42nd Street(1986)
Original Broadway production filmed for Japanese television. Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes and the subsequent 1933 Hollywood film adaptation, the show focuses on the efforts of famed dictatorial Great White Way director Julian Marsh to mount a successful stage production of a musical extravaganza at the height of the Great Depression.
Movie: 42nd Street
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Dorothy Brock
Bert Barry
Maggie Jones
Annie
Billy Lawlor
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