New York. By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! That's where BroadwayHD comes in. S ome have been acquired from existing catalogs, while others have been created especially for the channel. But how can you choose among the many shows on offer?
That's where we come in. BroadwayHD is currently streaming 65 different musicals. Here are the ones we think you won't want to miss. After intermission, the actors return as modern-day American descendants of the characters they played earlier.
If escapism is what you're looking for, look no farther than this tale of a plucky understudy who becomes as star. A tap-happy paean to musical theater itself, it's the quintessential manifesto of Broadway's show-must-go-on ideology. She was her own best character role, amd her curmudgeonly, whiskey-drenched style exploded with honesty, rue and mordant wit. Before Hugh Jackman strapped on his Wolverine claws and became an action-movie star, he was a musical-theater leading man in his native Australia.
But the radiantly charismatic Jackman is the reason to watch: Whenever he's onscreen, everything goes his way. This version was filmed during the production's London run in Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi play squabbling coworkers who don't realize that they're also pen-pal lovers; Jane Krakowski and Gavin Creel are the comic secondary characters.
Everything about Scott Ellis's productionβthe very first Broadway production to be live-streamed on BroadwayHDβfeels like opening prettily wrapped little gift boxes. Directed by Lapine, the show is about a specific Jewish family in the early s; while its story of a man Christian Borle who leaves his wife and child for a male lover Andrew Rannells may be less novel today, its larger truths continue to resonate.
