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Title: An embarassment of riches indeed!
Review: The program sets out to cram 100+ years of Broadway history into 6 hours. This means the final hour covers 1980 to the present which (ironically) is a period when many shows were video-taped for TV and for the Broadway archive.I hope this set is a success and will prompt more in depth looks at some of today's creators. A full 2-hour show could be devoted to Kander & Ebb, another to Andrew Lloyd Webber, still another to Stephen Sondheim. Get these people now while (except for Fred Ebb) they are still around and active in the theatre.The Rodgers and Hammerstein shows were well covered in a 1980 PBS special hosted by Mary Martin..and THAT one should be exhumed and released on DVD.Still, what IS here is well assembled and presented but even with the 3-hours of bonus material, it still only scratches the surface.
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