A cavalcade of the American musical.
With the words and music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Kurt Weill, Gian Carlo Menotti, Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolf Green, Irving Berlin, Burton Lane, Cole Porter and Frank Loesser.
including 'Lady in the Dark', 'One Touch of Venus', 'The Consul', 'Pal Joey', On the Town', 'This is the Army', 'Annie Get Your Gun', 'Finian's Rainbow', 'Kiss Me. Kate', 'Oklahoma', and 'Guys and Dolls'.
Written and produced by John Powell.
(BBC recording)
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