The strength of McKay's film is not in identifying a cultural period, but in giving voice to so many great theater people. Their passion is infectious, their stories are priceless and their humor is boundless.
Rick McKay's exceptional new documentary Broadway: The Golden Age presents a veritable avalanche of interviews with some of the biggest names in the history of the American theater, preserving for posterity their wise words and disarming anecdotes.
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New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
A delightful "That's Entertainment" for the theater.
Anyone who attended Broadway shows in the days when ticket prices were reasonable and the actors and singers performed without amplification will feel a rush of nostalgia as these troupers offer what amounts to a breezy compilation of after-dinner remarks.
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The film will eventually be a must-own video item for theater buffs.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
More buff than historian, McKay chats with anyone who can tell him about the good old days, a vaguely defined period that sprawls from the mid '40s to the late '60s.
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TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
What could easily have been a sentimental, fannish exercise in musty nostalgia is in fact a lovely tribute to an era of feverish creativity that seemed as though it would never end yet now lives only in memory.
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Film ThreatPhil Hall
Film ThreatPhil Hall
A well-intended but hopelessly ill-focused documentary which wants to be the "That's Entertainment!" for the New York theater but seems like a hodgepodge of anecdotes, factoids and moldy memories.
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Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The movie is mostly a megadose of good-old-days nostalgia.