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Syncopated City (1919-1933)
The episode features interviews with actor Carol Channing, Gershwin sister Frances Gershwin Godowsky, Al Jolson & Co. creator Stephen Mo Hanan, critic Margo Jefferson, writer Miles Krueger, New Yorker theater critic John Lahr, radio host/music critic Jonathan Schwartz, theater historians Max Wilk and Robert Kimball, and director/producer George C.Wolfe. Highlights include rare performance footage of composer Eubie Blake and a specially animated sequence of Rodgers and Hart’s 1927 hit “Thou Swell” from A Connecticut Yankee.
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![Syncopated City (1919-1933)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/u5dP8NZFWmIYruR727nDAIQQ1Og.jpg)
![I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (1930-1942)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/u5dP8NZFWmIYruR727nDAIQQ1Og.jpg)
![Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (1943-1960)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/u5dP8NZFWmIYruR727nDAIQQ1Og.jpg)
![Tradition (1957-1979)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/u5dP8NZFWmIYruR727nDAIQQ1Og.jpg)
![Putting It Together (1980-2004)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/u5dP8NZFWmIYruR727nDAIQQ1Og.jpg)