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A Roundabout Road to Broadway Documentary Receives AVA Digital Award

Hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, the short film features interviews with Audra McDonald, Dame Helen Mirren, and more Broadway favorites.

Bethany Rickwald

| New York City |

March 8, 2017

A Roundabout Road to Broadway, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, has won an AVA Digital Award. — *A Roundabout Road to Broadway*, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, has won an AVA Digital Award.
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The documentary short A Roundabout Road to Broadway, produced by Kinetic Studios for Roundabout Theatre Company’s 50th Anniversary, has received a Gold Award at this year's AVA Digital Awards.

The 22-minute film, directed by Andrew Lawton and hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, aired February 6, 2016. It featured interviews with Alec Baldwin, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Adam Driver, Jake Gyllenhaal, Stephen Karam, Jane Krakowski, Frank Langella, Audra McDonald, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson, Christopher Plummer, and more.

A Roundabout Road to Broadway "pulls back the curtain to reveal the daring risks, artistic leaps of faith, and blood, sweat and tears that drove the evolution of Roundabout Theatre Company."