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VOL 30, ISSUE 8 / AUGUST 2021 thirteen.org 1 EVENING AND NIGHT André De Shields Liza Minnelli Filmmaker Rick McKay (left) with Jane Summerhays, Tommy Tune, and Don Pippin. To view the monthly program guide on our website, visit thirteen.org/schedule CelebrateCelebrate BroadwayBroadway and click on “Program Guide.” ON JUNE 26, after a 15-month shutdown, Chita Rivera, Elaine Stritch, Jane Sum- 11:00 Thou Shalt Not 10:00 POV: “Pier Kids” Broadway officially reopened with Spring- merhays, Tommy Tune, Dick Van Dyke, SYMBOL KEY Kill The homicide of Black, homeless queer Guglielmo Mantovani and trans youth who call steen on Broadway. Hamilton, Hadestown, Ben Vereen, and more, touching on classic Premiere appears to be the New York’s Christopher and Wicked are set to open in September, Broadway shows including Once Upon a consequence of a home Street Pier their home Our productions with more shows welcoming audiences in Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the invasion gone wrong. work to carve out coming months. THIRTEEN celebrates this Park, Pippin, and 42nd Street. Aired earlier (Part 3 of 12) REPEATS autonomy and security this month momentous return to the theater with Donna McKechnie shares stories about 3RD, 3AM. in their lives. REPEATS To be announced specials spotlighting Broadway legends, the creation of A Chorus Line. Liza Minnelli 5TH, 4AM AND 9TH, 2:30AM. 8/02 EARLY MON AM hit musicals, and more. recalls stepping into the role of Roxie Hart 12:00 Beyond the Canvas [R] The festivities begin with Broadway: in Chicago in 1975 while Gwen Verdon was 1 SUNDAY 12:30 Austin City Limits: Beyond the Golden Age (Thu 19th, 8 p.m.) on vocal rest. André De Shields, Robert “Texas Icons: Jerry Jeff on Great Performances. The highly antic- Guillaume, Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, 6:00 PBS NewsHour Walker & Billy Joe ipated sequel to filmmaker Rick McKay’s and Charlaine Woodard reflect on the Weekend With Hari Shaver” Sreenivasan. 1:30 Icon: Music Through ELEGANCE BRATTON 2003 film will birth of Ain’t Misbehavin’. Broadway: The Golden Age 6:30 MetroFocus the Lens [R] also stream on the Great Performances Liza With a Z (Thu 12th, 8 p.m.) features 7:00 Inside the Savoy 2:30 POV: “Mayor” [R] 11:30 Amanpour and website (pbs.org/gperf) and the THIRTEEN Liza Minnelli in full razzle-dazzle force. The 130-year history of 4:00 Professor T (Part 7 Company app (thirteen.org/anywhere). The 1972 concert special—directed and the U.K.’s first-ever luxury of 13) [R] hotel—a bastion of British 5:00 Halifax: Retribution 8/03 EARLY TUE AM Broadway: The Golden Age delighted choreographed by Bob Fosse, and featur- hospitality. (Part 3 of 7) [R] 12:30 MetroFocus [R] theater fans with its astonishing Who’s Who ing music by John Kander and Fred 8:00 Secrets of Royal 1:00 Unforgotten Season compilation of intimate interviews with the Ebb—earned four Emmy Awards, a DGA Travel: “Secrets of the 4 on Masterpiece SEE 1ST, stars of Broadway’s so-called “Golden Age” Award, and a Peabody. Highlights include Royal Flight” How 2 MONDAY 9PM. [R] in the 1940s and 50s, creating an invaluable a Cabaret medley, “Ring Them Bells,” the jet-setting has defined 2:00 Professor T SEE 1ST, first-hand archive of fascinating backstage iconic title song, and more. Marvin Ham- the modern royals. (Part 5:00 BBC World News 10PM. [R] 2 of 2) Outside Source 3:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill stories and reminiscences. McKay’s work lisch was the music conductor, and Halston 9:00 Unforgotten 5:30 NJ Spotlight News SEE 1ST, 11PM. [R] on the sequel, chronicling Broadway shows designed the dazzling costumes. Season 4 on Masterpiece With Briana Vannozzi 4:00 Icon: Music Through from 1959 until the early 1980s, was cut Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel Cassie and Sunny 6:00 MetroFocus the Lens [R] short by his untimely death in 2018. host Wicked in Concert (Sun 29th, 9 p.m.), discover that Walsh was 6:30 BBC World News 5:00 Secrets of the But in great news for Broadway fans, a reimagining of the hit Broadway musical chased by all four America Dead: “King Arthur’s suspects on the night in 7:00 PBS NewsHour Lost Kingdom” [R] a new team of producers has taken on the in an intimate concert setting. The starry question. (Part 4 of 6) 8:00 Antiques film to finally bring it to fruition. The galaxy cast includes Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen), REPEATS 3RD, 1AM. Roadshow: “Vintage of stars featured in interviews includes Amber Riley (Glee), Alex Newell (Once on 10:00 Professor T: Portland” 3 TUESDAY Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, This Island, Glee), and Sara Bareilles (Great “Mother Love” Professor 9:00 Antiques Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, Charles Durning, Performances: Jesus Christ Superstar Live T is called upon to help Roadshow Recut: “Treasure 5:00 BBC World News investigate the Fever” (Part 1 of 2) Outside Source Celeste Holm, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, in Concert, Waitress), performing “Defying disappearance of a 9:30 Antiques 5:30 NJ Spotlight News Cherry Jones, Robert Morse, Jerry Orbach, Gravity,” “Popular,” and other beloved six-year-old girl. (Part 4 Roadshow Recut: “Treasure With Briana Vannozzi Elaine Paige, Don Pippin, Robert Redford, songs from the Tony-winning musical. of 13) REPEATS 3RD, 2AM. Fever” (Part 2 of 2) 6:00 MetroFocus COVER (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT): CAROL BURNETT: AF ARCHIVE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; JERRY ORBACH: ARCHIVE PL/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; DICK VAN DYKE: PIC- TURELUX/THE HOLLYWOOD ARCHIVE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; BEN VEREEN: GLASSHOUSE IMAGES/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS: EVERETT COLLECTION INC/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; CHITA RIVERA: JOE SINNOTT/WNET; LIZA MINNELLI: KEYSTONE PRESS/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; DONNA MCKECHNIE: ROS DRINKWATER/ALA- MY STOCK PHOTO. THIS PAGE (L-R): EVERETT COLLECTION INC/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; BROADWAY THE GOLDEN AGE AND BEYOND, LLC.; PROVEN ENTERTAINMENT. 2 thirteen.org 3 EVENING AND NIGHT 6:30 BBC World News 7:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Alicia Keys in 8:00 Washington Week Heal Your Mind With reunite when the America 8:00 Nature: “Super LA The global superstar 8:30 Firing Line With Daniel Amen, MD youngest of them shoots 7:00 PBS NewsHour Cats: Cats in Every and 15-time Grammy Margaret Hoover 5:00 Design in Mind: On her husband. With Diane 8:00 Finding Your Roots: Corner” Discover how Award winner welcomed 9:00 Icon: Music Location With James Ivory Keaton, Jessica Lange, “Freedom Tales” Host cats have conquered the 2021 with a special live Through the Lens: “On Sissy Spacek, and Sam Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with world. (Part 2 of 3) performance. REPEATS the Cover” The stories Shepard. actor S. Epatha Merkerson REPEATS 6TH, 1AM. 7TH, 4:30PM. behind the images that 7 SATURDAY 10:50 Reel 13 Indies: “The and athlete and television 9:00 NOVA: “Emperor’s made the front pages of Lucky Ones” (2008) Three personality Michael Ghost Army” Emperor the music magazines. 6:00 PBS NewsHour soldiers returned from the Strahan. REPEATS 5TH, 1AM. Qin Shi Huang of China (Part 4 of 6) REPEATS 9TH, Weekend With Hari Iraq War—a woman and 9:00 American Experience: was buried in a 1:30AM AND 10TH, 4AM. Sreenivasan. two men—form a bond in “Jesse Owens” The mausoleum with 9,000 10:00 Classic Albums: 6:30 GZERO World With a carpool. With Rachel sharecropper’s son terracotta statues. “Pink Floyd—The Dark Ian Bremmer McAdams, Tim Robbins, defied Nazi racial hatred REPEATS 6TH, 2AM. BBC STUDIOS Side of the Moon” Pink 7:00 Professor T: and Michael Peña. to win Olympic gold in 10:00 Secrets of the Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece “Murder on Prescription” Berlin. REPEATS 5TH, 2AM. Dead: “Viking Warrior 9:30 Underground broke records when it A crime writer who 8/08 EARLY SUN AM 10:00 Josephine Baker: Queen” Archaeologists Railroad: The William Still sold more than 30 million depicted his own murder 12:45 Reel 13 Shorts The Story of an examine one of the most Story A humble Philadelphia copies and spent 740 in one of his books 12:50 Reel 13 Classics [R] Awakening The first significant Viking graves clerk risked his life weeks on the U.S. charts. commits suicide. (Part 8 2:40 Reel 13 Indies [R] Black superstar. Born into ever found. REPEATS 6TH, shepherding runaway REPEATS 11TH, 5AM. of 13) REPEATS 9TH, 4AM. 4:35 Reel 13 Shorts [R]. poverty in Missouri in 3AM AND 10TH, 5AM. slaves to freedom. 11:00 Amanpour and 8:00 Halifax: 4:40 Antiques Roadshow 1906, by the mid-1920s 11:00 Amanpour and REPEATS 7TH, 3PM. Company Retribution The sniper Recut [R] she was hailed as Queen Company 11:00 Amanpour and hacks Jane’s phone, of Paris. REPEATS 5TH, 3AM. Company 8/07 EARLY SAT AM identifying himself as 11:00 Amanpour and 8/05 EARLY THU AM 12:00 MetroFocus [R] Daniel. His next message 8 SUNDAY Company 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 8/06 EARLY FRI AM 12:30 One-on-One With is a warning. (Part 4 of 7) 12:30 One-on-One With 12:00 MetroFocus [R] Steve Adubato REPEATS 9TH, 5AM. 6:00 PBS NewsHour 8/04 EARLY WED AM Steve Adubato 12:30 One-on-One With 1:00 Collagen Diet With 9:00 Reel 13 Classics: Weekend With Hari 12:00 MetroFocus [R] 1:00 Finding Your Roots Steve Adubato Dr. Josh Axe “Crimes of the Heart” Sreenivasan.