Documentary review - "Broadway: the American Musical" (2004)

This six part doco starts with Julie Andrews walking to the camera and saying "Hello, I'm Julie Andrews". And you just want to say "of course you are". Who is going to watch this who doesn't know who Julie Andrews is? This is a highly entertaining doco, not in the class of a, say, Ken Burns, but still very good, which plenty of vision to satisfy musical fans, especially post-WW2. We see early TV performances of On the Town, South Pacific, etc - my favourite bit is seeing a bit where Rex Harrison throws a tantrum. It concentrates on the hits and big composers - looking at a few flops might have been fun, too. The final section concentrates on The Producers and Wicked, shows which indicated there is a lot of life in Broadway musicals, yet.