The Hirschfeld Century Podcast

By The Al Hirschfeld Foundation

The Hirschfeld Century Podcast looks at the 82-year career of artist Al Hirschfeld through his storied history and greatest works. Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director, David Leopold, and Archiv... more

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January 23, 2018 Episode 13 – Politics
Americana
Alexander King
Harold Ross as Joseph Stalin
New Masses
Martha Graham Cover
Isolationist
Ken Magazine
History of the American Communist Party
PM Magazine
Retreat from Washington
9 Old Men of the Supreme Court
Peace in Our Time
American Mercury
Claude Pepper
John Lewis
The Nation FDR Cover
Eisenhower Inauguration
De Gaulle American Mercury Cover
Churchill American Mercury Cover
Churchill Self Portrait American Mercury Cover
Vivien Kellems
Joseph McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Warren Burger
Mao Tse Tong
Democratic Convention
Republican Convention
Ted Kennedy
Jerry Brown
Bob Dole
Marc Connolly
George Bush
Billy Bradley
Of Thee I Sing
I’d Rather be Right
Federal Theatre Project
Cradle Will Rock
Pins and Needles
Louisiana Purchase
The Crucible
Hair
Assassins
Angels in America
1776
Mayor the Musical
South Pacific
Rent
United Artists Films
The Defiant Ones
The Manchurian Candidate
Elmer Gantry
Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater
Lenny Bruce and The Fuzz
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1h 1min
November 06, 2017 Episode 12 – Justin “Squigs” Robertson
This week we host our first guest on the podcast, Justin “Squigs” Robertson! Squigs’ drawings of Broadway are can be found at squigsonline.com, Broadway.com as party of the “Broadway Ink” feature, and the Lights of Broadway Trading Cards.
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Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Cape Playhouse
Bucks County Playhouse
Stephen Sondheim (1977)
Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun
Mary Martin in The Sound of Music

Hal Prince
Guys and Dolls
Richard Kiley in Man of la Mancha
Fiddler on the Roof
Tommy Tune (Hirschfeld’s final NY Times drawing)
Fantasy Island TV Guide
All in the Family TV Guide
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1h 1min
October 23, 2017 Episode 11 – Rock N Roll
From Elvis to Britney, get ready to rock!
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Elvis Presley (1956)
The Beatles and the Singing Nun
The Monkees
The David Frost Show
Kid Galahad
Follow That Dream
Bye Bye Birdie
Elvis Presley (’68 Comeback Special)
Ringo Starr
Jane Fonda / Warren Beatty
Hair
Creative Management Association
Aerosmith
Sentiment Stages a Comeback
The World of Culture in 1977
Season Preview 1984-1985
Dick Clark
Playboy Music Poll
ASCAP
Madonna
The Pointer Sisters
The Beatles
Elvis Presley (Blue Suede Shoes)
Bruce Springsteen
Jerry Garcia
The Grateful Dead
Bob Dylan
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Neil Young
Billy Joel
Clive Davis
Phil Ramone
Yoko Ono
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
Cher
Sonny & Cher
Time Magazine Artists of the Century (Armstrong)
Time Magazine Artists of the Century (Dylan)
Céline Dion
Alicia Keys
Britney Spears
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50min
October 10, 2017 Episode 10 – Elia Kazan
Join us as we explore the works of the controversial/legendary entertainment figure, Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
Lee Strasberg
Harold Clurman
Stella Adler
Stanislavsky
Eugene O’Neill
George Kaufman
Sidney Kingsley
Men in White
Gold Eagle Guy
Waiting for Lefty
Till the Day That I Die
Clifford Odets
The Case of Clyde Griffith
Golden Boy
The Young Goes First
Casey Jones
The Grateful Dead
Thunder Rock
Night Music
Liliom
Carousel
Five Alarm Waltz
Cafe Crown
Sam Jaffe
Skin of Our Teeth
The Lively Years
Watch on the Rhine
One Touch of Venus
Jacobwosky and the Colonel
Sundown Beach
All My Sons
A Streetcar Named Desire
Around the World in 80 Cliches (Westward, Ha!)
Brigadoon
Tennessee Williams Program
Death of A Salesman
Senator Joseph McCarthy
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Manhattan Oases
Jerome Robbins
On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando
James Dean
Raymond Massey
Julie Harris
Jo Van Fleet
Lois Smith
Burl Ives
United Artists
Defiant Ones
Arthur Miller
Camino Real
The Rose Tattoo
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Breaking into the Movies
Marco Millions
The Arrangement
The Miracle Worker
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53min
September 05, 2017 Episode 9 – TV Guide
This week, we tour the history of television through Hirschfeld’s work on the cover and inside of TV Guide.
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TV Guide Drawings
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52min
August 21, 2017 Episode 8 – Hello, Dolly!
This week, we talk all things Hello, Dolly! and of course, Carol Channing
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Carol Channing
Hello, Dolly
Alec Guinness is Dylan
Eve Arden
What’s Cookin’ On Broadway
Mothers on Broadway
Troubled Fathers
Villains on Broadway
Husbands and Wives on Broadway
Supporting Players Whose Numbers Stopped Their Musical Shows
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Merchant of Yonkers
Our Town
The Matchmaker
David Merrick
Ethel Merman
Milk and Honey
Louis Armstrong
Celine Dion
Hair
Mary Martin

Merrick and 3 Dolly’s
Hello, Lyndon!
Johnson’s Inauguration
Unlikely Casting
Famous Feuds
Dolly Collage
Bette Midler as Hello Dolly
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45min
July 31, 2017 Episode 7 – Summer Theatre
Join Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold and Archives Manager Katherine Marshall-Eastman as they talk summer theatre through the drawings of legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
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Summer Theatre drawings
Among Those Featured This Week in New Plays on Summer Stages
Map of Ye Summer Theaters
Red Barn Theatre
Suffern Playhouse
Bucks County Playhouse
George Kaufman
Labertville Music Circus
Eagles Mere Players
Dolly Haas
Two Weeks Pay
Every Barn’s A Stage
Some of the People Appearing in Various Summer Theatres Within the next 2 1/2 Months
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Affairs of State
Sally Rand at the Woodstock Playhouse
Joe Papp
Hamlet
James Ray in Henry V
The Taming of the Shrew
Patrick Stewart in the Tempest
Oresteia
Summer Stock 1980
The Barter Theatre
Ship of Fools
London Sketchbook
Stage Struck Artist Abroad
Al Pacino in Richard III
Original Drawings of Summer Theatre
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33min
July 11, 2017 Episode 6 – Jazz Part 2
Join Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold and Archives Manager Katherine Marshall-Eastman as they talk “all that jazz” through the drawings of legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
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Blackbirds of 1928
Rhapsody in Black
At Home Abroad
Ethel Waters
Processional
Porgy and Bess
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Sweet Bye and Bye
Swingin’ the Dream
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Louis Armstrong
Maxine Sullivan
Benny Goodman
Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet
Swing It
Beat the Band
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Fats Waller
Sophisticated Ladies
Duke Ellington
Further Mo’
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly’s Last Jam
Carmen Jones
Uptown It’s Hot
Bob Fosse
Dancin’
Hope and Crosby Road Movies
Hallelujah
Cabin in the Sky
Five Pennies
Paris Blues
Kings Go Forth
Swing Fever
Odds Against Tomorrow
I Want to Live
Eric Goldberg
Solid Sender
Quincy Jones
George Gershwin
Time Magazine 20th Century Artists (with Armstrong)
Time Magazine 20th Century Artists (with Dylan)
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31min
July 05, 2017 Episode 5 – Jazz Part 1
Jazz! Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington, 1985

Join Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold and Archives Manager Katherine Marshall-Eastman as they talk “all that jazz” through the drawings of legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
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Lena Horne
Fred Astaire
Benny Goodman
Erroll Garner
Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
Nat King Cole
Rosemary Clooney
Tony Bennett
Louis Armstrong
Anita Ellis
Josh White
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Ethel Waters
Rang Tang
Frank Sinatra
Harry James
Louis Prima
Duke Ellington
Lionel Hampton
Artie Shaw
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
Glenn Miller
Ella Fitzgerald
Paula Laurence
Great Singers (American Popular Song)
BMG Covers
Harold Ross
The New Yorker drawings
Alex King
Sonny Rollins
Harry James
Gene Krup
Teddy Wilson
Marlene McPartland
Oscar Levant
Toots Thielemans
Bobby Short
Donald Byrd
Earl Hines
Count Basie
David Murray
Wynton Marsalis
Paul Whiteman
Paul Desmond
Coleman Hawkins
Johnny Hodges
Gerry Mulligan
Tommy Dorsey
Lucille Ball Logo
Whoopi Goldberg
Quincy Jones
Harlem as seen by Hirschfeld
Jack Cole
Bob Fosse
Katherine Dunham
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Debbie Allen
Hinton Battle
Vernel Bagneris
Gwen Verdon
Rhythm Series
Nine Old Men of the Supreme Court
Harold Arlen
Yip Harburg
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
Irving Berlin
Show Business is No Business
Annie Get Your Gun
Mary Lou Williams
Jerome Kern
Scott Joplin
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly’s Last Jam
Howard Dietz
Fats Waller
Ain’t Misbehavin’
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34min
June 21, 2017 Episode 4 – What’s My Line?
What’s My Line
Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and John Daly, gouache on board, 1957
Join Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold and Archives Manager Katherine Marshall-Eastman as they talk all things What’s My Line? through the drawings of legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
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Drawings:
What’s My Line
Arlene Francis
Dorothy Kilgallen
Bennett Cerf
Steve Allen
Fred Allen
Tony Randall
Jack Lemmon
TV Guides
Broadway First Nighters
CBS Sunday
“The Experts” from Show Business is No Business
The Commercial Tree
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29min

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