Photo Flash: Bway: The Golden Age's McKay at WLIW

On Wednesday, August 8 at 7:30 pm, filmmaker Rick McKay appeared live in the WLIW studio with behind-the-scenes stories about the making of Broadway: The Golden Age and its upcoming sequels.

During WLIW's premiere, he recounted his experiences interviewing more than 100 of Broadway's brightest stars, including Goulet, Carousel's John Raitt (1945), The Pajama Game's Shirley MacLaine (1954), The Music Man's Barbara Cook (1957), Mame's Angela Lansbury (1966) and Company's Elaine Stritch (1970).

Broadway: The Golden Age is the first installment of McKay's Broadway Trilogy. Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age and Broadway: The Next Generation are due in 2007 and 2008, respectively. The second installment stars Robert Redford, Liza Minnelli, Glenn Close, Dick Van Dyke, Diahann Carroll, Michael Crawford, Ben Vereen and many others. The final installment stars Alan Cumming, Liev Schreiber, Audra McDonald, Ann Reinking and others and will bring the story up to the present.

Visit www.broadwaythemovie.com for more on Broadway: The Golden Age and www.wliw.org for more on WLIW.

Laura Savini (VP of WLIW) and Rick McKay

Rick McKay

Rick McKay

Rick McKay and Laura Savini