Great Performances
Great Performances
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Great Performances

6.1
Yr 1971
Status Returning Series
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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.

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PBS
US
KQED
US
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WETA+
US
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Cast

Credited 75
Regulars 1
Longest run 719 eps
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Joyce Ebert as Mrs. Holroyd 3 episodes Frederick Coffin as Second Guard 3 episodes Geraldine Fitzgerald as Amy Bisley 4 episodes William Swetland as Nat Miller 2 episodes Hal Holbrook as Self - Host 2 episodes Frank Langella as John Buchanan 3 episodes Lee Grant 2 episodes Richard Backus as Robert Mayo 2 episodes Austin Pendleton as Bennie 2 episodes Arthur Rubinstein as Self 2 episodes John McMartin as Teddy Wharton 2 episodes Swoosie Kurtz as Rita Altabel 2 episodes Tom Aldredge as Fool 2 episodes Charles Kimbrough as Editor 3 episodes George Martin as Isaacson, Governor of Reading Goal Prison 2 episodes John Houseman as Self 2 episodes Carol Kane as Eliza Southgate 2 episodes Roy Poole as Maj. Gen. Randolph 2 episodes Laurence Olivier as Harry 2 episodes Sally Kellerman as Maureen 2 episodes Josef Sommer as Nikolai 2 episodes Tatiana Troyanos as Adalgisa 2 episodes Stephen Sondheim as Self 3 episodes Blythe Danner as Alma Winemiller 4 episodes John Cullum as Lawyer Royall 4 episodes Roberta Maxwell as Clara 2 episodes André De Shields as Self 2 episodes Tom Bosley as Self - Host 2 episodes Barry Bostwick as Self 2 episodes Andre Gregory as Mad Hatter 2 episodes Donald O'Connor as Self 2 episodes Mary Martin as Self 2 episodes Rosemary Harris as Hesione Hushabye 2 episodes Dana Ivey as Gertrude 2 episodes Catherine Malfitano as Trina Sieppe 2 episodes Patti Austin as Self 2 episodes Tony Bennett as Self 5 episodes Sammy Cahn as Self 2 episodes Peter Donat as Zakhar 2 episodes Biff McGuire as Murphy 2 episodes Fritz Weaver as Creon 2 episodes John Gielgud as Self 3 episodes Leonard Bernstein as Self 3 episodes Len Cariou as Self 3 episodes Frank Oz as Self 2 episodes Sanford Sylvan as Figaro 2 episodes Linda Ronstadt as San Miguel 2 episodes Marvin Hamlisch as Self 3 episodes Glenn Close as Self - Host 3 episodes Meryl Streep 3 episodes Plácido Domingo as Francisco Goya 6 episodes Frederica von Stade as Marquise de Merteuil 4 episodes Betty Comden as Self 5 episodes Richard Kiley as Self 3 episodes James Maddalena as Gideon March 3 episodes Lauren Bacall as Narrator 3 episodes Rosemary Clooney as Self 3 episodes Diahann Carroll as Self 4 episodes Cab Calloway as Self 3 episodes Luciano Pavarotti as Self 3 episodes Renée Fleming as Blanche Dubois 5 episodes Julie Andrews as Self - Host 9 episodes Hugh Bonneville as Self 9 episodes Scott Yoo as Self - Host 3 episodes Scott Yoo as Self 10 episodes Carol Burnett as Self 3 episodes Piotr Beczała as Self 3 episodes
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Keywords

filmed theater based on novel or book anthology based on play or musical literary adaptation
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Details

First Aired
January 28, 1971
Status
Returning Series
Origin
US
TMDB Votes
25