Aired Thursday December 2, 8:00pm - 9:00pmon BBC Four

Sound of Musicals with Neil Brand

Series 1 Episode 1: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'

Neil finds out how the modern shape of the musical was established through a series of pioneering works, from Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat in the 1920s with its bold take on America's racial divide and innovative use of songs that further the narrative, to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady, which made a star of Julie Andrews in the late 1950s.

Category
Documentary / Musical / Miniseries
Original air date
2017-01-13
Cast and crew
  • Sebastian BarfieldDirector
  • Neil BrandHost