With his spectacular production numbers in “42nd Street,” from 1933, Busby Berkeley resuscitated the musical genre. Lesser directors had been filming song-and-dance scenes with a dull, stage-bound ...

"Busby Berkeley," a nine-day festival spotlighting the early movie musical trailblazer famous for his eye-popping kaleidoscopic production numbers, will run at Film Forum from Wednesday, December 7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bring up Golden Age Hollywood filmmaker Busby Berkeley, and most people conjure his staging of elaborate, kaleidoscopic dance ...

Get a first look at 3D Theatricals' 42ND STREET's opening night. The bygone era of theatre will feel hauntingly real and magical. This new production will combine the Ziegfeld Follies golden age of ...

Busby Berkeley is one of the few directors whose name is synonymous with, and instantly evocative of, a style—namely, musical production numbers featuring undulating masses of geometrically arrayed ...

Introduction: Berkeley and the Berkeleyesque -- pt. 1. Berkeleyesque Traditions. 1. Roots: From Barnum to Ziegfeld. 2. The Backstage Format -- pt. 2. Berkeleyesque ...