BROADWAY NATION

BROADWAY NATION

Broadway Podcast Network

4.9from 121 ratings

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58Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
288
Episodes
110
Transcribed
121
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2020
First episode

About BROADWAY NATION

A lively and opinionated cultural history of the Broadway Musical that tells the extraordinary story of how Immigrants, Jews, Queers, African-Americans and other outcasts invented the Broadway Musical, and how they changed America in the process.In Season One, host David Armstrong traces the evolution of American Musical Theater from its birth at the dawn of the 20th Century, through its mid-century “Golden Age”, and right up to its current 21st Century renaissance; and also explore how musicals have reflected and shaped our world -- especially in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and equality.

Publisher
Broadway Podcast Network
Category
arts · history
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
29 Apr 2020
Latest episode
17 Sept 2026
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110 of 288 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Finale: Sunday in the Park, Into the Woods, Crazy for You and GEMIGNANI

  2. 7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    SWEENEY, MERRILY, EVITA, DREAMGIRLS and GEMIGNANI

  3. 19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

    SONDHEIM, PRINCE, and GEMIGNANI

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Finale: Sunday in the Park, Into the Woods, Crazy for You and GEMIGNANI

Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's not going to be the exact same, but musical notation works in such a way that you can get pretty close. Dance, technically, you can write it down, but I don't know a single dancer who's going to tell you that like, oh yeah, I work off the lead sheet. It's something that's taught dancer to dancer. It's like almost an oral history that gets passed down, even though it's not oral, it's physical. […]

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  • Margaret Hall
  • Ben Francis
  • Rick Pender
  • Elizabeth T Craft
  • Maya Cantu

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4.9 / 5
121 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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