Sirius
Satellite Radio has lined up nonstop Broadway programming for the week
of August 15th on its Broadway's Best 77 station, which is
"coast-to-coast and commerical-free."On Wednesday, August 17th, Rent star and ex-"American Idol" contestant Frenchie Davis will sit down for an interview on Jason Drew: Lost on Broadway at 1 PM (it will be rebroadcast on Saturday, August 20th at 10 PM ET). Then on Friday, August 19th, Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime, Kiss Me, Kate, Man of La Mancha) will chat with Seth Rudetsky in "a
free-wheeling hour from the Studio A Cabaret
at 9pm and midnight." That show will be rebroadcast on Sunday, August 21st at 10 PM. Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof) and Lennon's Michael Potts and Julia Murney are also lined up as upcoming guests.On
weekdays, "Broadway's Best On-Air Hosts" broadcast "the greatest
showtunes and film soundtracks from yesterday and today." From 7 AM to
1 PM, Christine Pedi ("The Woman of a Thousand Voices" best known from Forbidden Broadway)
is featured before Jason Drew, the Broadway Baby, from 1 PM to 5 PM.
Theatre historian and journalist Bourne has air time from 5 PM to 7 PM,
and Seth Rudetsky, "the Ahmaazing One" is the host with the most from 7
PM to 1 AM.
On Saturdays from 10 AM to 4 PM, Dueling Divas Pedi and Rudetsky "team up for six hours of
Broadway chatter, unvarnished opinion, celebrity guests and your phone
calls (1-877-33-SIRIUS)". Saturday Sondheim is held on Saturdays from 4 PM to 6 PM ET,
and is "a master class in the work of Broadways greatest living composer;
Stephen Sondheim, and postgraduate study of the best of Broadway hosted
by Bourne.""Sirius delivers more than 120 channels of the best commercial-free
music, compelling talk shows, news and information, and the most
exciting sports programming to listeners across the country in digital
quality sound. Sirius offers 65 channels of 100% commercial-free
music, and features over 55 channels of sports, news, talk,
entertainment, traffic and weather for a monthly subscription fee of
only $12.95. Sirius also broadcasts live play-by-play games of the
NFL, NBA and NHL, and is the Official Satellite Radio partner of the
NFL."
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