An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Alec Baldwin
Christine Baranski
James Corden
Michael Eisner
David Henry Hwang
Nicholas Hytner
Hugh Jackman
John Lithgow
Cameron Mackintosh
Ian McKellen
Helen Mirren
Hal Prince
Tommy Tune
August Wilson
George C. Wolfe
Emanuel Azenberg
Sidney Baumgarten
Richard Bean
Alexandra Billings
John Breglio
Cora Cahan
Nancy Coyne
Oskar Eustis
Gianni Felidi
Robert Fox
Sonia Friedman
Jeremy Gerard
Natasha Katz
Rocco Landesman
Heather Lind
Elizabeth Ireland McCann
Lynne Meadow
Nelle Nugent
Jack O'Brien
Michael Paulson
Albert Poland
Michael Riedel
Rebecca Robertson
Ben Schnetzer
Jeffrey Seller
Daniel J. Sullivan
Carl Weisbrod
Bob Avian
Michael Bennett
Viola Davis
Bob Fosse
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Joel Grey
Beth Howland
Bernie Jacobs
James Earl Jones
Jasmine Cephas Jones
Linda Lavin
Patti LuPone
Andrea McArdle
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Mandy Patinkin
Bernadette Peters
Roger Rees
Lloyd Richards
Jerry Schoenfeld
Jonathan Silverman
Stephen Sondheim
Phillipa Soo
Gwen Stewart
Elaine Stritch
Julie Taymor
Courtney B. Vance
Ben Vereen
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sammy Williams