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Summary: Aging rocker Danny Collins can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAN

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Summary: Jamie Wellerstein is an up and coming Jewish novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess and struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD An

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANN

Summary: An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying band mate Clara.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRA

Corden, James

Summary: When a young female singer moves to New York City in hopes of breaking into show business, she falls for an executive at a record company who helps her in her endeavors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BEG

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEG

Summary: Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SAP

Cruise, Tom

Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED PG-13

Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAK

Summary: Troy, Gabriella, Chad and Sharpay are getting ready to graduate from high school. Troy is the school basketball champ who secretly wants to sing and dance. His girlfriend is Gabriella, but is going to a college that is far away from Troy. Troy's bestfriend is Chad. He doesn't want high school to end. The evil Sharpay wants Gabriella's part in the school play. As college approaches, the senior...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIG

Summary: In this musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HIG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie High 2008

Summary: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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Summary: For Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, summer vacation is no day at the beach. Thanks to Troy, they are all working at a country club founded by Ryan and Sharpay's family. The club's annual talent show is right around the corner and Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. She dumps Ryan as her singing partner and starts wooing Troy to join her onstage instead. Gabriella is not very happy...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family High 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIG

Summary: "American Dreamz" is a wildly popular television singing contest program that has captured the country's attention. This new season showcases a competition between Sally, a young Midwestern gal and Omer, a show tunes-loving young man from Orange County. The recently depressed President of the United States wants in on the craze and signs up for the potentially explosive season finale.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2006

Summary: A song and dance man leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. A former partner joins him and the two find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOL

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HOL

Summary: As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRA

Summary: A popular high school basketball star and a shy, academically gifted newcomer secretly decide to audition for their school's musical, a decision that turns their world and their school upsidedown.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006

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Summary: In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? A classic story told with a Bollywood twist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bride

Summary: "Rudy Veloz, a Barrio singing star determened to jump the salsa circuit and aim for big-time success in the mainstream. The rise-and-fall-and-rise storyling takes Rudy on a bumy ride through life in the fast lane: drugs, compromises, easy credit, easy women, broken promises, and shattered dreams." -- container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CRO

Summary: Sally Adams has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington, D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lichtenburg. Once she is installed in her new position, shes falls in love with the sauve Foreign Minister Cosmo Constantine, while Princess Maria has her head turned by Sally's press attaché, Kenneth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CAL

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Summary: The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2003

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANN

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Annie

Summary: 1776 is a delightful musical celebration of the founding of The United States of America. The story centers around the familiar historical characters as they organize a movement for independence from Mother England. All events lead up to that most significant date, July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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Summary: The story of a goldmining boom town centering on the work-and-play partnership of two miners and the wife they share.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS PAI

Summary: When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Seven 2000

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