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1) Newsies
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The Band, one of rock's superstar groups, decided to call it quits after sixteen grueling years on the road. The group held this farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland, the site of their first performance.
4) Oliver
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When Oliver leaves a workhouse and ends up in London an abandoned orphan, he falls in with Fagin who teaches him to steal for a living.
5) Hello, Dolly
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
7) Chicago
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A documentary featuring the Cox family, Fairfield Four, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Thomas King, Alison Krauss, Colin Linden, David Rawlings, Peasall Sisters, Dan Tyminski, Gillian Welch, and The Whites. Includes interviews, rehearsal and concert segments.
9) Tommy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1975
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of his father at the hands of his mother and her lover, young Tommy withdraws and becomes deaf, dumb and blind. As he grows up, he is subjected to many bizarre cure attempts. He also becomes a pinball champion, attracting a cult-like following, and is hailed as a Messiah once he is cured.
10) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.
11) Oklahoma!
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A cowboy wins his girl despite the intervention of a sinister hired hand.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Based on the smash hit New York show, this is a high-energy rock musical in the tradition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is the story of Hedwig, an ambitious glam-rocker who comes to America determined to find fame, fortune, and his "other half."
17) True stories
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1986
Language
English
Description
Episodic stories showcasing amiable and offbeat characters in Virgil, Texas, such as the world's laziest woman and 50 sets of twins on the eve of the town's celebration of the states' sesquicentennial.
18) West Side story
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a musical retelling of the "Romeo and Juliet" story set in 1950s New York City, in which Tony, a former member of the Jets--an Anglo street gang--falls tragically in love with Maria, the innocent sister of Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks.
19) La bamba
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1987
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mexican-American Ritchie Valens rises from field laborer to rock star with a string of hit singles.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
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