About the Show
Starring Steve Ross & Karen Murphy. Produced and Hosted by David Alpern. Explore the vivid universe of verse in the Great American Songbook: tunes both familiar and obscure, but all with now rarely-performed introductory lyrics, poetic, pithy, and artfully crafted to tie into so many Golden Age stage and screen musicals; or provide free-standing context – emotional, comical, always lyrical – as originally written by Ira Gershwin, Larry Hart, Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Sammy Cahn, Herman Hupfeld and more. Steve Ross, dubbed "Crown Prince of Cabaret" by the New York Times, has earned that title over decades at venerable venues throughout Manhattan, across the country and around the world. Karen Murphy's Broadway credits include:
A Little Night Music, 9-to-5, 42nd Street, and
Titanic.