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| Directed by | Rick McKay |
| Produced by | Rick McKay, Albert M. Tapper, Jamie deRoy & Anne L. Bernstein |
| Written by | Rick McKay |
| Starring | 100 Stars, including Shirley Maclaine,Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Orbach, Alec Baldwin, Elizabeth Ashley, Carol Burnett, Bea Arthur, John Raitt, Carol Channing, Eva Marie Saint and Rick McKay |
| Music by | Various |
| Cinematography | Rick McKay |
| Editing by | Rick McKay |
| Distributed by | PBS |
| Release date(s) | June 11, 2004 |
| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Followed by | and |
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Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2004 documentary by Rick McKay, telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 40s and 50s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos. The film, being the first installment of a trilogy, played in extended runs in theatres in over 135 cities in the summer of 2004, and was on 18 critics Top Ten Films of 2004 by year's end, including Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight, Rex Reed, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, Jeffrey Lyons of NBC and critics all over the country.
The Cast
The film includes live interviews (and a few appearances through archive footage) with the following:
- Edie Adams
- Bea Arthur
- Elizabeth Ashley
- Alec Baldwin
- Kaye Ballard
- Bryan Batt
- Betsy Blair
- Tom Bosley
- Carol Burnett
- Kitty Carlisle
- Carol Channing
- Betty Comden
- Barbara Cook
- Carole Cook
- Hume Cronyn
- Arlene Dahl
- Charles Durning
- Daisy Eagan
- Fred Ebb
- Nanette Fabray
- Cy Feuer
- Bonnie Franklin
- Betty Garrett
- Ben Gazzara
- Robert Goulet
- Farley Granger
- Tammy Grimes
- Uta Hagen
- Sheldon Harnick
- Julie Harris
- Rosemary Harris
- June Havoc
- Ruthie Henshall
- Jerry Herman
- Al Hirschfeld
- Celeste Holm
- Sally Ann Howes
- Kim Hunter
- Jeremy Irons
- Anne Jackson
- Derek Jacobi
- Simon Jones
- Lainie Kazan
- Michael John LaChiusa
- Martin Landau
- Frank Langella
- Angela Lansbury
- Arthur Laurents
- Carol Lawrence
- Michele Lee
- Hal Linden
- Cameron Mackintosh
- Shirley MacLaine
- Karl Malden
- Donna McKechnie
- Ann Miller
- Liliane Montevecchi
- Patricia Morison
- Robert Morse
- James Naughton
- Patricia Neal
- Phyllis Newman
- The Nicholas Brothers
- Jerry Orbach
- Janis Paige
- Amanda Plummer
- Jane Powell
- Hal Prince
- John Raitt
- Lee Roy Reams
- Rex Reed
- Charles Nelson Reilly
- Diana Rigg
- Chita Rivera
- Tony Roberts
- Mary Rodgers
- Gena Rowlands
- Eva Marie Saint
- Marian Seldes
- Vincent Sherman
- Douglas Sills
- Stephen Sondheim
- Maureen Stapleton
- Elaine Stritch
- Mary Testa
- Tommy Tune
- Leslie Uggams
- Gwen Verdon
- Eli Wallach
- Thommie Walsh
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Fay Wray
- Gretchen Wyler
- Karen Ziemba
Reception
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.
