Video Review

The Best of Broadway Musicals (1994)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Movie Rated: Unrated; Genre: Musical

These excerpts from Ed Sullivan's TV variety show may lack production pizzazz, but they are memorable performances aplenty. Highlights include Julie Andrews cavorting in My Fair Lady, Richard Rodgers conducting excerpts from Oklahoma!, and original-cast moments from West Side Story and Hello, Dolly! The Best of Broadway Musicals is an hour's worth of evidence that the real classics of American music weren't written for concert halls. A-

Originally posted Sep 23, 1994 Published in issue #241 Sep 23, 1994 Order article reprints

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