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Additional authors

1. McKechnie, Donna
2. Kantor, Michael, 1961-
3. Squires, Buddy
4. Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
5. Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (37 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Alternative title

1. Broadway, the American musical
2. Broadway: the American musical : Donna McKechnie

Subject

1. Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
2. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
3. Theater > New York (State) > New York
4. Hamlisch, Marvin > Chorus line
5. Documentaries and factual works
6. Musical theater > Production and direction
7. Bennett, Michael, 1943-1987
8. Musicals
9. Hamlisch, Marvin > Chorus line One
10. Actresses > Interviews
11. Unedited footage
12. Dancers > Interviews
13. Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987 > Friends and associates
14. Sondheim, Stephen > Company
15. McKechnie, Donna > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Documentaries and factual works.
2. Musicals.
3. Unedited footage.

Call number

1. NCOX 2157

Note

1. This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
2. Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
3. Time code on frame.
4. Contains various takes, at occasional brief intervals, audio continues without sound.

Credits (note)

1. Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Donna McKechnie.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on July 16, 2003.

Biography (note)

1. Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Title

1. [Interview with Donna McKechnie : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]

Imprint

1. New York, 2003.

Credits

1. Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer

1. Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Donna McKechnie.

Event

1. Videotaped in New York, N.Y. on July 16, 2003.

Biography

1. Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Local note

1. Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. McKechnie, Donna, interviewee.
2. Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.
3. Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.
4. Squires, Buddy, cameraman.
5. Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
6. Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2157