Austin Marquez, Taylor Blackman, Lora Lee Gayer, Brian Fender, Jason Gotay Photo credit: David Andrako Photo

From: Photo Flash: Broadway Close Up: When Broadway Went To Hollywood

On November 12 at Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Hall, Broadway Close Up host SEAN HARTLEY interviewed ETHAN MORDDEN, author of When Broadway Went to Hollywood, exploring how songwriters like Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Yip Harburg, Irving Berlin and the Gershwin brothers navigated the often antagonistic culture of Hollywood with different degrees of success - and why they ultimately returned to Broadway.