Summary: A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BROSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: A beautiful musical comedy that follows one young man's journey as he experiences the true spirit of Ukraine on his search for a woman to call his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HUTContents: The jazz singer (1927 ; 89 min.) -- The Broadway melody (1929 ; 100 min.) -- 42nd Street (1933 ; 89 min.) -- The great Ziegfeld (1936 ; 185 min.) -- The wizard of Oz (1939 ; 102 min.) -- Yankee doodle dandy (1942 ; 125 min.) -- An American in Paris (1951 ; 114 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Best 2013Summary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARContents: Camelot (1967 ; 180 min.) -- Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory (1971 ; 100 min.) -- Cabaret (1972 ; 124 min.) -- That's entertainment! (1974 ; 135 min.) -- Victor / Victoria (1982 ; 133 min.) -- Little shop of horrors (1986 ; 94 min.) -- Hairspray (1988 ; 115 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Best 2013Summary: Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able to produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ProducersContents: Show boat (1951 ; 108 min.) -- Singin' in the rain (1952 ; 103 min.) -- Seven brides for seven brothers (1954 ; 102 min.) -- A star is born (2 discs :1954 ; 352 min.) -- The music man (1962 ; 176 min.) -- Viva Las Vegas (1964 ; 85 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Best 2013Summary: Documentary tracing the creation of the musical Miss Saigon from the completion of the score, through auditions and rehearsals, to the opening night of the original London production on September 20, 1989.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKSummary: The Dean Martin Show ran for nine seasons and was a dearly loved show around the world. It was a special blend of music and comedy that included some of the biggest stars in the business and a host like no other. This collection includes select episodes from the show that originally aired on television between 1966 and 1971.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Life 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEASummary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORISummary: Jean Valjean has been imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing bread. After release, he breaks parole starts a new life under a new name and is a part of the conflicts between rich and poor that marked 1830's France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MISSummary: Come imagine, sing and learn along with Elmo in his very own math filled musicals. Will he be able to escort six kitty cows through a canyon to the Double Double Dude Dude Ranch Ranch? In another musical Elmo is a detective searching for a cube that is causing people to sneeze, can you be his assistant and help him investigate? There are many more adventures to enjoy in this monster sized dvd.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SESSummary: Narrated by Tony-and Academy Award-winner Joel Grey, this entertaining documentary mingles cultural history with illuminating perspectives on the origins and meanings of some of Broadway's most beloved songs, stories, and shows. With performances by Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Barbra Streisand, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and many more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BROSummary: Some of Broadway's most beloved stars join the Boston Pops for show-stopping performances from the world's best-loved musicals. Featuring many legendary performers and conductors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BROSummary: The greatest fairy tale never told comes to life as never before in Shrek The Musical, the highly acclaimed Broadway production based on the smash-hit movie. Featuring a fantastic score of seventeen all-new songs, along with unforgettable characters and outrageous humor, it's ogre-sized fun for the whole family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHRSummary: It's 1880's London and Cavis and Millward are putting the finishing touches on their first Christmas musical. Filled with spectacle and more electric lights than London has ever seen. Unfortunately, a church pageant is opening the same night, right down the street, featuring a priceless artifact that hasn't been seen in 80 years! Just how far will Cavis go to make sure his show opens on top?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VEGSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The beautiful and young Cinderella finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked stepsisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment [distributor 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CINSummary: Two song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen), they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006