Leonard Soloway's Broadway

About the movie

Leonard Soloway's Broadway is a feature documentary. Through interviews with John Slattery, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Ashley, Tovah Feldshuh etc... photos and rare archival material this project captures a Broadway few ever see, from the vantage of one of the most admired and loved Broadway Producers and General Managers you've probably never heard of. Narrated by Cambell Scott this film is an inside look at the "business" of "show business". In a career that has spanned more than seventy years, Soloway has been involved with over 150 productions, including Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, A Moon For the Misbegotten and Mark Twain Tonight! with Hal Holbrook. Those and many of his other productions collected more than 40 Tony Awards, 21 Drama Desk Awards and two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to launching many careers from performers to craftspeople, he has worked with veteran stage actors including Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst as well as film star Paul Newman whose revival of the classic "Our Town" on Broadway was facilitated by Mr. Soloway. At the age of 90, Leonard Soloway's love for the theatre has not dimmed. As he faces the challenges of a new production, from raising money to weathering the anticipation of reviews, he is totally engaged in the process with an ever ready smile and a wink. Even as we witness his latest production reach a disappointing end, in the course of this film Leonard Soloway wouldn't trade what he does (as Irving Berlin once wrote in song) "for a pot of gold". And he is already planning his next show.