Max Von Essen And More Join Bagels And Broadway Saturday Morning!

Join Valerie Smaldone on her weekly radio broadcast and podcast, Bagels and Broadway, this Saturday, August 10th at 9:05am on your radio dial at WNYM-AM 970, or online at www.am970theanswer.com, when she presents another exceptional group of interviews.

This week: Broadway's charming Max von Essen, who is about to appear at Birdland on August 19th in his CD release concert for Call Me Old Fashioned: The Broadway Standard. Max's solo debut recording was co-produced and arranged by Billy Stritch. Tony nominee, Max, just completed the Lincoln Center Theater National Tour of Falsettos, and it's just been announced he'll star in Paper Mill's Chasing Rainbows: The Road to OZ with Ruby Rakos and Lesli Margherita. What a chat that will be!

Joshua Turchin, whose new musical "The Perfect Fit" premieres at the Rave Festival produced by Ken Davenport, joins Valerie to talk about his self-penned original show, and what it's like to work with a huge Broadway producer when you're only 12 years old!

Valerie welcomes Willow Lautenberg, whose one-woman show, "What it Means to be Free" will premiere at the United Solo Festival this Fall.

Journalist and author Abby Ellin, who was at the performance of To Kill A Mockingbird when what Valerie calls "the scare in Times Square" happened this past week, will provide her eye-witness account of that night. She'll also recount what she did as a journalist after she became as terrified as everyone else.

And it's never Bagels and Broadway without some food! Valerie's weekly foodie segment, FoodBytes, will bring you some tasty tidbits from the ever-evolving scene.
Valerie Smaldone is a multiple award-winning journalist who has excelled at voiceover work, entertainment specials, event hosting, writing and acting on and off-Broadway since leaving her long held #1 spot on WLTW/106.7 LiteFM after 24 years. For just over a year, she's been hosting Bagels and Broadway, featuring interviews with Broadway talent and behind the scenes movers and shakers, as well as food news from all five boroughs and the world.

The weekly show has featured: Actress Susan Lucci, Actress-singer, Hayley Swindal, director and choreographer, Jennifer Werner, Theatermania founder and entrepreneur, Darren Sussman, Broadway producer Ken Davenport,The Ferryman playwright and Tony Winner, Jez Butterworth, Tootsie writer and Tony Winner Robert Horn, Tony Winner Cady Huffman, founder of the Comedy Hall of Fame, Jeffrey Pancer, the dialect coach, Joel Goldes, Fiddler on the Roof producer, Jana Robbins, Fiddler actor Adam B. Shapiro, writer-director Will Nunziata, Erich Bergen (who's on Broadway right now reprising his role as Dr. Pomatter in Waitress through August 12th), composer Joe Iconis, Be More Chill and Broadway Bounty Hunter producer, Jennifer Tepper, WinnieHolzman, actors Nicholas Guest, Julie Halston, Renee Taylor, the amazing comedian-singer, Tori Scott, and many other show business luminaries. Valerie's recent interview with Oscar Hammerstein III, made waves on Page Six and Broadway Briefing.

Listeners can tune in Saturday to Bagels and Broadway at 9:05am to WNYM-AM 970, or online at www.am970theanswer.com.

The podcast is available at:https://omny.fm/shows/bagels-and-broadway-with-valerie-smaldone/playlists/podcast