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- Season 0 2004-11-24
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- Season 48 2019-01-21
- Season 49 2020-07-12
- Season 50 2021-02-09
- Season 52 2022-02-07
- Season 53 2023-03-20
- Season 54 2024-04-16
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- Season 21 Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
- Season 21 McCullin
- Season 21 Rod Stewart: Can't Stop Me Now
- Season 21 Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part One
- Season 21 Woody Allen: A Documentary - Part Two
- Season 21 Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins
- Season 21 Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'
- Season 21 Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die
- Season 21 Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
- Season 21 Turning the Art World Inside Out
- Season 21 Hitler, the Tiger and Me
- Season 21 Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
imagine… - Season 21 Episode 9 Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
5.50 50 minutes For generations of Jewish songwriters, the bright lights of Broadway have been a catalyst for transformation. New York's musical theatres offered a chance for those who had fled persecution and oppression to make it big in America.
On Broadway, the idea of outsiders beating the odds could be dramatised in a uniquely American art form, with melodies derived from Jewish prayers inspiring catchy new songs that tens of millions around the world would come to embrace. imagine... looks at the unique role Jews have played in creating the modern American musical, from Porgy and Bess to West Side Story and Cabaret.
Featuring performances by Broadway's most creative talents, plus a medley of amazing archive footage and interviews, the film explores the work of some of America's pre-eminent musical maestros - including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne.
