Broadway: The American Musical

Miniserie
2004
6 Std.

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IHRE BEWERTUNG

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA six-part documentary about the Broadway musicalA six-part documentary about the Broadway musicalA six-part documentary about the Broadway musical

Hauptbesetzung

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,8/10

390

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Hauptbesetzung

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2 Primetime Emmys gewonnen
- 3 Gewinne & 5 Nominierungen insgesamt

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The unidentified two-strip Technicolor sequences used to illustrate "The Ziegfeld Follies" were lifted out of Glorifying the American Girl (1929). The star of this film, also unidentified although frequently shown in the clips, was 'Mary Eaton', sister of interviewee Doris Eaton.

Patzer
A two-strip technicolor clip of Dennis King and Jeanette MacDonald from The Vagabond King (q.v.) is used to illustrate the pre-Ziegfeld shows seen on Broadway before the turn of the century. The Vagabond King was not performed on Broadway until 1925, and the film was made four years later (1929) and released in 1930.

Verbindungen
Features Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope (1894)

Enjoyable as an Educational Document

This will probably be a valuable tool to educators through the years. I did not find it especially entertaining as it was very much "by the book" in the traditional PBS sense. I would have preferred that we had heard more from the actual people that were there rather than so many academics and relatives of those who it was about. Also, I know so many others have said it as well, but way too many movie clips and you never knew what you were looking at. People were not identified, etc. But, I applaud them for taking the time to make it and for putting it all down. Still better to have this than not to have done it.

NOTE: I thoroughly enjoyed the extra interview footage. It is actually more entertaining and enlightening than the actual series. I wonder what they must still have and what they might have done with it?