Broadway: The Golden Age -- By The Legends Who Were There

You don't have to own a treasured stash of vintage Playbills to be susceptible to the spell of Rick McKay's stardusted valentine to the New York theater scene of the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Once the legends (it seems churlish to add quotation marks), many aged and frail but all still burning from within, start pouring out their stories of being young, ambitious and in love with the theater, the sheer force of their impassioned memories is hard to resist. Indiana-born director, writer, editor AND cameramanB eech Grove and producer McKay spent their small-town childhood sdreaming of Broadway's sophistication and glamour, but moved to New York in the early 1980s to...