Broadway - The American Musical [DVD]

Product Details

• Format: PAL
• Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 2
• Classification: Exempt
• Studio: ITV Studios Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: 19 Sep 2005
• Run Time: 180 minutes
  

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Price : £8.49

Customer Reviews

The saintly Ms Julie Andrews (all kneel ; bow down, please) guides us through a comprehensive history of the development of Broadway musicals. This is invaluable for teaching English A level courses in musical theatre and quite honestly is a blast from start to finish. Chopped up into neat episodes, covering almost every aspect of social, cultural ; historical development, it takes you through to the back end of the 20th century and Disney's takeover of Broadway. Interviews and sound bites from all the greats - Hal Prince, Tommy Tune, Stephen (we adore you) Sondheim - they're all there. Buy it. Watch it again and again and bore your friends to death at dinner parties for years and years.

This documentry, narrated by musical great Julie Andrews offers a wonderful look at how Broadway and the American musical have developed over the last century.
Starting in the late 1800's with the Ziegfeld Follies and continuing up to the present day with shows like Wicked, it provides a backstage glimpse at the changing fortunes of the Broadway musical and the performers, songwriters and musicians who shaped the great white way.
The interviews and opinions provided come from a vast range of people - theatre critics, songwriters and composers and the performers themselves and give a rich view of the different shows on offer over the decades.

 

Broadway - The American Musical [DVD]