Broadway: The American Musical

Season 1 Episode 2: Syncopated City (1919-1933)

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

6

Cast:

Julie Andrews, Al Hirschfeld, Kitty Carlisle

Quality:

HD

Duration:

60 min

First Air:

2004

Rating:

8.0