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Robert Goulet (1933 - 2007)

I love the legends of King Arthur, so any storyline about Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table will catch my attention.  It is with a sad heart that I heard today of the passing yesterday of Robert Goulet, a great singer and actor, which a...

Bernadette Peters

Being a huge musical theater buff, of course I have my favorite stars.  Bernadette Peters is my all-time favorite.  She's one of the most talented, versitile, beautiful performers out there.

Sarah Brightman

but Sarah Brightman's career has been so much more than just that one role. She is a Leo like me, whose birthday is August 14, 1960. Read on to learn more.

Kristin Chenoweth

Kristin Chenoweth is a Tony Award-winning actress and singer who has performed extensively on Broadway, television and in the movies.  She currently portrays Olive Snook on the new ABC television program "Pushing Daisies".  Broadw...

Sara Ramirez

Some think that in comparison to her Grey's Anatomy co-stars Sara Ramirez is chunky and I guess if you want to use them as a comparison then she is. But in comparison to the modern woman, even the classic woman, Sara Ramirez is perfect. And if you're...

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Into the Woods

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A baker and his wife journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a pair of golden slippers and some magic beans to lift a curse that has kept them childless. Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason and the rest of the original Broadway cast weave their magic spell over you in Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, directed by James Lapine, a seamless fusion of fairy tale characters and what happens after "happily ever after. "With oft-recorded songs such as "Children Will Listen...0 points

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Show Business - The Road to Broadway

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The real drama happens behind the curtain in this fascinating and rare look at four high-profile Broadway musicals (Wicked, Taboo, Caroline, Or Change, and Avenue Q) and their fearless journey to the Tony Awards®. Including a star-studded cast, this entertaining film takes viewers on an unprecedented behind-the-scenes view of the creative process that captures all the heartbreak and hilarity of trying make it big in Show Business!0 points

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Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive)

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After what producer David Susskind called "the longest wooing for a part in a lifetime of dealing with stars," four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond) made her television dramatic debut as the indomitable, overbearing matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' poignant 1945 memory play, which reteamed her with director Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter). "The Glass Menagerie" portrays a mother whose preoccupation with her past as a Southern belle and her unrealistic d...0 points

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Fosse

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The electricity of one of Broadway's greatest talents springs to life in <i>Fosse</i>, a tribute to the man behind such favorites as <i>Cabaret</i>, <i>Chicago</i>, <i>Sweet Charity</i>, and <i>Pippin</i>. A seductive mixture of physically aggressive dance moves and dazzling visual style, Bob Fosse's approach to theater revolutionized how we experience music and dance, while his mixture of cynicism and sentiment remains timely decades after his death. Join one of Fosse's most gifted collaborators, Ann Reinking, as she and a wild,...0 points

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Original Cast Album - Company

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Called a "monumental achievement" by the Los Angeles Times, Company is the extraordinary documentary capturing the explosive recording session for Stephen Sondheim%u2019s landmark musical. On May 3, 1970, just a few days after its triumphant Broadway opening,0 points

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Death of a Salesman (Broadway Theatre Archive)

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"Attention must be paid" to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock recreating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. In a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman--the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope--with Dunnock equally impressive as his patient wife, Linda. George Segal and James Farentino play their disillu...0 points

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Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection (Broadway's Lost Treasures 1-3 & The Best of the Tony Awards - The Plays)

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A comprehensive collection of great performances captured on film as part of the annual Tony Award® broadcasts. Broadway royalty and Tony® winners, including Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein, serve as hosts and share their own Broadway and Tony® memories. <p>Produced as PBS specials, <i>Broadway%u2019s Lost Treasures I, II, & III</i> feature legendary stars%u2014including Patti LuPone, Nell Carter, Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon, Ethel Merman, Kristin Chenoweth, Angela Lansbury...0 points

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Broadway: The American Musical

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Like its fellow PBS series Ken Burns' <i>Jazz</i>, <i>Broadway: The American Musical</i> is an ambitious and absorbing exploration of a unique American art form that has always been best experienced in live performance. Hosted and narrated by Julie Andrews, the six-part, six-hour documentary traces the history of musical theater from its roots in vaudeville, operetta, and minstrel shows, to the dawn of what would become the modern American musical, <i>Show Boat</i>, and on through many changes that seemed to reflect...0 points

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Kiss Me Kate (Broadway Revival - PBS Great Performances)

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The first Broadway revival in nearly 50 years of the musical comedy masterpiece by composer Cole Porter and book writers Sam and Bella Spewack not only enchanted critics and delighted audiences, but went on to triumph as one of the biggest prize winners of the 2000 season. Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare, this hilarious romp recounts the backstage and on-stage antics of two feuding romances during an out-of-town tryout for a musical adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Sparkling with 1...0 points

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The Stephen Sondheim Collection (Into the Woods / Sunday in the Park with George / Follies in Concert / Passion / Sweeney Todd in Concert / A Celebration at Carnegie Hall)

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The six-disc <i>Stephen Sondheim DVD Collection</i> is pure Broadway gold, encompassing three original Broadway cast performances and three all-star concerts celebrating the work of musical theater's most important composer over the last half of the 20th century. <i>Into the Woods</i> is Sondheim's most popular show, an amalgam of fractured fairy tales and what happens <i>after</i> "happily ever after." Bernadette Peters heads the cast, joined by Tony winner Joanna Gleason and Chip Zein. <i>Sunday in the Park with Geor...0 points

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Studs Terkel's Working (Broadway Theatre Archive)

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This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries and cleaning women--"Working" is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams. This musical adaptation was conceived by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin). A must for all musical theatre buffs.0 points

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Broadway - The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

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It's not a comprehensive survey of the American musical theater, but <i>Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There</i> is an invaluable and moving salute to the art form composed of interviews with the people who were there in the 1940s through the 1960s. There are too many to list, but they include John Raitt, Angela Lansbury, Hume Cronyn, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Carol Channing, Jerry Orbach, Robert Goulet, Robert Morse (even <i>he</i>'s gotten old!), Jerry Herman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, St...0 points

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Broadway's Lost Treasures III - The Best of the Tony Awards

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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.0 points

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Tartuffe (Broadway Theatre Archive)

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Molière%u2019s timeless comedy stars the incomparable Donald Moffat (The Right Stuff) as the scoundrel Tarfuffe who manipulates his way into the confidence and affection of Orgon, an affluent bourgeois concerned with his own salvation, and whose wife and daughter Tartuffe attempts to seduce. Also stars Victor Garber (Titanic) and two-time Tony-winner Tammy Grimes (High Art).0 points

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Broadway's Lost Treasures II

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The annual Tony Award® broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway%u2019s best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys® features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Jerry Orbach introduce these 18 one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony® memories. <br />"Praise be to the theatre gods....0 points

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Broadway's Lost Treasures

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Joel Grey, Carol Channing, John Raitt, Patti LuPone, Yul Brynner, Zero Mostel--these greats are among the original-cast performers featured in this unique filmed compendium of Broadway showstoppers. Seen only once in their original Tony Award® telecasts (1967%u20131986), these 22 knock-out performances come with new introductions by some of the featured performers, including Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, and Chita Rivera. BONUS: Both DVD and VHS formats feature five extra performances not seen...0 points

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Cats - The Musical (Commemorative Edition)

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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 <i>Cats</i> 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 <i>Cats</i> until now. The video version has been restaged but, alas, not really reconceived for its new medium.<p> The video cast, assembled from Lon...0 points

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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Following the successful 1998 video release of <i>Cats</i> comes another Andrew Lloyd Webber blockbuster musical, <i>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat</i>, and it's a savvy choice. It hasn't been represented on film before, it's short enough (78 minutes) to present without cuts, and it has the star power of former teen icon Donny Osmond, who played over 1,800 performances across North America. Rather than record a live performance, <i>Cats</i> director David Mallet conceived <i>Joseph</i> as a film, though one t...0 points

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Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway) (Snap Case)

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Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd. Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim refashions a macabre tale into a musical masterwork in this dazzling performance of the 1979 Broadway hit originally staged by Harold Prince. In her Tony-winning role (one of eight the show earned, including Best Musical), Angela Lansb...0 points

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Rent (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)

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<i>Rent</i>, the show that in 1996 gave voice to a Broadway generation, has finally become an energetic, passionate, and touching movie musical. Based loosely on Puccini's <i>La Bohème</i>, it focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village--"bohemians" who live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. Well, carefree until Mark, an aspiring filmmaker (Anthony Rapp), and Roger, an aspiring songwriter (Adam Pascal), find out they owe a year's rent to Benny (Taye Diggs), a f...0 points

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A Chorus Line

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Michael Douglas stars as a choreographer who subjects 16 dancers to a grueling audition in this Academy AwardÂ(r)-nominated* adaptation of the landmark Broadway musical. Featuring Marvin Hamlisch's OscarÂ(r)-nominated* music and Jeffrey Hornaday's (Flashdance) sizzling choreography, this thrilling portrayal of life behind the velvet curtain is truly "One Singular Sensation"! After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, Zach (Douglas) leads a select group of dancers on the tryout of their...0 points

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All That Jazz - Music Edition

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Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane in the Academy Award-winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive life in show business. Played by Roy Scheider, Fosse's alter-ego drives himself over the edge and soon finds he is caught between a recurring fantasy about his death and the reality of a near-death experience. Dazzlingly presented, this electrifying story about the perils of pushing yourself too hard is filled with Fosse's legendary song-and-dance choreography.0 points

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moviestarstyle cool group!! Posted February 16, 2008