BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
BY THE LEGENDS WHO WERE THERE

Year: 2003
USA: Dada
Cast: Edie Adams, Beatrice Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard, John Barrowman, Bryan Batt, Betsy Blair, Jim Borstelmann, Tom Bosley, Marlon Brando, Betty Buckley, Carol Burnett, Kitty Carlisle, Carol Channing, Betty Comden, Barbara Cook, Carole Cook, Hume Cronyn, Alan Cumming, Arlene Dahl, Charles Durning, Daisy Eagan, Fred Ebb, Nanette Fabray, Tovah Feldshuh, Cy Feuer, Phil Ford, Bonnie Franklin, Betty Garrett, Ben Gazzara, Robert Goulet, Farley Granger, Tammy Grimes, Uta Hagen, Sheldon Harnick, Julie Harris, Rosemary Harris, June Havoc, Ruthie Henshall, Jerry Herman, Mimi Hines, Al Hirschfeld, Celeste Holm, Sally Ann Howes, Kim Hunter, Jeremy Irons, Anne Jackson, Derek Jacobi, Richard Jay Alexander, Cherry Jones, Simon Jones, Lainie Kazan, Michael John LaChiusa, Martin Landau, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Laurents, Carol Lawrence, Michele Lee, Hal Linden, Cameron Mackintosh, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Malden, Audra McDonald, Rick McKay, Donna McKechnie, Ann Miller, Liliane Montevecchi, Patricia Morison, Robert Morse, James Naughton, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Newman, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Jerry Orbach, Janis Paige, Don Pippin, Amanda Plummer, Jane Powell, Harold Prince, John Raitt, Lee Roy Reams, Rex Reed, Elliott Reid, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ann Reinking, Diana Rigg, Chita Rivera, Tony Roberts, Mary Rodgers, Gena Rowlands, Eva Marie Saint, Liev Schreiber, Marian Seldes, Vincent Sherman, Douglas Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Kim Stanley, Maureen Stapleton, Marti Stevens, Elaine Stritch, Laurette Taylor, Mary Testa, Tommy Tune, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Betsy von Furstenberg, Eli Wallach, Thommie Walsh, Wendy Wasserstein, Fay Wray, Gretchen Wyler, Karen Ziemba
Director: Rick McKay
Country: USA
USA: 111 mins
USA Release Date: 2 July 2004 (Limited Release - Los Angeles)
USA Release Date: 11 June 2004 (Limited Release - New York)


Synopsis

BROADWAY is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. It is award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay's journey over four continents and five years to find out whether there had been a golden age of theatre and why it had never been documented. 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 tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre.