Musicals & Performing Arts Videos
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Livin' For Love - The Natalie Cole Story
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 Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Theresa Randle, Natalie Cole, James McDaniel, Diahann Carroll, Randy J. Goodwin Directed By: Robert Townsend Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Daughter of a legend. Rising superstar. Proud mother and wife. Natalie Cole seemed to have it all, but a recurring addiction to drugs and hidden grief took her from the top of the charts to the depths of despair. |
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Cats - The Musical (Commemorative Edition)
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Elaine Paige, John Mills, Ken Page, Rosemarie Ford, Michael Gruber Directed By: David Mallet Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This pop-cultural phenomenon has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, churning more than $2 billion in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided Cats until now. The video version has been restaged but, alas, not really reconceived for its new medium. The video cast, assembled from London, Amsterdam, and New York productions, is competent. |
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My Fair Lady (digitally THX mastered)
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Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper Directed By: George Cukor Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh. |
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Annie
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Publisher: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Starring: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry Directed By: John Huston Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Charmless and dull, this adaptation of the Broadway hit stars Aileen Quinn as the depression-era moppet, Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks, Carol Burnett as the cruel headmistress at an orphanage, and Tim Curry as a villain. The film never gets its legs, and there is no sense of setting; it's almost as if the whole thing is happening in a void. John Huston nominally directed--no doubt to make money between his smaller, cheaper masterpieces--but one would have thought he would invest something of himself in here. --Tom Keogh. |
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Give a Girl a Break
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Warner) Starring: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Helen Wood, Bob Fosse Directed By: Stanley Donen Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Charmless and dull, this adaptation of the Broadway hit stars Aileen Quinn as the depression-era moppet, Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks, Carol Burnett as the cruel headmistress at an orphanage, and Tim Curry as a villain. The film never gets its legs, and there is no sense of setting; it's almost as if the whole thing is happening in a void. John Huston nominally directed--no doubt to make money between his smaller, cheaper masterpieces--but one would have thought he would invest something of himself in here. --Tom Keogh. |
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Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (30th Anniversary Edition)
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Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole Directed By: Mel Stuart Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Having proven itself as a favorite film of children around the world, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is every bit as entertaining now as it was when originally released in 1971. There's a timeless appeal to Roald Dahl's classic children's novel, which was playfully preserved in this charming musical, from the colorful carnival-like splendor of its production design to the infectious melody of the "Oompah-Loompah" songs that punctuate the story. Who can forget those diminutive Oompah-Loompah workers who recite rhyming parental warnings ("Oompah-Loompah, doopity do...") whenever some mischievous child has disobeyed Willy Wonka's orders to remain orderly? Oh, but we're getting ahead of ourselves ... it's really the story of the impoverished Charlie Bucket, who, along with four other kids and their parental guests, wins a coveted golden ticket to enter the fantastic realm of Wonka's mysterious confectionery. |
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Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Goodtimes Home Video Directed By: Carroll Ballard Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A magical movie starring the Pacific Northwest Ballet, based on the original production conceived by Maurice Sendak.. |
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Hello Dolly
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Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, Danny Lockin Directed By: Gene Kelly Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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They just don't make musicals like this any more. There are some who would be grateful for that--the plot is but a flimsy excuse to string together song and dance numbers. Some of us, however, love big, splashy, overdone musical scenes, of which there are many. Glittering stage numbers showcase a commanding Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levy, a New York matchmaker who can find a mate for anyone. |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Commemorative 30th Anniversary Edition)
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Publisher: MGM Home Entertainment Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill, Gert Fröbe Directed By: Ken Hughes Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This remastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed but solid family fare. It retains a quaint charm while some of the songs--including the title tune--are quite hummable. A huge plus is Dick Van Dyke, who is extremely appealing as an eccentric inventor around the turn of the century. With nimble fingers and a unique way of looking at the world, he invents for his children a magic car that floats and flies. |
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Oliver
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Publisher: American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Starring: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe Directed By: Carol Reed Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who is befriended by the pickpocketing Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and recruited into the gang of boy thieves led by Fagin (played to perfection by Ron Moody). The villainous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) casts his long shadow over Oliver and his friends, but the young orphan is still able to find loving care in the most desperate of circumstances. Full of memorable melodies and splendid lyrics, Oliver! is a timeless film, prompting even hard-to-please critic Pauline Kael to call it "a superb demonstration of intelligent craftsmanship," and to further observe that "it's as if the movie set out to be a tribute to Dickens and his melodramatic art as well as to tell the story of Oliver Twist." --Jeff Shannon. |
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