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  1. Will You Stop! (1937 Film)

    Director
    William Watson
    Producer
    Al Christie
    Subject
    Drama

    Fiction short presented by E.W. Hammons. A New York writer (Ryan) is employed by the owner of a department store to adapt Antony and Cleopatra for the annual employee show. The show includes musical numbers,...

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  2. 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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  3. Comedy of Errors, The (1956) (Television)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Unavailable

    A musical version of the play adapted by Lionel Harris and Robert MacNab. The production originally ran at the Arts Theatre Club, London in a version with added music by Julian Slade. Dennis Ringrowe is the...

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  4. Anne Shelton Show, The [23/02/1959] (Television)

    Director
    Bill Hitchcock

    Television variety show. The second half of the programme contains a sketch entitled ‘The life and Legend of Matt Macbeth’, by Wild Will Shakespeare, presenting Macbeth as a musical Western. Dick Bentley...

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  5. Big Life, The (Radio, Video)

    aka: The Ska Musical

    Director
    Clint Dyer
    Producer
    Rosalynd Ward
    Subject
    Drama

    Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...

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  6. Producer, The (Television)

    Director
    Ida Lupino

    US sitcom about a group of seven castaways. Famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba, (Silvers, the guest star) arrives on the island. To impress him the castaways mount a musical version of Hamlet. The play...

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  7. Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Radio)

    Subject
    Music

    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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  8. Big Life, The (Video)

    aka: The Ska Musical

    Subject
    Drama

    Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...

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  9. Fire Angel (Television)

    Subject
    Drama

    BBC current affairs programme . In this episode presenter Bob Wellings reports on ‘Fire Angel’, a new British rock musical loosely based on The Merchant of Venice. Composed by Roger Haines with lyrics by...

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  10. Rome & Jewels (Video)

    Director
    Rennie Harris
    Subject
    Dance

    Preview of a work described in the programme notes as ‘an amalgam of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story with the aesthetic of contemporary hip hop’. Choreography and direction by Rennie Harris, musical...

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