| Broadway: The Golden Age | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Rick McKay |
| Produced by | Rick McKay Albert M. Tapper Jamie deRoy Anne L. Bernstein |
| Written by | Rick McKay |
| Starring | 100 Stars, including Shirley Maclaine Angela Lansbury Stephen Sondheim Jerry Orbach Alec Baldwin Elizabeth Ashley Carol Burnett Bea Arthur John Raitt Carol Channing Eva Marie Saint Rick McKay |
| Music by | Various |
| Cinematography | Rick McKay |
| Editing by | Rick McKay |
| Distributed by | RCA BMG |
| Release date(s) | June 11, 2004 |
| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Language | English |
Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2004 documentary by Rick McKay, telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 40s and 50s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos.
The film includes interviews (filmed over a span of six years) with the following people:
The intrinsic value of the documentary as a historical record is underscored by the fact that seven of the interviewees (Hume Cronyn, Ute Hagen, Al Hirschfeld, Kim Hunter, Ann Miller, Harold Nicholas and Gwen Verdon) died before the film was released in June 2004, and another 25 interviewees have died since then (as of October 2011).
Broadway: The Golden Age won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award for Best documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the Audience Award and Festival Award at the San Diego Film Festival, both for Best Documentary.
In 2006, McKay was honored with a Special Award for his work on the film by the New England Theatre Conference [1]