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Murney, Jackson Heard on this Week's Bway's Best 77

By: Aug. 23, 2005
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Sirius Satellite Radio has lined up nonstop Broadway programming for the week of August 22nd on its Broadway's Best 77 station, which is "coast-to-coast and commerical-free."

On Wednesday, August 24th, Lennon's Julia Murney will sit down for a chat on Jason Drew: Lost on Broadway at 1 PM ET; the interview will be rebroadcast on Saturday, August 27th at 10 PM.  Then on Friday, August 26th, Seth Rudetsky will get All Shook Up by leading man Cheyenne Jackson on the Studio A Cabaret at 9 PM and midnight ET (rebroadcast: Sunday, August 28th at 10pm PM).  Also, on the Sunday, August 28th edition of Rodgers Rules, the musical State Fair will be featured.

On weekdays, "Broadway's Best On-Air Hosts" broadcast "the greatest showtunes and film soundtracks from yesterday and today." From 7 AM to 1 PM, Christine Pedi ("The Woman of a Thousand Voices" best known from Forbidden Broadway) is featured before Jason Drew, the Broadway Baby, from 1 PM to 5 PM. Theatre historian and journalist Bourne has air time from 5 PM to 7 PM, and Seth Rudetsky, "the Ahmaazing One" is the host with the most from 7 PM to 1 AM.

On Saturdays from 10 AM to 4 PM, Dueling Divas Pedi and Rudetsky "team up for six hours of Broadway chatter, unvarnished opinion, celebrity guests and your phone calls (1-877-33-SIRIUS)". Saturday Sondheim is held on Saturdays from 4 PM to 6 PM ET, and is "a master class in the work of Broadways greatest living composer; Stephen Sondheim, and postgraduate study of the best of Broadway hosted by Bourne."

"Sirius delivers more than 120 channels of the best commercial-free music, compelling talk shows, news and information, and the most exciting sports programming to listeners across the country in digital quality sound. Sirius offers 65 channels of 100% commercial-free music, and features over 55 channels of sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic and weather for a monthly subscription fee of only $12.95. Sirius also broadcasts live play-by-play games of the NFL, NBA and NHL, and is the Official Satellite Radio partner of the NFL."

Additional information is available at www.sirius.com/broadwaysbest.




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