Most PBS stations are running a nice little special this week. It's called Broadway's Lost Treasures and it features musical numbers from great Broadway shows as they were performed on the Tony Award broadcasts. You get Robert Preston doing "Trouble" and Zero Mostel singing "If I Were a Rich Man" and Jerry Orbach and the original cast of 42nd Street belting out "Lullaby of Broadway." Can't do much better than that. The broadcast I just watched was, like so much on PBS, a marathon pledge break interrupted by snatches of program.
But it was enjoyable and since they were offering copies on VHS or DVD (with five more numbers), perhaps I'll pick one up. If I have to, I might even rejoin my local PBS station which I supported for years with a subscription but finally abandoned. I think it was the hourly mailings urging me to resubscribe that finally made me feel my money was not being used to support quality programming; it was being used to send me ads.