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1) Cabaret
Language
English
Description
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.
3) 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...
4) 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...
5) 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.
6) 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.
7) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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...
11) 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.
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...
13) 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.
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.
16) The identical
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
High definition.
Language
English
Description
When the son of a preacher decides to follow his dream to become a rock singer instead of going into the ministry as his father would like, he discovers a family secret that reveals his true identity.
18) The Great Gabbo
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail...
19) Royal Wedding
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
Français
Description
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister dance team that is invited to England to perform at the same time as the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
20) Holiday Inn
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two song and dance men leave showbusiness to open a Connecticut inn, but conflict arises when they fall for the same woman.
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