Rick McKay, the award-winning filmmaker best known for his definitive 2003 documentary Broadway: The Golden Age, has died. He was 57.
McKay was found dead on Jan. 29 in his apartment on New York's Upper West Side, his brother, Stephen McKay, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death was unknown, but it "was a very peaceful passing," he said.
A native of Beech Grove, Indiana, Rick McKay began work on Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There in 1998. He served as researcher, writer, interviewer, editor, director and producer, turning his cramped one-bedroom apartment into a...
McKay was found dead on Jan. 29 in his apartment on New York's Upper West Side, his brother, Stephen McKay, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death was unknown, but it "was a very peaceful passing," he said.
A native of Beech Grove, Indiana, Rick McKay began work on Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There in 1998. He served as researcher, writer, interviewer, editor, director and producer, turning his cramped one-bedroom apartment into a...
- 2/20/2018
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
To celebrate his second consecutive win at the Greenwich Village Film Festival on October 26th, 2016, award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay Broadway The Golden Age, Broadway Beyond the Golden Age, AampE Biography, PBS's City Arts and Egg The Arts Show, releases a six-minute sample of his 2015 winning short film, 'Greenwich Village A World Apart'. The never-before-seen footage can be seen below or on YouTube athttpsyoutu.bei2-wjVAqwsA...
- 11/5/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
To celebrate his second consecutive win at the Greenwich Village Film Festival on October 26th, 2016, award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay Broadway The Golden Age, Broadway Beyond the Golden Age, AampE Biography, PBS's City Arts and Egg The Arts Show, releases a six-minute sample of his 2015 winning short film, Greenwich Village A World Apart. The never-before-seen footage can be seen on YouTube at httpsyoutu.bei2-wjVAqwsA...
- 11/5/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway The Golden Age 2004 is the greatest documentary ever made about the pleasures and pitfalls of working in the arts. Directed by Rick McKay, Broadway The Golden Age received countless awards from over 17 different film festivals. In this in depth interview, Rick tells Rob amp Kevin the inspiration behind the documentary, how Bea Arthur's mail triggered an incredible roster of subjects to interview, and reveals what incredible goodies are in store for the next two movies in the series...
- 10/10/2016
- by Behind the Curtain
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Monday, October 28th, 2015, Rick McKay, the Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer and editor of the hit 2004 film, 'Broadway The Golden Age' won 'Best Film - Greenwich Village Portraits' for his new short film, 'Greenwich Village A World Apart', at the first ever Greenwich Village Film Festival, which was held at Greenwich Village's historic Player's Theatre at 115 MacDougal Street.
- 10/30/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rick McKayhas shared another video from his trilogy, Broadway The Golden Age. In his words, 'Happy 96th Birthday, Marge Champion Marge is seen her in her shoot for Rick McKay's Broadway The Golden Age Film Trilogy, in which she tells tales of her career. From being the artistanimator's inspiration for Snow White, to dancing through the Golden Age of Hollywood on the arm of her husband and dance partner Gower Champion, to winning an Emmy Award for choreographing the wonderful film, Queen Of The Stardust Ballroom, Marge has done it all and is in no rush to quit. She co-starred opposite her old friend and early partner Donald Saddler on Broadway in Follies in 2001 and again on camera in the 2012 film about them both, Never Stand Still.'...
- 9/6/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rick McKay has shared another video from his trilogy, Broadway The Golden Age. In his words, 'Here is a tribute to my pal Marian Seldes, one of the great actresses of the stage of the last century and well into this one. Marian passed away yesterday, leaving many of us devastated. However, she lived a long, full life and touched many, many people with her work. In her later career she was known variously as Broadway's Quiet Lioness, The First Lady of Broadway, or as theater critic Clive Barnes called her, 'America's theatrical diva for our time.' Check out the tribute video below...
- 8/23/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rick McKay, the producerdirector of The Golden Age Film Trilogy, has just unveiled a new clip from the upcoming project, this time featuring an interview with Valerie Harper, telling the story of how the great Lucille Ball improvised one night on Broadway in the show Wildcat in 1960. In addition, Ball's daughter Lucie Arnaz also joins the conversation. Check it out below...
- 8/22/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
In honor of Sally Ann Howes' birthday, Rick McKay, the producerdirector of The Golden Age Film Trilogy, just unveiled a clip of Howes from the documentary film series in which she talks about Rex Harrison's frustration with young actresses playing Eliza in My Fair Lady, and why, at the end of his career, he wanted Howes to come back and play the role one more time. Watch below...
- 7/21/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
In his new film, Broadway Beyond the Golden Age, which will be out next year, Rick McKay interviews Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Wendy Wasserstein in 1999. Known for her award-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, he put this short piece together for his filmtv producing partner, Jamie deRoy, who is part of the producing team of the new revival of The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway, starring Elizabeth 'Mad Men' Moss. Check out the interview below...
- 4/17/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway, film and television casting director Barry Moss passed away in Manhattan on June 17, 2014. He was 74. A video tribute, created by Denise Pence and 'Broadway The Golden Age' film trilogy filmmaker Rick McKay, honored the legendary casting director at a Memorial Tribute held in Moss's honor in New York City today, September 29th. The 12-minute video tribute includes an interview with 50-year friend John Rubinstein, who is on the road in the new Pippin and could not attend, and some rare footage of Lucie Arnaz performing 'They're Playing Our Song,' both shot by McKay. Watch below...
- 9/30/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Marvelous news for Broadway lovers on this Valentine's Day Documentarian Rick McKay's tremendous Broadway The Golden Age retrospective film will apparently be receiving its sequel in 2013 at long, long last if the current Kickstarter Total Pledged tally for Broadway Beyond The Golden Age is correct and McKay proceeds as planned 12,500 was the amount required to cover production costs and the total has now surpassed that goal currently at 12,790, with 14 days still left to go before the fundraising is complete...
- 2/14/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Filmmaker Rick McKay will give audiences a sneak peek of his new documentary about Fay Wray at a 100th birthday celebration of the King Kong actress Tuesday at New York City's Film Forum.
Fay Wray: A Life follows the life and travels of Wray and her friendship with McKay, whom she met in the early 1990s. Wray appeared in McKay's 2003 film, Broadway: The Golden Age.
The new docu features Wray sharing stories of early Hollywood, including her purported affairs with Howard Hughes and Clifford Odets and meeting with Peter Jackson and Naomi Watts before filming the 2005 remake of King Kong.
Postproduction on Fay Wray is scheduled for March at Jackson's New Zealand studio, with a summer/fall 2008 release planned.
The Film Forum also will show Erich von Stroheim's 1928 silent film The Wedding March, starring Wray.
McKay, film historian Foster Hirsch, the forum's Bruce Goldstein and Wray's daughter Susan Riskin are scheduled to appear.
Fay Wray: A Life follows the life and travels of Wray and her friendship with McKay, whom she met in the early 1990s. Wray appeared in McKay's 2003 film, Broadway: The Golden Age.
The new docu features Wray sharing stories of early Hollywood, including her purported affairs with Howard Hughes and Clifford Odets and meeting with Peter Jackson and Naomi Watts before filming the 2005 remake of King Kong.
Postproduction on Fay Wray is scheduled for March at Jackson's New Zealand studio, with a summer/fall 2008 release planned.
The Film Forum also will show Erich von Stroheim's 1928 silent film The Wedding March, starring Wray.
McKay, film historian Foster Hirsch, the forum's Bruce Goldstein and Wray's daughter Susan Riskin are scheduled to appear.
- 9/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opened Friday, June 11 (New York)
NEW YORK -- While less than artfully composed, Rick McKay's homegrown documentary about the glory days of the American theater represents an invaluable oral history. Composed mainly of talking-head interviews and a smattering of fascinating archival footage of long-ago productions, "Broadway: The Golden Age" is made notable by its sheer existence, since this is a subject that has not exactly been overexposed on the big screen. Now playing in several theaters in New York, where business should be brisk, the film will eventually be a must-own video item for theater buffs.
McKay became enamored of the theater when very young, albeit from a secondhand perspective, and moved to New York in 1981, when he was in his early 20s. Despite seeing such revelatory shows as "Amadeus" and "A Chorus Line", he quickly realized that the modern-day theater, filled with spectacles and British imports, was a far cry from the Broadway he had fantasized about.
This golden period, roughly from the 1930s-60s, is the subject of the film, which includes close-up interviews with dozens of theater figures -- mainly performers but also playwrights, composers and producers. These include a veritable who's who of Broadway, including Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Kim Hunter, Tommy Tune, Angela Lansbury, Carol Burnett, Patricia Neal, Barbara Cook, Arthur Laurents, Shirley MacLaine and many, many others.
These oral reminiscences are alternately fascinating and cliche-ridden, entertaining and redundant, but there are many priceless anecdotes, and the passion of the interviewees for their subject is contagious. The filmmaker has organized the accounts in nonchronological and sometimes haphazard fashion.
Some of the segments, such as when the stars describe their early, poverty-ridden years as the best of their lives, etc., have the overly familiar feel of elderly relatives talking about the good old days. But such chapters as the one devoted to the legendary actress Laurette Taylor or Lansbury's pursuit of the lead role in "Mame" are fascinating.
Even more amazing is the rare footage of vintage shows, including the original productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Bus Stop", "Mame" and others. Also on display are excerpts from the only audio recording of Brando and Jessica Tandy in the Broadway "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Taylor's 1938 screen test for David O. Selznick, the only time she ever spoke on film.
BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
Dada Films
Second Act Prods.
Credits:
Director-writer-editor: Rick McKay
Producers: Rick McKay, Albert M. Tapper
Executive producer: Georgia Frontiere
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 111 minutes...
NEW YORK -- While less than artfully composed, Rick McKay's homegrown documentary about the glory days of the American theater represents an invaluable oral history. Composed mainly of talking-head interviews and a smattering of fascinating archival footage of long-ago productions, "Broadway: The Golden Age" is made notable by its sheer existence, since this is a subject that has not exactly been overexposed on the big screen. Now playing in several theaters in New York, where business should be brisk, the film will eventually be a must-own video item for theater buffs.
McKay became enamored of the theater when very young, albeit from a secondhand perspective, and moved to New York in 1981, when he was in his early 20s. Despite seeing such revelatory shows as "Amadeus" and "A Chorus Line", he quickly realized that the modern-day theater, filled with spectacles and British imports, was a far cry from the Broadway he had fantasized about.
This golden period, roughly from the 1930s-60s, is the subject of the film, which includes close-up interviews with dozens of theater figures -- mainly performers but also playwrights, composers and producers. These include a veritable who's who of Broadway, including Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Kim Hunter, Tommy Tune, Angela Lansbury, Carol Burnett, Patricia Neal, Barbara Cook, Arthur Laurents, Shirley MacLaine and many, many others.
These oral reminiscences are alternately fascinating and cliche-ridden, entertaining and redundant, but there are many priceless anecdotes, and the passion of the interviewees for their subject is contagious. The filmmaker has organized the accounts in nonchronological and sometimes haphazard fashion.
Some of the segments, such as when the stars describe their early, poverty-ridden years as the best of their lives, etc., have the overly familiar feel of elderly relatives talking about the good old days. But such chapters as the one devoted to the legendary actress Laurette Taylor or Lansbury's pursuit of the lead role in "Mame" are fascinating.
Even more amazing is the rare footage of vintage shows, including the original productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Bus Stop", "Mame" and others. Also on display are excerpts from the only audio recording of Brando and Jessica Tandy in the Broadway "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Taylor's 1938 screen test for David O. Selznick, the only time she ever spoke on film.
BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
Dada Films
Second Act Prods.
Credits:
Director-writer-editor: Rick McKay
Producers: Rick McKay, Albert M. Tapper
Executive producer: Georgia Frontiere
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 111 minutes...
Opened Friday, June 11 (New York)
NEW YORK -- While less than artfully composed, Rick McKay's homegrown documentary about the glory days of the American theater represents an invaluable oral history. Composed mainly of talking-head interviews and a smattering of fascinating archival footage of long-ago productions, "Broadway: The Golden Age" is made notable by its sheer existence, since this is a subject that has not exactly been overexposed on the big screen. Now playing in several theaters in New York, where business should be brisk, the film will eventually be a must-own video item for theater buffs.
McKay became enamored of the theater when very young, albeit from a secondhand perspective, and moved to New York in 1981, when he was in his early 20s. Despite seeing such revelatory shows as "Amadeus" and "A Chorus Line", he quickly realized that the modern-day theater, filled with spectacles and British imports, was a far cry from the Broadway he had fantasized about.
This golden period, roughly from the 1930s-60s, is the subject of the film, which includes close-up interviews with dozens of theater figures -- mainly performers but also playwrights, composers and producers. These include a veritable who's who of Broadway, including Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Kim Hunter, Tommy Tune, Angela Lansbury, Carol Burnett, Patricia Neal, Barbara Cook, Arthur Laurents, Shirley MacLaine and many, many others.
These oral reminiscences are alternately fascinating and cliche-ridden, entertaining and redundant, but there are many priceless anecdotes, and the passion of the interviewees for their subject is contagious. The filmmaker has organized the accounts in nonchronological and sometimes haphazard fashion.
Some of the segments, such as when the stars describe their early, poverty-ridden years as the best of their lives, etc., have the overly familiar feel of elderly relatives talking about the good old days. But such chapters as the one devoted to the legendary actress Laurette Taylor or Lansbury's pursuit of the lead role in "Mame" are fascinating.
Even more amazing is the rare footage of vintage shows, including the original productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Bus Stop", "Mame" and others. Also on display are excerpts from the only audio recording of Brando and Jessica Tandy in the Broadway "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Taylor's 1938 screen test for David O. Selznick, the only time she ever spoke on film.
BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
Dada Films
Second Act Prods.
Credits:
Director-writer-editor: Rick McKay
Producers: Rick McKay, Albert M. Tapper
Executive producer: Georgia Frontiere
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 111 minutes...
NEW YORK -- While less than artfully composed, Rick McKay's homegrown documentary about the glory days of the American theater represents an invaluable oral history. Composed mainly of talking-head interviews and a smattering of fascinating archival footage of long-ago productions, "Broadway: The Golden Age" is made notable by its sheer existence, since this is a subject that has not exactly been overexposed on the big screen. Now playing in several theaters in New York, where business should be brisk, the film will eventually be a must-own video item for theater buffs.
McKay became enamored of the theater when very young, albeit from a secondhand perspective, and moved to New York in 1981, when he was in his early 20s. Despite seeing such revelatory shows as "Amadeus" and "A Chorus Line", he quickly realized that the modern-day theater, filled with spectacles and British imports, was a far cry from the Broadway he had fantasized about.
This golden period, roughly from the 1930s-60s, is the subject of the film, which includes close-up interviews with dozens of theater figures -- mainly performers but also playwrights, composers and producers. These include a veritable who's who of Broadway, including Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Kim Hunter, Tommy Tune, Angela Lansbury, Carol Burnett, Patricia Neal, Barbara Cook, Arthur Laurents, Shirley MacLaine and many, many others.
These oral reminiscences are alternately fascinating and cliche-ridden, entertaining and redundant, but there are many priceless anecdotes, and the passion of the interviewees for their subject is contagious. The filmmaker has organized the accounts in nonchronological and sometimes haphazard fashion.
Some of the segments, such as when the stars describe their early, poverty-ridden years as the best of their lives, etc., have the overly familiar feel of elderly relatives talking about the good old days. But such chapters as the one devoted to the legendary actress Laurette Taylor or Lansbury's pursuit of the lead role in "Mame" are fascinating.
Even more amazing is the rare footage of vintage shows, including the original productions of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Bus Stop", "Mame" and others. Also on display are excerpts from the only audio recording of Brando and Jessica Tandy in the Broadway "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Taylor's 1938 screen test for David O. Selznick, the only time she ever spoke on film.
BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
Dada Films
Second Act Prods.
Credits:
Director-writer-editor: Rick McKay
Producers: Rick McKay, Albert M. Tapper
Executive producer: Georgia Frontiere
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 111 minutes...
- 6/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Former First Look Media executives MJ Peckos and Bob Myerson have teamed to launch Dada Films, a Los Angeles-based domestic theatrical distribution unit that will include worldwide sales and marketing services. Marking Dada's first pickup, the company has acquired worldwide rights to writer-helmer Rick McKay's documentary Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There. Dada is eyeing an April release for the project, which follows stories of the theatrical legends of the Great White Way. Produced by Albert Tapper, Broadway features interviews with such theater luminaries as Kim Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Kaye Ballard, Mimi Hines, Beatrice Arthur, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, Hume Cronyn, Charles Durning, Rosemary Harris, Derek Jacobi, Lainie Kazan, Fay Wray, Elaine Stritch, Stephen Sondheim, Chita Rivera and Tony Roberts.
- 12/9/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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