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>Ball over Broadway
Summary : Michael Ball is back in New York for a new series in which he samples the latest musicals. 1/6. Michael begins the series with a visit to The Drowsy Chaperone.
Details : Michael Ball is back in New York for a new series in which he samples the latest musicals. 1/6. Michael begins the series with a visit to The Drowsy Chaperone.

Starts 2007-04-03 20:30:00, Ends 2007-04-03 21:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 2

>Ball over Broadway
Summary : Michael Ball is back in New York for a series sampling the latest musicals. 2/6. Michael looks at Tarzan, the latest Disney animated feature to be turned into a stage musical.
Details : Michael Ball is back in New York for a series sampling the latest musicals. 2/6. Michael looks at Tarzan, the latest Disney animated feature to be turned into a stage musical.Michael Ball is back in New York for a series of in which he samples the latest musicals on the Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 2/6. Michael hails a passing vine and swings his way into Tarzan, the latest Disney animated feature to be turned into a stage musical in the tradition of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.

Starts 2007-04-10 20:30:00, Ends 2007-04-10 21:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 2

>Ball over Broadway
Summary : Michael Ball is back in New York for a series sampling the latest musicals. 3/6. Michael celebrates the life and work of The Four Seasons in Jersey Boys.
Details : Michael Ball is back in New York for a series sampling the latest musicals. 3/6. Michael celebrates the life and work of The Four Seasons in Jersey Boys.Michael Ball is back in New York for a series of in which he samples the latest musicals on the Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 3/6. Michael celebrates the life and work of The Four Seasons in Jersey Boys, one of the best of the so-called 'jukebox musicals', starring John Lloyd Young as lead singer Frankie Valli.

Starts 2007-04-19 22:00:00, Ends 2007-04-19 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 2

>Ball over Broadway
Summary : Michael Ball is in New York for a series sampling the latest musicals. 4/6. Michael explores the strange world of former New York socialites Edith Bouvier Beale and daughter Edie.
Details : Michael Ball is in New York for a series sampling the latest musicals. 4/6. Michael explores the strange world of former New York socialites Edith Bouvier Beale and daughter Edie.Michael Ball is back in New York for a series in which he samples the latest musicals on the Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 4/6. Michael explores the strange world of former New York socialites, Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, who were discovered in the 1970s to be living in squalor and poverty, despite being related to Jackie Onassis. Grey Gardens charts their moving decline from the well-heeled 1940s to a lonely decaying existence.

Starts 2007-04-26 22:00:00, Ends 2007-04-26 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 2

>Ball over Broadway
Summary : Michael Ball samples the latest musicals on New York's Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 5/6. The Color Purple.
Details : Michael Ball samples the latest musicals on New York's Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 5/6. The Color Purple.Michael Ball is back in New York for a series of in which he samples the latest musicals on the Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 5/6. Michael takes in The Color Purple, an ambitious attempt to turn Alice Walker's influential novel into a Broadway musical, via the 1985 Steven Spielberg film. Does it succeed?

Starts 2007-05-03 22:00:00, Ends 2007-05-03 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 2

>Ball over Broadway
Summary : Michael Ball samples the latest musicals on New York's Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 6/6. Spring Awakening.
Details : Michael Ball samples the latest musicals on New York's Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 6/6. Spring Awakening.Michael Ball is back in New York for a series of in which he samples the latest musicals on the Great White Way, talking to those who create them, those who star in them and those who review them. 6/6. Spring Awakening Michael rounds off the series with a visit to Spring Awakening, a bold attempt to take a still controversial German play of the 1890s and turn it into a musical that will speak to today's generation of disaffected and angst-ridden adolescents.

Starts 2007-05-10 22:00:00, Ends 2007-05-10 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 2

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