Broadway: The American Musical Miniseries Episode 2 Syncopated City (1919-1933) 2004
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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.
- Released: 2004-10-19
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Julie Andrews, Al Hirschfeld, Michael Kidd, Stephen Sondheim, John Lahr
- Director: Jac Venza, Bill O'Donnell, Sally Rosenthal, Michael Kantor, Jeff Dupre
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1. Give My Regards to Broadway (1893-1927) 2004-10-19
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2. Syncopated City (1919-1933) 2004-10-19
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3. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (1930-1942) 2004-10-20
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4. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (1943-1960) 2004-10-20
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5. Tradition (1957-1979) 2004-10-21
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6. Putting It Together (1980-2004) 2004-10-21
