ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Movie2007• PG• 1h 42m
Documentary
⭐ 7.8 / 10(416)

Going behind the curtain to capture the most controversial, passionate, risky and high-profile Broadway season in decades.

Rated
PG
Runtime
1h 42m
Released
2007
Country
United States

Details

Release year: 2007

Storyline

Going behind the curtain to capture the most controversial, passionate, risky and high-profile Broadway season in decades.

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Cast
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Did you know

• The song that Idina Menzel sings over the credits is a much-changed version of "Lullaby of Broadway," written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren. The song originally appeared in the Warner Brothers film Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)and won the 1936 Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was one of many Warren and Dubin songs eventually included in the 1980 musical "42nd Street" (based mostly, but not entirely, on their 1933 movie of the same name). The version that Menzel sings in this documentary was arranged by Jan Folkson and Jeanine Tesori and given an almost entirely new tune, as well as some new lyrics - a spoken interlude drawn from Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay's 1920 poem "On Broadway;" Billy Porter performed the McKay portion of the song.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $151,792

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $8,829 (2007-05-13)

User reviews

⭐ 8/10

A True Valentine to One Tumultuous Broadway Season Full of Insight and Energy

šŸ‘ 5 Ā· 6/10/2007
⭐ 7/10

A business like any other

šŸ‘ 2 Ā· 9/25/2008
⭐ 8/10

A most excellent film...

šŸ‘ 2 Ā· 5/12/2007

Technical specs

Sound mix
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
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