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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Claude leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture and subsequently drafted.
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...
Academy Award(r) winner* Gene Kelly brings his remarkable talents as star, director and choreographer to this glittering gala of music, dance and pantomime - and the result is a lush, one-of-a-kind musical flight of fancy. The film has three episodes, each with its own distinct period and mood. In Circus, a clown (Kelly) in a small carnival troupe is hopelessly in love with the show's high-wire walker. Ring Around the Rosy is a satiric tale about a bracelet which travels from the wrist of one fi...
Be heard. Be strong. Be proud. It's time to turn up the music and have some fun with an all-new Disney original movie, starring Bridgit Mendler, and Adam Hicks, and introducing ten awesome new songs. When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the greatest high school garage band in history! In the face of incredible odds, Olivia, Stella, Wen, Mohini and Charlie f...
A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.
Movies often visit the theme of a mother's love, but few match the poignancy and power of The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Renowned "First Lady of the American Theatre" Helen Hayes makes her Hollywood debut a most memorable one, winning the Best Actress Academy Award® (1930-31) for her portrayal of an abandoned young mother whose devotion to her child and desperate sacrifices to provide for him lead her into harlotry. Hayes's husband Charles MacArthur (The Front Page) provides the screen adaptation ...
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.
Experience the extraordinary animation, dazzling special effects and award-winning music of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins in this restored and remastered 2-Disc 45th Anniversary Edition! Join the practically perfect Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) for a Jolly Holiday as she magically turns every chore into a game and every day into a whimsical adventure. Along the way, you ll be enchanted by unforgettable characters such as the multitalented chimney sweep Burt (Dick Van Dyke). Unpack Mary's magical ca...
This concert sees the multi-talented John Barrowman performing his favourite and most well-known songs from the world of stage, screen and pop with his amazing talent, charm, personality and enthusiasm.
Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Director John Doyle melds his Tony Award winning talent with the lyrics of influential playwright Bertolt Brecht and an incomparable score by Kurt Weill. The brilliant cast is led by superstars Audra McDonald, as the...
Jeff Goldblum stars in Pittsburgh, a fly-on-the-wall comedy in which the Jurassic Park and Independence Day actor plays himself taking a career hit by playing Harold Hill in a regional theatre production of The Music Man. Despite the pleas of his agent to take a plum part in a new Michael Bay sci-fi epic, Goldblum locks himself into a two-week stint in his hometown of Pittsburgh in order to help his fiancée, actress Catherine Wreford (also playing herself)--cast in the musical as Hill's love in...
Experience Camelot’s "one brief, shining moment" as Lerner and Loewe envisioned it—live on a Broadway stage. Working at the top of his talent, Richard Harris heads an all-star cast in one of Broadway’s wittiest, most literate musicals, filled with memorable tunes. Recorded at New York’s historic Winter Garden Theatre in 1982, this production captures all the immediacy and intimacy of a live performance viewed from the best seat in the house. Idealistic King Arthur longs to create a perf...
Some of the brightest stars in the world of opera join together in this live concert and uniquely perform numbers from great Broadway musicals. Renata Scotto Gail Gilmore Ramon Vargas Melanie Holliday and Paolo Coni lend their talents to songs from WEST SIDE STORY MY FAIR LADY PORGY AND BESS CATS GIRL CRAZY and THE MERRY WIDOW.System Requirements:Running Time: 55 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSIC DVD/CONCERTS Rating: NR UPC: 821838479796 Manufacturer No: IMM950005
Songs from Annie Get Your Gun, Destry Rides Again, South Pacific, others.
Songs from Annie Get Your Gun, Destry Rides Again, South Pacific, others.
This never-before-released collection, LAwrence sings selections from West Side Story with Larry Kert. Also included is an exclusive interview about her life and career.
This never-before-released collection of TV performances features show music including selections from The Music Man, Carousel, South Pacific, and A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, as well as rarities including Viennese operetta gems, and mo Barbara Cook, one of the great Broadway voices of the 20th century, was fortuitously recorded for television's Bell Telephone Hour in 1960-65, just a few years after her Candide and The Music Man. The picture quality is fuzzy, and the producti...
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history. The third volume of Broadway's Lost Treasures continues to mine historic stage performances from the vaults of the Tony Award telecasts. For fans who are used to ...
FROM THE GREAT WHITE WAY TO THE SILVER SCREEN: THE MUSIC, THE LYRICS, THE STORIES ALL THAT JAZZ, NEW YORK, CABARET, MAYBE THIS TIME, RING THEM BELLS, ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE, WHY CAN’T A WOMAN BE MORE LIKE A MAN?, GIGI, ON THE SCREET WHERE YOU LIVE, CAMELOT — and more, much more. An intimate evening of music and stories presented in the informal style usually reserved for "insider" parties. Here are the unique performances that writers bring to their own songs, as well as the candid, o...
FROM THE GREAT WHITE WAY TO THE SILVER SCREEN: THE MUSIC, THE LYRICS, THE STORIES ALL THAT JAZZ, NEW YORK, CABARET, MAYBE THIS TIME, RING THEM BELLS, ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE, WHY CAN’T A WOMAN BE MORE LIKE A MAN?, GIGI, ON THE SCREET WHERE YOU LIVE, CAMELOT — and more, much more. An intimate evening of music and stories presented in the informal style usually reserved for "insider" parties. Here are the unique performances that writers bring to their own songs, as well as the candid, o...
THE SONGS THAT ARE THE BACKGROUND MUSIC OF YOUR LIFE – AS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THEM BEFORE. Two Incredible Programs On One DVD! Intimate evenings of informal music, unique performances and fascinating stories. BURTON LANE (Finian’s Rainbow, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) Ira Gershwin was so nervous about meeting composer Burton Lane that he took a tranquilizer. Burton was equally impressed with Ira. It was the beginning of a long collaboration and enduring friendship. When Bur...
FROM THE GREAT WHITE WAY TO THE SILVER SCREEN: THE MUSIC, THE LYRICS, THE STORIES Two Incredible Programs on One DVD! You’re invited to a couple of "insider" parties. Here are the unique performances that writers bring to their own songs, and anecdotes: sometimes poignant, most often hilarious. E.Y. "YIP" HARBURG • ACADEMY AWARD® (The Wizard of Oz, Finian’s Rainbow, April in Paris) A delightful evening with the extraordinary master lyricist who could find poetry in everything fr...
FROM THE GREAT WHITE WAY TO THE SILVER SCREEN: THE MUSIC, THE LYRICS, THE STORIES Two Incredible Programs on One DVD! You’re invited to a couple of "insider" parties. Here are the unique performances that writers bring to their own songs, and anecdotes: sometimes poignant, most often hilarious. E.Y. "YIP" HARBURG • ACADEMY AWARD® (The Wizard of Oz, Finian’s Rainbow, April in Paris) A delightful evening with the extraordinary master lyricist who could find poetry in everything fr...
The five cast members portray a myriad of character types drawn from American society during the age of ragtime, including Teddy Roosevelt, Emma Goldman, and Anna Held, evoking the pride, nostalgia, suffering and optimism felt by Americans at the start of the last century.
In the opening sequence of The Letter, director William Wyler delivers a primer on film directing: at a rubber plantation, in the tropical funk of a Malaysian night, the heavy stillness is suddenly broken by shots... and a woman with a gun, descending a staircase. She is the wife of the plantation owner, and the dead man is, ahem, not her husband. Holding the gun so securely is Bette Davis, in one of her greatest performances (her acting of a big revelation, late in the film, is still an astound...
Gloriously cinematic despite its tiny budget, Orson Welles's Othello is a testament to the filmmaker s stubborn willingness to pursue his vision to the ends of the earth. Unmatched in his passionate identification with Shakespeare's imagination, Welles brings his inventive visual approach to this enduring tragedy of jealousy, bigotry, and rage, and also gives a towering performance as the Moor of Venice, alongside Suzanne Cloutier as the innocent Desdemona, and Micheal MacLiammoir as the schemin...
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.
This humorous short play is based on the author's experiences as a waiter at a Catskills resort. Starring Oscar -nominee Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle)
Emmy winner Rue McClanahan ("The Golden Girls") reprises her role as Mother Superior, along with guest star John Ritter ("Three's Company) in the latest episode of the "Nunsense" story.
Lanford Wilson's edgy 1975 Obie Award-winning play dramatizes a confrontation of Native American traditions with the demands of 20th century society.
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).
Moliere's timeless comedy, starring the incomparable Donald Moffat portraying the scoundrel Tartuffe, who manipulates his way into the confidence and affection of Orgon, an affluent bourgeois concerned with his own salvation.
Fans of the original musical romp Nunsense will find much to enjoy in Nunsense 3: The Jamboree, in which the slightly addled Sister Mary Amnesia has recovered her memory and realized her lifelong dream of becoming a country singer. In the hands of Vicki Lawrence (known to millions from her many years with The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family), Sister Amnesia remains as sweet and easily distracted as ever. There's not much of a story to this stage show, filmed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashvil...
Once Around The Block: Starring Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Orson Bean. My Heart's In The Highlands: Walter Matthau, Eddie Hodges.
Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous operatic tale is captured in all it's fun and glory in this production. Kevin Kline ( A Fish Called Wanda) sparkles as the swashbuckling and libidinous Pirate King while Linda Ronstandt plays the lovely and virginal Mabel. This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of t...
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 classic pairing of two of the world's greatest actors. John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, this play follows the interaction of five patients at an English mental hospital.
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.
Oscar winner Meryl Streep stars in this delightful "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Also starring Emmy winner Debbie Allen. Meryl Streep displays the talent that would soon make her a movie star in Alice at the Palace, a musical theater adaptation by Elizabeth Swados of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Dressed in pink overalls, Streep sings and dances through such famous scenes as the Mad Tea Party and playing croquet...
The “bright, bawdy, gleefully naughty” (Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News) The First Nudie Musical comes to Blu-ray in a brand new restored transfer in honor of its 35th anniversary. In this outrageously hilarious spoof that has become a cult classic, a desperate young filmmaker tries to rescue his studio by making a porno musical. You’ve never seen anything quite like this as the elaborate style of a 30s musical is mixed with contemporary tackiness, producing riotously risqué showsto...
Tony-Award winner Bernadette Peters, Eli Wallach, Fred Gwynne and Jo Van Fleet star in Clifford Odets' moving evocation of the Depression.
This superb adaptation of the Arthur Miller classic stars Lee J. Cobb as a middle aged man at the end of his emotional rope and his supporting dysfunctional family. Also starring Mildred Dunnock, Edward Andrews, Gene Wilder
Jason Robards became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handling, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece (first staged in 1939). In his harrowing drama, O'Neill shines a harsh but compassionate spotlight on the failed lives, empty hopes, and perpetual pipe dreams of an assortment of down-and-out denizens of a seedy saloon, set in New York in 1912. Their sad, but complacent existences are rattled whe...
Starring Academy Award(R)-winner Robert Duvall (Best Actor -- TENDER MERCIES, 1983) and screen favorite Ann-Margret, here's the true story of a courageous group of newsboys who become unlikely heroes when they team up to fight an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. Determined to make their dreams come true, they find the courage to challenge the powerful! Critically acclaimed from coast to coast -- if you're looking for must-see, feel-good entertainment, NEWSIES delivers!
Star, legend, force of nature--whatever you call Elaine Stritch, it probably applies, and it's never more apparent than in her deeply personal one-woman show, At Liberty.
A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
Using a multimedia approach to their art, the 60-plus cast of BLAST! tour the world, reworking the classics to their own unique vision. Singing, dancing, and creating a musical hodgepodge (each is an impeccably-trained musician) that is like no other, the BLAST! folks have wowed audiences everywhere. Highlights include Ravel's "Bolero", Copland's "Appalachian Spring", and Mangione's "Land of Make Believe". Video also includes 25-minute featurette, MUSIC IN MOTION: THE MAKING OF BLAST!.
A dance movement born in the gold mines of South Africa, Gumboots shares the story of the hard-working, oppressed laborers who, since they were not allowed to speak while working, developed a method of communication by stamping and slapping their government-issued Wellington rubber boots. While this may sound grim (and the circumstances certainly were), the resulting movement is incredibly captivating. In an 80-minute performance, Gumboots takes you from the dark mines to the after-shift party a...
Emmy Award-winner Rue McClanahan ("The Golden Girls") reprises her role as Mother Superior in the continuation of the trials and tribulations of the Little Sisters of Hoboken. Join the madcap Sisters--who have been bitten by the "theater flea" and are now just a bit slicker--as they give a thank you performance for all those who supported their first benefit. But of course, in the middle of their show, chaos erupts! First, the Franciscans come to claim Sister Mary Amnesia, winner of the Publishe...
This oscar-winning feel-good comedy won the hearts of moviegoers partly for its lavish costumes and devotion to abba but mostly for the great performances of three drag artists who are on the road trip of a lifetime. Special features: subtitles in french and spanish theatrical trailer and much more.