Broadway: The American Musical

Syncopated City (1919-1933)

Directed by Michael Kantor
TV-G
S1 • E2    Oct 18, 2004
The episode features interviews with actor Carol Channing, Gershwin sister Frances Gershwin Godowsky, Al Jolson & Co. creator Stephen Mo Hanan, critic Margo Jefferson, writer Miles Krueger, New Yorker theater critic John Lahr, radio host/music critic Jonathan Schwartz, theater historians Max Wilk and Robert Kimball, and director/producer George C.Wolfe. Highlights include rare performance footage of composer Eubie Blake and a specially animated sequence of Rodgers and Hart’s 1927 hit “Thou Swell” from A Connecticut Yankee.

Where to Watch Syncopated City (1919-1933)

Cast of Syncopated City (1919-1933)

  • Julie AndrewsSelf (Host)
  • Al HirschfeldSelf
  • Kitty CarlisleSelf
  • Carol ChanningSelf
  • Stephen SondheimSelf
  • Michael KiddSelf
  • Mel BrooksSelf
  • Joel GreySelf
  • Hal PrinceSelf
  • George C. WolfeSelf
  • Tommy TuneSelf
  • John LahrSelf
  • Arthur LaurentsSelf
  • Michael KantorDirector / Writer

 

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