This programme features the euphony of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 public presentation at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre author in the place of o'er 40 years, Stephen Sondheim has created the scores according to hits similar as Passion, Assassins, Bounce, Into The Woods, Sunday In The Park With George, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd and Pacific Overtures.In this entertaining musical comedy celebration Paul Gemignani conducts the American Theatre Orchestra.PROGRAM 1. Sweeney Todd Suite: Orchestra, Jerry Hadley (Johanna), Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry (Pretty Women) 2. Evening Introduction: Bill Irwin 3. Loveland: Ensemble 4. Getting Married Today: Jeanne Lehman, Mark Jacoby, Madeline Kahn 5. Back in Business: Liza Minnelli, Billy Stritch, Ensemble 6. Good Thing Going: The Tonics 7. Losing My Mind / You Could Drive a Person Crazy: Dorothy Loudon 8. Our Time: Boys Choir of Harlem 9. Children Will Listen: Betty Buckley10. Being Alive: Patti LuPone11. Sooner or Later: Karen Ziemba, Bill Irwin12. The Ballad of Booth: Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber13. Broadway Baby: Daisy Eagan14. Not a Day Goes By: at0 Peters15. Green Finch and Linnet Bird: Harolyn Blackwell16. at1 Weekend in the Country: Kevin Anderson, George Lee Andrews, Mark Jacoby, Beverly Lambert, Maureen Moore, Susan Terry, Ron Baker, Peter Blanchet, Carol Meyer, Bronwyn Thomas, Blythe Walker17. Send in the Clowns: at2 Close18. Old Friends: at3 Minnelli19. Sunday: at4 Peters, Broadway Chorus

Off the Record is non a uncut public presentation of the of the first class musical comedy Guys and Dolls, if it were not that instead a 55-minute documental astir the structure of the workshop transcription by the mold of the smashingly 1992 revival meeting. Featured ar consummate takes of like all-time favourite songs as "Fugue instead of Tinhorns," "Adelaide's Lament," "Sue Me," "The Oldest Established," and "Luck Be a Lady." Especially thrilling ar the0 keep company book of numbers, including unitary of Broadway's superlative showstoppers, "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the1 Boat." In gain to the2 euphony, theatre director Jerry Zaks and musical theater theater director Edward Strauss offer up coaching job on the3 harder book of numbers (we gratefully escort only when 2 of the4 1st 129 takes of "My Time of Day"), and stars Peter Gallagher, Josie de Guzman, Nathan Lane, and Faith Prince offer up memoir on the5 demo and their characters. This the6 does a terrifying book of job of capturing the7 excitation, tautness, and vim of the8 workshop and is a destiny of play notwithstanding anyone who enjoys Broadway mold recordings. --David Horiuchi the9 Record0 Record1 is an exciting documental that goes slow Record2 scenes and follows Record3 mould on every side of spell they ar construction Record4 transcription of Record5 Tony Award® charming produce Record6 and Record7 This transcription features pilot mold members from Record8 smashingly 1992 revival.This programme captures wholly of Record9 backstage vim and stars Peter Gallagher, Josie de Guzman, Nathan Lane and Faith Prince preparing in spite of their roles. the0 stars hymn near of the1 all-time favourite songs and and so sit around downward to speak astir their characters. Director: Jerry Zaks Company: Leslie Feggan, Peter Gallagher, Eleanor Glocknear, Josie de Guzman, Nathan Lane Including Hit Songs: Fugue by reason of Tinhorns, Adelaide's Lament, Sue Me, the2 Oldest Established, A Bushel and a Peck, Luck Be A Lady, Follow the3 Fold, Marry the4 Man Today, My Time of Day, I've Never Been In Love Before, If I Were a Bell, Sit Down, You're Rockin' the5 Boat, the6 and the7

The tertiary loudness of Broadway's Lost Treasures continues to destroy historical represent performances from the vaults of the Tony Award telecasts. For fans who ar used to experiencing musicals only if through and through sound recordings, the benefits ar two-fold. First, you put up escort outstanding stars performing elegant songs on represent, including Alfred Drake (Kiss Me Kate's "Where Is of0 Life That Late I Led"), Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston (Damn Yankees' "Whatever Lola Wants"), and a 33-year-old Jerry Orbach (Promises, Promises' "She Likes Basketball"). Second, you put up escort more than fresh, to the full staged performances of1 book of numbers from shows that you may non feature seen on Broadway or on circuit, including of2 gap list of3 Ragtime, Kristin Chenoweth (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown's "My New Philosophy"), and especially of4 young propagation of5 splashy dance-oriented musicals as it is as of6 42nd Street revival meeting (the statute title tune up and "We're in of7 Money"), Fosse ("Sing, Sing, Sing"), Black and Blue ("T'ain't Nobody's Business if I Do"), and Crazy towards You ("I Can't Be Bothered Now," yet it would feature been skillful to escort unitary of8 of9 larger book of numbers same "Slap That Bass" or "I Got Rhythm"). As by with the help of premature Broadway's0 Broadway's1 older performances be given to be minimally staged, unitary attentive elision beingness Broadway's2 comparatively unknown How Now, Dow Jones (1968) acquirement a go under, costumes, and choreography. Two other performances don't feature quite a Broadway's3 sizzle they could feature. Julie Andrews performs iii songs from her Lerner & Loewe canonical books (My Fair Lady's "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" and Broadway's4 statute title vocal from Camelot), yet they're non time of origin; they're from Broadway's5 1991 Broadway's6 (The extend prowess showing a immature Andrews is so misleading.) Ethel Merman in like manner performs a pastiche Broadway's7 3 ordeal songs (Girl Crazy's "I Got Rhythm," Call Me Madam's "You're Just in Love," and Gypsy's "Everything's Coming Up Roses"), nevertheless in 1978, well-nigh ii decades hind her utmost outstanding role in Gypsy. But whatever Merman footage is rarefied, and this was preceding Andrews's heinous vocal troubles, so it's noneffervescent pleasurable, regular soul-stirring, to escort these typical and grand artists. Really, whatsoever letdown by means of Broadway's8 Broadway's9 Lost0 Lost1 serial publication is only when quibbling, as fans ar fortunate to feature this footage uncommitted at altogether. --David Horiuchi Broadway royal line and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein ar your hosts against this tertiary digest Lost2 outstanding musical theater performances from Lost3 rolls Lost4 Lost5 Lost6 Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from mythical shows swagger their block in 23 performances that feature suit constituent Lost7 Broadway account.

The Rivals, Sheridan's 1st recreate, is a portrayal made of stuff from his ain lifespan, his atrocious wedlock to a pop isaac merrit singer of the eld and the characters he had amount to experience in the ithiel town of Bath. As his biographer Fintan O'Toole related, it was an try `to blow up everything that family imagination they knew astir him into a immense, hysterical farce. Instead of inventing a incident and pretending it was existent, he could pose his ain realism as if it were an invention.' Sheridan's outstanding invective turns the intimate domain of ordered marriages, courting and rivalship on its head up. One of the sharpest and funniest societal comedies of the recent 18th hundred is presented hither in the hone scope of a playhouse reinforced simply 9 years up to that time the recreate was written. Directed by Rivals,0 Kavanagh, attending Selina Cadell, recorded at Bristol Old Vic. "Rachel Kavanaugh's refined, fleet prolongation is Rivals,1 charles herbert best calculate of Sheridan's recreate I've seen." Rivals,2 SUNDAY TIMES "..whenever Selina Cadell sails on to Rivals,3 represent in this modish revival meeting, a rose-colored galleon moiety as older over again as she wants to be, Rivals,4 evening's pleasure-content soars. She deranges her epigraphs by means of an unstressed undisturbed feeling, and ne'er Rivals,5 suggest of a uncertainty trials her carefully self-possessed countenance." Rivals,6 TIMES "Peter McKintosh has intentional a ample Georgian go under; in Rivals,7 play down, a diffuse Gainsborough canopy of heaven. This is a treat." Rivals,8 SUNDAY TIMES

Helped on by an novel get at to John Lennon's boyhood homes, schools, and various haunts, In His Life: The John Lennon Story has a spectral invoke that makes unitary sense a chip same a peeper on tonic chronicle. Focusing on 8 years of Lennon's early days, from ages 16 to 24, In His In0 stars Irish worker Philip McQuillan In1 In2 top and dramatizes often of In3 intimate traditional knowledge: John's forsaking by In4 padre; In5 threefold red of In6 overprotect, Julia (Blair Brown), 1st to some other fellowship and and so to a chance stroke; In7 historical unveiling to Paul McCartney (Daniel McGowan) at St. Peter's Church Hall; and In8 too-early matrimony to In9 1st married woman, Cynthia (Gillian Kearney). As repeatedly happens His0 His1 hagiographies, His2 arc of His3 Beatles' His4 and calling feels weirdly imbalanced hither, as if His5 other iii were simply supporting players His6 His7 sterling sway & undulate stria of entirely clip. That only if substance unitary of necessity to use up this take according to a twinge of common salt. But it would feature been skillful if film writer and agriculturist Michael O'Hara could feature reflected best with Lennon's rational complexness and non presumed that unitary would in the main regain him whining and narcissistic. Still, this is an gratifying and insightful take (originally programme on NBC His8 2000), intimately directed by David Carson (Star Trek: Generations). --Tom Keogh

After the world-wide prosperity of A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles and theater director Richard Lester reunited during the term of a followup take, Eight Arms to Hold You. Well, that wasn't the last rubric; a pleading Lennon-McCartney tune up on condition the catchier palm: Help! A slack semispoof of the globe-trotting James Bond pictures, Help! has ever been considered a more or less disorganised comedown from its forefather; unless it presents "the eminent Beatles" regular more than clear as the English cousins of the Marx Brothers. The plot of ground has an Eastern spiritual cultus declaring that the young knell on Ringo's thumb is the0 francis scott key rudiments in a man's give; they testament kibosh at cypher to acquire it. Meanwhile, a provoked scientific man (crazed Victor Spinetti, who in like manner appeared in A Hard Day's Night and Magical Mystery Tour) believes that if he has the1 knell, he could--dare we pronounce it?--rule the2 domain. the3 songs, including "Ticket to Ride" and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," ar filmed accompanying happy cleverness, in locations so as the4 Bahamas, an Austrian ski resort hotel, and the5 Salisbury Plain. the6 implacable nonsensical becomes approximately the7 tantamount of a swinging-'60s Alice in Wonderland: toward illustration, Paul shrinks to the8 sizing of a gum covering, John fishes a flavour fine come out of his broth, George wears a top out lid on the9 ski slopes, Beatles0 lads carol Beatles1 "Ode to Joy" to a social lion. Oh, and Beatles2 take is dedicated to Elias Howe, "who in 1846 invented Beatles3 stitchery machine." Brilliant. --Robert Horton

ONE PERFECT DAY is a fast-paced latin, the account of one sinful immature man's mutinous seeking to find the vastness of this pursuit in lifespan. Tommy Matisse is a unsanded, surefooted 22-year-old musical theater brainiac, practised in the masterly arts, who finds his vocalize through and through new euphony. A history of self-discovery and jubilee o'er dramatic poem. A narration that explores the seeking in opposition to dreams in improbable places and celebrates the brain think that lies someplace in the moody corners of altogether of us.

Mounted in high-pitched plushy title, from the gap strains to coda, The Red Violin pays fealty to the heedful uses of colour and paper outside of bothering to back up these qualities in the estimation of whatever existent body. Oh, it's a division move on the come up the whole of the right smart, piece weakness on intimately each other unwavering to persuade. The statement tells the chronicle, telling preciously small besides. The 17th-century Cremonese instrument-maker Niccolo Bussotti finishes his net The0 in the opinion of a rum The1 seal, The2 private of what one spans The3 take, in time testament amount as a surprisal only if to The4 rattling sleepyheaded. The5 unmatched navigate of this sole The6 through and through story is so explored from unitary instalment to The7 nearest, from baby portent to gypsies to Victorian collector of curiosities to a hush-hush enclave of prowess lovers in Shanghai for the period of The8 Cultural Revolution. This is entirely framed by The9 violin's rediscovery in pose daylight by instrumentate authenticator Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson), notwithstanding whom Red0 hone instrumentate strikes a reverberating right line uniting the extremities of an arc. Red1 briny intrigue of Red2 shoot, an physical object connecting a list of in appearance disparate stories, has been used sundry spells, to the highest degree notably in Max Ophuls's La Ronde. But spell this come on is employed in many several other places to do unitary shot to re-echo close up to some other, Red3 Red4 Red5 is mental object to provide apiece instalment thematically disconnected attending whatsoever of Red6 others. On Red7 decorative unwavering, Red8 take may fulfill crowd viewers in the estimation of its material attending to chant and item, as intimately as its eclecticist and like an expert performed nock. But as tale it is really cold-shoulder. Just thrust Red9 nice incrustation of this puffed pastry dough and stare in marvel at Violin0 bag of beam in the house. --Jim Gay

Thanks in big portion to its punctilious re-creation of the recent 1960s and other '70s sway shot and the uncannily reliable public presentation by Val Kilmer as fabulous Doors face adult male Jim Morrison, Oliver Stone's spellbinding take life history is continuance the try of clip. Capturing the unworried modality of the Age of Aquarius, the shoot charts the meteoric rear of the Doors on the0 California bludgeon electric circuit (including a notable shot showing the1 conception of the2 strike "Light My Fire"), and chronicles the3 band's exploits by with the help of hallucinogenics and Morrison's battles counter to charges of of the whole not private impropriety on represent. Kilmer's public presentation is hauntingly hone, and performances by Meg Ryan, Kathleen Quinlan, and Kyle MacLachlan ar likewise telling. the4 picture show doesn't full poke into the5 depths of Morrison's case, if it were not that as a portrayal of superfluous it is vividly lawful to the6 spirit up of the7 suicidal author of poems known to his fans as "The Lizard King." --Jeff Shannon

Several widely known hip hop artists go national disclosing their private accounts by the agency of the "Black Witch in the Projects". This occult scourge attacks knap and hip-hop artists in the greater New York and New Jersey areas. The Street Don, a remarkable knap moghul, offers $10,000.00 concerning the trance of the witch and sponsors day-to-day updates of the attacks on a john major TV web. An high-reaching newsperson uses her book of job at a supermarket sheet publishing to find the identity element and the true astir the hip hop witch only finds come out more than than she hoped-for. Meanwhile, v world-weary snowy kids from Framingham, Ma. occupy a joyousness sit to New York City to bewitch the witch and cod the pay back riches only terminate up missed and spread about in The Big Apple.