Broadway Video Database - 2024

Liza Minelli: Live From Radio City Music Hall chronicles her sold-out 1992 tour, filled with dazzling choreography and gorgeous costumes. Liza is in rare form with renditions of "Some People," "Imagine," "Theme From 'New York, New York'," and more

Told through the eyes of "Scout," a feisty six-year-old tomboy To Kill A Mockingbird carries us on an odyssey through the fires of prejudice and injustice in 1932 Alabama.

Having proven itself as a favorite film of children around the world, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is every bit as entertaining now as it was when originally released in 1971. There's a timeless appeal to Roald Dahl's classic children's novel, which was playfully preserved in this charming musical, from the colorful carnival-like splendor of its production design to the infectious melody of the "Oompah-Loompah" songs that punctuate the story. Who can forget those diminutive Oompah-Loompa...

A single mother discovers that within her seemingly angelic daughter beats the heart of a cold-blooded serial murderer. One woman must make a terrible decision about the daughter she loves and desperately wants to protect in this classic thriller.

The story is a simple one of four young men struggling to make it as a swing & standards close harmony group in those pre-Beatles, pre-grassy knoll days of our Perry Como innocence. So what s the problem? They re dead! Wiped out by a bus full of Catholic schoolgirls while the lads were driving in their now iconic cherry red 54 Mercury convertible to their first real gig (at the Fusel-Lounge in a local Pennsylvania airport). The schoolgirls, by the by, were okay. But a second opportunity is now h...

The sublime adaptation by Jean Cocteau (Orpheus) of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece--in which the true love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast--is a landmark feat of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais (Orpheus) and Josette Day (Les parents terribles). The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bete) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

The star has injured an ankle, but the show - and inexperienced stage assistant Polly Browne - must go on. Break a leg, kid. And don't let the presence of Hollywood director and talent scout Mr. De Thrill add any pressure. And so begins this colorful tale of theater hopefuls with stars in their eyes and greasepaint in their veins, a work that, under the guidance of director Ken Russell, is not just an affectionate filmization of Sandy Wilson's London/Broadway stage hit but also an homage to the...

Archaeologist Andrew Larabee tunnels below an English meadow, seeking a rare historical relic. His shoveling takes him back to the surface...and into the lions' cage during a circus act. Just like that, a star - or at least a Joey -- is born. A Joey is circus-speak for clown and who better to play that clown than Danny Kaye? The effusive star unleashes his singing, swooning and jesting talents in this bright musical-comedy tale of circus extravaganza and romantic complications. Famed choreograph...

Claude leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture and subsequently drafted.

Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese teams with Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro in this splashy, flashy musical spectacle celebrating the glorious days of the Big Band Era in the Big Apple! Jimmy is a joint-jumpin saxophonist on his way to stardom. Francine is a wannabe starlet who dreams of singing in the spotlight. When they meet, sparks flyand when he plays and she sings, they set New York on fire! It's the beginning of a stormy relationship, asthe two struggle to ba...

Movies often visit the theme of a mother's love, but few match the poignancy and power of The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Renowned "First Lady of the American Theatre" Helen Hayes makes her Hollywood debut a most memorable one, winning the Best Actress Academy Award® (1930-31) for her portrayal of an abandoned young mother whose devotion to her child and desperate sacrifices to provide for him lead her into harlotry. Hayes's husband Charles MacArthur (The Front Page) provides the screen adaptation o...

A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.

In the opening sequence of The Letter, director William Wyler delivers a primer on film directing: at a rubber plantation, in the tropical funk of a Malaysian night, the heavy stillness is suddenly broken by shots... and a woman with a gun, descending a staircase. She is the wife of the plantation owner, and the dead man is, ahem, not her husband. Holding the gun so securely is Bette Davis, in one of her greatest performances (her acting of a big revelation, late in the film, is still an astound...

In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.

Starring Academy Award(R)-winner Robert Duvall (Best Actor -- TENDER MERCIES, 1983) and screen favorite Ann-Margret, here's the true story of a courageous group of newsboys who become unlikely heroes when they team up to fight an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. Determined to make their dreams come true, they find the courage to challenge the powerful! Critically acclaimed from coast to coast -- if you're looking for must-see, feel-good entertainment, NEWSIES delivers!

This oscar-winning feel-good comedy won the hearts of moviegoers partly for its lavish costumes and devotion to abba but mostly for the great performances of three drag artists who are on the road trip of a lifetime. Special features: subtitles in french and spanish theatrical trailer and much more.

Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly eight decades, she has been the recipient of several accolades, including one British Academy Film Award, one Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and three Grammy Awards. Andrews was made a Disney Legend in 1991, and has been honoured with a Honorary Golden Lion as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2000, Andrews was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts.

Oklahoma! is a 1999 British film adaptation of Rogers and Hammerstein's 1943 musical Oklahoma!, which in turn was based on the 1930 play Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs. The film was directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Susan Stroman. The production featured the entire 1998 West End Revival cast at the Royal National Theatre led by Hugh Jackman as Curly McLain, Josefina Gabrielle as Laurey Williams, Maureen Lipman as Aunt Eller, and Shuler Hensley as Jud.

Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a career spanning seven decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).

A companion to the album of the same name, watch Michael sing songs including Music of the Night, Stormy Weather, She Used to Be Mine, Tell Me on a Sunday, When You Wish Upon a Star, Only You and more...

Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a haunting film adaptation based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. An opium-addicted choirmaster, John Jasper (Claude Rains), becomes obsessed with a young student named Rosa Bud (Heather Angel). His nephew, Edwin Drood (David Manners), also holds a torch for the girl and asks her to marry him. Circumstances in their small Victorian town grow more perplexing when Drood disappears and the sordid details of Jasper’s secret life come to light. Featuring beau...

1931 American film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Directed by David Butler to a script by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt.

Clean-cut 'squares' face off against hoodlum 'drapes' in this hilarious send-up of 1950s teen flicks - juvenile delinquents, straight-faced craziness, and cool musical numbers. Directed by John Waters.

Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft star in ‘Night Mother, a taut, emotional study about a mother's attempt to stop her distraught daughter from committing suicide. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by author Marsha Norman, the moving production casts Spacek as epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son who decides to take control the only way she can - by taking her own life. Bancroft, as the widowed mother with whom she lives, is oblivious to her daughter's depression until sh...

Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm come to vivid life in these innovative, narrative stories - Such classics featured are: "The Golden Goose," "The Blue Light," "The Clever Gretel."

Veteran husband-and-wife acting couple, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, reprise their roles from the original Broadway hit, as a couple of workers in a duplicating shop, consigned to spend the rest of their lives there.

The play starred IAN McKELLEN in the title role and featured FAITH BROOK, JAMES CAIRNCROSS, JULIAN CURRY, SUSAN FLEETWOOD and JOHN WOODVINE

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds Martha and George in first-time-director Mike Nichols’ searing film of Edward Albee’s groundbreaking Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Taylor won her second Academy Award* (and New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and British Film Academy Best Actress Awards). Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Sandy Dennis score as another couple straying into...

A Virginia farmer's son is taken prisoner during the Civil War and he must venture out on the killing fields to find him.

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After a critically acclaimed, 15 day sold-out run on Broadway comes the release of HARRY CONNICK, JR. IN CONCERT ON BROADWAY. The show left critics raving and fans cheering. Over the past two decades, Harry Connick, Jr. has proven to be among the world's most successful and multi-talented artists. Harry first reached a mass audience as a pianist, singer and bandleader, securing his place as a renaissance man and versatile entertainer. His career has been studded with awards and recognition, i...

Exclusive interview with Derek Jacobi (34 min.) Bonus disc with behind-the-scenes footage, cast and crew interviews, and extended production interviews with Jacobi (162 min.) 12-page viewer’s guide with an introduction by director Mark Olshaker, a history of the Renaissance Theatre Company, critical reactions to the production, and an article on Hamlet’s textual challenges Hamlets Through the Ages profiles cast biographies Patrick Stewart biography photo gallery SDH subtitles

Exclusive interview with Derek Jacobi (34 min.) Bonus disc with behind-the-scenes footage, cast and crew interviews, and extended production interviews with Jacobi (162 min.) 12-page viewer’s guide with an introduction by director Mark Olshaker, a history of the Renaissance Theatre Company, critical reactions to the production, and an article on Hamlet’s textual challenges Hamlets Through the Ages profiles cast biographies Patrick Stewart biography photo gallery SDH subtitles

1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC, telecast.

Take a hilarious ride with the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families in comedy history. Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program...with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers?the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive ...

A "startling, stunning, outrageous [and] breathtaking debut" (Los Angeles Times) from acclaimed writer/director Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs), this Oscar®-winning* comedy combines "pure pell-Mel lunacy [and] wild, ad-lib energy [into an] uproariously funny" (Time) film! Low-rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and his high-strung accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), discover that, with the help of a few gullible investors, they can make more money on a flop than on a...

New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer ...

The Peanuts gang perform the classic Broadway musical. In addition to the classic songs, we see Charlie Brown and his friends perform the various comedy sketches of the play.

Described by critics as "scintillating," "exquisite," and "breathtaking," this version of the famous comic opera was a blockbuster hit at the world-renowned Stratford Festival. Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko (Eric Donkin), a lowly tailor, it chronicles his transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord Executioner. But Ko-Ko is plagued by a terrible quandary: the emperor (Gidon Saks) has...

Here they are! The complete theatrical stage show, filled with songs and excitement. Over 90 minutes of non-stop thrills and chills as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Master Splinter, and reporter April O'Neal sing and dance their way to victory over Shredder. THE MAKING OF THE COMING OUT OF THEIR SHELLS TOUR: The real story. Behind the scenes with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Take the fantastic journey with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as they transform themselves into one of America...

An interview with the production team behind the hit Broadway musical as they discuss the conception and development of Les Miserables as a pop-culture phenomenon.

The Tony Award-winning originator of the title role in the global stage success The Phantom of the Opera, Michael Crawford brings his unique voice and charismatic presence to this one-of-a-kind concert event. Crawford performs Broadway, inspirational and traditional favorites at the Cerritos Center in Los Angeles. For his signature Phantom songs, he is joined by Dale Kristien, his co-star in the Los Angeles company of that show. He salutes that show's creator Andrew Lloyd Webber with tunes from ...

The famed June 15, 1953 television special brought together two of the greatest leading ladies Broadway has ever known. The highlight of the program is Merman and Martin's 13-minute duet medley, where they sing the songs that made them famous, plus much more. On their own, Merman sings two numbers and Martin performs a brilliant comedy routine about changes in fashion over the first half of the 20th century. 27 min.

The Judy Garland story from the 1930s until her death.

A musical evening with legendary Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli. Recorded in 1964 at the London Palladium.

Dorothy and Toto travel back to the land of Oz where they arrive just in time to help their old friends fend off an invasion of magic green elephants. Voice characterizations are performed by a number of stars including Liza Minnelli Ethel Merman and Danny Thomas

This play is a "gutsy, real look" at the bitter discord between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the early days of the Republic (New York Post). The play focuses on the conflict between the political and social goals of these two brilliant men: Jefferson, the far-sighted, egalitarian-minded democrat; and Hamilton, the short-tempered federalist with limited faith in the common man. Robert Murch, Phillip LeStrange.

Frank, a somewhat successful professor at a technology school, listens to old songs on his tape machine and wanders back to scenes of his youth in World War II England. His is a journey of love and resentment, humor and bitterness, and the discovery that "we only seem to understand people... when there’s no longer a need." The New York Times’ John J. O’Connor hailed this comedy as "masterly, often extraordinary... another outstanding example of how well theater can work on television when it’s i...

This madcap, yet heartfelt comedy about success and failure is built on wonderfully ridiculous situations and uproarious dialogue. Stars Aline MacMahon (Dragon Seed)and Barbara Barrie (Breaking Away), as well as David Hedison (The Fly, "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea")and Susan Anspach (Five Easy Pieces). By Oliver Halley