Stay Tuned! PBS-KQED Broadcasts: August

San Francisco's PBS affiliate, KQED TV9 and DT9, has several great up-coming Broadway and theatre related broadcasts planned for the month of August!

As announced from San Francisco KQED releases:

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
August 2nd, 8PM
Music director Louis Langree conducts a "Coronation" concert to celebrate the launch of the 40th Mostly Mozart Festival – America's first indoor summer music festival – at Lincoln Center. Maestro Langree conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in two Mozart works subtitled "Coronation": the Piano Concerto No. 26 with guest soloist Garrick Ohlsson; and the Mass in C major, with soprano Hei-Kyung Hong, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, tenor Matthew Polenzani, bass John Relyea and the Concert Chorale of New York.

LIZA WITH A "Z"
August 8th, 7:30PM and August 12th, 10PM
On a late spring night in 1972, Liza Minnelli took over New York's Lyceum Theater for what would be the performance of a lifetime. Alone on stage, guided by the masterful showmanship of the legendary Bob Fosse and captured with eight 16mm cameras by Academy Award winning cinematographer Owen Roizman, Minnelli's tour-de-force performance became one of the most celebrated TV specials of a generation. Now for the first time in over 3 decades, viewers have the rare opportunity to experience this unforgettable event with a fully restored and digitally remastered special, quintessential Minnelli as she effortlessly moves from one musical genre to the next. She delivers scintillating versions of such classics as Yes, God Bless the Child, It Was A Good Time, I Gotcha, Ring Them Bells, Son Of A Preacher Man, Bye, Bye Blackbird, You've Let Yourself Go, My Mammy, the Cabaret medley, along with the incomparable, tongue twisting title song, Liza with a "Z."

SOUTH PACIFIC IN CONCERT FROM CARNEGIE HALL
August 9th, 7:30PM and August 12th, 12PM
Based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein's own Pulitzer Prize-winning blockbuster was a landmark of post-WWII Broadway, a provocative romantic drama that beguiled audiences with a hit parade of instant standards. Last June, South Pacific reached new heights when - for one enchanted evening - Carnegie Hall presented a magnificent concert production with a dream cast headed by Reba McEntire, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jason Danieley, Lillias White and Alec Baldwin. Directed for the concert stage by Walter Bobbie with musical director Paul Gemignani conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the performance was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a state of nearly unconditional rapture," praising the production for locating "the show's real staying power in its operatic respect for love as a force that hurts, teases, destroys and ennobles."

BROADWAY'S LOST TREASURES
August 13th, 6PM
The costs of going into a Broadway theatre and recording a play for television are unfortunately, prohibitively expensive. As a result, very few major theatrical works ever find their way to television and home video. However, during the telecasts of the Tony Awards, individual, nominated song and dance numbers are performed specially for the awards presentations by the original star. These numbers are not repeated as the Tony's themselves are only telecast once. This special looks for the first time into the archive of the Tony Awards during a 20-year period from when the awards were first televised in 1967 up to 1986. The legendary showman, Alexander H. Cohen, produced the shows. What you have here are the greatest stars in the history of the American Musical Theatre performing their signature songs; the works of the world's greatest contemporary composers and, nearly every one; a literal showstopper! The program is split into four acts: Broadway Divas, Leading Men, Dancin' and the Record Breakers.

BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
August 13th, 8PM; August 17th, 1PM and August 19th, 7:30AM
An important, ambitious and comprehensive film about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print – but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words – and not a moment too soon – this program tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre.

BROADWAY'S LOST TREASURES III: THE BEST OF THE TONYS
August 26th, 8PM
The greatest stars of the American Musical Theatre in the most memorable song and dance numbers from the Tony Awards. This historical collection is available only on PBS and, each and every performance has either been nominated for or won a Tony Award. There is no more complete compilation of Broadway's unique artistry anywhere on television.

BROADWAY'S LOST TREASURES II
August 26th, 9:25PM
Great news for musical-theater fans: PBS has unearthed more jewels from classic Tony Awards telecasts. This program features classic Broadway star turns by such beloved performers as Angela Lansbury, Zero Mostel, Gregory Hines, and Julie Andrews. Highlighting the collection of signature show tunes performed by the original cast members are Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur pledging lifetime affection as "Bosom Buddies" from Mame; Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman in highlights from The Phantom of the Opera, and Jerry Ohrbach, in and out of costume as Chicago's original Billy Flynn, affirming "All I Care About Is Love."

JUDY GARLAND: BY MYSELF
August 30th, 9PM
For the first time on film, Judy Garland tells her own story, in her own words. Using recordings Garland made in preparation for writing her autobiography – a book that was never published – "Judy" reveals Garland as she saw herself.  In an exclusive and unprecedented arrangement, Turner Entertainment granted American Masters unlimited access to the MGM archives. This special arrangement means that "Judy" includes extensive material from A Star Is Born, as well as never-before-seen rehearsal footage, rare outtakes and alternate takes of Garland's numerous performances.

For more information on other KQED arts and culture broadcasts, visit http://www.kqed.org/arts/.

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