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This month, the reader question was: 'Which Songs Have Appeared in Multiple Broadway Shows?'

The Town Hall presents Broadway By The Year©: Broadway Musicals of 1928 and 1935 on Monday, February 25 at 8pm. Created, written, hosted and directed by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall, the evening marks the beginning of Broadway By The Year©'s 19th season at The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street).  

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Delivers Inspirational Original Musical Revue

BROADWAY BY THE YEAR, the musical revue series created, written, directed, and hosted by Scott Siegel and which pays tribute to a different era of Broadway composers each program, is a stroke of brilliance. Occurring once a month, each evening is dedicated specifically to one decade of American musical theater, and features some of the most talented stars currently working in American musical theater. The series' most recent installment (and the first of 2017) on February 27 at its usual home, The Town Hall, paid tribute to the 1920s. The decade, which inducted into the theatrical cannon the likes of George and Ira Gershwin and Richard Rodgers, brims with melodically-rich scores including songs of yearning and joviality. The tunes selected for the evening certainly felt of their era; however, put into the hands of such skilled performers as Carolee Carmello, Beth Malone, and Robert Cuccioli (to name a few), they could be heard with fresh and non-cynical ears.

It's that time of year, and I can't help but wonder if your CD collection and iPod are Tonys ready. It's just a handful of hours until the 70th annual Tony Awards, and New York City and theatre fans across the world are excitedly buzzing about this year's ceremonies which will be broadcast live on Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 8/7c on CBS. This Broadway season has some exciting contenders in the musical categories, and to get you ready for the big night, I'm recapping the albums you should be listening to (or at least pre-ordering).

"I'm a black woman in America; breathing is political," stated Natalie Douglas, wryly, early in her March 21 concert at Birdland to celebrate the release of her excellent new recording Human Heart. I felt myself inwardly fist pump-yes! Douglas dared to acknowledge the contemporary political circus-which I, for one, am completely obsessed with-on the cabaret stage! Okay, I can relax-I will make it through this show without listening to a political podcast or reading a David Brooks New York Times opinion column after all. Phew! I have not entered a purely escapist fantasyland, but surrendered to the capable musical ensemble on stage. Douglas wore a long white gown (chosen out of the pile when her husband made an approvingly bawdy comment as she tried it on for him) and her band-all six of whom appear on the record-wore all black. The appearance was a study in contrast, but the group, was most assuredly a cohesive instrument.

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Isabel Keating sang 'I Can't Give You Anything but Love' from the Broadway show Blackbirds of 1928 at Broadway Sessions on June 14th, 2012, accompanied by Joshua Stephen Kartes on the piano. Watch the video of her performance below!

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY, recently praised by the Wall Street Journal for its ongoing reissue campaign, continues to make good on its promise to open its vaults with more classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era.

The acclaimed Broadway by the Year series continued with 'The Broadway Musicals of 1928,' presented on Monday, February 26 at 8pm at The Town Hall.

Broadway's Leah Hocking and MAC Award-winner Lumiri Tubo join Nancy Anderson, Joyce Chittick, Jeffry Denman, Malcolm Gets, Eddie Korbich, Paul Schoeffler, Max von Essen, Lari White and Bob Martin in the acclaimed Broadway by the Year Series 'The Broadway Musicals of 1928' on Monday, February 26 at 8pm at The Town Hall.

Broadway's Max von Essen and Paul Schoeffler will join Nancy Anderson, Joyce Chittick, Jeffry Denman, Malcolm Gets, Eddie Korbich, Lari White and Bob Martin in the acclaimed Broadway by the Year Series 'The Broadway Musicals of 1928' on Monday, February 26 at 8pm at The Town Hall.

Tony winner Bob Martin, currently featured as 'Man in Chair' in The Drowsy Chaperone, will star in 'The Broadway Musicals of 1928,' which kicks off the seventh season of The Town Hall's acclaimed Broadway by the Year series.