Richard Skipper Celebrates On Broadway with Oren Jacoby (12/27/2021)
For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/S-6IjfeeFsI Dear Richard, It was so much fun being on your show. Thank you for your wonderful questions, an engaging conversation, and your illuminating take on the film, ON BROADWAY! I can tell you have a deep love and understanding for live theater and appreciate you highlighting for your viewers, at this crucial moment in history, how much we all need to support the arts --especially live performance. Oren Jacoby, www.storyville.org ON BROADWAY 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 of art and commerce. Key players--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 shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. The film includes performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti Lupone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin. This 85-minute documentary is a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business. Oren Jacoby is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, writer and founder of Storyville Films. His film On Broadway will be released in 2020. He has produced and directed over 30 films including: Sister Rose’s Passion, Best Documentary Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award; Shadowman premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was runner up for the audience award. https://www.docnyc.net/film/on-broadway/