On Broadway

Streaming video - 2021

For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! As audiences prepare for the return of live theater after an unprecedented absence of 18 months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway came back from the brink. On Broadway shows how this revival helped save New York City, thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion, and the sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Interviews with legends of the stage and screen, including Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, and Ian McKellen take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to ...Hamilton. Archival clips of iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti Lupone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin punctuate this hurly-burly ride through the main street of American show business. Now that New York City is facing an uncertain path forward in its recovery from a devastating pandemic, this documentary from Academy Award®-nominated director Oren Jacoby and the producers of RBG shows how Broadway led the way in the city's last great rebirth and provides a model of how it can come back again.

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Genres
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[United States] : Kino Lorber 2021.
Language
English
Corporate Author
hoopla digital
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Patricia Schoenfeld (film producer), Stephanie McClelland (interviewee), John Breglio (film director), Betsy (Filmmaker) West (composer), Riki Kane Larimer, Barbara Freitag, Holly Siegel, Sam Jinishian, Harlene Freezer, Oren Jacoby, Joel (Joel Scott) Goodman, Helen Mirren, Alec Baldwin, 1958-, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, George C. Wolfe, Lynne Meadow, 1946-, James Corden, Daniel Sullivan, 1940-, Alexandra Billings, 1962-, John Lithgow, 1945-, Tommy Tune, Michael (Theater critic) Riedel, Gianni Felidi, Robert Fox, 1952-, Elizabeth I. (Elizabeth Ireland) McCann, 1931-, Harold Prince, 1928-2019, Christine Baranski, Jack O'Brien, 1939-, Jeffrey Seller, Emanuel Azenberg, Oskar Eustis, 1958-, Nicholas Hytner, Richard Bean, 1956-, Nelle Nugent, Nancy Coyne, Sidney Baumgarten, Carl Weisbrod, Cameron Makintosh, Albert Poland, Jeremy Gerard, Rocco Landesman, 1947-, Viola Davis, 1965-, Rebecca Robertson, Cora Cahan, Natasha Katz, Michael (Journalist) Paulson
Online Access
Instantly available on hoopla.
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 85 min.)) : sd., col
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Directed by Oren Jacoby.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).