The last time fans heard John Sterling, “The Voice of the Yankees,” intone his fan-favorite “Yankees win! The-e-e-e-e-e-e Yankees win!” was on Oct. 7. Then the Yanks were knocked out of the playoffs and Sterling’s radio season was over.

Not that the Yanks have been off anyone’s radar – with A-Rod gone and back, Joe Torre here then gone, and Joe Girardi tapped as new skipper – but it might just be about now that Yankees fans start to think about spring and long to hear Sterling’s voice again as a sign of warm baseball nights to come.

On Saturday in Irvington, they can get their Sterling fix, when the broadcaster comes to Irvington Town Hall Theater to combine two lifelong loves: Broadway and baseball. He’ll appear alongside Broadway friends Brad Little (“Phantom of the Opera”) and Barbara McCulloh (“The King and I”) in a one-night-only performance. Sterling chatted by phone last week.

Word has it you’re a big Broadway fan.

“I would like to say – this is probably untrue, like everything else you hear, but it’s close – I probably have either seen or have the Broadway album or CD of almost every Broadway show. If you go down the list of all the great Broadway musicals, there’s no greater Broadway fan. It’s not that I’ve studied. It’s something I’ve loved since I was a little boy. I’ve loved music and sports.”

What are your all-time favorites?

“I like a whole bunch of things. It’s like saying ‘What’s your favorite Sinatra song?’ It’s not possible.”

How about a top five?

“My top five, even though I love many more than five, would be: ‘South Pacific,’ ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘Camelot,’ ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘West Side Story,’ and ‘A Chorus Line.’ See? That’s six.”

Any recent musicals among your favorites?

“I have not seen anything that’s captured me like those shows. My idea of a Broadway show is Jerry Herman.”

Like “Mack & Mabel”?

“I’m singing a song from ‘Mack & Mabel’ at this event: ‘I Won’t Send Roses.’ That’s a song that Robert Preston talked, so maybe I can do that.” (Laughs.)

Will you talk it through?

“Well, have you heard Preston do it?”

Yes.

“I’m not going to do it any better than Preston – and I won’t act it out as well. But I’m going to attempt it, let’s put it that way.

“It isn’t that I don’t like the new shows. Oh, and ‘Kiss Me, Kate,’ which I love. It’s just that every one of those songs is great. Every single one. ‘Li’l Abner’ and ‘Most Happy Fella’ and on and on and on. I’m really sorry that all those guys and gals died and they’re not writing those shows.”

How’d you get involved with the show coming up in Irvington?

“Brad Little and Barbara McCulloh are friends, and they both have New York credits. Brad played both Raoul and the Phantom in ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ in New York and around the world. And Barbara has starred in ‘King and I’ and ‘Peter Pan.’ She was the perfect Anna.”

How did you get to know them?

“Brad was singing Raoul, and his big song is ‘All I Ask of You.’ I would kid on the air, I would sing a bar or two of a Broadway song. I’d say something like ‘The manager wants so-and-so to hit the ball to the right side to move the runner to third.’ So Stump Merrill told Roberto Kelly: ‘That’s all I ask of you.’ So Brad, listening as a Yankee fan, said ‘You gotta learn the lyrics.’ He sent me the lyrics and I called him and we became buddies.

“A few years ago, Marvin Hamlisch said to me in the dugout way before a game, ‘John, You’re not singing the Broadway reference songs anymore. I want to hear more of it.’ We’ve become friends. Our personalities match.”

Will you sing any of his songs? It seems like “The Way We Were” might be appropriate for the Yankees next year.

“I’ll sing a little bit of this and that. They’ll hear Broadway songs sung beautifully by Brad and Barbara.”

Will you also do a little hot-stove chat?

“Yes. I’ll talk about where the music came from and who wrote it and where the Yankees were in those years and probably tell a Yankees story or two. And there’ll be a Q&A, where people can ask some questions.”

Will Hank Steinbrenner allow you to do something from “Damn Yankees”?

“They’re going to do ‘Six Months Out of Every Year.’ ”

Since you love musicals and baseball, let’s see if you can play Broadway casting director. If Joe Girardi were to play a character on Broadway, who would it be?

“He could be the manager in ‘Damn Yankees.’ Or Luther Billis in ‘South Pacific.’ ”

How about A-Rod? Hamlet?

“He might play Joey in ‘Most Happy Fella.’ ”

And Joe Torre?

“Maybe he could play Nathan Detroit. And Jeter could play Sky Masterson.”

What about John Sterling?

“I’d play the Alfred Drake role, the one Brian Stokes Mitchell did in the revival of ‘Kiss Me, Kate.’ (The character of Fred/Petruchio.)

Could you sing it?

“If you could only sing that music and Cole Porter’s lyrics, which were so great. And the fact that he played an obviously stuffy, egotistical guy. That’s a great role.”