Debbie Allen

Narrator (voice)

Bray Poor

Spike Lee

Self - Host / Self

Julie Andrews

Self / Francisco Goya / Radamès

Plácido Domingo

Self

Tony Bennett

Self / Emily Whitman

Betty Comden

Self / Blanche Dubois / Mme. de Tourvel

Renée Fleming

Grandmother / Essie Miller / Amy Bisley

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Nina / Alma Winemiller / Narrator

Blythe Danner

Claire Huddesen / Self / Marquise de Merteuil

Frederica von Stade

Self

Diahann Carroll

Josey Finn / Cora / Faye Precious

Rue McClanahan

Second Guard / Oswald / Lt. Maxwell

Frederick Coffin

Lilly Miller / Mrs. Holroyd / Ursula

Joyce Ebert

The Prince of Homburg / John Buchanan / Konstantin Treplev

Frank Langella

Benton Arrelsford / Dr.Spiga / Editor

Charles Kimbrough

Lawyer Royall / Self / Walter

John Cullum

Self

Leonard Bernstein

Self

Len Cariou

Self

Marvin Hamlisch

Self - Host / Neighbor

Glenn Close

Director

Nicholas Hytner

Director

Ross MacGibbon

Director

Holger Preuße

Director

Kirk Browning