1 Season
6 Episode
Broadway: The American Musical - Season 1 Episode 2 Syncopated City (1919-1933)
The episode features interviews with actor Carol Channing, Gershwin sister Frances Gershwin Godowsky, Al Jolson & Co. creator Stephen Mo Hanan, critic Margo Jefferson, writer Miles Krueger, New Yorker theater critic John Lahr, radio host/music critic Jonathan Schwartz, theater historians Max Wilk and Robert Kimball, and director/producer George C.Wolfe. Highlights include rare performance footage of composer Eubie Blake and a specially animated sequence of Rodgers and Hart’s 1927 hit “Thou Swell” from A Connecticut Yankee.
- Year : 2004
- Country : Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : PBS
- Keyword : musical, miniseries, broadway
- Director :
- Cast : Julie Andrews, Al Hirschfeld, Kitty Carlisle, Carol Channing, Stephen Sondheim, Michael Kidd
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