22 Rare Performances from Broadway's Greatest Musicals
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
Host (segment "Broadway Divas") / Julian Marsh (segment "42nd Street")
Host (segment "Leading Men") / Emcee (segment "Cabaret")
Host (segment "Dancin'") / Billy Buck Chandler (segment "My One and Only")
Host (segment "Record Breakers") / Velma Kelly (segment "Chicago")
Adelaide (segment "Guys & Dolls")
Eva Perón (segment "Evita")
Juan Perón (segment "Evita")
Che (segment "Evita")
Dolly Levi (segment "Hello, Dolly!")
Self (segment "A Little Night Music")
Tevye (segment "Fiddler On The Roof")
The King of Siam (segment "The King and I")
Anna Leonowens (segment "The King and I")
Sid Sorokin (segment "The Pajama Game")
Harold Hill (segment "The Music Man")
Mr. MacAfee (segment "Bye Bye Birdie")
Edith Herbert (segment "My One and Only")
Roxie Hart (segment "Chicago")
Peggy Sawyer (segment "42nd Street")
16 Nov 2017
New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.
25 Apr 1941
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
01 Oct 2018
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem Hellfighters" of World War I, Broadway Theatre, the Civil Rights movement, and decades of Black cultural development.
01 Jan 2006
Documentary about the play Miss Julie and dramatist August Strindberg
25 Sep 1941
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
07 Aug 1953
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
26 Jun 1989
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
02 Nov 2005
The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic experiment, ended up in police killings at Malexander. The process in the prison were filmed during 6 months.
09 Jun 2014
Kevin Spacey, Sam Mendes and the Bridge Project Company go on the road in NOW: in the Wings on a World Stage. In over 200 performances, and across 3 continents, Kevin and the troupe reveal some of the most intimate moments behind the scenes of their staging of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, "Richard III." Their story and experiences weave around, and reflect on, excerpts from the play from their various locations, from Epidaurus to Doha, and provides a great opportunity for those who have never experienced Spacey on stage to witness his immerse and captivating interpretation of Richard III. NOW chronicles the first collaboration between Spacey and Mendes since both won Academy Awards® for their work on American Beauty.
20 Nov 1958
Broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC, a pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
02 Jan 1962
Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.
01 Jan 1949
No overview found
01 Jul 2015
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey to New York City to share their story of hope, resilience, and overcoming.
08 Jun 1956
No overview found
15 Mar 1991
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
25 May 2018
A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old showman who takes them to live with his estranged former dancing partner/brother.
10 Dec 1985
A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach. She is desperate enough for work to humble herself and audition for him; whether he's willing to let professionalism overcome his personal feelings about their past remains to be seen.
03 Dec 1997
A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel Grey and others, as well as the two men themselves, plus clips of performances of their songs.
17 May 1986
Liza Minnelli in concert at the London Palladium.
01 Jan 1998
Third in the Nunsense series of musicals.