DVDs of Broadway Shows?

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DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 5:58pm

I'm totally wondering where I can get like... legit copies of Broadway shows.

Not your average, shaky hand held version your cousin Vinny took when he snuck his camcorder into The Palace Theater but an awesome Pro-Shot version.

I've never had the luck in locating any except for CATS *sigh* and I need to add to my collection of posters, albums, movie musicals....

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#2

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 6:07pm

Search the boards, there are plenty of threads listing which shows were legitly recorded.

FYI - a very minimal amount of shows are legally sold on DVD. Everything is recorded, just not for public mass sale.

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#3

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 6:10pm

There are quite a bit. Most Sondheim shows are recorded and available.

There are tons of threads on this.

#4

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 6:12pm

These are all PROFESSIONAL videos/dvds from Broadway/London shows- not bootlegs.

BARNUM
CAMELOT
CATS
CONTACT
CRAZY FOR YOU
ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY
FIFTH OF JULY
FOSSE
INTO THE WOODS
JEKYLL AND HYDE
JERRY SEINFELD ON BROADWAY
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
JOSEPH
KISS ME, KATE
LEGALLY BLONDE-MTV
NUNSENSE 1 AND 2
OKLAHOMA
PASSI0N
PETER PAN-RIGBY
PETER PAN-MARTIN
PIPPIN
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE
SOPHISTICATED LADIES
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
SWEENEY TODD-1982
THE MAGIC SHOW
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES
THE WOMEN
VICTOR/ VICTORIA

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#5

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 6:15pm

I hate to break it to you Producer2, but Legally Blonde has NOT been LEGALLY released and there are no plans to do so.

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#6

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 6:24pm

Contact was a Live From Lincoln Center production so there isn't a professionally released DVD available. Also, if you're going to include Jerry Seinfeld's "I'm Telling You For The Last Time" you can add Lewis Black's "Black on Broadway" and Robin Williams' "Live on Broadway" from 2002.

#7

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 6:27pm

Crazy for You is available to buy ??????? Is there a link please, because it is not available on Amazon !

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Posted: 2/27/08 at 6:28pm

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#9

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:44pm

Will Rogers was taped by Japanese TV like Victor Victoria. It was never released commercially.

There was a recording of I Do I Do with Hal Linden & Lee Remick but it is long since out of print. I had a copy & put it on DVD

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#10

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:24pm

WHOOPI: BLACK TO BROADWAY

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 5:31am

***Will Rogers was taped by Japanese TV like Victor Victoria. It was never released commercially.***

Victor/Victoria was released commercially on DVD in the US, but it’s out of print now. (Will Rogers… was never released)

As was mentioned before Contact was a Live From Lincoln Center that was never released on DVD so if your going to list that you might as well include:

Light In The Piazza
A Little Night Music
Company (Donmar production)
I know there are more shows that were recorded that
weren't released that I'm forgetting now. Oh well they're
unavailable anyway :)

Another show that is still available that you didn’t list is Oh Calcutta, though I rarely see that one mentioned when listing videos of shows.

#12

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 10:49am

when will TOP BANANA be released on DVD?

#13

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 12:34pm

There's also the original Donmar version of the Cabaret revival with Jan Horrocks and Alan Cumming, but I believe it's like the Lincoln Center recordings, it was shown on tv once or twice and was never released for commercial sale.

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#14

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 12:36pm

Cats and Oklahoma were filmed, but they were not filmed as Broadway shows. There was no audience as for some of the other recordings.

House of Blue Leaves was broadcast as I have a VHS tape.
Other shows were "filmed" as stage shows, but not really live, including:

A Case of Libel with Ed Asner
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
Working
Importance of Being Earnest
Charley's Aunt with Victor Garber!


And you could check out the following website, which purports to list all "musicals" that have aired on television - and sometimes indicates whether a video or DVD is available.

Musicals on TV

#15

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 12:47pm

I have Tintypes and Sophisticated Ladies on DVD, released in Brazil but available through online retailers.

#16

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 1:43pm

i have a copy of WONDERFUL TOWN filmed with Rosalind Russell that was aired on TV, so i know that one was done as well.

there was also filmed productions of:
APPLAUSE
IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN
PURLIE
& THE MOST HAPPY FELLA

these all aren't released on DVD unfortunately, no matter how much i wish they were

#17

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 2:55pm

There is VHS available of the off-broadway production of "Alice at the Palace" starring Meryl Streep. I just check AATP is available on DVD from netflix. So, you should be able to buy it.


Most shows are filmed these days and can be seen for "educational" purposes at the New York City Library for performing arts:
http://www.nypl.org/press/2001/lpareopenhistory.cfm

Updated On: 2/28/08 at 02:55 PM

#18

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 2:59pm

Long Day's Journey Into Night (w/Kevin Spacey)

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#19

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 4:36pm

The SUPERMAN tape is available at the web site for Superman Store. It really is not very good and does not follow the Broadway show that much. I'd recommend avoiding it.

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re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 5:22pm

And one of my personal favorites, like WILL ROGERS FOLLIES...

The Original Broadway PACIFIC OVERTURES was filmed for Japanese television, and has never aired in the US or been released commercially. It's preserved at the TOFT Archive at Lincoln Center (and I think at the Museum of Television & Radio). It was filmed live at the Winter Garden Theater, and the Boris Aronson set is arrestingly sumptuous. (and Flossie's Tony Award winning costumes ain't so bad, neither...take that ACL! She had some mad samurai skillz)

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#21

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 10:15pm

Where can you get a copy of The Women?

#22

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/28/08 at 10:30pm

Black & Blue was taped & my copy was chock full of commercials so I gave up on transferring it. The copy was not that good either

I have a fair copy of a Leslie Bricusse TV Musical of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde starring Kirk Douglas. It was never released.

Another show that is available is a one man show called Clarence Darrow starring Henry Fonda.

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#23

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/29/08 at 12:22am

Where can you get a copy of The Women?

I second that question...where can you get a copy of that DVD. I'd love to see it again. That was a great cast...

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#24

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/29/08 at 4:09pm

Just watched my tape to DVD of SUPERMAN. Not a very good representation of the stage version. The orchestrations were terrible and ruined what is a very good score. The lead was listed as "introducing David Wilson. Others in the cast were Leslie Ann Warren as Lois and David Wayne as the villain. Then there were such well know musical peerformers as Loretta Switt and Keneth Mars :)
The production was so bad that they even had superman wearing a watch
The Chinses acrobats from Broadway were replaced with Brooklyn type gangsters.
I really can't recommend it unless you have to have every musical that was made into a video.

#25

re: DVDs of Broadway Shows?

Posted: 2/29/08 at 4:48pm

I'm confused puppetman, I thought we were weren't supposed to discuss dvds. ???

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