Thursday, April 28, 2022
7:30 PM

The Broadway musical is America’s proud gift to musical culture—it rings of the high energy and optimism that is America. From its early beginnings in vaudeville right up to the present, the Broadway musical—affectionately called Broadway, has held its audiences the world over in love with its sparkling magic, its glitter, and its glorious music. Join Jacquelyne Silver in a fresh look at the magnificent sounds and stories of Broadway, with showstoppers such as Hamilton, The Music Man, Wicked, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Come From Away, West Side Story, and many more. Fill your hearts with the brilliance that is Broadway; it is irresistible!

Thursday, April 21, 2022
7:30 PM

The Broadway musical is America’s proud gift to musical culture—it rings of the high energy and optimism that is America. From its early beginnings in vaudeville right up to the present, the Broadway musical—affectionately called Broadway, has held its audiences the world over in love with its sparkling magic, its glitter, and its glorious music. Join Jacquelyne Silver in a fresh look at the magnificent sounds and stories of Broadway, with showstoppers such as Hamilton, The Music Man, Wicked, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Come From Away, West Side Story, and many more. Fill your hearts with the brilliance that is Broadway; it is irresistible!

Thursday, April 14, 2022
7:30 PM

The Broadway musical is America’s proud gift to musical culture—it rings of the high energy and optimism that is America. From its early beginnings in vaudeville right up to the present, the Broadway musical—affectionately called Broadway, has held its audiences the world over in love with its sparkling magic, its glitter, and its glorious music. Join Jacquelyne Silver in a fresh look at the magnificent sounds and stories of Broadway, with showstoppers such as Hamilton, The Music Man, Wicked, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Come From Away, West Side Story, and many more. Fill your hearts with the brilliance that is Broadway; it is irresistible!

Thursday, April 7, 2022
7:30 PM

The Broadway musical is America’s proud gift to musical culture—it rings of the high energy and optimism that is America. From its early beginnings in vaudeville right up to the present, the Broadway musical—affectionately called Broadway, has held its audiences the world over in love with its sparkling magic, its glitter, and its glorious music. Join Jacquelyne Silver in a fresh look at the magnificent sounds and stories of Broadway, with showstoppers such as Hamilton, The Music Man, Wicked, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Come From Away, West Side Story, and many more. Fill your hearts with the brilliance that is Broadway; it is irresistible!

Thursdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2022
7:30 PM

The Broadway musical is America’s proud gift to musical culture—it rings of the high energy and optimism that is America. From its early beginnings in vaudeville right up to the present, the Broadway musical—affectionately called Broadway, has held its audiences the world over in love with its sparkling magic, its glitter, and its glorious music. Join Jacquelyne Silver in a fresh look at the magnificent sounds and stories of Broadway, with showstoppers such as Hamilton, The Music Man, Wicked, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Come From Away, West Side Story, and many more. Fill your hearts with the brilliance that is Broadway; it is irresistible!

Thursday, May 6, 2021
6:30 PM

Andrew Lloyd Webber came to Broadway—and never left. Cats created a sensation and Phantom of the Opera an even greater one. The Lion King was a phenomenon under the ingenious direction of Julie Taymor, and Mel Brooks’ The Producers was sold out as the must-see musical! Wicked made an immediate sensation with all ages, and Hamilton came in with a bang so loud we can still hear it!

Thursday, April 29, 2021

6:30 PM

Gypsy! The team of Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim created the colorful life of Gypsy Rose Lee, with Ethel Merman as Mama Rose. Rogers and Hammerstein’s giant anthem to freedom, The Sound of Music, was a huge success, and when Fiddler on the Roof came to Broadway, nothing was ever the same. Translated into 45 languages, Fiddler is one of the major success stories. Sondheim’s glorious A Little Night Music filled us with a sensual beauty, and John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret gave us a message never to forget.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

6:30 PM

Broadway’s lights were burning brightly—Irving Berlin with Annie Get Your Gun and Call Me Madam (both with Ethel Merman), a new team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe with their immediate hit, My Fair Lady, Rodgers and Hammerstein with South Pacific, Leonard Bernstein with West Side Story, and Meredith Willson with The Music Man.

Thursday, April 15, 2021

ONLINE

The depression heavily hovered over us—however that was the time that song and dance was needed even more. In came Cole Porter’s inimitable mastery with Gay Divorcee, the Gershwins with their groundbreaking Porgy and Bess, and the sensational team of Rodgers and Hart with Pal Joey; then came Rodgers and Hammerstein’s irresistible shows Oklahoma! and Carousel! This is a hard act to follow!

ONLINE

Curtain up! Light the lights! The sparkling magic of the Broadway Musical has held the world in thrall from its early beginnings in vaudeville right up to the present. It is America’s proud gift to musical culture—it speaks of the high energy, the indomitable spirit and the optimism that is America. Jacquelyne Silver will take you on an imaginative and colorful journey through the beginnings of the Broadway Musical to today—and a fascinating trip it will be, with film clips and recorded music of some of the greatest shows in our history—curtain up!

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ONLINE JACQUELYNE SILVER MUSIC LECTURE

The first staged musical was in 1866 with The Black Crook, which was a dance spectacle with music and a bevy of scantily clad dancing girls in “short skirts, with exceedingly indelicate attitudes.” Meanwhile, in 1904, the young George M. Cohan showed his brilliance onstage in his show Little Johnny Jones. Kurt Weill produced his bewitching Three Penny Opera, there was Sigmund Romberg’s opulent Student Prince, and Franz Lehar’s stunning Merry Widow; then Jerome Kern topped it all off with his remarkable Show Boat that changed the direction of the Broadway Musical.

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