- Studio: Dada Films
- Release Date: Jun 11, 2004
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
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Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings
- Summary: The most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form, Broadway tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. (Second Act Productions)
- Director: Rick McKay
- Genre(s): History, Music, Documentary
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90Pure joy to watch -- and an invaluable documentary record of a bygone era.
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80This is cinema as oral tradition. And one heck of a cheap-seat deal.
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80Rick 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.
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60What 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.
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