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1) Amadeus
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this first book ever written about the making of this classic and beloved film, Ray Morton traces the genesis of Amadeus from the conception of the original idea by Shaffer to the development of the screenplay – which turned the play inside out and made a profound theatrical experience into a dazzling cinematic one. The casting of Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham to play Mozart and Salieri gave two unknowns the roles that every star in the world...
Language
English
Description
Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperon Sebastian...
3) Mary Poppins
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beloved classic shines like never before with an all-new digital restoration. Winner of five Academy Awards, including best actress (Julie Andrews), best song (Chim Chim Cher-ee), and best visual effects. Mary Poppins flies out of the windy London skies and into the home of two mischievous children. With the help of a carefree chimney sweep named Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the spirited nanny turns every chore into a game, and every day into a 'Jolly...
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Language
English
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Description
"A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture. You know his work--Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better...
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank (Nick Offerman) is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) off to college, while being forced to close his shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly "jam sesh" into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an Internet breakout, the two embark on a journey...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times Critics' Pick, A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
8) Blue Hawaii
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1961, 1989
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Though his mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to climb the corporate ladder, Elvis would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar. Defying his mother's wishes, Elvis goes to work as a tour guide where he entertains a car full of cuties. This rockabilly romp is sure to make any lover of the king of rock and roll smile! Nominated for Best Written American Musical by the **Writer's Guild of America**.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Teen sisters stay with their retired country music star grandma when their father is jailed for a crime he didn't commit. The girls convince their grandma to come out of retirement and play a concert to raise money for their dad's defense.
10) I'm not there
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen two-disc collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six characters recreate different stages in Bob Dylan's career, from Greenwich Village folk singer to electric guitar trailblazer to born-again preacher.
12) Mamma mia!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
13) The Music man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( c. 181 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
15) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Written, produced and directed by David Swift and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway smash, this classic musical is bristling with humor, romance, and song. The story charts the rise of an ambitious window washer (Robert Morse) who, with the help of a simple guidebook, gets the job, gets the girl (Michele Lee), gets the raise and gets the attention of the Big Boss (Rudy Vallee) himself - all by his second day at work. Now it's only a matter...
17) Grease 2
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1982
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to rockin’ Rydell High for a whole new term! It’s 1961, two years after the original Grease™ gang graduated, and there’s a new crop of seniors – and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield) is the new kid in school – but he’s been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds (Adrian...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Full screen encore ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A popular high school basketball star and a shy, academically gifted newcomer secretly decide to audition for their school's musical, a decision that turns their world and their school upsidedown.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bedridden with an excruciating case of skin-rotting psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark escapes into his vivid imagination. There, gunmen and private detectives pursue their own unusual agendas, often casting himself as the titular "warbler" whose pain and anger is focused like a laser on his cheating wife and anyone else who's made his real and imaginary worlds unbearable.
20) Help!
Publisher
Capitol Records, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : col. ill., ports. ; 18 x 13 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Ringo possesses a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.
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