Broadway: The American Musical, a new multipart documentary by Michael Kantor, recently aired on PBS. The info is nothing new to Broadway buffs, nor are many of the clips (and they left out ____!), but it's a solid documentary, better than others on the subject, and about on par with others of this format.

The DVD box set is already available for the holiday gifting season, three discs with a large quantity of extra material. Even better: the companion 5 CD box set is, well, five CDs worth of showtunes. There's also a book.