NYU Skirball Presents Skirball Talks: Broadway To Main Street Panel

NYU Skirball will present Skirball Talks: Broadway To Main Street, a free theater panel hosted by Laurence Maslon, with Ted Chapin, Thomas Z. Shepard and Kurt Deutsch, on Monday, November 19 at 6:30 pm. The Talk is presented in conjunction with the publication of Maslon's newest book, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America (Oxford University Press). Held weekly every Monday at 6:30pm during the academic terms, Skirball Talks hosts visionaries from the worlds of politics, the arts, sciences, academia, and more. RSVP is necessary.

The panel for the discussion - featuring Laurence Maslon (Panel Host, author, NYU Arts Professor), Ted Chapin (Rodgers & Hammerstein), Thomas Z. Shepard (cast album producer, Company, Sweeney Todd) and Kurt Deutsch (cast album producer, The Last Five Years, The Book of Mormon) - represents more than a half-century of experience recording the greatest Broadway scores.

Maslon's book, Broadway to Main Street, tells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District to living rooms across the country. The crossroads where the music of Broadway meets popular culture is an expansive and pervasive juncture throughout most of the twentieth century-from sheet music to radio broadcasts to popular and original cast recordings-and continues to influence culture today through television, streaming, and the Internet.

Laurence Maslon is an Emmy Award nominee who hosts and produces the radio series, "Broadway to Main Street," which has been broadcast every Sunday for the last seven years on the NPR affiliate station WPPB-FM. He edited the two-volume set American Musicals (1927-1969), wrote the American Masters documentary Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds in 2001, and co-wrote the PBS series Make 'Em Laugh (Emmy Award nomination) and two episodes of the Emmy Award-winning Broadway: The American Musical.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

NYU Skirball, located in the heart of Greenwich Village, is one of New York City's major presenters of international work, and has been the premier venue for cultural and performing arts events in lower Manhattan since 2003. The 800-seat theater, led by Director Jay Wegman, provides a home for internationally renowned artists, innovators and thinkers. NYU Skirball hosts over 300 events annually, from re-inventions of the classics to cutting-edge premieres, in genres ranging from dance, theater and performance arts to comedy, music and film.

NYU Skirball's unique partnership with New York University enables it to draw on the University's intellectual riches and resources to enhance its programming with dialogues, public forums and conversations with artists, philosophers, scientists, Nobel Laureates and journalists. www.nyuskirball.org.

All Skirball Talks are free and begin at 6:30 pm. Reservations are required, and can be made online at www.nyuskirball.org, by phone at 212.998.4941, or in person at the Box Office, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square: Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00-6:00 P.M. NYU Skirball is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square, New York, New York 10012. nyuskirball.org