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History of Broadway, The (2005)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 342 minutes), £12.99

Features six episodes which explore the history of Broadway. In ‘Syncopated City: 1919-1933’ the new freedom brought about by the end of prohibition is explored. Episodes also include: ‘Give My Regards...

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Brush Up Your Shakespeare (2002 Radio)

Series

Stage and Screen

Radio programme. Edward Seckerson discusses the role of Shakespeare in the Broadway musical, including music from Kiss Me Kate, West Side Story and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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Working (2004)

Subject

Drama; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

A musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examining the average worker’s viewpoint...showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people -...

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The (2007)

Director

John Doyle

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 133 minutes), £23.00

Mahagonny, an Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle Mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything worth doing is...

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Brecht: A Man’s a Man (1962)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 27 minutes), £150.00

Eric Bentley - historian, playwright, drama critic and leading Brecht scholar - introduces scenes from his translation of Bertolt Brecht’s play-with-songs "Mann Ist Mann" ("A Man’s A Man.") The...

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Jazz Singer, The (1927) (1927)

Subject

Film studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes ), £19.99

THE JAZZ SINGER was heralded as the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue and musical sequences. The movie, which brought Broadway superstar Al Jolson "alive" and seemingly singing from the...

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Shakespeare in Words and Music (2008 Video)

Director

Albert Girard; Jean-Jacques Sheitoyan

DVD presenting six half-hour programmes that contain spoken texts from Shakespeare’s play linked with musical excerpts within a given theme. The programmes are centred on vocal excerpts but also contain...

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Many Faces of Romeo and Juliet, The (1967 Television)

Series

Bell Telephone Hour, The

Director

Clark Jones

Producer

Dan Launsbery

Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...

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West Side Story (2021 Video)

aka: Episode 32

Series

Shakespeare Hour Live!

Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Alan Paul. This episode looks at the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, its basis in Romeo and Juliet and the way the show and its reputation has changed over...

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Taming of the Shrew, The: A History (2019 Audio)

Series

Podcast Shakespeare

Podcast hosted by Samuel Yeo, a graduate in Theatre Studies and English Literature from the Australian National University, Canberra. It explores the history of The Taming of the Shrew, from folk tales to...

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