Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestThe episode features interviews with writer/producer Mel Brooks, actor Kristin Chenoweth, Walt Disney Corporation CEO Michael Eisner, actor/bookwriter Harvey Fierstein, composer/lyricist Jerry Herman, actor Nathan Lane, playwright/director James Lapine, producer Rocco Landesman, director Arthur Laurents, actor Idina Menzel, Nederlander Theaters chairman James Nederlander Sr., director Susan Stroman, and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Highlights include home movies of Jonathan Larson working as a waiter before leaving his job to create Rent, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of Wicked in rehearsal and opening on Broadway.
This six part documentary miniseries presents the evolution of the Broadway musical from its inception in 1893 to current day 2004. It presents those influential players both on stage and behind the scenes, as well as a variety of influential Broadway shows, a handful which are known to have transformed the musical into what the audience knows it to be today.
Production
Rare archival footage of original productions, some lost to time.
Acting
Legends like Sondheim and Channing in unfiltered interview form.
Editing
Smart cross-cutting between eras that makes history feel alive.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Al Hirschfeld's original caricatures appear throughout—he drew the opening titles just months before his death at 99.
The series notably excludes 'Starlight Express' and 'Cats' dominance, a deliberate choice by Kantor to focus on American-authored innovation rather than Lloyd Webber's spectacle machine.
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