Un actor în declin cel mai bine cunoscut pentru portretizarea un supererou popular încearcă să revină apărând într-o piesă de pe Broadway. Cu cât seara de deschidere se apropie, încercările lui devin mai altruistice, reconstruirea carierei, și reconectarea cu prietenii și familia se dovedesc a fi mai dificile decât era de așteptat.
În 1927, Hollywood, Don Lockwood și Lina Lamont sunt o pereche romantică faimoasă în filme silențioase, dar Lina confundă romantismul de pe ecran cu dragostea adevărată. Când ultimul lor film este transformat într-un muzical, Don are vocea perfectă pentru cântece, dar vocea stridentă a ei face ca studioul să îi dubleze vocea. Actrița aspirantă, Kathy Selden este adusă și, în timp ce lucrează la film, Don se îndrăgostește de ea.
După ce nu a reușit să ajungă pe Broadway, April se întoarce în orașul ei natal și, fără tragere de inimă, începe să antreneze un grup de tineri dansatori inadaptați pentru o competiție.
New York, anii `20. Din lipsă de bani, tânărul dramaturg David Shayne e nevoit să se înțeleagă cu gangsterul Nick Valenti: acesta îi finanțează noua piesă, iar el o distribuie în spectacol pe iubita lui Nick – Helen, o actriță fără talent. Ea este păzită de un bodyguard – Cheech, care îi dă lui David mai multe idei interesante. Premiera are succes, dar, din nefericire, Cheech își ia prea în serios rolul de dramaturg și începe să intervină în viața celor care realizează spectacolul.
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Când nu este ocupat cu planurile pentru următorul său spectacol muzical sau cu munca la producția sa cinematografică la Hollywood, coregraful și regizorul Joe Gideon se dedică consumului de pastile și aventuri romantice. Presiunea fizică și mentală începe să afecteze sănătatea acestui perfecționist încercat. În curând, el trebuie să decidă dacă stilul său de viață agitat și obsesia pentru muncă merită sacrificiul sănătății.
Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
As beloved Broadway star Lillian Hall pours her heart, soul, and time into preparing for her next big role, she finds herself blindsided by confusion and forgetfulness. Battling against all odds to make it to opening night, while holding on to her fading memories and identity, she must navigate a tumultuous emotional journey – balancing her desire for the spotlight and the stark demands of the real world.
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Two delusional geriatrics reveal curious pasts, share a love of tuna and welcome a surprise guest in this filming of the popular Broadway comedy show.
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach. She is desperate enough for work to humble herself and audition for him; whether he's willing to let professionalism overcome his personal feelings about their past remains to be seen.
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
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.
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.