Description: NEW SEALED Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection (1-3 & The Best of the Tony Awards - The Plays) [DVD] Product Overview Format: DVD Movie/TV Title: Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection A comprehensive collection of great performances captured on film as part of the annual Tony Award® broadcasts. Broadway royalty and Tony® winners, including Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein, serve as hosts and share their own Broadway and Tony® memories. Produced as PBS specials, Broadways Lost Treasures I, II, & III feature legendary starsincluding Patti LuPone, Nell Carter, Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon, Ethel Merman, Kristin Chenoweth, Angela Lansbury, Joel Grey, and many moreperforming musical numbers from legendary showsincluding Anything Goes, Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls, Aint Misbehavin, Chicago, Fosse, Miss Saigon, Crazy for You, and many many more. The Best of the Tony® Awards-The Plays features acting greats, such as James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Annette Benning, Kevin Kline, and Morgan Freeman, performing key scenes from 19 celebrated plays, including The Great White Hope, The Heidi Chronicles, Fences, Hamlet, and Long Days Journey Into Night. For theatre lovers, it doesnt get any better than this! The Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection consists of the three volumes previously released on DVD plus a never-before-available fourth disc, The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays. The first three discs deliver what the title promises: historic performances of great moments in American musical theater televised on the Tony Awards starting in the 1960s and into the new millennium. Unlike some other arts, theater has rarely been well-documented, so it's a treat to see these numbers performed by the original artists rather than experience them through audio recordings or tepid movie adaptations. Sure, sound and picture quality are only adequate, some of the numbers are minimally staged and some appear to be lip-synched, and some of the performances that do have excellent film counterparts seem rather lackluster here. But those are minor drawbacks compared to the chance to see Gwen Verdon performing "All That Jazz" and "Nowadays" from Chicago and "Whatever Lola Wants" from Damn Yankees; John Raitt singing The Pajama Game's "Hey There"; Alfred Drake singing Kiss Me Kate's "Where Is the Life That Late I Led"); a 33-year-old Jerry Orbach performing Promises, Promises' "She Likes Basketball"; and 12-year-old Andrea McArdle breaking hearts in Annie's "Tomorrow." The second and third volumes feature newer, fully staged performances that are almost indistinguishable from an actual show, including scenes from splashy, high-energy revivals such as Anything Goes (Patti LuPone and company performing the title tune) and Guys and Dolls (the fabulous "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat"), and new shows such as Grand Hotel (Michael Jeter and Brent Barrett in a gloriously exuberant "Take a Glass Together"), Les Miserables ("One Day More"), La Cage aux Folles (George Hearn solo and with a chorus line in drag in "I Am What I Am"), Ragtime (the opening number), and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Kristin Chenoweth's "My New Philosophy"). The new generation of splashy dance-oriented musicals are also represented by the likes of the 42nd Street revival (the title tune and "We're in the Money"), Fosse ("Sing, Sing, Sing"), and Crazy for You ("I Can't Be Bothered Now"). The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays features 19 of the dramatic and comedy excerpts showcased on the Tony Awards telecasts between 1969 and 2001. From 1969 are James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope and Art Carney in Lovers, and other performances include Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack in Lettice and Lovage (1990), John Lithgow and B.D. Wong in M. Butterfly (1988), Joan Allen and Peter Friedman in The Heidi Chronicles (1988), and Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver in Speed-the-Plow (1988). The performances aren't specifically organized by date or performer, but the collection concludes with four excerpts from August Wilson works followed by three Shakespearean works. The excerpts are brief, lasting 2-3 minutes each, and even though each segment is introduced by a narrator, this format clearly works better for musicals than it does for plays. Regardless, it remains a rare chance to see stage performances that for the most part are not available on home video. Collectors who already own the three musical volumes, however, will have to weigh how badly they want The Plays when they consider mostly duplicating their purchase with the Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection. --David Horiuchi Details Genre: Performing Arts Format: Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Box set, Color Contributor: Steven Hack, Hildy Parks, Joel Grey, Carol Channing, Chris Cohen, Steven Hecht, Angela Lansbury, Betty Buckley, Yul Brynner, Julie Andrews, Andrea McArdle, Richard Kiley, Vivian Blaine, Patti LuPone, Bob Gunton See more Language: English Runtime: 1 hour and 22 minutes Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1 Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated) Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 inches; 12 ounces Director : Chris Cohen Media Format : Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Box set, Color Run time : 1 hour and 22 minutes Actors : Julie Andrews, Vivian Blaine, Yul Brynner, Betty Buckley, Carol Channing Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Studio : Acorn Media Quality Products This will be shipped securely Returns must be within 30 days - item EXACTLY as it was sent. 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