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A Lovely Night: The Making of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Television Classic ()

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  • Director: Nathaniel Thompson
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  • Language: English
  • Stars: Julie Andrews , Jon Cypher , Kaye Ballard
  • Runtime: 25 min
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  • AKA: A Lovely Night: The Making of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Television Classic (United States of America)
  • Plot: Image Entertainment made this documentary short to go with the 2005 reissue of the TV musical, "Cinderella." It's a better than usual background look at the making of a movie. The TV special was the largest live stage musical ever made for and broadcast on TV.The host for this special is Ted Chapin, president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization at the time. Among those interviewed are Julie Andrews who starred as Cinderella, Kay Ballard who played stepsister Portia, Ilke Chase who was the wicked stepmother and Edie Admass who played the fairy godmother. To a person, this live TV production was something very special. They talked about many aspects of the project.Much was unique because of the uniqueness of the play. Such a large musical production had never before been done live on TV. Chapin explained the chore of making a TV studio out of a legitimate theater. They covered the usual orchestra space with a concrete floor to make a large enough stage.The production had a cast of 56, an orchestra of 33 and a crew of 80. Crew members and cast who weren't on at any moment hid behind stage screens and props. The working conditions were so close that cast and crew became friends more naturally than under usual movie or TV filming.There are different estimates on the number of viewers of the TV program that night of March 31, 1957. Julie says 107 million people saw it live; Chapin says more than 120 million watched it. Another source reports more than 130 million and another over 100 million. Whatever the number, all agreed that it set the record as the largest TV viewing audience ever to that time.
  • IMDB:tt4648702
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