| Hair (06/07/2011) Claude leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture and subsequently drafted. |
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| New York, New York (06/06/2011) Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese teams with Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro in this splashy, flashy musical spectacle celebrating the glorious days of the Big Band Era in the Big Apple! Jimmy is a joint-jumpin saxophonist on his way to stardom. Francine is a wannabe starlet who dreams of singing in the spotlight. When they meet, sparks flyand when he plays and she sings, they set New York on fire! It's the beginning of a stormy relationship, asthe two struggle to b... |
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| 12 Angry Men (02/09/2010) A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. |
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| Meet Me in St. Louis (04/06/2004) In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York. |
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| Carola (07/23/2002) Legendary actress Leslie Caron (An American In Paris) stars as a beautiful French actress struggling to avoid the deadly politics and forbidden passions of Nazi-occupied France. |
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| The Magic Show (01/01/1981) This 1981 filmed version of the highly successful Broadway play The Magic Show brings magical illusions as well as engaging music to the story of a talented young magician Doug (Doug Henning) using his magic for "good" over the villainous "evil" magic performed by the dastardly Van Zyskind. The music and magic presented here highlight a dazzling display of wizardry by Doug Henning, who triumphs in the end to the delight of all. This is the only version of one of Broadway's most beloved and longe... |
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| The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (01/01/1976) The Last of Mrs. Lincoln is a play by James Prideaux. It depicts the final 17 years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life that follow her husband's assassination. It ran on Broadway from December 12, 1972 to February 4, 1973, and featured Julie Harris (as Mrs. Lincoln), George Connolly, Kate Wilkinson, Tobias Haller, David Rounds, and Leora Dana. Harris and Wilkinson reprised their roles in a 1976 television film adaptation of the play (which also featured Denver Pyle) for PBS' Hollywood Television The... |
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| Story Theatre (01/01/1973) Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm come to vivid life in these innovative, narrative stories - Such classics featured are: "The Golden Goose," "The Blue Light," "The Clever Gretel." |
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| The Typists (01/01/1971) Veteran husband-and-wife acting couple, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, reprise their roles from the original Broadway hit, as a couple of workers in a duplicating shop, consigned to spend the rest of their lives there. |
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| Hamlet (01/01/1970) The play starred IAN McKELLEN in the title role and featured FAITH BROOK, JAMES CAIRNCROSS, JULIAN CURRY, SUSAN FLEETWOOD and JOHN WOODVINE |
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| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (01/01/1966) Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds Martha and George in first-time-director Mike Nichols’ searing film of Edward Albee’s groundbreaking Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Taylor won her second Academy Award* (and New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and British Film Academy Best Actress Awards). Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Sandy Dennis score as another couple straying... |
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| Shenandoah (01/01/1965) A Virginia farmer's son is taken prisoner during the Civil War and he must venture out on the killing fields to find him. |
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| The Mikado Described by critics as "scintillating," "exquisite," and "breathtaking," this version of the famous comic opera was a blockbuster hit at the world-renowned Stratford Festival. Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko (Eric Donkin), a lowly tailor, it chronicles his transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord Executioner. But Ko-Ko is plagued by a terrible quandary: the emperor (Gidon Saks) has ... |
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| Broadway's Leading Ladies: Shirley Jones & Florence Henderson Bell Telephone Hour Telecasts Performances of Broadway's leading ladies Shirley Jones & Florence Henderson. Recorded between 1960-1966. |
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| Mary Martin and Ethel Merman - Their Legendary Appearance on the Ford 50th Anniversary Show The famed June 15, 1953 television special brought together two of the greatest leading ladies Broadway has ever known. The highlight of the program is Merman and Martin's 13-minute duet medley, where they sing the songs that made them famous, plus much more. On their own, Merman sings two numbers and Martin performs a brilliant comedy routine about changes in fashion over the first half of the 20th century. 27 min. |
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| Judy Garland Live at the London Palladium with Liza Minnelli A musical evening with legendary Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli. Recorded in 1964 at the London Palladium. |
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| Journey Back to Oz Dorothy and Toto travel back to the land of Oz where they arrive just in time to help their old friends fend off an invasion of magic green elephants. Voice characterizations are performed by a number of stars including Liza Minnelli Ethel Merman and Danny Thomas |
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| The Patriots This play is a "gutsy, real look" at the bitter discord between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the early days of the Republic (New York Post). The play focuses on the conflict between the political and social goals of these two brilliant men: Jefferson, the far-sighted, egalitarian-minded democrat; and Hamilton, the short-tempered federalist with limited faith in the common man. Robert Murch, Phillip LeStrange. |
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| Forget-Me-Not Lane Frank, a somewhat successful professor at a technology school, listens to old songs on his tape machine and wanders back to scenes of his youth in World War II England. His is a journey of love and resentment, humor and bitterness, and the discovery that "we only seem to understand people... when there’s no longer a need." The New York Times’ John J. O’Connor hailed this comedy as "masterly, often extraordinary... another outstanding example of how well theater can work on television when ... |
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| For the Use of the Hall This madcap, yet heartfelt comedy about success and failure is built on wonderfully ridiculous situations and uproarious dialogue. Stars Aline MacMahon (Dragon Seed)and Barbara Barrie (Breaking Away), as well as David Hedison (The Fly, "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea")and Susan Anspach (Five Easy Pieces). By Oliver Halley |
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| Particular Men Written by Emmy Award®-winning playwright Loring Mandel, Particular Men recalls what might be considered the most significant event of man’s entire history—the introduction of nuclear weaponry. Although fictitious, Mandel’s story may bring to mind some of the events that took place at Los Alamos, New Mexico (where the Manhattan Project was carried out from 1943 to 1945) and during subsequent Atomic Energy Commission proceedings concerning questions of "national security." Starring Golden ... |
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| All Over The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" continues his penetrating exploration of family relationships in this powerful, poetic drama. In a large, elegant sitting room, a famous man lies dying behind a discreet hospital screen. Reporters and television crews are waiting downstairs to record the event for posterity, while gathered in the "death chamber" are the great man’s wife, mistress, son, daughter, and best friend – the family lawyer. A beautifully orche... |
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| Monkey Monkey Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here? The title for this play is taken from a little known nursery rhyme, which involves a game between mother and child. The drama opens in the elegant reception room of a clinic where five women await a first reunion with their children from who they have been separated for two months. As the scene proceeds, their discomfort escalates; the tension, now palpable, suggest there are more complicated issues at play. It seems the children have been participants in an unusual experiment - never fully reve... |
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| Double Solitaire Under pressure to reaffirm their marriage vows, two middle aged people explore their dreams and the present direction of their lives. "Infinitely perceptive and deeply touching," (Newsday), this play by Robert Anderson features a stellar cast including Emmy-winners Richard Crenna and Susan Clark, Emmy-nominees Irene Tedrow and Harold Gould, and Norma Crane. |
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| In Fashion This rollicking musical is set in Paris shortly after 1900. Full of chance meetings, mistaken identities, little deceits and big lies, this is a delightful French soufflé with bouncy music, witty lyrics, and plenty of laughs. Starring Max Wright (All That Jazz) and Emmy andTony-nominee Charlotte Rae (Bananas), this show was taped before a live audience in New York City. |
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| Freeman This drama deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams (The Jerk) portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes. Directed by Tony-winner Lloyd Richards ("Fences") , and featuring Oscar-winner Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentlemen, Roots). |
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| Sea Marks In this "delightful, unabashed ode to rommance,"(Chicago Sun-Times)an Irish fisherman becomes smitten by an English woman he has glimpsed only once at a wedding. Though unschooled in letter-writing, he courts her by mail. She finds primitive poetry in the way he writes and asks him to come to Liverpool to live with her. There, she works at a publishing house that prints his "poems" in a slim volume and for a moment he becomes a celebrity on the rise, but their ways of life are in dreadful confli... |
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| The Year of the Dragon Frank Chin's play attacks the comfortable stereotypes of the Asian Amerian. Stars George Takei, Pat Suzuki. |
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| Fifth of July College friends, who once agitated for a better world, find themselves looking for a way to revive their dreams in Lanford Wilson's acclaimed Broadway play. Set in the American South in the post-Vietnam era, this television production stars stage and screen's Richard Thomas and Swoosie Kurtz recreating her Broadway role, which earned her the 1981 Tony Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. |
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| The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd D.H. Lawrence's "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd" is a naturalistic drama drwn from Lawrence's memories of his parents' turbulent marriage. Set in pre-World War I England, the play centers on the conflict between a coarse, blustering coal miner and his refined, working-class wife. Stars Oscar-nominee Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights, Arthur). |
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| Let Me Hear You Whisper By Paul Zindel. Set in a research laboratory that embodies the mechanical, detached attitudes of the 20th century science, this play tells the poignant story of a friendless, simple scrubwoman (Ruth White) and a dolphin who stubbornly refuses to talk to anyone but her. Despite the earnest attempts of her supervisor to indocrinate her, she cannot understand the cold, intellectual atmosphere. Secretly, she and the dolphin become friends and together strike a blow for love and understanding that ba... |
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| The Shady Hill Kidnapping In this finely crafted comedy of errors, the life of upper-middle-class suburbanites is portrayed with humor and poignancy. John Cheever's The Shady Hill Kidnapping revolves around the alleged abduction of young Toby Wooster; an event that jolts the complacent and well-fed suburb of Shady Hill into surprising action. A fake kidnappers’ note, a community fundraising campaign to raise the ransom money, a police stakeout at the railroad station, and George Wooster’s reluctant decision to build ... |
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| Burning Bright Joe Saul, a veteran circus performer is slowly being destroyed by the realization that he will die without having fathered a child. In an act of extraordinary sacrifice and compassion, his wife, Mordeen, takes desperate measures to save him. John Steinbeck's classic play is brilliantly acted by a fantastic cast, lead by four-time Emmy-winner Colleen Dewhurst (Murphy Brown) and Tony-winner Myron McCormick (South Pacific). Features music by Tony-winner Will Holt. Black and White. |
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| The Ceremony of Innocence In this adaptation of the Ronald Ribman play, 11th century England is a bloodied land, embattled and beset by hordes of invading Danes and disputatious nobles. The vacillating King Ethelred is drained of the decisive initiative he needs to save his throne and reputation. With exquisite lighting and liberal use of close shots, this production conveys the claustrophobic miasma of fear and violence of a period when lives were undoubtedly nasty, brutish, and short. Features an exceptional cast, incl... |
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| Guests of the Nation This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote farmhouse the foursome enjoy card playing, jig dancing, and a great deal of amiable bickering. Throughout the conviviality, however, Barney Callahan is haunted by the knowledge that reprisals will be in order if the Irish harm their British captives. Frank Converse, Estelle Parsons. |
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| Zalmen or the Madness of God Set in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue on the eve of an appearance by a Western actring troupe, Elie Wiesel's play has been described as a cry of anguish about the collective guilt of"the Silent". |
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| Ah, Wilderness! This production of Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic paean to the rites of adolescence has been hailed for its beauty, intimacy and good humor. Set in New England in the days of America's innocence, the affectionate comedy presents a young man's coming of age during a summer in which he experiments with poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol and succumbs to his first romantic crush. |
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| Beyond the Horizon Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy unsparingly presents the story of two brothers in love with the same girl. The tale unfolds with the girl's rejection of one brother and marriage to the other, setting the stage for discontent and disillusionment. Originally produced on Broadway in 1920, O'Neill's first full-length play captures the powerful, perilous emotional currents swirling below the surface of everyday life. |
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| The Time of Your Life William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young ... |
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| Lullaby Husband and wife Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star as a 38-year-old truck driver and a weary cigarette girl from a nightclub who elope and discover they know very little about each other in this bittersweet 1954 Broadway comedy. The mama's boy's domineering mother gives them no peace or privacy on their honeymoon and soon the marriage turns into the eternal triangle--with his mother as the "other woman." |
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| A Touch of the Poet Tony Award-winner Fritz Weaver and Emmy-winner Nancy Marchand (Livia in The Sopranos)star in Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet." Set in a shabby tavern outside Boston in 1828, the play centers on Cornelius Melody (Weaver), a proud Irishman who clings to memories of European gentility. The play was conceived by O'Neill - regarded by many as America's greatest dramatist - as part of a nine-play chronicle spanning 175 years in the life of an American family. LIke other O'Neill works such as "A ... |
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| Lemonade This is a short play by James Prideaux about the fantasies, inhabitions and dreams of two lonely matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. Lemonade incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women. |
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| Hogan's Boat For Faye Dunaway, Hogan's Goat by William Alfred "was the play that led to everything." "Everything" was Bonnie and Clyde, which brought her instant stardom. With this television production Ms. Dunaway returned to the role she originated at The American Place Theatre in 1965, that of Kathleen Stanton, of which she said, "Emotionally, I'm very close to Kathleen Stanton--this sensual and spiritual struggle of a woman of good birth, convent-bred, yet dominated by her senses." The play revolves arou... |
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| The Shadow of a Gunman Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1920's, The Shadow of a Gunman was the first part of Sean O'Casey's celebrated "Dublin Trilogy." Equal parts comedy and tragedy, this classic play is brilliantly performed by a stellar cast including Frank Converse, and Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, Mr. Holland's Opus). |
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| The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories Jeff Bridges, Brian Dennehy and Carol Kane are among the illustrious cast of performers who bring a trilogy of Shaw stories to life. The three works share a common theme: the emotional and philosophical differences which serve as a catalyst for - and the undoing of - the interpersonal relationships of three diverse couples. Jeff Bridges and Carol Kane star in The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, Charles Durning and Brian Dennehy star in The Monument, and Claudine Auger and Bob Sherman star in The ... |
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| O Youth and Beauty This adaptation of John Cheever's famous short story captures with ironic comedy and drama the pathos of middle-aged, middle-class America. At the age of forty, Michael Murphy, a slightly inebriated suburbanite, confronts his mid-life crisis by hurdling over his host's furniture, hoping to recapture the athletic prowess that made him a track star in his college days. Kathryn Walker plays his embarrassed wife who is unable to halt this obsessive ritual, with which her husband tries to hang on to ... |
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| June Moon In homage to the heyday of American comedy, George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner's satire takes on 1929's Tin Pan Alley. Its main characters are a gullible lyricist and a composer who claims as his big hit a ditty called "Paprika... the Spice of My Life." Look for composer Stephen Sondheim as a wisecracking pianist in his acting debut! With Susan Sarandon, Estelle Parsons, Jack Cassidy, Lee Meredith, and Burt Shevelove. |
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| The Star Wagon This 1967 program, which preceded The Graduate, clearly demonstrates the early genius of Dustin Hoffman. The past and present co-exist in Maxwell Anderson's 1930's play when a disappointed invnetor unleashes his latest gadget - a "star wagon" - that will return its driver to any desired point in time. The time machine gives him a chance to revamp his life. In an especially vivid characterization, a very young Dustin Hoffman portrays the inventor's muttering stooge. Also stars actor, comedian, an... |
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| A Memory of Two Mondays Dramatizing a compacted group of memories passing over several years, Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's Great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930s were like for workers to whom a job--any job--was everything. |
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| Verna USO Girl Academy Award-winner Sissy Spacek (Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter) is Verna, USO Girl, a kindhearted - but not particularly talented - member of a performing troupe in World War II Belgium. She wins the heart of an American soldier, memorably played by Oscar-winner William Hurt (The Big Chill). An entertaining look at the camaraderie between USO entertainers and combat troops. Also starring Sally Kellerman. Adapted by Albert Innaurato from Paul Gallico's short story. |
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