Broadway, the American musical. Disc 1 /
Give My Regards to Broadway (1893-1927): New York City's turn of the century musical theater embodied the hope that America offered to millions of immigrants. The story of legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld introduces the era's key figures: songwriter Irving Berlin, comedienne-singer Fann...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] : Hollywood, Calif. :
PBS Home Video ; Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor],
[2004]
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| Summary: | Give My Regards to Broadway (1893-1927): New York City's turn of the century musical theater embodied the hope that America offered to millions of immigrants. The story of legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld introduces the era's key figures: songwriter Irving Berlin, comedienne-singer Fanny Brice and comic Bert Williams: America's first "crossover" artists and brash song-and-dance man George M. Cohan, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II unleased Broadway's potential with the groundbreaking Show Boat Syncopated city (1919-1933): Gossip columnist Walter Winchell gave Broadway a nickname that becomes synonymous with all of New York: "It is the Big Apple, the goal of all ambitions, the pot of gold at the end of a drab and somewhat colorless rainbow." With the advent of Prohibition and the Jazz Age, America convulsed with energy and change, and nowhere was the riotous mix of classes and cultures more dramatically on display than Broadway. "There was this period in which everybody was leaping across borders and boundaries," says director/producer George C. Wolfe. "There was this incredible cross-fertilization, cultural appropriation." While brash American women flapped their way to newfound freedoms, heroines of Broadway like Marilyn Miller became a testament to pluck and luck. It was the age of "Whoopee" and the "Charleston," "Runnin' Wild" and the "George White Scandals." |
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| Item Description: | Disc 1 of a 3-disc set. Originally broadcast on PBS in 2004. Widescreen presentation. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color with black and white segments ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| ISBN: | 1415702365 9781415702369 |
