The one-hour special will air on ABC, March 5 at 7 PM and be rebroadcast March 6 at 5 AM. (All times ET. Check your local listings.) Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski (Nine and the upcoming London Guys and Dolls) will host the evening celebrating Broadway with Eyewitness News anchor Steve Bartelstein.
Among the shows and companies featured in the special include A Streetcar Named Desire, Beauty and the Beast, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, Brooklyn Boy, Brooklyn The Musical, Democracy, Doubt, Good Vibrations, Mamma Mia!, Roundabout Theatre Company, Spamalot, Steel Magnolias, The Lion King and Twelve Angry Men.
Guest interviews will include Christina Applegate, Harvey Fierstein, John Lithgow, Adam Arkin, Alan Alda, Susan Lucci, Dame Edna, Richard Thomas, Matthew Broderick, Richard Kind and Alan Ruck.