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
Genre: Documentary
Country: Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
Studio: PBS
Director:
Cast: Julie Andrews, Al Hirschfeld, Kitty Carlisle, Carol Channing, Stephen Sondheim, Michael Kidd
Crew: Bill O'Donnell (Producer), Jeff Dupre (Producer), Sally Rosenthal (Producer), Michael Kantor (Producer), Jac Venza (Executive Producer), Michael Kantor (Director)
First Air Date: Oct 19, 2004
Last Air date: Oct 21, 2004
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 6 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.80/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 0.9394
Language: English
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