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 Broadway's Lost Treasures III - The Best of the Tony Awards $24.99 The "Broadway's Lost Treasures" series is such a wonderful idea and the Tony Award telecast has offered a treasure chest of legendary performances over the decades. Why then do the producers tap into the unrelated Broadway t.v. special that was pretty much lip-synched and way too forced in delivery? More than half of this DVD is very, very good though. The scenes from "Ragtime' and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" are worth the price of the video. At the other end of the spectrum Angela Lansbury is just embarrassing. And I LOVE Angela Lansbury!Of the four DVD's in this series; it's the second one that I think is best ("Coco", "Grand Hotel", and "Nine" are stunning clips). As someone else pointed out ANY record of live theatre preserved is a step in the right direction and I applaude this series for those "live" moments. Please lose the lip-synch and release volumes four, five, six, seven, eight....  The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays $19.99 The best way to think about this DVD is that it gives you snippets of fantastic moments of Broadway plays...not musicals, but the plays. Just to see James Earl Jones in "Fences" and Maggie Smith in "Lettice and Lovage" is worth the price of the disc. The problem is that these moments are so good, that we dearly want to see the whole play. Unfortunately, it appears that DVDs of the entire performance of some of these selections do not exist. Nevertheless, seeing some excellent shorts is better than none at all.  Broadway: The American Musical $59.99 Just the kind of entertainment we hoped for.................and we now have it ! |
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