A NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT BROADWAY
BY DORI BERINSTEIN
OPENING MAY 11th at
THE LANDMARK SUNSHINE CINEMA
in New York City
Feature film documentary
captures the 2003-2004 Broadway Season
featuring Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline, or Change & Taboo
ShowBusiness: the Road to Broadway, a new film by Dori Berinstein featuring the Broadway casts and creators of Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo, and Caroline, or Change, will premiere at Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York City on May 11th. Regent Releasing and Liberation Entertainment will release the film, and its distribution will be platformed to many markets around the country throughout the Spring and Summer, including Los Angeles on June 1st. Among those featured in the film are Rosie O'Donnell, Boy George, Alan Cumming, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Lithgow, Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, John Tartaglia, Tony Kushner. Tonya Pinkins, George C. Wolfe, Tony Kushner, Anika Noni Rose, Euan Morton and Cyndi Lauper.
ShowBusiness follows four high-profile productions that eventually became Tony Award® nominees: a lavish musical prequel to The Wizard of Oz, Wicked; the controversial Rosie O'Donnell/Boy George collaboration, Taboo; the highly anticipated Tony Kushner/Jeanine Tesori musical, Caroline, or Change and an irreverent musical sleeper hit with puppets, Avenue Q. Film and stage actor, Tony Award® winner Alan Cumming, is the co-producer of ShowBusiness.
From casting to staging, from previews to red-carpet opening nights, from the announcement of the Tony nominations to the suspense-filled Tony Night, ShowBusiness provides a never-before-seen look at the inner workings of Broadway Musicals. Allowed unprecedented backstage access, director Dori Berinstein casts a camera's eye on rehearsals, backstage dramas, and the mysteriously wondrous creative process.
"It was a sheer labor of love to chronicle a Broadway season and experience first hand the hopes, dreams, and passions of the people who devote their lives to the theater," said director/producer Dori Berinstein. "The Broadway community couldn't have been more supportive and my hope is to give audiences a glimpse of what really goes on behind the curtain."
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway was a 2006 International Documentary Association (IDA) Distinguished Documentary Award Finalist. ShowBusiness also won the Best Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Florida Film Festival.
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Dori Berinstein is a three-time Tony-winning Broadway producer (Thoroughly Modern Millie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Fool Moon.) With an extensive film and television producing and directing background. ShowBusiness marks Berinstein's debut as a film director. For television, she was the frequent director and executive producer of The Isaac Mizrahi Show (four seasons) and the director and executive producer of Eavesdropping, Alan Cumming's series featuring Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Megan Mullally and others. Berinstein is currently producing her 11th Broadway-bound show, Legally Blonde-The Musical. For film, Dori executive-produced and/or supervised over 15 feature productions including Isaac Mizrahi's documentary Unzipped and Dirty Dancing. Berinstein is also directing and producing Some Assembly Required which follows kids from across the country competing in a national toy invention competition.
The film runs 104 minutes and is not yet rated by the MPAA.