Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Released: 2003
Casts:
Lainie Kazan, Angela Lansbury, Rick McKay, Donna McKechnie, Frank Langella, June Havoc, Hanna Landy, Sally Ann Howes, Bryan Batt, Betty Comden, Edie Adams, Ben Gazzara, Kim Hunter, Jerry Herman, Robert Goulet, Phyllis Newman, Harold Nicholas, Carol Channing, Elizabeth Ashley, Liliane Montevecchi, Jane Powell, Mary Rodgers, Daisy Eagan, Don Pippin, Douglas Sills, Nanette Fabray, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Stanley, Mimi Hines, Al Hirschfeld, Rex Reed, Marian Seldes, Phil Ford, Patricia Neal, Miles Kreuger, Jerry Orbach, Amanda Plummer, Chita Rivera, John Raitt, Lee Roy Reams, Tommy Tune, Gena Rowlands, Maureen Stapleton, Wendy Wasserstein, Tom Bosley, Kaye Ballard, Julie Harris, Jim Borstelmann, Kitty Carlisle, Barbara Cook, Jeremy Irons, Fred Ebb, Bea Arthur, Marlon Brando, Derek Jacobi, Charles Durning, Anne Jackson, Cy Feuer, Hal Linden, Betty Garrett, Arlene Dahl, Tammy Grimes, Sheldon Harnick, Ann Miller, Farley Granger, Michael John LaChiusa, Rosemary Harris, Uta Hagen, Celeste Holm, Simon Jones, Arthur Laurents, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Jay-Alexander, Carol Burnett, Carole Cook, James Naughton, Janis Paige, Tony Roberts, Vincent Sherman, Elliott Reid, Elaine Stritch, Marti Stevens, Gwen Verdon, Charles Nelson Reilly, Michele Lee, Fay Wray, Stephen Sondheim, Carol Lawrence, Leslie Uggams, Thommie Walsh, Mary Testa, Laurette Taylor, Eli Wallach, Diana Rigg, Fayard Nicholas, Hal Prince, Robert Morse, Cameron Mackintosh, Betsy Blair, Alec Baldwin, Hume Cronyn, Martin Landau, Bonnie Franklin, Ruthie Henshall, Karen Ziemba, Karl Malden, Patricia Morison, Betsy von Furstenberg, Gretchen Wyler