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Additional authors

1. Kantor, Michael, 1961-
2. Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007
3. Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997
4. Kimball, Robert
5. Lahr, John, 1941-
6. Sondheim, Stephen
7. Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
8. Barrett, Mary Ellin
9. Duncan, Todd
10. Brown, Anne, 1912-2009
11. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
12. Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
13. Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Unfinished output from the third episode in the six-part PBS documentary Broadway, the American musical. In the Depression, a musical theater dichotomy emerged: shows like Cole Porter's Anything Goes, starring singer Ethel Merman, offered glamour as an escape, while others -- like Of thee I sing and The cradle will rock -- dealt with the era's political concerns. George Gershwin created his epic folk opera, Porgy and Bess. The advent of World War II prompted Irving Berlin to write one of his biggest hits, This is the Army.

Alternative title

1. Broadway : the American musical : a film by Michael Kantor
2. Broadway, the American musical

Subject

1. Musicals
2. Musicals > New York (State) > New York
3. Theater > New York (State) > New York
4. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
5. Documentaries and factual works
6. Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
7. Trailers and promo's
8. Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989 > This is the Army
9. Porter, Cole, 1891-1964 > Anything goes
10. Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 > Porgy and Bess

Genre/Form

1. Documentaries and factual works.
2. Musicals.
3. Trailers and promo's.

Call number

1. NCOX 1957

Note

1. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
2. Time code on frame.
3. Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon and JoAnn Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.

Biography (note)

1. Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of the six episodes covers a different era in American history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Title

1. Broadway, the American musical : a work-in-progress unmixed Avid output June 2002 [videorecording] / Thirteen/WNET New York.

Imprint

1. New York : Thirteen/WNET, c2002.

Performer

1. Interview excerpts with: Kitty Carlisle Hart, Brendan Gill, Robert Kimball, John Lahr, Stephen Sondheim, Margo Jefferson, Mary Ellin Barrett, and Todd Duncan and Anne Wiggins Brown, original cast members of Porgy and Bess.

Biography

1. Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of the six episodes covers a different era in American history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archive news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Local note

1. Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Kantor, Michael, 1961- producer.
2. Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, interviewee.
3. Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997, interviewee.
4. Kimball, Robert, interviewee.
5. Lahr, John, 1941- interviewee.
6. Sondheim, Stephen, interviewee.
7. Jefferson, Margo, 1947- interviewee.
8. Barrett, Mary Ellin, interviewee.
9. Duncan, Todd, interviewee.
10. Brown, Anne, 1912-2009, interviewee.
11. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
12. Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
13. Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 1957