ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Name: ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 11, 2007
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 73

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Regent Releasing | Release Date: May 11, 2007 | PG

Summary: ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is a feature-length documentary that examines the annual influx of ambitious, star-crossed hopefuls, scrambling for the high-board to make their big leap into everlasting limelight. (Regent Releasing)

Director: Dori Berinstein

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 102 min

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Jack Mathews

What stands out, not surprisingly, is the work and passion that goes into the shows. But seeing all this from the inside creates an extraordinary level of empathy for those involved. Read full review

Noel Murray

ShowBusiness is a smart, highly entertaining piece of cinema-reportage, but it never quite rises to the level of penetrating insight or emotional catharsis. Read full review

Matt Singer

Producer/director Dori Berinstein knows her way around a Broadway show -- she's produced 11 of them, including her latest, Legally Blonde -- and her insider status no doubt helped secure behind-the-scenes access as she tracks one season in the life of four musicals, and explains the unusual level of intimacy between interviewer and subjects. Read full review

Chris Jones

Much of this strikingly human, rapidly paced and laudably well-rounded film is fascinating. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Along the way Dori Berinstein's cameras catch gallant theater people doing what they've done since Sophocles was a pup: rehearsing, revising, worrying, learning, stretching, struggling to bump things up from good to wonderful and constantly, fervently hoping. Read full review

Albert Williams

Thrilling rehearsal and performance footage of Idina Menzel in "Wicked," Tonya Pinkins in "Caroline," and Euan Morton in "Taboo" is juxtaposed with thoughtful, funny, and revealing interviews with writers, directors, producers, publicists, and critics. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

You'll have to look elsewhere than this love letter to the Great White Way to explain why "Wicked" and "Avenue Q" became huge hits, and why "Caroline, or Change" joined "Taboo" as a costly flop. Read full review

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StephanieR.

Jun 5, 2007

Really loved this doc. It felt like a feature. What a great ride and fantastic characters I really cared about. And funny too! A rock solid 10.