Broadway shows now chock-full of pop tunes
NEVER HAS Broadway rocked and funked, popped and punked with as much star power and energy as it's sharing right now.In a quarter-mile theater zone abutting Times Square in Manhattan you can be blasted with the feisty anthems of Green Day, spin the night fantastic with the Emperor of Romance Frank Sinatra, get down and dirty with Nigeria's King of Afrobeat Fela Kuti, and relive one platinum-weight night when rockabilly royalty Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis met to jam, joke and jostle.
Popular music has long enjoyed a tight relationship with Broadway. Once upon a time stage musicals were the place where hit songs were introduced and established, to then be spread far and wide via sheet music, radio and TV performances and disks - from "My Funny Valentine" to the age of "Aquarius."
In the latter decades of the 20th century, the high art ambitions of Broadway composers like Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber and simultaneous









I like to fight the winter nasties with Jameson Whiskey & Johnny Cash :)
We suggest: Johnny Cash - Hurt song ...every day on Radio Country Live!
- Well, once begins his new career singing Johnny Cash songs on YouTube, we can go back to worshipping him. :)
“For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.” - Johnny Cash
I was in Johnny Cash's tour bus today...fun stuff.