Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
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| Directed by | Rick McKay |
| Produced by | Rick McKay Albert M. Tapper Jamie deRoy Anne L. Bernstein |
| Written by | Rick McKay |
| Music by | Various |
| Cinematography | Rick McKay |
| Edited by | Rick McKay |
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PBS RCA BMG |
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111 minutes |
| Language | English |
Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2003 documentary film by Rick McKay, telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 1940s and 1950s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos.
The film includes interviews (filmed over a span of six years) with the following people:
The intrinsic value of the documentary as a historical record is underscored by the fact that seven of the interviewees (Hume Cronyn, Ute Hagen, Al Hirschfeld, Kim Hunter, Ann Miller, Harold Nicholas and Gwen Verdon) died before the film was released in June 2004, and another 38 interviewees have died since then (as of October 2016).
Broadway: The Golden Age won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award for Best documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the Audience Award and Festival Award at the San Diego Film Festival, both for Best Documentary.
In 2006, McKay was honored with a Special Award for his work on the film by the New England Theatre Conference with the New England Theatre Conference Special Contribution to Theatre Award.
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