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"It's rare to see a fly-on-the-wall documentary that's as much fun as MOON OVER BROADWAY."
- Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly
"Chronicles the guts, grind and glory of the process. A valentine to the contempo commercial stage...
Pennebaker, a lion of cinema verité, and Hegedus do and an exemplary job. A front-row-center seat for an enjoyable romp on the boards."
- Len Klady,
Variety
From the brilliant filmmakers who brought you THE WAR ROOM, DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus bring their fly-on-the-wall camera backstage to take a fresh, eye-opening, no-holds-barred look at the big bang adventure of producing a Broadway hit. The Broadway show in question is "Moon Over Buffalo," starring Carol Burnett and Philip
Bosco, a comedy about a low-rent Lunt and Fontaine, hell-bent upon recharging their careers.
The film features hilarious turns by its leading actors - and even funnier behind-the-scenes sequences, as everyone mounting this high-risk Broadway production goes into nail-biting overdrive. The play's director, Tom Moore, and co-producers Rocco Landesman and Elizabeth Williams, help playwright Ken Ludwig through endless rewrites and finally to opening night, which Ludwig dubs "a bar mitzvah from hell." Only those few who have been lucky enough to glimpse backstage through the curtain have seen Broadway quite like this.
MOON OVER BROADWAY
(USA/1997/35mm/92 min) was Directed by Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker and Produced by Wendy Ettinger and Frazer
Pennebaker.
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