Musicals and Stage

• In the Good Old Summertime | Blu Ray | (10/07/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In The Summertime - A tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals - shares a celebrated movie lineage that includes James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail. In between those two, Judy Garland and Van Johnson had mail plus Gold Old tunes evoking an era of strawboaters and silvery moons. Sparked by Garland's comedic zest and musical appeal, this confection is one of the sweetest, most unpretentious entertainments of 1949 (Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical). It's also a nostalgic farewell and a sunny hello. Buster Keaton appears in his final film for the studio he first joined in 1928. And Liza Minnelli, all of 18 months young, makes her debut in the finale. Product Features Introduction by Jude Carland Biographer John Fricke Vintage Fitzpatrick TravelTalks Shorts Theatrical Trailer

• The Prince of Egypt: The Musical | Blu Ray | (26/02/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Essential Royal Ballet | DVD | (25/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (Philharmonie Berlin 1992) (Euroarts: 2011404) (Berliner Philharmoniker/ Sergiu Celibidache) | Blu Ray | (01/06/2012) from £14.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Chorus Line | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £14.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (76.98%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Under the stark white lights of an empty Broadway theatre, a stream of hopefuls audition before Zach, the harsh and critical director of a new musical. There is tension in the air as sixteen are singled out for further auditioning, and as the director and his assistant put the dancers through their paces, they begin to relay their lives into word and song. Suddenly an unexpected latecomer arrives. It is Cassie, a beautiful and talented dancer who used to be a star, returned to ask Zach, her former lover, for a job. Passions run high, but he allows her to audition. Over the course of the day, the dancers, all desperate for the job, reveal more and more about themselves to the ever watchful director, as he searches for his chosen Chorus Line. Starring Michael Douglas, and directed by Richard Attenborough, A CHORUS LINE is based on the hugely successful and award winning Broadway musical of the same name.

• Wagner: Parsifal | Blu Ray | (17/02/2014) from £13.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Graffiti Bridge | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £7.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (79.59%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Bonus features are minimal but apt: a surprisingly good movie trailer and a quartet of relevant music videos, three drawn from the film and one, "Question of U," a characteristically electric concert clip. --Michael Mikesell

• Mozart:Die Entfuhrung aus dem serail | Blu Ray | (27/05/2016) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dancing on Ice - The Live Tour 2010 | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following on for the 2010 TV series comes the 2010 Live Tour! Featuring the spectacular Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean plus a host of celebrity skaters this show is too cool to miss!

• StreetDance 2 | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When top street dancer Ash (Hentschel) is humiliated and laughed off stage by American crew Invincible, he sets off to gather the best dancers from around the world to take them on - with a dance style they weren't expecting.

• Ballet for Children - Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit; Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker; Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Adventures of Alice in Wonderland / The Royal Ballet | DVD | (06/11/2012) from £43.52   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Irene | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anna Neagle - one of Britain's very biggest stars - was poached by Hollywood to make this glorious Cinderellastory: Irene (Neagle, Spring in Park Lane) is the feisty Irish lass who catches the eye of millionaire Don Marshall.He helps her become a model for the fabulous fashion boutique 'Madame Lucy' and she makes quite animpression at a high-society ball (filmed in gorgeous Technicolor); soon Irene is the talk of the town. But willsuccess stop her finding her prince charming? A meeting of the best of both British and Hollywood, Irene is asumptuous indulgence from the golden age of movies.

• The Celebration 30th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (14/11/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Gang's All Here (1943) | Blu Ray | (22/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The iconic director-choreographer Busby Berkeley's first full-length film in Technicolor is well established as being perhaps the most visually stunning spectacle of any Hollywood musical. But to focus on this risks overlooking its exuberant performances gleeful humour sensational music and glowing romance amidst countless other pleasures. A young soldier's fast-struck love affair with a New York City nightclub singer despite his long-standing betrothal to a wealthy childhood friend provides the catalyst for this dizzying parade of home-front melodrama comic set-pieces and mind-boggling musical numbers (including 'The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat' and 'The Polka-Dot Polka'). Featuring some of the most popular musical stars of its day including Alice Faye the incomparable Carmen Miranda and the legendary Benny Goodman along with brilliantly funny supporting turns from Edward Everett Horton Eugene Pallette and Charlotte Greenwood The Gang's All Here is an outlandishly surprising classic from one of the Hollywood dream factory's most influential innovators. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present a world premiere of a stunning new restoration on Blu-ray. Special Features: New high-definition 1080p presentation English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired New and exclusive full-length audio commentary with critics Glenn Kenny and Farran Smith Nehme and film historian Ed Hulse The documentary Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star A deleted scene from the film Trailer A 36-Page Booklet featuring essays on the film by critics David Cairns and Karina Longworth and more!

• The Eddy Duchin Story | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The era of big bands, grand ballrooms, and casino nightlife comes alive in The Eddy Duchin Story, a musical biography of the talented pianist and bandleader who set New York society on its ear in the 1930s and 40s. George Sidney directs this moving story of a man who discovers too late the real wonder of life. An emotionally rare motion picture scored to the unforgettable music of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin and Oscar Hammerstein.

• Fun In Acapulco | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £12.82   |  Saving you £3.17 (24.73%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mike works on a boat in Acapulco: when the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired Mike must find new work and becomes embroiled in a love triangle with two women and a champion Mexican diver!

• Jerry Springer The Opera | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £6.22   |  Saving you £13.77 (221.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Triumph tragedy and trailer trash! Filmed in the West End's Cambridge theatre the award-winning controversy-courting Jerry Springer: The Opera stars David Soul as you've never seen him before! America's favourite talk show host suffers his worst day ever at the office when faced with everyone from trailer trash to transsexuals - unmissable!

• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This Nicholas Nickleby is not one of Hollywood's condensed versions, it's the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic eight-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the life and times of the eponymous school-teacher. The 1982 production (originally staged in two parts) won worldwide acclaim and was such a success that Britain's then-newest TV station, Channel 4, launched a joint venture with independent production company Primetime to bring Nicholas Nickleby to a television audience. The result is this wonderfully theatrical version, filmed at the Old Vic and starring much of the original stage cast. It manages to stay true to Trevor Nunn's original artistic vision of Dickens's damning incitement of England's educational system. The ensemble cast are superb: Roger Rees as Nicholas is a bright-eyed idealist, every inch the young romantic hero whose principles are often his downfall, but ultimately his salvation; Fulton Mackay's twisted, embittered Squeers is every inch the Dickensian villain; and David Threlfall is transformed as Smike, Squeers' piteously subjugated, crippled servant and gives the most moving performances of his career. This enthralling TV adaptation recreates the magic of the stage version for all those who were unable to catch it on its pitifully short run. It doesn't pull any punches as the humour and inspiring storyline are tempered with real dark and tragic episodes. Forget the Hollywood fluff, this is the version you should watch if you want a faithful retelling of Dickens's story. --Kristen Bowditch

• Brigadoon | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £11.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (16.68%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The highland village of Brigadoon normally remains invisible sleeping in the Scottish mists. But one day in every one hundred years the town magically materializes. And when that day of joyful celebration ends Brigadoon vanishes from the countryside and returns to its slumber. There's only one catch: no native can leave the village or it will disappear forever. A pair of American hunters stumble upon Brigadoon on the single day it's come to life and when one of them falls for a

• Michael Flatley Returns As Lord Of The Dance | Blu Ray | (12/09/2011) from £9.43   |  Saving you £15.56 (62.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The international smash-hit Lord of the Dance is back with an all-new electrifying show. Filmed LIVE in Dublin and London during the sold out 2011 European Tour experience the magic excitement and passion like never before. Starring show creator and Irish dance pioneer Michael Flatley (returning to Lord of The Dance for the first time in 13 years); the breathtaking performance comprises a spectacular new set design state-of-the-art lighting special effects and costumes that will captivate audiences both young and old. Featuring unprecedented access to Flatley's performance and exclusive behind the scenes footage you'll never be closer to the action than this! Don't miss out on the performance film event of the year!