Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Edie Adams
Bea Arthur
Elizabeth Ashley
Alec Baldwin
Kaye Ballard
Betsy Blair
Tom Bosley
Carol Burnett
Kitty Carlisle
Carol Channing
Betty Comden
Barbara Cook
Carole Cook
Hume Cronyn
Arlene Dahl
Charles Durning
Fred Ebb
Nanette Fabray
Cy Feuer
Phil Ford
Betty Garrett
Ben Gazzara
Robert Goulet
Farley Granger
Adolph Green
Tammy Grimes
Uta Hagen
Julie Harris
Rosemary Harris
June Havoc
Jerry Herman
Mimi Hines
Al Hirschfeld
Celeste Holm
Sally Ann Howes
Kim Hunter
Jeremy Irons
Anne Jackson
Derek Jacobi
Lainie Kazan
John Kenley
Joan Kobin
Miles Kreuger
Martin Landau
Frank Langella
Angela Lansbury
Arthur Laurents
Carol Lawrence
Michele Lee
Hal Linden
Shirley MacLaine
Karl Malden
Frank Marino
Rick McKay
Donna McKechnie
Ann Miller
Liliane Montevecchi
Patricia Morison
Robert Morse
James Naughton
Patricia Neal
Phyllis Newman
Fayard Nicholas
Harold Nicholas
Jerry Orbach
Janis Paige
Don Pippin
Jane Powell
Hal Prince
John Raitt
Rex Reed
Elliott Reid
Charles Nelson Reilly
Diana Rigg
Chita Rivera
Tony Roberts
Mary Rodgers
Gena Rowlands
Eva Marie Saint
Marian Seldes
Vincent Sherman
Stephen Sondheim
Maureen Stapleton
Elaine Stritch
Tommy Tune
Leslie Uggams
Gwen Verdon
Betsy von Furstenberg
Eli Wallach
Fay Wray
Gretchen Wyler
Barbara Bel Geddes
Marlon Brando
Richard Burton
Bob Fosse
Carol Haney
Walter Kerr
Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Loewe
Ethel Merman
Geraldine Page
Kim Stanley
Laurette Taylor
Ethel Waters
Walter Winchell