"Radio Playbill," a news and entertainment magazine show of theatrical interviews, features and music, is broadcast multiple times each week on Sirius Satellite Radio's Our Time, Stream 131.

Robert Viagas hosts the show, aided by engineers Todd Stack and Ray Romano, and announcer Simona Berman.

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Past "Radio Playbill" Shows

Nov. 15, 2004 - Show 139
An American songwriting team has been brushing up one of Shakespeare’s most romantic comedies, The Merry Wives of Windsor, moving Falstaff and company to the late great state of Texas in an adaptation they call Lone Star Love. "Radio Playbill" goes inside their rehearsal hall to talk to the stars and creators, and I’ll play you some of the score, right here. My CD of the Week is the American broadcast premiere of songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical, The Woman in White, with Michael Crawford.

Nov. 8, 2004 - Show 138
My special guests this week are the stars and creators of the big Broadway revival of ‘Night Mother: "The Sopranos" star Edie Falco, plus co-star Brenda Blethyn, director Michael Mayer and Pulitzer-winning playwright Marsha Norman. I’m going to ask them how they approach what’s still one of the touchiest subjects out there, even in an age when very few taboos are left. My CD of the Week is a great solo album of theatre music by Broadway actress Jessica Molaskey. It’s titled "Make Believe."

Nov. 1, 2004 - Show 137
My special guest is Cathy Rigby, who has launched her fourth and final North American tour of the musical Peter Pan, which is scheduled to arrive on Broadway in fall 2005. She’ll tell us what it’s like to fly out over the audience each night, special advice she got from lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green – and the former Olympic gymnast will weigh in on this year’s Olympic controversies. CD of the week will be her cast album of the show.

Oct. 26, 2004 - Show 136
My guests this week are the authors and stars of the longest-running comedy in Los Angeles, history, Jewtopia, which now has set its yarmulke for Off-Broadway. My CD of the week is a revival cast recording of Ahrens and Faherty’s first hit musical, Lucky Stiff, with Malcolm Gets.

Oct. 18, 2004 - Show 135
My special guest today is one of the foremost theatre historians of our time, Ethan Mordden, who completes his seven-volume hundred-year history of Broadway musicals this month with the strangely titled, "The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen." He’ll sound off fearlessly, as he always does, about what he loves and hates about new musicals, revivals, the Tony Awards and the press, and will play songs from his favorite modern musical – it’s a surprise, too.

Oct. 11, 2004 - Show 134
My special guest this week is Michael Kantor, who has spent much of the last decade on an epic project, the six-part TV miniseries, "Broadway: The American Musical," debuting October 19-21 on PBS. He’s unearthed some amazing footage and recordings, which he’s preview right here for you on "Radio Playbill."

Oct. 3, 2004 - Show 133
John Barrowman is London’s favorite American matinee idol. The buff, boyish star has glittered in West End productions of Sunset Boulevard, Beauty and The Beast and Phantom of the Opera, and he’s here with me today to play some songs from his new solo album, "John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter." My CD of the Week is the cast album of an Off-Broadway musical thriller, appropriately titled, Thrill Me.

Sept. 27, 2004 - Show 132
I’m devoting this week’s show to one of Broadway’s loveliest leading ladies, Melissa Errico, of Dracula: The Musical. As with many of her shows, like High Society and Amour, the show got panned, but her reviews were glowing. She’ll tell us what it was like backstage at Frank Wildhorn’s gothic musical, and play songs from her personal demo of the show. She’ll also introduce my CD of the Week, the cast album of this year’s Off-Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow, in which she earned raves as Sharon.

Sept. 20, 2004 - Show 131
When Barri McPherson ran into street musician Marc Schoenfeld on a corner in Brooklyn, they couldn’t have known that their chance meeting would lead to the creation of a Broadway musical, appropriately titled Brooklyn, previewing this month. They’re here with me today to tell you their fascinating story – and to play you music from their first Broadway score.
LISTEN TO PART 1: Barri McPherson talks about the song "Once Upon a Time" and her history with Marc Schoenfeld. Marc Schoenfeld talks about how Brooklyn evolved out of an eight minute song.
LISTEN TO PART 2: Barri McPherson and Marc Schoenfeld talk about the song "The Heart Behind These Hands," and Jeff Calhoun's influence on Brooklyn. Marc Schoenfeld talks about talks about the appeal of the Broadway musical.

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