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The AIR Brings You Beatles and Broadway Wednesday

This Wednesday afternoon The AIR, presents new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call.  You can listen at the website, or on this embedded radio player…

At 2 PM on Beatles Blast, yours truly hosts the sixth of a ten-part look at rare and unreleased music by The Beatles. For most of the summer, Beatles Blast will follow this format and bring you The Lost Beatles Project. This will be a treat for the die-hard fans as we mine the best of the recently-released archive projects by the band, and mix in rare releases and wild remixes from their band and solo years. We won’t be posting playlists for these shows because the whole point is that each of these programs will be a revelatory surprise.

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 9 PM, Friday at 11 AM, Sunday at 5 PM and Tuesdays at 9 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

At 3 PM Mel Larch presents a new hour of great musical theater on Curtain Call.  This week Mel brings you a terrific mix of songs from shows ranging from The Who’s Tommy to Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Book of Mormon, Hadestown, Beetlejuice The Musical and more. It’s a killer mix of old and new tunes from famous and obscure shows.

Just check out this playlist:

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“Amazing Journey” from The Who’s Tommy
“Find Your Grail” from Monty Python’s Spamalot
“Two By Two” from The Book of Mormon
“My Whisper” from Shiver: A Musical Ghost Story
“No Time At All” from Pippin
“Chant (Reprise)” from Hadestown
“Overture/Big Bright Beautiful World” from Shrek: The Musical
“Live From Hell” from Diva-Live From Hell
“You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth” from Bat Out of Hell
“Skid Row(Downtown)” from Little Shop of Horrors
“Upgrade” from Be More Chill
“Big Fun” from Heathers
“Day-O/The Banana Boat Song” from Beetlejuice

After the new hour of Curtain Call, stick around for two additional episodes from the Curtain Call archives. Curtain Call can be heard Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM and 8 PM, Friday at 10 AM and Saturday at 6 PM. An all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight, and an additional marathon can be heard Sunday evenings from 6 PM to midnight..