This week Mel Larch uses Curtain Call to let four shows that closed in the wake of the Tony Awards apocalypse take a final bow.

Wednesday afternoon’s Curtain Call on The AIR follows an encore of a classic edition of Beatles Blast (which airs at 2PM).

Every year one of the sadder aftermaths of the annual Tony Awards is the onslaught of show closing announcements as the non-winners rush to cut their losses when they realize they won’t be getting that big “Tony bump.”  This week Mel brings you a mixtape of shows that recently closed, or announced their final dates, in the Summer of 2024. To be fair, one of them threw in the towel before before the nominations were even announced.

Some of these shows are going out on tour, others have reached the end of their Broadway runs, and some just got lost in the glut of new musicals that opened earlier this year.

Mel lets  them take one final bow this week on Curtain Call. During the hour you will hear selections from the Neil Diamond musical,  A Beautiful Noise; the revival of  The Wiz; The Huey Lewis musical, The Heart of Rock and Roll and the biographical show,Lempicka.

Here’s the playlist…

From Lempicka: “Our Time,” “Paris,” and “Speed”
From A Beautiful Noise: “A Beautiful Noise,” “I’m A Believer,” “Sweet Caroline,” and “Brooklyn Roads/America”
From The Wiz: “The Tornado,” “Ease On Down The Road,” “Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News,” “Everybody Rejoice/Brand New Day,” and “Believe In Yourself”
From The Heart of Rock and Roll: “Hip To Be Square,” “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” “I Want A New Drug,” “The Power of Love”

Wednesday at 3 PM, Curtain Call will let you hear what you missed.  You can tune in at the website, or you could just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM, Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 2 PM. A marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday morning beginning at 9 AM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Tonight at 10 PM we have assembled a new hour-long episode of The Comedy Vault filled with the brilliant stand-up comedy of Bob Newhart who left us last week. You can hear this replayed Saturday at 6 PM and next Monday at 8 PM.