
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
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.
Top credits
Alissa Anderegg ā Self
Kristen Anderson-Lopez ā Self- Rob Ashford ā Self
- Chris Boneau ā Self
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
A True Valentine to One Tumultuous Broadway Season Full of Insight and Energy
A business like any other
A most excellent film...
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
- Color
- Color









