Date: September 2013 | Korea | AVI Cast: Um Ki Joon, Ahn Yoo Jin Notes: Not in English. This is a camshot version of the movie screen where the show was being aired. Very poor sound and video quality.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Date: 2004 | Documentary | AVI Notes: "Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There is an invaluable and moving salute to the art form composed of interviews with the people who were there in the 1940s through the 1960s. There are too many to list, but they include John Raitt, Angela Lansbury, Hume Cronyn, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Carol Channing, Jerry Orbach, Robert Goulet, Robert Morse, Jerry Herman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, and Harold Prince. There are also some rare performance clips, such as Ethel Merman in Gypsy, Patricia Morison in Kiss Me Kate, and Angela Lansbury in Mame, as well as more familiar television performances." -Amazon.com
Hadestown
Date: January 24, 2019 | West End | MP4 Cast: Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, Patrick Page, Amber Gray, Andre de Shields, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Rosie Fletcher, Gloria Onitri
Newsies
Date: 1992 | Movie | MP4 Cast: Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Aaron Lohr, Max Casella, Gabriel Damon, Marty Belafsky, Arvie Lowe Jr., Trey Parker, Robert Duvall, Ann Margaret
A Streetcar Named Desire
Date: 1995 | TV Movie | AVI Cast: Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin, Diane Lane, John Goodman Notes: Made for TV movie that launched the "CBS Playhouse 90's" series. The first uncensored film of the 1947 play, adapted from the 1992 revival of the play also starring Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin. Slight buzzing sound throughout, since it was ripped from an old VHS tape, but fairly good video and audio quality otherwise. Better sound and video quality than the DVD's available for purchase on Amazon.
The Story of Musicals
Date: 2012 | TV Documentary | AVI Notes: Narrated by Imelda Staunton, this documentary covers the "British Invasion" of the musical. Using rehearsal footage, photos, and interviews from the stars, this documentary explores the flops and triumphs of the musicals from the British stage. Musicals such as, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita, Me and My Girl, and others. Featuring interviews with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Elaine Paige, Cameron Mackintosh, Michael Ball and many, many others. Three episodes, each an hour long.
The Sweatbox
Notes: Trudie Styler, a documentarian, had been allowed to film the production of Kingdom of the Sun/The Emperor's New Groove as part of the deal that originally brought her husband Sting to the project. As a result, Styler recorded on film much of the struggle, controversy, and troubles that went into making the picture (including the moment when producer Fullmer called Sting to inform the pop star that his songs were being deleted from the film). Disney owns the rights to the documentary and has not released it on home video or DVD. - Wikipedia
Tim Minchin: Ready for This?
Date: 2009 | Comedy Show | AVI Notes: Tim Minchin is an Australian musician, composer, songwriter, actor, comedian and writer. In 2002, he began to develop the solo comedy shows which have gained him public and critical acclaim. Tim has also written the music and lyrics for Matilda The Musical for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Ready For This? was filmed at HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London (From Amazon.com). Not recommended for the devoutly religious or or someone sensitive to bad language.
Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra
Date: 2011 | Comedy Show | AVI Notes: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. The world's best loved big haired, piano abusing, satirical singer-songwriter joins with conductor Jules Buckley and the 55-piece Heritage Orchestra to create the most epic musical comedy show ever. The Pope, cheese, racism, rock, cancer, love and sub-pharyngeal alopecia. (From Amazon.com) If you are sensitive to language or extremely religious, this is probably not something you would enjoy.
Top Banana
Date: 1954 | Movie | AVI Cast: Phil Silvers, Rose Marie, Danny Scholl, Judy Lynn, Jack Albertson, Bradford Hatton, Johnny Coy, Dick Dana, Joey Faye, Johnny Trama, Herbie Faye Notes: Originally shot and edited in 3-D, the idea of this film was to for the audience to experience a major Broadway show in the best seat in the house for the price of a movie ticket. Unfortunately, the film was released flat when the 3-D craze ended and no longer exists in that format. The broadcast version now used is the truncated version. According to The 3D Film Archive "the only material in the United Artists archive is an edited 35mm release print of the right side. That is the version which has been released on home video and it's missing about 15 minutes of footage. There are no negatives, color separations, inter-positives, dupe negatives, nothing. However, the missing 15 minutes does survive in both an uncut 16mm Kodachrome print struck in 1954 and an original, faded 35mm release print now at the UCLA Film and Television Archive." -From IMDB
AUDIO GIFTS
Medea
Date: May 20, 2001 | BBC Radio 3 | One Track Cast: Fiona Shaw, Jonathan Cake, Janny Galloway, Jonathan Slinger, Struan Rodger, Leo Wringer, Robert Hines, Mikey Press, Jack Richards, Gabrielle Lloyd, Moya Brady, Gillian Hanna, Emma Dewhurst, Kate Fleetwood, Joyce Henderson and Pauline Lynch
Waitress
Date: March 26, 2017 | Broadway | Untracked Cast: Jessie Mueller, Charity Angel Dawson, Caitlin Houlahan, Dakin Matthews, William Popp, Drew Gehling, Eric Anderson, Christopher Fitzgerald Notes: Jessie Mueller's final show. theresatinyrevolt's master.
OTHER GIFTS
Unmasked: A Memoir
What: Book | PDF Information: Andrew Lloyd Webber's new memior. "Lloyd Webber shares his recollections of the works that have become cultural touchstones for generations of fans: writings songs for a school production that would become his first hit, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; finding the coterie of performers for his classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar; developing his first megahit, Evita, which would win seven Tonys Awards, including Best Musical; staking his reputation and fortune on the groundbreaking Cats; and making history with the dazzling The Phantom of the Opera." -From Amazon.com