Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH
Program Coordinator: LESLIE MARTELLI
Engineer & Sound Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
Director of Advertising: JACQUELINE R. MEYER
special thanks to -
Music Coordinator: JIM BREETVELD and
WEVD-AM's - BOB AUGUST 
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The Broadway Hour show# 130  | 
Recorded onto DAT (Digital Audio Tape) 21-Sep-1995 
featuring guests:

• Bonnie Franklin  | 
• Clint Holmes & Angelo Del Rossi  | 
• Neil Pepe & Mary McCann  | 
• George Wachtel  | 
• Aubrey Rueben  | 

Executive Producer: Kate McGrath
Engineer & Editor: Chris Breetveld 

The great, Marion McPartland live on show #29, recorded September 30, 1993, from the upcoming full-length podcast, from The Broadway Hour NYC taped at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, NYC.  Check back soon.

Show #29  Originally taped on September 30, 1993  for WPAT-930AM Radio
at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, W53rd and 7th Avenue.

**AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION**

Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic
... tonight's guests:

Comedian and actor Alan King (born Irwin Alan Kniberg; December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of films and television shows. King wrote several books, produced films, and appeared in plays. In later years he helped many philanthropic causes. -Wikipedia

Jazz pianist, Marion McPartland  performs on the Lobby Court Steinway grand. Margaret Marian McPartland OBE, was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011. After her marriage to trumpeter Jimmy McPartland in February 1945, she resided in the United States when not travelling throughout the world to perform. Wikipedia

Michael Learned is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981). She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly. Three of the wins were for The Waltons (1973, 1974, 1976), while the other was for Nurse (1982). -Wikipedia

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Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th ave."
Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH /
Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
For more info, comments, fanmail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gmail.com

     This show is dedicated to the memory of LISA BANES, R.I.P.

B'WAY HR #111 originally recorded May 11, 1995 for WPAT-AM
Your Host: LARRY SUTTON, of the NY Daily News

JEFF HARNAR backed by ALEX RYBECK, piano performs live.
Multiple Award-Winning New York Cabaret, Concert, and Recording Artist. "The most important male cabaret performer to emerge since Michael Feinstein.". THE NEW YORK TIMES. -jeffjarnar.com

MIMI TURQUE She is an actress, known for Law & Order (1990), The Nurses (1965) and Je suis Alice (2015)  She played and sang the role of Antonia, Don Quixote's niece, in the original 1965 Broadway stage production of "Man of La Mancha".  -iMDb

CHARLES STROUSE  Strouse has written scores for over 30 stage musicals, including 14 for Broadway. He has also composed scores for five Hollywood films, two orchestral works and an opera. He has been inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Theatre Hall of Fame. He is a three–time Tony Award winner, a two–time Emmy Award winner, and his cast recordings have earned him two Grammy Awards. His song "Those Were the Days" launched over 200 episodes of All in the Family and continues to reach new generations of television audiences in syndication. With hundreds of productions licensed annually, his musicals Annie and Bye Bye Birdie are among the most popular of all time–produced by regional, amateur and school groups all over the world. -charlesstrouse.com

LISA BANES was an American actress known for more than 80 film and television roles, as well as stage appearances on Broadway and elsewhere. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1984 for Isn't it Romantic? and won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison Porter Off-Broadway in Look Back in Anger.  At the time of this recording, she was appearing in the original Broadway cast as Lady Croom in ARCADIA. -Wikipedia.   Ms. Banes died following injuries she sustained in a hit and run accident after being hit by a scooter that ran a red light in Manhattan's Upper West Side on June 4, 2021 -CNN.  Ms. Banes is survived by her wife, Kathryn Kranhold.

JOHN GRIFFIN credits include: Bare [Los Angeles]World Premiere, 2000 Jason/ Arcadia Broadway ] Original Broadway Production, 1995 Augustus Coverly-Gus Coverly/ Applause [West End] London Production, 1972/ Funny Girl [West End]London Production, 1966

IRVING FIELDS performs on the Lobby Court Steinway Grand to close the show
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  Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City
  in the Lobby Court Lounge.....on scenic 7th Avenue 
 Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD
  For comments or fan mail: nycbroadway.podcasthours@gm