Richard Rodgers
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winner of five, The Sound of Music was the number one box office champion from 1966 to 1972 according to Variety's survey. Today it stands as the most successful movie musical of all time. This special edition includes a very special nod to the music's impact and influence on younger generations: My Favorite Things, sung by Lea Michele of the hit TV show Glee.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. The videos introduce the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A live performance of the classic musical. An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love.
13) The King and I
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anna Leonowens is an English school teacher who comes to teach the children of the King Mongut of Siam in the middle 1860s.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reba McEntire sings the Broadway role of Nellie Forbush in the stage production of South Pacific accompanied by Broadway and Hollywood icons Brian Stokes Mitchell as the French planter Emile de Becque, and Alec Baldwin as wise-guy sailor Luther Bills.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A celebration of the life and work of one of Broadway's greatest legends, Stephen Sondheim. For the composer and lyricist's 80th birthday in March 2010, many of musical theater's brightest stars gathered to perform more than two dozen numbers from Sondheim's illustrious career.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (43 min., 52 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In celebration of the centennial year of Ella Fitzgerald's birth, this collaboration pairs twelve favorite Ella Fitzgerald original vocal tracks with new arrangements performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.
18) South Pacific
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A nurse is among the American forces waiting for World War II to arrive on an isolated Pacific island where she finds love with a mysterious French planter. At the same time, a Navy officer falls under the spell of an island girl and the warm tropical sea breezes.
19) South Pacific
Pub. Date
[c1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Pacific theater during World War II, this musical film explores the theme of racial prejudice in two parallel stories--that of a Navy nurse's love for a plantation owner with two Eurasian children, and a Marine lieutenant's love for a native woman.
20) Carousel
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Former carousel barker Billy Bigelow returns to Earth from heaven to help his high school daughter, previously unknown to him because before she was born, he was killed as he attempted a robbery.