On 2009-12-06 P. Friedman, New York wrote: It´s a Great Documentary! The name of the film is Broadway: The Golden Age. It is specific to Broadway Shows or Broadway Shows that started out of town and moved to Broadway. Scott Miller says, in so many words, not to waste your time and save your money on an earlier posted comment. Scott Miller spends most of his career bashing the classics and praising the MUNY in St Louis. As a matter of fact, Mack and Mabel was destroyed when it played at the MUNY after successful out of town tryouts in LA, because the theater was too damn big and the actors had to scream to be heard. It never recovered until it was revived years later. The MUNY is no more interesting or special than other huge theaters that exist throughout the country. As for his comments about Irving Berlin: White Christmas, Easter Parade, There´s No Business Like Show Business, Heat Wave, God Bless America, and Always, will remain entrenched in our popular culture long after the songs of Shrek the Musical, The Color Purple, and Light in the Piazza are long forgotten. Annie Get Your Gun is a classic - It might come off as politically incorrect or sexist to the PC police, but it was a solid, well constructed hit with great songs by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy & Herbert Fields. It is done in revivals, High Schools, Colleges, and Community Theaters for that very reason. It is universal. Hair on the other hand is also fun, but it is a nostalgic look at an era with references to things that are already long forgotten. Many of the musicals and revues of the thirties don´t hold up for that very reason as well, but many of the songs are still remembered because they are also universal. ON BROADWAY, the golden age of the 40s thru the 60s existed because there were was an artistic movement that was part of the popular culture of the time. They had a plethora of well constructed books and scores that were universal and entertaining to the masses and discriminating critics alike. The original cast album of My Fair Lady sold millions of albums for a reason. Golden Age Musical like My Fair Lady, the King and I, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Hello, Dolly!, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, Carousel, South Pacific, and Brigadoon will be revived as examples of a Golden Age, long after Caroline or Change is long forgotten. Candide was a flop when it originally opened, but it was still part of the Golden Age. There was indeed a Golden Age of Sondheim in the 70s (only Sondheim) , but it wasn´t a cohesive movement that had anything to do with popular culture in general, and not other composer lyricist could create the kind of quality work that he did during that time. A Chorus Line, Chicago, and Pippin also appeal to many, but they are individual successes and do not consititue a Golden Age. There will always be great musicals created here and there, but a golden age did exist that will always be remembered as such from the early forties until the mid sixties. I left out plays. The plays of Tennesee Williams, William Inge, John van Druten, Philip Barry, Arthur Miller, Arthur Laurents, Clifford Odets, and Thorton Wilder coincided with the era of the great musicals that created a force that was THE GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY.
. And summed up by saying Great Documentary!. Currently Broadway - The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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