ON BROADWAY

<p>On this episode of On Broadway, I speak with <b>Amnon Kabatchnik, </b>the author of the book, <i>Bloody Broadway – Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery – Volume 1 900-1930.</i></p> <p>The book’s entries are presented chronologically and include a plot synopsis, production data, opinions by critics, and biographical sketches of playwrights and key actors-directors.</p>

<p>This week I speak with <a href="https://u9cey9hbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Ya86yQ1BBBBTU5lcA5H0nNbq4gAMSoDxrt4aQUkxZQXCMBrCnxMnZJQXTECXYyVji4kY1V2G1U2F7WWnsHqimDlPhjd1QIol18j2DAid7KyGW63gWDRzk2OROTHtRbFf2btCQhqeEVL4HgfmQgvjFUOyxTsezwEnbhg8ZUNvcfyO9UQBWiI4_MElhYR23NkF6iXV56n1ehWpzUvoD8_Pkkdg2MYSwSMAs_8cUxMLOHg=&amp;c=b61LMBFQcwYSV1demF2gN5ThACbLDbkogQuPxvHUw0ql1EOM8YAPQg==&amp;ch=3G1LQTghZaDDaWqKQzN-zoTnqdQwle8j1V-KnlWXbbSbKv3aMjGRZw==" target="_blank"><b>Frank Verlizzo</b></a>, on his first book of the Retro Broadway Mystery Series – <b><i>Scenery of the Crime</i></b>. </p> <p>Before becoming an author, Frank Verlizzo was a legendary graphic designer, the man behind such iconic poster art as the original Broadway productions of Disney's <i>The Lion King</i>; Stephen Sondheim's<i> Sweeney Todd</i> and <i>Sunday in the Park with George</i>, and Ira Levin's <i>Deathtrap</i>.</p>

<p>I speak with actress and cabaret performer <b>Klea Blackhurst</b>, who will be starring in the new Off-Broadway musical, <a href="https://u9cey9hbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ysKQXwW14s4yF1QdiYEjG9227Pb-ianb13HCnNRhn9FNZe5wBsyatHRIaK8H7EnyPBsiaolO0lrXksaUIspssnp682PJwMtUWioAWUKhLI7PyEJZYSHzpGDleCk6HE0Nq6wur1xq6fD96-oYyc643rhrJZcqroY75b_UYIafLND8C7Mdd5P1bA==&amp;c=IA-api1Uw8B5TgLCvOTKkFutq0WszNEWREmcW8ixXF4WGZivhtR6pA==&amp;ch=ocBbOCkK4PDmofZCUUaNT_ID1u6GXsxGwCVzFq15ZOcAoPQB0r_TZQ==" target="_blank"><i>Just Desserts: A Musical Bake-Off</i></a>. The show opens at the AMT Theater (354 West 45th Street) beginning January 30 and running through February 22. Her podcast episode will available by Friday, January 23.</p>

<p>On this episode of On Broadway, I speak with Henry H. Sapoznik, a Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR's Yiddish Radio Project, about his book - <b>The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City</b>. The book offers a new look at over a century of New York's history of Yiddish popular culture, telling the story in over a baker's dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism. For the podcast, we focus on the chapter about the Yiddish theater.</p>

<p>I speak with David Armstrong, an American stage director, writer, producer, podcaster, and educator, about his book, <i>The Broadway Musical: How Immigrants, Jews, Queers and African-Americans Invented America's Signature Art Form. </i>"A groundbreaking exploration that reveals the powerful impact of marginalized groups on the evolution of the Broadway Musical."</p>