42nd Street (1986)

5.0/10 • 154 min • Drama Music

Overview

Original Broadway production filmed for Japanese television. Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes and the subsequent 1933 Hollywood film adaptation, the show focuses on the efforts of famed dictatorial Great White Way director Julian Marsh to mount a successful stage production of a musical extravaganza at the height of the Great Depression.

Cast

Elizabeth Allen

Dorothy Brock

Joseph Bova

Bert Barry

Carole Cook

Maggie Jones

Beth Leavel

Annie

Lee Roy Reams

Billy Lawlor

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