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- Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
- Two delusional geriatrics reveal curious pasts, share a love of tuna and welcome a surprise guest in this filming of the popular comedy show.
- Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star in a musical directed by Busby Berkeley as two talented teenagers dreaming of success as Babes on Broadway.
- The fourth HBO stand-up special by Robin Williams.
- Subversive humor and childlike wonder based on both Reubens' original stage show, "The Pee-wee Herman Show," and the Emmy-winning Saturday morning TV show, "Pee-wee's Playhouse."
- In 1945, as America's soldiers come home to ticker-tape parades and overjoyed families, Private First Class Donny Novitski, singer and songwriter, returns to rebuild his life with only the shirt on his back and a dream in his heart.
- Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
- Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to ensure her silence.
- The intimate, final performance of Bruce Springsteen's 236-show run at Jujamcyn's Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway.
- After her Hollywood career fails, an actress returns to Broadway and tries for a comeback in a stage show directed by her former lover.
- Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the Producer named Chad, also has is eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chad who already has five ex-wives.
- Jeff is the supreme press agent who has his own private club where the rich and powerful meet and drink for free. It is free until they need him and he charges a bundle. Jeff has power, influence and a beautiful ex-wife. Things change when Jeff saves Minnie after she jumps into the river. He gives her the fully beauty treatment and a new name, Mona Martine. He also falls hard for her, but his advances are not returned. But Mona needs Jeff, and all his expertise, when she shoots Ramon in her room.
- 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 ON BROADWAY, directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
- "On Broadway" is about a Boston playwright who stages a production of his work in the back of an Irish pub.
- A country music show comes to Broadway with the only big screen appearance of the legendary Hank Williams.
- Lewis Black goes on tirade after tirade about stupidity in America. He covers everything from corporate greed and Martha Stewart to WMDs and homeland security
- Halloween special celebrating the 15th anniversary of the hit musical Wicked with select performances by special guests.
- Theatrical performances from Broadway are presented for TV.
- On a mission to New York, two women pursue Gildersleeve...then his fiancée shows up.
- It's 1960 in New York City. A comedy duo (modeled after Mike Nichols and Elaine May) is mid-performance of their hit Broadway show when an improvisational skit goes shockingly off the rails. During intermission, they face the fallout and their uncertain future as a team -- but the show, of course, must go on.
- (1969) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Heidy Bohlen. An FBI agent is killed by the mob after making off with five million in gold bars in a robbery gone bad. Agent Jerry Cotton is called in to bring the gang to justice and find out where his dead pal hid the missing gold. Color, 35mm.
- Believing that he can produce better Broadway shows without the hindrance of his producer, Eddie Dolan quits the musical he is directing, taking his starring actress and sweetheart, Ann Stallings, and his songwriter, Deacon McGill, with him.
- The star and his guests perform numbers from over a dozen renowned Broadway musicals, including: Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Can-Can, The King and I, Cabaret, Where's Charley, Hello Dolly, Ain't Misbehavin', Guys and Dolls, The Boyfriend, Kiss Me Kate, and A Chorus Line. There is also a new Kander/Ebb number.
- Rael is a troublemaker in New York, who goes on a journey of self-discovery and meets several people along his way.
- This shows the heart of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and at the time the picture was taken the odor given out could be detected for miles. The subject shows a gang of laborers clearing away the debris in the search for corpses, one of which was discovered while the picture was being taken.
- To protect her brother, a nightclub entertainer Queenie Morgan marries a gangster. She bears a resemblance to a society girl who has gotten involved with the underworld and wound up shooting her gangster boyfriend, and the gang forces Queenie to impersonate the woman in order to extort money from her wealthy parents. Unfortunately the society girl is killed by the gang, and the police arrest Queenie for the murders of both the society girl and her boyfriend.
- Documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a music, "The Capeman". Explores the story of the production as well as the story of Salvador Agron and the Capeman murders.
- The wealthy "Death Valley" Cora (Kitty Kelly) is coming to New York but is kidnapped by con-man Ira Collins (Edward Arnold) who has showgirl Sally Shea (Shirley Ross)impersonating her to fit a scheme he has to get an eccentric millionaire, P.J. Quinterfield Sr.(Frank Craven), turn over to him coined gold which he will melt down and presented as newly-mined from Cora's Death Valley mine. Sally is in on the scheme as Collins has told her it is part of the plan to get Quitenfield's son to finance a show for her. But Sally falls in love with Neil Graham (John 'Dusty' King), who is an undercover G-Man.
- Spotlight on Broadway is a multimedia project of the City of New York's Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment to celebrate the unique, indelible legacy of Broadway and its forty theaters. Thanks to the thousands of men and women working on Broadway today, audiences continue to be delighted and enthralled by the Great White Way. Go to the Spotlight on Broadway website to watch and learn more about the 40 Broadway theatres.
- On Wednesday 6 September 1978 The BBC broadcast On Broadway with Lena Zavaroni it was chosen for the 1978 Golden Sea Swallow Festival, where it won the silver award. The Show opened with Lena carrying a suitcase and singing the song On Broadway This lead into Lena being joined by The Dougie Squires Dancers and they performed a medley of On Broadway, Broadway Rhythm and Lullaby of Broadway The dancers leave the stage and Lena performed the song Tomorrow, the dances return and they perform the song New York, New York with Lena. Lena and her dancers returned to the stage along with Paul Nicholas dressed for the film Musical Grease and perform a medley of songs from it. The Dancers leave the stage and Lena is joined by the Mime Artist Adrian Hedley. Lena Sing the song Over the Rainbow while Adrian Hedley performs a mime based on the song. Lena then performs Broadway Baby form the musical Follies. Lena is again joined by her dances and they perform the song Wouldn't It Be Loverly from the musical My Fair Lady, then Lena is joined by Wayne Sleep and they perform the song Anything You Can Do from the musical Annie Get Your Gun. Lena then sings My Favorite Things from the Musical The Sound of Music. The dancers, Adrian Hedley and Wayne Sleep return to the stage singing One (aka One Singular Sensation) from the Musical A Chorus Line then Lena joins them and they sing Applause from the musical Applause. The Show closed with Lena, The dancers, Adrian Hedley, Paul Nicholas and Wayne Sleep singing Give My Regards to Broadway from the musical Little Johnny Jones the End Credits are run while they perform this song.
- Musical celebration hosted by Debbie Reynolds honoring the 10th Anniversary of Washington's Kennedy Center in their support of the performing arts.
- Live from the Gershwin Theater in New York City, this jubilant show is a musical celebration, for the whole family, of all that we love on this big beautiful planet. Join Raffi's Broadway audience as they laugh, clap, and sing along with this magical once-in-a-lifetime concert. Perfect for children ages 5-9, and their families.
- When wealthy ne'er-do-well Jeffrey Downs becomes raucously drunk at a bachelor party marking his engagement to Lorella Cavendore, he buys the animals in a vaudeville act and takes them home. When he awakens the next morning, Jeffrey is astonished to find the animals, especially a performing horse named White Star, in his room. Jeffrey's family, eager for him to settle down, have ordered him to get married or be disinherited, but Lorella's mother, society matron Mrs. Henrietta Cavendore, is shocked after reading the news accounts of the wild party and determines that Lorella must break the engagement. That same morning, Boris Pizaza, who owns the vaudeville act, arrives at the house with his daughter Nell because Jeffrey had proposed to her the night before. Nell realizes that Jeffrey did not really mean to propose and is willing to give back the money he paid for the animals, but just then Lorella and her mother arrive. Although Jeffrey tries to sequester Nell, her father and the animals in a closet, they fall out and Mrs. Cavendore insists on breaking the engagement. Jeffrey's predicament is further complicated by the arrival or his father Jim and grandfather Jim. After another wild party that afternoon, Grandfather Jim tells Jeffrey that he must decide between his family and keeping the animals. Jeffrey selects the animals and is then disinherited. Sometime later, after Jeffrey has joined the vaudeville act, Nell is lured to a bungalow owned by Karl Kenton, the cad who had arranged Jeffrey's disastrous parties. Pretending to poison herself rather than submit, she escapes, after which Jeffrey, who has fallen in love with her, goes to Karl's and fights with him. Following a series of escapades, and with the aid of his valet, Lewis, and White Star, Jeffrey finally reconciles with his family and marries Nell.
- Plugs into timely events of the day while taking the spirit of the Catskill performances of such talents as Woody Allen, Jerry Lewis, Joan Rivers, Danny Kaye, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop and Mel Brooks.
- The 1984 cast of the Broadway musical 'Annie' talks about menstruation.
- A one night only performance by two theatrical legends.
- A struggling Kazoo salesman has 24 hours to pay off his loan to the town's evil loan shark or he risks losing everything he has.
- The lure of the footlights attracts Billy McGrath. He decides to purchase a drama, produce it and play it on Broadway. He engages a company of capable performers, but through the misunderstanding of two of the actresses the company go on a strike, and refuse to work. His booking agent emphatically tells him he will not furnish him with any more talent. The stage hands of the theater McGrath has purchased come to his assistance, by declaring that they will take the parts. After several unfortunate rehearsals the play is produced. The scrub woman as the leading lady creates a furor, while the janitor of the building in the costume of a dashing young blonde ingénue creates the laugh entertainment of the performance. The audience at the opening night proclaims the show a huge success, while the critics in the morning papers declare the show to be a riot. Billy McGrath, with his fortune assured, smiles at the defeat of his striking performers and his reluctant booking agent.