The Dress Circle with Ted Otten and Michael Kownacky
Sundays at 7 pm
With music drawn from their personal and vast music collection, our co-hosts feature the best of Broadway, stage music from around the world, film scores, and the performing arts.
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It’s time again for the ghosts to visit, and this year, we’re being visited by some Programs of Christmas Past on this week’s Dress Circle (12/22 7:00 p.m.) as we look at some listener favorites from past programs featuring songs from stage and screen musicals.
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Many of us miss the days of original musicals generally performed live on television, but on this week’s Dress Circle (12/15 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to give you the chance to relive five of them through selections for their scores.
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On last week’s Dress Circle, we played several instrumental pieces, and you kindly let us know that you liked to hear orchestral versions of musicals, so on this week’s program (12/8 7:00 p.m.), we’ll hear symphonic suites from five shows with which you are mostly likely familiar.
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Another year has just about come to an end, and we’ll begin this final month with our regular feature on this week’s Dress Circle (12/1 7:00 p.m.) as we listen to a few of the shows that had openings in New York in December. From Victor Herbert’s “Mlle. Modiste” in 1905 to our latest opening for which we have a cast recording, 2023’s “How to Dance in Ohio,” we’ll be sampling songs from shows spanning 118 years.
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Many of us are making our preparations for Thanksgiving, and since the day of family, friends, eating, parades, and football is coming fast upon us, this week’s Dress Circle (11/24 7:00 p.m.) will offer some “turkeys’ for the holiday. Those turkeys are musicals that didn’t run more than ten performances on Broadway, many through no fault of their own.
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We’re continuing with our series of programs to prepare you for Thanksgiving and the holidays beyond on this week’s Dress Circle (11/17 7:00 p.m.). So far, we’ve looked at “home for the holidays,” and this week, we’re going to be looking at the things we’re truly thankful for: friends.
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We decided that we really needed a bit of “happy holidays” right now, so we’re starting a series of programs centered around Thanksgiving on this week’s Dress Circle (11/10 7:00 p.m.) with a program about being “Home” for the holidays beginning with Thanksgiving.
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It’s November, and that’s a terrifying thought. Before we rush head-long into the holidays, we’re going to be celebrating the shows that opened and are opening this month on this week’s Dress Circle (11/3 7:00 p.m.).
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Trick or treating is almost here (we’re hoping for the latter), and on this week’s Dress Circle (10/27 7:00 p.m.) we’re taking a look at a dozen songs from stage and screen apropos of the season.
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We’re celebrating the career of Broadway leading lady Judy Kuhn on this week’s Dress Circle (10/20 7:00 p.m.) with songs from a variety of shows and recordings in which she was featured.