Broadway's Lost Treasures delivers that which the rubric promises: 21 historical performances of outstanding moments in American musical comedy theatre televised on the Tony Awards betwixt 1967 and 1986. (Five were non included which time the programme was program on PBS in 2003.) Unlike an other arts, house has seldom been well-documented, so it's a handle to escort these book of numbers performed by the archetype artists instead than see them through and through sound recordings or lukewarm film adaptations. Sure, go and depict lineament ar only when decent, one of the book of numbers ar minimally staged and some people seem to be lip-synched, and some people of the performances that do feature first-class take counterparts (Yul Brynner in The King and I, Robert Preston in The Music Man, Joel Grey in Cabaret) have the appearance instead lacklustre hither. But those ar venial drawbacks compared to the betide to escort Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera execute "All That Jazz" and "Nowadays" from Chicago, or John Raitt, a present fable who's woefully underrepresented on take, vocalizing The Pajama Game's "Hey There." The to the highest degree thrilling take out is from Evita, anchored by the ball of fire triplet of Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, and Bob Gunton, the to the highest degree astonishing is Julie Andrews vocalizing "Send in the Clowns" (she wasn't in the mould of A Little Night Music), and the to the highest degree in relation to is a 12-year-old Andrea McArdle rupture black maria in Annie's "Tomorrow." An requisite register of a quintessential American artistry spring. --David Horiuchi Joel Grey, Carol Channing, John Raitt, Patti LuPone, Yul Brynner, Zero Mostel--these greats ar in the midst of the original-cast performers featured in this sole filmed abridgment of Broadway showstoppers. Seen only when formerly in their pilot Tony Award® telecasts (1967-1986), these 22 knock-out performances amount in contrast with young introductions by a certain of the featured performers, including Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, and Chita Rivera. BONUS: Both DVD and VHS formats feature film v special performances non seen on PBS! Program includes: BROADWAY DIVAS Vivian Blaine, "Adelaide's Lament," Guys and Dolls Patti LuPone, "A New Argentina," Evita Angela Lansbury, "Worst Pies in London," Sweeney Todd Carol Channing, "Before the Parade Passes By," Hello, Dolly! Julie Andrews, "Send in the Clowns," A Little Night Music LEADING MEN Zero Mostel, "If I Were a Rich Man," Fiddler on the Roof Yul Brynner, "Shall We Dance," The King and I John Raitt, "Hey There," The Pajama Game Robert Preston, "Trouble," The Music Man Paul Lynde, "Kids," Bye Bye Birdie DANCIN' Joel Grey, "Willkommen," Cabaret Tommy Tune, Twiggy, "Chasin' the Clouds Away," My One and Only Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, "All That Jazz," "Nowadays," Chicago Jerry Orbach, "Lullaby of Broadway," 42nd Street RECORD BREAKERS Andrea McArdle, mould, "Tomorrow," Annie Cast, "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," Annie Betty Buckley and mould, "Jellicle Songs," "Memory," Cats BONUS PERFORMANCES! Both DVD and VHS formats contain 5 extra performances non seen on the PBS pledge-special broadcasts. Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, "McHugh Medley," Sugar Babies Patti LuPone, "Buenos Aires," Evita Barbara Harris, "Movie Star Gorgeous," The Apple Tree Bonnie Franklin, "Applause," Applause Dorothy Loudon and mould, "Easy Street," "Tomorrow" (reprise), Annie

Legendary balladeer Bing Crosby sings and dances his right smart through and through this witching and delicious anecdote of a rover who drifts into the lives and black maria of the residents of the little ithiel town of Middletown, New Jersey. Featuring euphony and lyrics by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston, including the classics "So Do I," "Pennies from Heaven" (Academy Award® nominee because of Best Music/Song), "Skeleton in the Closet" and "Let's Call a Heart a Heart." With unbelievable supporting performances by the astonishing Louis Armstrong, the elegant Madge Evans, and the gifted Edith Fellows, PENNIES FROM HEAVEN is unitary of the coronate jewels from the prosperous eld of Hollywood at the time that existent stars weren't fix only if in heaven...and a fistful of pennies noneffervescent went a far-seeing right smart. Stars: Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, John Gallaudet, Tommy Dugan, Louis Armstrong, Nydia Westman.

Parties ar non e'er as sport as they seem same they should be. The difference lies in the sphere betwixt sleeplessness the bulk of mankind feature sport and really having sport. Case in repoint: Groove. Set in San Francisco o'er the trend of unitary dark, this is the relation of a gush, sheer and unsubdivided. Preparation includes inhabiting an vacuous storage warehouse, discovery the force provide, and sending come out coded invitations. The moving-picture show kicks in as the company does, whereas the vulgar take up arriving and the DJs take up spinning. There's a skillful second former on while a cop shows up asking because of the possessor of the edifice, who is and then taken on a circuit of "a young Internet start-up." It becomes regular funnier whenever the cop turns come out to be smarter and more than kind than anyone would await. Writer-director Greg Harrison does a smartness object by focusing the loft on David, a tyro who's ne'er been to a gush judgment, what one breaks the untruth come out of how great could feature been the suffocatingly parochial domain of gush civilization. Unknowingly dosed by someone (his brother?), David is adoptive by Layla, an prepossessing if it were not that unfrequented East Coast transfer who has begun to sorrowful longing her company lifestyle. Other characters contain a hombre who's simply proposed to his lady friend, a college edifice building commandment supporter merchandising his ain manufactured drugs, a villainous deceiver, a DJ who gets to receive his matinee idol, and a merry couple up having inconvenience discovery the company. If the characters turn over come out to be simply type types, that's OK for the cause that the motion picture itself floats by on its ain high-power mental excitement. Groove is short and empty amusement in the estimation of a bunk you tin trip the light fantastic to. --Andy Spletzer

See Paulette and Jimmy give up up their heels and come in enjoy! Based on a pop wireless standard of value giveaway demo of the like nominate, "Pot O' Gold" stars the ever-bewildered bound loveable James Stewart and the fine and gusty Paulette Goddard, and as 1941 was the crest of the heavy striation epoch, pop Horace Heidt and His Thirty Musical Knights. The history revolves right and left the band's battle according to its "big break." The members every one of unrecorded in Mrs. McCorkle's embarkation domiciliate and pass their clip practicing on the arch. When Jimmy Haskell (Stewart) arrives in ithiel town and now meets Molly (Goddard) and the banding, Jimmy before long has the striation on his music-hating uncle's wireless demonstrate, "The Haskell Happy Hour"--and from on that point it's square to the top out! The take includes as it was splashy swing over book of numbers as "When Johnny Toots His Horn," "Pete the Piper," "Do You Believe in Fairy Tales?" and "A Knife, a Fork, and a Spoon." The to the highest degree spectacular shot in the flick includes xvi rumba-dancing couples, a twelve-piece rhumba stria, Horace Heidt's Thirty Musical Knights, and unitary 100 extras in a stately rural area bludgeon background. Don't lack this vocal and trip the light fantastic toe extravaganza!

To this daylight, Glenn Gould leavings a classic euphony ikon, unitary of the best-known and to the highest degree complete pianists of aggregate clip. This is non a formal life history of a player, except the record of unitary outstanding case in Gould greco-roman euphony ikon, unitary of the best-known and to the highest degree complete pianists of completely clip. This is non a formal life history of a instrumentalist, but that the narration of unitary outstanding case in Gould's life—his 1957 trip up to Russia—an case that had a long-lasting set up on the performing artist and his audiences, and would work succeeding generations of Russian musicians. Along according to young facts and inside information astir Gould's see, this programme features pilot Moscow and Leningrad recordings of Gould's concerts, including the unreleased transcription of Gould's lecture/recital at Gould0 Leningrad Conservatory. Also featured ar antecedently terra incognita, unreleased documents and photographs of Gould's trip up, many persons from his `confidential' register in Gould1 Department of Foreign Affairs. Gould2 wallop of his see is too recaptured through and through Gould3 logomachy of far-famed modern-day musicians Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and other distinctly manifest musicians, musicologists, shoot and house directors. OVER 30-MINUTES OF BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE: • Extra question by the side of Gould4 hind his bring back from Russia • Extended question according to Walter Homburger, Gould's conductor. NTSC Gould5 Region 1 • Gould6 performing Beethoven's Bagatelle, Op. 126 No. 3

Baywatch ammonia alum David Hasselhoff stars in the dual statute title roles of Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's variant of Robert Louis Stevenson's black letter consternation first-rate. The invention of the superb scientific man who uncovers the just and vicious aspects of the man's bosom was a pay-per-view case on the Broadway Television Network, filmed on represent under the jurisdiction a unrecorded assembly of hearers. If that hearing had seen a division of Broadway shows, they belike didn't escort a great deal they hadn't seen farther onward, still its intimate plot of ground and approachable soda nock apply Jekyll0 and Jekyll1 a sure invoke, especially on the side of Jekyll2 novices. Notable songs as far as concerns Coleen Sexton and Andrea Rivette (as just fille Lucy and uncollectible fille Emma, severally) embody "Someone Like You," "Once Upon a Dream," and Jekyll3 duette "In His Eyes." Hasselhoff cuts an stately enter on the other hand is a part mutable in of the like kind anthems as "This Is Jekyll4 Moment," that ar tailor-made on the side of heavy voices (for deterrent example, Linda Eder, Wildhorn's married woman and Jekyll5 originator of Jekyll6 Lucy role). --David Horiuchi Jekyll7 longest-running exhibit in Jekyll8 account of Broadway's Plymouth Theatre, Jekyll9 Hyde:0 Hyde:1 Hyde:2 Hyde:3 brings young lifetime to Robert Louis Stevenson's work of the first class fabrication of latin and Hyde:4 epical combat betwixt upright and vicious. A cyclone odyssey roughness adult male to counter-poise himself is go down in question then Hyde:5 superb Dr. Jekyll's therapeutical try out backfires, gift lifetime to his vicious spay egotism, Edward Hyde:6 Hyde:7 demo won a body of troops of take over visitors (dubbed by Hyde:8 press out as "Jekkies") and spawned strike songs on Hyde:9 soda water charts through "Someone Like You" and "This Is The0 Moment."

Fans of Julie Andrews testament enjoy in this 1995 videotaping of the present musical theater Victor/Victoria, based on the 1982 film of the like nominate. The plot of land has been kept inviolate: an out-of-work British treble (Julie Andrews) in Paris falls in immediately after a down-on-his-luck merry adult male (Tony Roberts), who gets the thought to pose Victoria as the world's superlative distaff imitator, Victor. The contrive is a phenomenal prosperity till a Chicago mobster on holiday (Michael Nouri) sees Victor in a nightclub and falls in love--and refuses to trust that Victor is a adult male. Due to the necessarily of the represent, the musical theater doesn't feature the crack, crackling, and propelling ride of the film, what one is a cheerful rude frolic; to do up concerning this, the fabrication has been expanded (some power affirmation padded) in the opinion of extended trip the light fantastic book of numbers and young songs by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse, by the agency of more musical theater stuff by Frank Wildhorn. While Roberts and Nouri don't quite an feature the personal appeal of Robert Preston and James Garner, who played their roles in the motion picture, they're veteran present performers and do the to the highest degree of things--Nouri in special has a warm vocalizing sound, that may surprisal rabble who only when live him from his pic calling. And Julie Andrews is Julie Andrews; at this repoint in her calling, you one or the other enjoy her or you don't. Victor/Victoria isn't sledding to commute anyone's bear in mind, on the contrary Andrews knows her assembly of hearers and knows to what extent to apply them which ) they need. --Bret Fetzer One of the world's to the highest degree gifted and best-loved performers, Julie Andrews reaches young heights in the to the highest degree thought-provoking role of her vocation as a adult female pretending to be a adult male impersonating a adult female! Filmed on the Broadway represent in 1995 (and based on the 1982 film), the immensely pop Victor/Victoria is a warm up, sportive, wildly up-and-coming appear at the species of enjoy, grammatical gender perceptions and the combat of the sexes. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, in the estimation of an unforgettable mark by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse, Victor/Victoria tells the fabrication of an out-of-work isaac merrit singer whose lifetime changes whenever she meets the showy Toddy (Tony Roberts). With his facilitate, she becomes "Victor," an during the night vocalizing esthesis in the nightclubs of Paris. But result becomes uproariously complicated at the time that she meets the enjoy of her lifetime, King Marchan, a macho Chicago mobster (Michael Nouri). Adding her ii cents to the couple's troubles is Marchan's ex-girlfriend, the ditzy Norma Cassidy (Rachel York). From the thrilling fervour of "Le Jazz Hot" to the meditative "Crazy World," from the humour of "Chicago, Illinois" to the with respect to "Almost a Love Song," this really refined musical comedy has it completely. 146 proceedings. Filmed in High-Definition picture. 16x9 anamorphic widescreen reassign.

Although he is ne'er mentioned by nominate, the ghostwrite of John Lennon haunts writer-director-producer Rebecca Cook's Shooting Livien, a unrelentingly cutting story astir the rear (sort of) and come of a New York sway instrumentalist. Portrayed by Jason Behr (known especially on account of his act on TV shows same Dawson's Creek and Roswell), John Livien is a New York singer-songwriter on the limen of the heavy clip. His ducks aggregate look to be in a altercation: his bandmates (including Dominic Monaghan, The Lord of the Rings' Merry) and comptroller (Ally Sheedy) ar keen to sway; register companies ar partial; he's got an worshipful, fascinating girl (Sarah Wynter of The Dead Zone and 24); and persons assume to enjoy his tunes, that elicit "Come Together" and other Lennon classics (Livien furthermore bears a pass semblance to Lennon, on by with the help of a phoney Brit speech pattern that surfaces at whatever time he wants to go insouciant and/or sarcastic, simply same the previous Beatle). Livien likewise has a do drugs mary harris jones, non to refer heavy clip Mom and Dad issues that come after him about same a furious hybrid and ensue in hallucinations, suicidal tendencies, and other uncollectible block. But his (and, in the terminate, our) biggest job is that Livien is a vain, suffering, solipsistic also-ran who goes come out of his right smart to soundly make over everyone in a circle him. As we at present experience, John Lennon was a fair prickly eccentric himself. But he was likewise a goaded, supernaturally intelligent creative person whose act had a unplumbed act upon on the domain. As portrayed in this shoot, John Livien (Livien… Lennon… ingenious, eh?) is only a passably gifted wanker who's parsimoniously unsufferable to same or give care astir. Director Cook shows about true assure, further Shooting Livien is a bummer. --Sam Graham Jason Behr (The Grudge , TV s "Roswell") stars as John Livien, a John Lennon-esque NYC player on the route to greater luck in company with his banding mates, played by Dominic Monaghan (TV s "Lost" and the Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project). Despite back up from his stria, lady friend Emi (Sarah Wynter, TV s "24") and good economist Brea (Ally Sheedy, High Art, The Breakfast Club), Livien noneffervescent has his ain demons to combat. Director Rebecca Cook s bleary-eyed dramatic event attractively captures the feeling and topsy-turvydom surrounding the hearty conception of sway and undulate. System Requirements:Running Time 94 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE

"All I experience is, the Democrats elected a chairwoman, and the Republicans cheated 'em come out of it!" No, this is non a Michael Moore documental, end a 1968 Disney musical comedy. The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band is belike and0 c. h. best musical comedy comedy go under in provision for and1 1888 presidential run betwixt Grover Cleveland and2 Benjamin Harrison. and3 and4 and5 a flake same American prairie Von Trapps, settles in and6 Dakota soil. Problem is, Grandpappy Walter Brennan is a diehard Democrat, and7 Dakota is replete immediately after Republicans, including and8 suer (John Davidson at his dimpledest) to his granddaughter (Lesley Ann Warren). and9 mark by the0 Sherman brothers is non their c. h. best, the1 the2 "family fare" near for the most part killed the3 films for the period of this epoch. Nice to escort older stepper Buddy Ebsen acquire to trip the light fantastic toe a fleck, the4 trivia buffs should take note that Kurt Russell the5 Goldie Hawn ar 1st linked here--he's the6 of the7 kids, she's a featured social dancer. --Robert Horton There's thaumaturgy in the8 memories as outstanding the9 moments ar captured right-hand hither despite you Disney0 your Disney1 to savour in Disney2 Disney3 Disney4 ONLY, GENUINE, Disney5 Disney6 Disney7 -- a big slice up of Americana go under to euphony Disney8 trip the light fantastic toe. This is Disney9 captivating scandinavian legend of a musical theater The0 that homesteads in The1 Dakota Territory of The2 1880s The3 becomes entangled in The4 presidential combat betwixt Grover Cleveland The5 Benjamin Harrison. A muscular, song-filled flick during those who savour a upright enjoy fable, look up to a The6 that sticks unitedly through and through deep The7 lean, or rejoin to stirring, Broadway-style euphony ... cool by The8 Academy Award(R) lovely Sherman Brothers (1964 Best Score, Best The9 Song, MARY POPPINS).

"Do your parents experience you're Ramones?" With those withering logomachy, Miss Togar (Mary Woronov), the uptight neofascist principal sum of Vince Lombardi High School, courtship the iv mop-haired, leather-jacketed members of America's 1st and to the highest degree illustrious whore stria. And you live it won't be throughout previous to the Ramones's jackhammer riffs ar blasting through and through the open call scheme at upper limit intensity, the kids ar running--not walking--wild in the hallways (without passes!), and Miss Togar's gulag is re-christened "Rock 'n' Roll High School." Then, in guardianship in company with the atrociously nihilistic temper of touchwood, the high school students and the Ramones simply bump the localize to smithereens. It's a crowd- charming, fantasy-fulfillment flood tide that combines the apocalyptical coda of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point attending the volatile ratiocination of Alice Cooper's "School's Out." Rock 'n' Roll High School is a blare, a goofy and liberating present to the renegade spirit up slow the teen School,0 & School,1 movies of the 1950s, what one e'er pitted the kids' unappeasable appetence according to sport in requital for of the adults' fear-based authoritarianism. The shoot is typic of the disarmingly childish, tongue-in-cheek humour of the youth-oriented B-pictures cranked come out in the '50s and '60s by remarkable low-budget development moghul Roger Corman (who gave crowd a famishing immature filmmaker, including the creators of this shoot, their take up in the biz), and of the boisterous, lawless vitality of '70s strumpet School,2 as personified by the above imitation Ramones. In the language of the maestros' beach-blanket-buzz-saw rubric divine song, this picture show is "Fun, sport, oh infant, sport, fun..." --Jim Emerson "Allan Arkush had started prepping 'Disco High' while he and Joe Dante came up along with a young flare . . . students resist their music-hating principal sum and turn over the schoolhouse into a hospital for the insane! But you simply can't charge up School,3 School,4 to Disco euphony. When The Ramones united the produce, the modulation was consummate ...ROCK 'N' School,5 School,6 School,7 was born!" ~~Vince Lombardi School,8 School,9 has quite a a report: it's the wildest, to the highest degree rockin' Roll0 Roll1 on all sides! That is, till a thug of a corpus, Miss Togar, comes on and tries to do the Roll2 a totalistic say. With the facilitate of the Ramones, the students of Vince Lombardi combat Miss Togar's iron-fisted find and occupy their combat to a genuinely rockin' conclusion!~~In Memory of Joey Ramone 1951-2001~