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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
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| Broadway: The Golden Age | |
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 "One Filmmaker's Search For A Broadway That Was Lost ... and the 100 Legends That He Found" |
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| Directed by | Rick McKay |
| Produced by | Rick McKay, Albert M. Tapper, Jamie deRoy & Anne L. Bernstein |
| Written by | Rick McKay |
| Starring | 100 Stars, including Shirley Maclaine,Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Orbach, Alec Baldwin, Elizabeth Ashley, Carol Burnett, Bea Arthur, John Raitt, Carol Channing, Eva Marie Saint and Rick McKay |
| Music by | Various |
| Cinematography | Rick McKay |
| Editing by | Rick McKay |
| Distributed by | PBS |
| Release date(s) | June 11, 2004 |
| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Followed by | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age and Broadway: The Next Generation |
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Rick McKay's Broadway film trilogy is the first time in history that the story of Broadway, the most venerable indigenous art form in American history, is told not by writers, historians and critics - but by the legends who actually were and are there. It is the most thorough and ambitious oral history ever created, incorporating incredibly rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos. The first film has already captured a huge audience, young and old, that treasures this living history and eagerly awaits the two upcoming sequels.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Winner of over 15 film festivals, filmmaker Rick McKay’s first installment of his theatrical trilogy played in extended runs in theatres in over 135 cities in the summer of 2004, and was on 18 critics Top Ten Films of 2004 by years end. The film’s champions include Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight, Rex Reed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, Jeffrey Lyons of NBC and critics all over the country. The theatrical feature documentary covers Broadway theatre in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s and stars Elizabeth Ashley, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, Ben Gazzara, Robert Goulet, Uta Hagen, Julie Harris, Martin Landau, Angela Lansbury, Shirley MacLaine, Patricia Neal, Jerry Orbach, Jane Powell, Hal Prince, John Raitt, Chita Rivera, Gena Rowlands, Eva Marie Saint, Stephen Sondheim, Maureen Stapleton, Elaine Stritch, Tommy Tune, Gwen Verdon, Eli Wallach, Fay Wray, Gretchen Wyler and many more legends. The largest list of legends ever in one film is edited together with rare archival footage of live performances, many seen for the first time ever. The film is a hit on DVD and is released by RCA/BMG with over 90 minutes of bonus features.
The film includes live interviews (and a few appearances through archive footage) with Edie Adams, Beatrice Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard, Bryan Batt, Betsy Blair, Jim Borstelmann, Tom Bosley, Marlon Brando, Carol Burnett, Kitty Carlisle, Carol Channing, Betty Comden, Barbara Cook, Carole Cook, Hume Cronyn, Arlene Dahl, Charles Durning, Daisy Eagan, Fred Ebb, Nanette Fabray, Cy Feuer, Phil Ford, Bonnie Franklin, Betty Garrett, Ben Gazzara, Robert Goulet, Farley Granger, Tammy Grimes, Uta Hagen, Sheldon Harnick, Julie Harris, Rosemary Harris, June Havoc, Ruthie Henshall, Jerry Herman, Mimi Hines, Al Hirschfeld, Celeste Holm, Sally Ann Howes, Kim Hunter, Jeremy Irons, Anne Jackson, Derek Jacobi, Richard Jay Alexander, Simon Jones, Lainie Kazan, Miles Kreuger, Michael John LaChiusa, Martin Landau, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Laurents, Carol Lawrence, Michele Lee, Hal Linden, Cameron Mackintosh, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Malden, Rick McKay, Donna McKechnie, Ann Miller, Liliane Montevecchi, Patricia Morison, Robert Morse, James Naughton, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Newman, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Jerry Orbach, Janis Paige, Don Pippin, Amanda Plummer, Jane Powell, Harold Prince, John Raitt, Lee Roy Reams, Rex Reed, Elliott Reid, Charles Nelson Reilly, Diana Rigg, Chita Rivera, Tony Roberts, Mary Rodgers, Gena Rowlands, Eva Marie Saint, Marian Seldes, Vincent Sherman, Douglas Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Kim Stanley, Maureen Stapleton, Marti Stevens, Elaine Stritch, Laurette Taylor, Mary Testa, Tommy Tune, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Betsy von Furstenberg, Eli Wallach, Thommie Walsh, Wendy Wasserstein, Fay Wray, Gretchen Wyler, and Karen Ziemba.
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