Broadway: The American Musical (2004)

Episode Overview

This episode showcases a series of interviews with notable figures such as actress Carol Channing, Frances Gershwin Godowsky, sister of the renowned Gershwin, Stephen Mo Hanan, creator of Al Jolson & Co., critic Margo Jefferson, writer Miles Krueger, New Yorker theater critic John Lahr, radio host and music critic Jonathan Schwartz, along with theater historians Max Wilk and Robert Kimball, and director/producer George C. Wolfe. Viewers are treated to rare performance clips of composer Eubie Blake, along with a unique animated rendition of Rodgers and Hart’s classic 1927 song “Thou Swell” from A Connecticut Yankee.