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PBS to Air Broadway Documentary

By Bob Mondello
Published October 18, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

If you're a fan of Broadway musicals, this is your week. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, PBS TV stations air Broadway:The American Musical, a six-hour documentary charting the history of the Great White Way. Bob Mondello says the series is packed with rare footage and even rarer insights.

Copyright 2004 NPR
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
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