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On Broadway (2019)
Directed by Oren Jacoby
Overview
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway’s most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Length 84 minutes
Actors
Alec Baldwin | Christine Baranski | James Corden | Michael Eisner | David Henry Hwang | Nicholas Hytner | Hugh Jackman | John Lithgow | Cameron Mackintosh | Ian McKellen | Helen Mirren | Hal Prince | Tommy Tune | August Wilson | George C. Wolfe | Emanuel Azenberg | Sidney Baumgarten | Richard Bean | Alexandra Billings | John Breglio | Cora Cahan | Nancy Coyne | Oskar Eustis | Gianni Felidi | Robert Fox | Sonia Friedman | Jeremy Gerard | Natasha Katz | Rocco Landesman | Heather Lind | Elizabeth Ireland McCann | Lynne Meadow | Nelle Nugent | Jack O'Brien | Michael Paulson | Albert Poland | Michael Riedel | Rebecca Robertson | Ben Schnetzer | Jeffrey Seller | Daniel J. Sullivan | Carl Weisbrod | Bob Avian | Michael Bennett | Viola Davis | Bob Fosse | Renée Elise Goldsberry | Joel Grey | Beth Howland | Bernie Jacobs | James Earl Jones | Jasmine Cephas Jones | Linda Lavin | Patti LuPone | Andrea McArdle | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Mandy Patinkin | Bernadette Peters | Roger Rees | Lloyd Richards | Jerry Schoenfeld | Jonathan Silverman | Stephen Sondheim | Phillipa Soo | Gwen Stewart | Elaine Stritch | Julie Taymor | Courtney B. Vance | Ben Vereen | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Sammy Williams