This six-part high-definition series chronicles the history of American musical theater from the time before electricity, when onstage gas jets literally took your breath away (and Flo Ziegfeld's frolicking Follies was the best show in town), to today's multi-million dollar high-tech extravaganzas. Through interviews with Broadway legends, still photos, and reel footage you will hear and/or see Eddie Cantor, Carol Channing, Mel Brooks, Matthew Broderick, Stephen Sondheim, John Raitt and many more legends of the entertainment world.

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