Great Performances

5.8

1971 120 min Returning Series

Comedy Documentary Drama

Overview

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Cast

Scott Yoo

as Self - Host

3 episodes

Betty Comden

as Self

5 episodes

John Houseman

as Self

2 episodes

Frederick Coffin

as Lt. Maxwell

3 episodes

Hugh Bonneville

as Self

9 episodes

Barry Bostwick

as Self

2 episodes

Estelle Parsons

as Agnes

2 episodes

André De Shields

as Self

2 episodes

Glenn Close

as Self - Host

3 episodes

Tom Bosley

as Self - Host

2 episodes

Julie Andrews

as Self

9 episodes

Bray Poor

as Narrator (voice)

673 episodes

Mary Martin

as Self

2 episodes

Stephen Sondheim

as Self

3 episodes

Susan Sarandon

as Eileen

2 episodes

Andre Gregory

as Mad Hatter

2 episodes

Dana Ivey

as Lady Ariadne Utterword

2 episodes

John McMartin

as Leone Gala

2 episodes

Roberta Maxwell

as Clara

2 episodes

Luciano Pavarotti

as Self

3 episodes

Sanford Sylvan

as Don Alfonso

2 episodes

Joyce Ebert

as Ursula

3 episodes

Patti Austin

as Self

2 episodes

Linda Ronstadt

as Self

2 episodes

Lee Grant

2 episodes

Tony Bennett

as Self

5 episodes

Richard Kiley

as Self

3 episodes

Richard Jenkins

as Warder

2 episodes

Richard Backus

as Richard Miller

2 episodes

Leonard Bernstein

as Self

3 episodes

Sammy Cahn

as Self

2 episodes

Swoosie Kurtz

as Muriel McComber

2 episodes

Frances Sternhagen

as Wilma Atkins

2 episodes

Rosemary Clooney

as Self

3 episodes

Josef Sommer

as Polonius

2 episodes

Scott Yoo

as Self

7 episodes

Diahann Carroll

as Self

4 episodes

Roy Poole

as Maj. Gen. Randolph

2 episodes

Arthur Rubinstein

as Self

2 episodes

John Cullum

as Self

4 episodes

Crew

Translator

Brian Hooker

Director

Michael Longhurst Arvin Brown Burt Shevelove Sam Wrench Max Lewkowicz Philipp Quiring Sharon Mullally Todd Decker Michael Lindsay-Hogg Anne-Kathrin Peitz Kirk Browning Kathy Dougherty Ross MacGibbon Alex Ramsey Simon Godwin Michael Mayer Jennifer Lin Susan Froemke Dag Freyer Matthew Diamond

Set Designer

Mimi Lien

Conductor

Giacomo Sagripanti Susanna Mälkki

Music Producer

David Frost

Director of Photography

Newton Thomas Sigel

Lighting Design

Kevin Adams

Executive Producer

Alan King