Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Edie AdamsSelf
- Bea ArthurSelf
- Elizabeth AshleySelf
- Alec BaldwinSelf
- Kaye BallardSelf
- Betsy BlairSelf
- Tom BosleySelf
- Carol BurnettSelf
- Kitty CarlisleSelf
- Carol ChanningSelf
Recommendations
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Rolling Stone
It's one for the time capsule. - 88
New York Daily News
The strength of McKay's film is not in identifying a cultural period, but in giving voice to so many great theater people. Their passion is infectious, their stories are priceless and their humor is boundless. - 80
Variety
Rick McKay's exceptional new documentary Broadway: The Golden Age presents a veritable avalanche of interviews with some of the biggest names in the history of the American theater, preserving for posterity their wise words and disarming anecdotes. - 75
New York Post
A delightful "That's Entertainment" for the theater. - 70
The New York Times
Anyone who attended Broadway shows in the days when ticket prices were reasonable and the actors and singers performed without amplification will feel a rush of nostalgia as these troupers offer what amounts to a breezy compilation of after-dinner remarks. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The film will eventually be a must-own video item for theater buffs. - 60
Village Voice
More buff than historian, McKay chats with anyone who can tell him about the good old days, a vaguely defined period that sprawls from the mid '40s to the late '60s. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
What could easily have been a sentimental, fannish exercise in musty nostalgia is in fact a lovely tribute to an era of feverish creativity that seemed as though it would never end yet now lives only in memory.