Throughout the week of June 30th Joan Rivers will guest host a show on Sirius Radio entitled “Can We Talk… About Broadway.” The show will be an hour at noon ET, with an encore broadcast at 6 pm ET. It will run from Monday through Friday, July 4th. The entire show will also be rerun on Sunday, July 6th at 9 am and 9 pm.

The show will feature Rivers’ outrageous sense of humor and love for Broadway. She will introduce show tunes, play songs, and offer special commentary on her favorite Broadway shows. She will also feature rarely heard excerpts from the “Ed Sullivan Show” from the 60’s.

This marks a great opportunity for Broadway fans to hear entertaining discussion about their favorite topic. It’s also a great chance for those who haven’t been exposed to Broadway and all of its glory to become familiar with the world of theater. Anything that promotes this often-overlooked art form is a good thing for the theater. Hopefully it will inspire more people to purchase Broadway tickets.

Sirius Radio delivers more than 130 channels. All broadcasting is commercial free, in satellite radio. There are 69 music channels. There are 65 channels with sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic, weather and data. It’s the future of radio. It’s nice to see Broadway getting it’s due with such a great media form.

I recently read a fantastic review of Joan River’s new play which opened last Wednesday in L.A. at the Geffen Playhouse. You gotta’ give credit to Ms. Rivers for creating a persona that has permeated the entertainment industry and remained strong. She knows who she is and the public knows who she is.

For her show, she’s able to rely on years of stand-up experience. Veteran comedians understand their craft so well that they’re capable of working their audiences in a way that young comedians couldn’t dream of. Comedy is an art form and it’s a craft, and it takes real experience to know how to do it well. According to reviewer, James Sims, Rivers is one of those comedians. She really “gets it.” He says:

“She understands that her humor is not what some might consider “high brow,” rather she is a comedienne of the people, even if she doesn’t quite resemble any person living today, thanks to far too many trips under the knife. With the nearly rolling in the aisles response from the opening night crowd, it is obvious Rivers has once again connected with her base, a demographic that oddly enough no television network executive seems to believe exists.”

If the theater is your thing, you’ll probably want to check this out. If you’re looking for Broadway tickets online, click on the link.