Take Center Stage with me, as I explore all things stage and Screen, and everything in between. If it has been, or will be some kind of musical, I’ll play it, and talk about it, From Broadway, to movie musicals, television and maybe some surprises along the way.

I also feature a segment of the show called Spotlight, because how can you be center stage without one? Every week I’ll feature a different subject, either an artist, actor, lyricist, composer, movie, song, or entire musical. Whoever, or whatever seems interesting at the time will be featured, and No topic is off limits. Listener suggestions for this feature are encouraged, because I want to talk about what you’d like to hear about. Song requests are also welcome.

So, join me, every Tuesday from four to seven PM Eastern.

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Center Stage July 25, 2024

the olympics starts tomorrow, and to that end we've compiled all the olympic songs, clips and anything else we can think of and put them in a show. We talk about Paris 2024, it's themes, and some music already available. this year's olympics isn't without it's contraversy, and we talk about that as well.

Center Stage July 18, 2024

A show all about music from tv but not tv themes. There's lots of music from shows that I've never even heard, and I've excluded songs that are not originals. We also pay tribute to Shannon Doherty, who rose to fame on Beverly Hills 90210, Charmed, and several movies, and who died last Saturday of stage 4 breast cancer. That tribute was planned, , but in the middle of the show news broke that we'd lost another celebrity, so we end the show with yet another Tribute. This one to Bob Newhart, who died today, at the age of 94.

Center Stage July 13, 2024

lots of music, no playlist. We had fun though!

Center stage July 4th, 2024

Happy canada Day! I know I'm late but better late then never.

Center Stage May 17th, 2024

A throw together show where we talk about the just released Wicked movie musical trailler, American Idol, and horses. Oh and porn! Can't forget about porn!

Center Stage May 9th, 2024

I had such fun with this show, where we talked about mothers of all kinds, and boobs, we can't forget about the boobs! We also listened to the cast album how to dance in ohio!

Center Stage May 2nd 2024

It's tony Nominations time, and that coincides with the musicals I want to talk about but haven't been able to. So I catch up on them via how many got nominated and how many didn't. I couldn't play all the music from everything, but I play as much as I can. Also we listen and talk about the cast album the Notebook the musical.

Center Stage March 9th, 2024

It's a show all about books turned musicals an it's all over the place. Man of La mancha, and Jane Eyre, but also Matilda, Charlie and the chocolate factory and Peter Pan. We also talk about 2 new books which have recently been adapted in to musicals.

Center Stage March 2nd, 2024

It's the 3 year anniversary of Center stage, and that's worth celebrating. I'll take you through my favourite songs, segments and moments from my last 3 years, and play some things from my first few shows which were never archived.

Center Stage February 22nd, 2024

The patter song is characterised by a moderately fast to very fast tempo with a rapid succession of rhythmic patterns in which each syllable of text corresponds to one note. It is a staple of comic opera, especially Gilbert and Sullivan, but it has also been used in musical theatre and elsewhere. the songs in today's show are all patter songs, from musical theatre, from Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin, Cole porter, and Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as many others.

Center Stage February 15th, 2024

Completely opposite of the show I did last year in this exact timeslot, on the same date.

Center Stage January 18, 2024

highlighting musical theatre in 2023 and a look ahead to broadway 2024

A Center Stage, sort of, Christmas

A Center Stage, Sort of, christmas goes anywhere and everywhere, litterally, to find Christmas songs, Carols and other content to fit the giant space I've carved out for myself this year on HKC radio. I break format but I don't break the show at all, and this show was a ton of fun!

Center Stage November 30, 2023

affectionately known as the Ooooo shiney show, there's a lot of comedy things from all sorts of places owing to the fact that I had no playlist to start with.

Center Stage November 24th 2023

My black Friday 2023 show where we talk about Hunger Games, a balid of Songbirds and snakes. We also have a first look at the new musical How to dance in Ohio which premiered on Broadway on November 15th

Center stage November 2nd 2023

a show all about possible mis-casts,and backward songs and people. Some broadway and some not, and some people who don't usually sing show tunes, but who do here.

Center Stage October 26th, 2023

An all over the place show where we talk about all sorts of things, from Smash becoming a musical, to the new cast of Merrily We Roll Along, which premiered on October 10th at the Hudson theater. There's also a musical surprise, but don't lose your head over it, okay? A couple people already did, and they died! I know it's hnear Halloween, but I'm not a fan of zombies.

CenterStage October 19th 2023

Center stage comes back from a 6 week hiatus at it's new time, Thursday's at 2 pm Eastern with a show twice it's normal length celebrating 100 years of Disney. Music, rides, fun conversation and then more music. Stick around until the end for a few fun surprises as wel!

Center Stage August 29th 2023

A fun show where we go from one end of the musical theatre spectrum to the other with songs which are related by their names and not much else! We also talk about wrestling and pay tribute to WWE superstar Bray Wyatt, who was taken from this world far too young, and WWE legend Terry Funk, who also passed away last week.

Center Stage July 4th, 2023

It's a musical trip back in time, and then back to the future, as the musical of the same name makes it's Broadway Debut and peple are loving it! We'll listen to the album throughout the show and some other 80's movies turned musicals, and also some great 80's musical movies as well.

Center Stage, June 29th, 2023

We pay tribute to lyricist Sheldon Harnick who died on the 23rd of June at the age of 99. His credits include, Smiling the boy fell dead, The body beautiful, fiorello, she loves me, the apple tree, and fiddler on the roof. then we delve into junior musical theatre with Junior musicals from theatre festivals from across the USA ending with some lucky new york kids who got to sing on a broadway stage as part of an education initiative, the 18th anual broadway junior student celebbration, which was held last week at the Ambasador theatre. then we move on to the high school musical theatre awards, also known as the Jimmy awards and listen to some great medleys and some awesome performances before seeing who wins and closing the show.

Center Stage June 17th, 2023

The Tony awards are over for another year, and this year's ceremony was full of live, unscripted fun and celebration. Who won what award? It wasn't as cut and dried as we thought, so tune in as Hannah Renee and I tell you all about it and play the best clips and performances

Center stage June 8th, 2023

It's all about the tony's both past and present this week, as we relive some great performances. I picked lots of them that didn't win because concentrating on the winners sometimes means you miss truely great performances just because they didn't take home one of those glorious ornaments, as Josh and sara call them. We also talk about this year's crop of nominated shows, in a bit of a different way then just talking, because just talking would be borring. so stay tuned until the end or you'll miss true greatness and a lot of fun!

Center Stage, May 30, 2023

A fly by the seat of my pants show where I have no plan, no playlist, and 3 hours to fill.

Center Stage, May 25th, 2023

A show with a theme which combines my love of broadway and my love of Disney in a way that really worked, and is not pukey princess or overly sappy!

Center Stage may 16, 2023

The long awaited season 2 of schmigadoon has finally arrived and we'll stream it and talk about all the musical nerdiness that we've come to expect from the show. And stick around until the end of the show as there's a little taste of the new album, Metamorphosis also long awaited, from the Dark side of the moon.

Center Stage April 25, 2023

It's all about the fabulous Schmigadoon today. A couple backpacking in the woods, stumble across a magical musical city and find they can't leave. It's a musical paridy that will make any broadway nerd happy.

Center Stage April 19th, 2023

covers of all kinds, from metal to movies and everything in between.

Center Stage March 21, 2023

Not the type of playlist I'd do but there's a reason for it, and it's nice to break format once in awhile. A great show with a special announcement.

Center Stage March 14th, 2023

It's all about the animals today on the show. From cats and rats and elephants, lions tigers and aligators. and we even explore some scientificly engineered animals in the dogman musical, which I didn't even know was a thing until researching for cool things for the show.

Center Stage, February 15, 2023

I guess I had to do one of these eventually, and valentines week is just as good a time as any. It's all about love songs on Center Stage. We'll also listen to the cast album of a new musical, Kimberley akimbo, about a girl with projeria, a disease which makes a person age much faster then normal.

Center Stage February 7th, 2023

my first show back in awhile where we talk about everything from musicals ending, and musicals headed to Broadway and to netflix. We play great music from some fantastic musicals from the last year, as well as some old favourites.

Center Stage Halloween 2022

I had so much fun putting together this show for you and I hope you have as much fun listening to it. It's all the halloween content I could put in to 275 minutes, from tv, movies, and musicals. Happy Halloween!

Center Stage Grey's part 2

Part 2 of Grey's Inatomy where we talk about the show in general and talk about the season that just started. Spoiler alert: If you haven't seen the new season and you don't want things to be spoiled for you, wait on this episode until you see the episode. If you don't care, listen at your own risk.

Center stage September 20th, 2022

a fly by the seat of my pants kind of show! I started with nothing in my playlist except promos. Listen and see how it turns out!

Center Stage August 30th, 2022

part one of two Center Stage Shows about tv themes. From soap operas to comedy to kid's shows and everything in between. We were all on team talk, but it wasn't routed for half of the show. We had some great conversations in the voicebreaks, which is why being up on team talk is a good thing during live shows. Sadly, you can only hear my voice during said conversations, but only for half of the show. The other half routed just fine. It was a show that I enjoyed immensely, and I hope you do as well.

Center Stage August 16th, 2022

Spoilers abound as we devote an entire show to the music and characters of Grey's Anatomy.

Center stage August 9th, 2022

It's a show full of musical comedy from first, songs from the musicals themselves, and then people roasting the musicals they love. We listen to some old favourite comedy bits, some of which are even new to me, and also pay tribute to Olivia Nuton John, who died yesterday, August 8th, at the age of 73.

Center Stage August 2, 2022

My first show back in a while, where I celebrate the HKC Era of Center Stage, and play some cool covers. We also continue part 3 of our series Broadway, The American Musical

Center stage June 28th, 2022

A seemingly random show that's not quite as random as it looks

Center Stage all about the 75th anniversary of the Tony's

It's all about the tony's today as we highlight great performances and speeches, and see who won in their respective categories. We'll also play the second part of the series Broadway, the American Musical, which we started last week.

center Stage June 8th, 2022

Celebrating Pride month, by playing lots of songs that embrace being you no matter who you are, or who you love. We also listen to the first part of a 6 part series called Broadway, The American musical which we'll continue in the coming weeks.

center Stage Memorial Day Edition

We celebrate mnemorial day, and also celebrate the summer, as only I can, With all the broadway and showtune goodness I can find.

Center Stage, May 24th, 2022

a shorter then normal show full of fun and music. We listen to the documentary about Mile's Frost, the star of MJ the musical, called Startin' somethin. We also talk American Idol because it just ended on Sunday, and also there's some news on the smash front, and new music from Range A capella.

Center Stage, May 18, 2022

It's Tony's time, and we watch the tony nominations announcement, and talk about all the shows that got nominated, and play interview clips as well as songs from each musical. We also talk about the all female cast of Jesus Christ SuperStar, and have fun playing lots of songs you probably shouldn't sing in public

Center Stage May 4th, 2022

We celebrate national star wars day on this extended edition of Center Stage, by visiting the happiest place on earth, that being disney land. From musicals, to movies, rides, and everything in between, it's a musical magical show full of characters we all know and love.

Center Stage, April 12th, 2022

a streaming party, owing to a couple of things. Number 1,my voice was going, and I didn't think I could talk to do a 3 hour show. So because I couldn't talk I chose to stream the Olivier awards, which are similar to the Tony's except that they are for London's West end instead of Broadway. After that was a stream of WestSide Storry 2022.

Center Stage April 9th, 2022

A show full of acoustic and a capella music, with a special guest cohost who, by the end of the show becomes an HKC Broadcaster.

Center Stage, March 29th, 2022

a very different and still very much fun show. I play all kinds of comedy, from Anida Renfrew, to Kevin Bloody Wilson, George carlin and Bill Cosby. Definitely nsfw

Center Stage, March 16th, 2022

A show where I play as many songs from tv movies and musicals as I can that might get stuck in your head and become earworms. You're welcome! That song wasn't on the list, but you're welcome anyway. lol

Center Stage March 8th 2022

I'm not flying solo today, I have a co-host who says just wing it, so we do. Playing everything from metal to a capella and everything in between. We do a song comparison as well as take some requests and indulge ourselves, playing the music we both love.

Center Stage March 1st, 2022

a show that celebrates the end of my first year as a broadcaster. We also celebrate some other birthdays, and play songs from things I haven't yet played due to my absence. I also play some of my favourite things from my first year of Center Stage.

Center Stage, the Christmas Experience Act two

I try my hand at telling the Christmas story in a musical, and we stream A christmas Carol the musical. Oh and there's lots of music besides that as well, including the annoying drummer boy, and the Great American Trailler park musical.

Center Stage Christmas Experience, act One

a fun 3 hours with a great co-hoast, full of lots of Christmas music.

Center Stage December 7th, 2021

A shorter show because I wasn't feeling well, where we talk about Annie Live, Westside movie, and play lots of Christmas music.

Center Stage December 2nd, 2021

We pay tribute to, and celebrate the life and legacy of the innovator of modern musical theatre, Mr. Stephen Sondheim, who died on Friday November 26th at the age of 91 at his home in Connecticut. There was lots of music from his many musicals, from A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, to assassins, and everything in between. We played clips of Sondheim teaching, and talking about music and musicals, and we also played clips of his awards, and of course tributes from his friends all around the musical theatre community and beyond.

Center Stage November 23rd, 2021

We explore the life and Legacy of Jonathan Larson, composer of the Musicals Tick, Tick, boom, and rent who tragically died of an aortic Aneurysm On January 25th 1996, one day before Rent went in to previews. We also stream the Netflix movie Tick, Tick boom, a biopic of sorts, which stars Andrew Garfield, and Vanessa Hutchins, and is Directed by Lin-manuel Miranda

Center Stage November 18,2021

a longer then usual show all about Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, who's just released a new album called A night in at the theatre, symphonic suites. I'll play the album and all kinds of other ALW things as well.

Center Stage November 9th, 2021

a slightly shorter show with as many tasteless, racey and Raunchy songs from movies and musicals as I can think of.

Center Stage November 6th, 2021

A different kind of Center Stage where we have lots of fun and make nick Cringe.

Center Stage, October 12, 2021

a show that's a match for last week's show openers. This week we play all kinds of show finales, from A chorus line, 42nd street, Avenue q, and Joseph, and everything in between.

Center Stage Oct. 5th, 2021

Because all the shows on Broadway are finally opening again, I decided to do a show full of all the show openings I could think of. It's a bit manic, but so much fun!

Center Stage Sept. 25, 2021

A show full of everything tony's, which was actually supposed to be two shows, but ended up only being one due to Paramount not airing the actual Tony's in Canada. We talk about how the Tony's came to be called the Tony's, and why the Tony's are weird this year, even beyond why they're called the 2020 Tony's. Of course there's lots of live performances as well, all live from the award's ceremony's.

Center Stage, September 16, 2021

A Thursday edition of Center Stage, where we play songs all associated with Royalty in movies and musicals.

CenterStage September 11th, 2021

9-11 tribute show highlighting the people of Gander Newfoundland, who took in people from all over the world when all American Airplanes were diverted too Canada. We watch the musical Come from away, and several interviews and documentaries about the real people, characters, and acters in the story.

Center Stage, September 7, 2021

After fixing my tech, the show gets going with a school themed show to start, and then we talk about the new Cinderella, coming to Amazon Prime, and end with come from away, which is a proshot musical coming out on apple plus on the 10th of September. We talked about the differences between proshot and a film adaptation and also Dear Evan Hansen as well.

Center Stage August 31st, 2021

Chris was sick, so I couldn't do a regular show because I had a 2 year old to chase after. This means there are no voicebreaks at all during this show. But it was awesome anyway, we streamed the Wicked concert that PBS ran on Sunday the 29th of August, and also a live version of Dear Evan hansen with the original Broadway cast from 2017.

Center Stage August 24th, 2021

Center Stage goes comedy with forbidden broadway, Straight No Chaser, and some other very funny stuff.

Center Stage August 4th, 2021

A longer then normal show where we celebrate the anniversary of the Opening of The Hamilton Musical at the Richard Rogers Theatre which happened on August 6th 2015. We listen to the parity Spamilton as well.

Center Stage July 28, 2021

A really unstructured show full of requests and some really fun covers.

Center Stage July 24th, 2021

Part of HKC's launch event, where I introduce you to me and my show. We play songs from broadway to metal. We also listen to the new West end cast Album Sinderella, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

A very Center Stage Christmas

My Christmas show for 2022, with lots of fun and great music, and featuring my Christmas musical, where I tell the story of the birth of Christ, in my own way, through song.