Shows on DVD

[Levviathan6]

Shows on DVD#1

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:22pm

Does anybody know of any good shows that were professionally recorded and aired on TV, and subsequently released on DVD? I've seen Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, The Mikado and a couple of others in that format, and I kind of like it. It's not as good as the actual theater, but I still like it. Can anybody think of any others that were also released on DVD?

My greatest skill is smashing bricks with my forehead.

Updated On: 3/13/14 at 05:22 PM

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Shows aired on television#2

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:35pm

Not sure if it was aired on TV, but the final performance of Rent was released on DVD.

[promisespromises2]

Shows aired on television#2

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:44pm

I don't think Sunday In the Park With George was aired on TV, but it's on DVD.

[Levviathan6]

Shows aired on television#3

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:47pm

Changed the title of the thread to 'on DVD.' I think my cousin has Rent.

My greatest skill is smashing bricks with my forehead.

[EricMontreal22]

Shows aired on television#4

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:48pm

You probably are aware, but Sunday in the Park and Passion were done the same way. Umm, you said "good show" but Love Never Dies was released this way, as well as Memphis, Shrek...

Are you interested in non-musicals too, because the list would be much longer.

[EricMontreal22]

Shows aired on television#5

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:49pm

Promises, Promises, Sunday was filmed, like ITW and many of these, for PBS' American Playhouse, and definitely did air (even A&E back when it actually was Arts and Entertainment reran it a few times.)

[Levviathan6]

Shows aired on television#6

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:50pm

Yeah, of course. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged isn't a musical. Any shows.

My greatest skill is smashing bricks with my forehead.

[oasisjeff]

Shows aired on television#7

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:53pm

If they are ever going to release them, let's try and go better than DVD... Blu-Ray, HD streaming, something else.

Now t/d/b/a haterobics on here.

[brettarnett]

Shows aired on television#8

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:55pm

What production of promises, promises was recorded?

[oasisjeff]

Shows aired on television#9

Posted: 3/13/14 at 5:59pm

^^ They were replying about Sunday to the user named Promises, Promises.

Now t/d/b/a haterobics on here.

[promisespromises2]

Shows aired on television#10

Posted: 3/13/14 at 6:05pm

Thanks Eric! Definitely didn't know that!

[Sutton Ross]

Shows aired on television#11

Posted: 3/13/14 at 6:12pm

Memphis was on PBS and released on DVD.

[Mr Roxy]

Shows aired on television#12

Posted: 3/13/14 at 6:45pm

Jekyll & Hyde with Hasselhoff . In a remainder bin at any store.

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[Tink2]

Shows aired on television#13

Posted: 3/13/14 at 6:49pm

^ Ha! I was just about to post that. Shrek was recently released on DVD. And, don't forget NBC's Sound of Music : )

[Wildcard]

Shows aired on television#14

Posted: 3/13/14 at 6:52pm

Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Passing Strange, Jesus Christ Superstar (2 versions), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats

The following aired but not on DVD (legally):
A Little Night Music
The Light in the Piazza
Crazy for You
South Pacific
Sunday in the Park with George (Paris)
Will Rogers Follies

[Tink2]

Shows aired on television#15

Posted: 3/13/14 at 6:57pm

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones.

[EricMontreal22]

Shows aired on television#16

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:39pm

For some reason I didn't think that Cat was on DVD? Is it? I'd pick it up even though it's sluggishly directed, as it's still the most complete version of Cat (it uses the 1970s revised script like most current revivals.)

Tennessee Williams has a number of worthwhile DVDs like that but they aren't filmed stage shows (nor was Cat) but rather TV productions. However often they used the cast and director of a current revival--topping my list would be the awesome Peter Hall production of one of my faves, Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave which was just released to DVD, and her daughter, Natasha Richardson, Maggie Smith and Rob Lowe recreating, I believe, their London revival roles in Richard Eyre's Suddenly Last Summer which did air on PBS and is on DVD I believe only in a box set of Maggie Smith tv plays.

So again it depends if you mean live shows or not. The ALW shows mentioned were restaged on soundstages, so not filmed live. Trevor Nunn does this with his Porgy and Bess and Oklahoma and even has the cast lipsynching for much to the cast albums which drives me crazy (Oklahoma is even odder as they insert fake audience reaction shots.) But they're still worth watching.

[Emma White]

Shows aired on television#17

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:41pm

Lots of semi-staged concerts - Company, Sweeney Todd, Chess (lol), Follies.

"Nice is different than good."

[EricMontreal22]

Shows aired on television#18

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:43pm

The Paris Sunday, and the French production of FOllies are both meat to come to DVD this year. Digital Theatre of course has a ton of shows--many worthy ones aside from the well known London Merrily and Into the Woods (I'd recommend their All My Sons in particular) but of course that's not technically DVD. Still, if you can use an HDMI cable to hook your computer to your TV they are in gorgeous full HD.

[tazber]

Shows aired on television#19

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:46pm

Playbill has hundreds of titles

....but the world goes 'round

[Emma White]

Shows aired on television#20

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:56pm

I know that my city's major library has a whole shelf of DVD's of musical productions, so I'm slowly making my way through them...

"Nice is different than good."

[Tink2]

Shows aired on television#21

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:57pm

EricMontreal22, I have the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof DVD. I love it, but I admit to being a huge Jessica Lange fan.

http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Hot-Roof-Jessica-Lange/dp/6305081905

[EricMontreal22]

Shows aired on television#22

Posted: 3/13/14 at 9:03pm

I have it on VHS... And probably what I was thinking was that it went out of print very quickly--and so is now ridiculously expensive. Boo. However I didn't realize the Baldwin/Lange Streetcar Named Desire was finally out on DVD (and has been for a few years) so I'll have to pick that up.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Shows aired on television#23

Posted: 3/13/14 at 9:09pm

They filmed Crazy For You and Will Rogers Follies? Were these on Broadway, or...?

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

[Tink2]

Shows aired on television#24

Posted: 3/13/14 at 9:22pm

Eric, it wasn't that expensive when I got it. Netflix has it available on DVD, but not for streaming at this time.