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English
Description
Despite its elegant gorgeous stage set, and costumes of awesome beauty and richness of detail, some of the fairy-tale magic of "George Balanchine's 'The Nutcracker' " has been lost in its translation from a staged ballet into a film. However, the dancing is breathtaking, the narration keeps the story moving, and it is as well acted as it is danced. This is a full corps de ballet version, sumptuous with classic ballet sequences in their full glory....
Language
English
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Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious seawitch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperone Sebastian...
3) Cabaret
Language
English
Description
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.
4) Fantasia
Series
Fantasia anthology volume 1
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"The beauty and inspiration of music must not be restricted to a privileged few, but made available to every man, woman, and child."--Leopold Stokowski, 1940. "Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun." - Walt Disney, 1940. These quotations preface the "Making of" documentary that accompanies this 60th Anniversary edition of "Fantasia." This is the original uncut version of the groundbreaking...
6) Fame
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Rental exclusive ; Extended dance edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of students -- dancers, singers, musicians and actors -- at a high school for the performing arts in New York City.
7) Moulin Rouge
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition; Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections.
8) Mamma mia!
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
9) Grace notes
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
11) Porgy and Bess
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to overlook her past and offer her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of the townspeople, the presence of her old drug supplier Sportin' Life...
12) Carmen Jones
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths.
13) One-trick pony
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An aging musician attempts to put together his new album in the face of an indifferent record label and talentless producer while struggling to save his troubled marriage.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon, and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make musical with the woman of his dreams, but one thing stands in his way, his jealous co-star who wants Don - and the leading role - all to...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Roadshow!, film historian Matthew Kennedy tells the fascinating story of the downfall of the big-screen musical in the late 1960s. It is a tale of revolutionary cultural change, business transformation, and artistic missteps, all of which led to the obsolescence of the roadshow, a marketing extravaganza designed to make a movie opening in a regional city seem like a Broadway premier. From Julie Andrews to Barbra Streisand, from Fred Astaire to...
16) West Side story
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Fiftieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in 1950s New York City.
17) Sing
Language
English
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Description
Buster Moon, a dapper koala, presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal-- some might even say delusional-- optimist, who loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now faced with the crumbling of his life's ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published to coincide with the film's 50th anniversary, an ultimate fan audiobook shares behind-the-scenes facts about The Sound of Music's filming in Austria and Hollywood and incorporates new information from production insiders, including Johannes von Trapp.
Pub. Date
[2014], ©℗2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An obsessed father ..., a kleptomaniac ..., and a gullible teenager ... are cast from Heaven by God. ... They find themselves wandering the frightening, unsympathetic midway of "The Devil's Carnival." Unbeknownst to these condemned attendees, their lives--and the sins that paved their paths to Hell--have become tethered to specific fables in a book read by Lucifer ... [in this] musical movie experience"--Container.
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Tony is a young man living in Brooklyn. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dancefloor. At the disco, Tony meets Stephanie and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Her goal is to move across the river to Manhattan. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide...
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