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| Show stopping conversations with American composers, lyricists, book writers, performers, directors, orchestrators, and more in Anything goes | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 08:33 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
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| CELEBRATE THE COLORFUL HISTORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE WITH THE NEW PODCAST ANYTHING GOES NEW YORK, NY; March 22, 2021: Award-winning producer and director, Paul Lazarus, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, is pleased to announce the reissuing of his popular Anything Goes radio series as a new podcast. ANYTHING GOES will be available weekly Monday, March 22nd, 2021 on Stephen Sondheim's 91st birthday with his episode, exclusively from the Broadway Podcast Network and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Find it now at BPN.FM/AnythingGoes. ANYTHING GOES, produced and hosted by Paul Lazarus, is a celebration of the American musical theater - past, present, and future. Show-stopping conversations with composers, lyricists, book writers, performers, directors, orchestrators, and more. The podcast is material sourced from Lazarus' radio show by the same name which was broadcast in New York on WBAI-FM and nationally on NPR from 1978 - 1986. Hundreds of episodes focused on storytelling with music, featuring everyone from the then fiftiesh-year-old Stephen Sondheim to the young Alan Menken who, at the time, was working on Little Shop of Horrors. The first ten episodes of ANYTHING GOES will include Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine discussing the creation of their Pulitzer-prize winning show, Sunday in the Park with George, tributes to the First Lady of Musical Comedy, Ethel Merman, Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Wicked), and Gretchen Cryer (I'm Getting My Act Together…), a visit with legendary book writer Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof), two-part programs devoted to Comden & Green and Kander & Ebb and a visit with the then little known composer/lyricist Craig Carnelia (Working, Is There Life After High School?). Throughout the season, host Paul Lazarus explores the dazzling history of the musical stage. The series will feature many rare and popular recordings of songwriters singing their own songs, such as: Jule Styne (Gypsy , Funny Girl) playing and singing the first song he ever wrote, "The Guy with the Polka Dotted Tie), Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Wicked) performing the very first song he ever wrote for a Broadway show, "Butterflies are Free," Yip Harburg singing a cut song from The Wizard of Oz and Jones and Schmidt singing songs they wrote for The Fantasticks . NPR's Jeff Lunden (Associate Producer for the original series) has this to say about it, "Paul interviewed a who's who of people in the musical theater in the 1980s - many of whom are no longer with us. Being able to hear Comden and Green talk is priceless. And Paul's interview with Stephen Sondheim on his 50th birthday - 41 years ago! - is still golden. I think musical theater fans will have their minds blown by the breadth of the material and some of the songs Paul actually recorded live in his apartment, with some of these writers at the piano!" @AnthingGoesPL on Facebook, Instagram and twitter. The Podcast is available on Apple/iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart, TuneIn, Deezer, Player.FM, Pocket Cast, Podcast Addict and everywhere else you listen to podcasts. Paul Lazarus is an award-winning director, producer and writer of film, theater and television projects. In the 80s, he produced and hosted a radio series called "Anything Goes - A Celebration of the Musical Theatre, Past, Present and Future." Recently, he completed a feature documentary called "SlingShot" about Segway inventor Dean Kamen and his work to solve the world's safe water crisis. Lazarus directed and produced the independent feature, "Seven Girlfriends," starring Tim Daly and Melora Hardin. He has directed many notable TV series including "Friends," "Pretty Little Liars," "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Melrose Place," "The Middle," "Ugly Betty," "LA Law," "Psych," and "Beverly Hills 90210." For the theatre, he has directed over 90 productions, mostly new musicals and plays. In the early 90s, he served as the Artistic Director of the historic Pasadena Playhouse in California. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Lazarus apprenticed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. BROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK is the premiere digital destination for everyone, anywhere, who loves theatre and the performing arts. Provocative stories of all kinds are the cornerstone of the Broadway Podcast Network. Presenting original, engaging, and immersive programming of theatre and theatre-adjacent podcasts, audio dramas, serials, parodies, live video events, and more. With tremendously talented hosts, who are performers, producers, writers, industry leaders, and storytellers representing a wide variety of voices and perspectives. Broadway Podcast Network offers entertaining, inspiring, easily accessible, and shareable content for everyone, may they be interested in behind-the-curtain access to the creative process, advice on everything from how to break into the business to how to audition, theatre history, candid interviews with their favorite stars, or just enjoying theater from the best seats in the house. www.BroadwayPodcastNetwork.com fb: @BroadwayPodcastNetwork/ inst: @broadwaypodcastnetwork/ tw: @BwayPodNetwork yt: @broadwaypodcastnetwork |
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