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Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection

Acorn Media
DVD
$59.99 Suggested Retail Price

Add this wonderful collection to your own. If you are a fan of Broadway, this collection is a treasure. If you are not yet familiar with the wide selection of Broadway showstoppers you are in for a treat.

These are the best of Broadway musical. These are the winners of the annual Tony Award. The Tony awards are Broadway's equivalent to the Oscars for movies. Every year I prefer watching the Tony Awards program to any other. This set was produced for PBS, and now it can be yours... and you don't even have to make a pledge.

On these four DVDs you will be watching famous stars including Lauren Bacall, Robert Goulet, Bebe Neworth and many more. These are the guests and presenters for the award program, as well as winners themselves. This is the complete collection from those wonderful programs. Actors like James Earl Jones and Maggie Smith are Tony winners. There are bits from 19 winning plays. As for the musical productions, you will be able to see the original legendary stars like Patti LaPone, Neil Carter, Jerry Orbach, Ethel Merman and many more as they perform for this special award show.

There also 14 bonus musical performances that were not seen on the PBS show plus you can enjoy some historical information about the original Broadway Productions, In all you will have 82 performances to enjoy. About a360 minutes which for me is sheer pleasure.

I don't know about you, but I can’t go to New York every year to catch up with the current shows, and by the time they get to my city on the West Coast, they no longer have the original cast. DVDs of the Broadway shows rarely become available. I am waiting for SPAM to make it to DVD. Would it hurt Broadway to share these shows with us fans in their original form? Seeing the DVD will never take the place of seeing a live show in a real theater.


Rainbo Electronic Reviews published this review in our April, 2006 issue.



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