Musicals and Stage

• Puccini: Tosca- In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fred Astaire - Second Chorus | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £6.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fred Astaire (1899 - 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer choreographer singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years during which he made thirty-one musical films. Second Chorus the 1941 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Astaire Burgess Meredith Paulette Goddard Artie Shaw and Charles Butterworth with music by Artie Shaw Bernie Hanighen Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer sees Danny O'Neill (Astaire) and Hank Taylor (Meredith) as rival trumpeters with college band the Perennials. Both men find themselves competing for the affections of Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) while trying to get the other one fired. Danny successfully secures Ellen's affections!

• Rimsky Korsakov: Sadko | DVD | (12/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Tango Lesson | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less as herself, learning to tango from master-dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one partner, typically the woman, to yield to the other--and the expectations of the film-maker to do things on her own terms. Can Potter simultaneously surrender and control for the duration of this circular project? The question is made more complicated by Veron's desire to be in one of Potter's films--in other words, to follow her lead. Potter may not be Veron's equal on the dance floor, but that isn't the point of this interesting movie and its provocative, internal debate. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Linie 1 (Cult Classics) | DVD | (20/02/2023) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this brand new restoration of the German hit musical Linie 1 a young woman runs away from her provincial hometown and ends up at Berlin's notorious Zoo station, searching for a rock musician who got her pregnant on a one-night stand. She gets stuck in underground line 1 and encounters a kaleidoscope of urban characters and their fates. Linie 1 includes socio-critical elements, but it also serves as an amusing portrait of Berlin's society before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection. Product Features NEW Interview with Reinhard Hauff and Eberhard Junkersdorf NEW Linie 1: Interviews with actors Petra Zieser and Rainer Strecker NEW Trailer

• Catalani: La Wally | DVD | (24/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty | DVD | (13/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Royal Opera Collection | DVD | (01/09/2017) from £140.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Mysteries | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In June 2001 this South African company's first two productions 'The Mysteries' and 'Carmen' opened at Wilton's Music Hall in London and within a day of the first reviews appearing both had sold out. Over the next twelve months the company became an international hit touring festivals in Australia and America as well as a sell-out run in the West End. Rarely in the world of theatre does a company appear to such instant and universal acclaim. Yiimimangaliso ('The Mysteries') is a

• Joseph Haydn - The Virtual Haydn | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Modest Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Art Of Lauren Cuthbertson | Blu Ray | (22/07/2022) from £28.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Variety Jubliee | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kit (Ellis Irving) and Joe Swan (Reginald Purdell) are variety stars at the turn of the century. Kits son is killed in the First World War but the sons' son carries on the family tradition by reviving the music hall and joining the RAF musical. This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. When WWII erupts, the popularity of the music halls decline, and the Burns and Swann music hall falls into disrepair. Their business falls further into decline when Kit and Evelyn's son, Kit Jr., is killed. Unable to revive their theatre, Kit and Evelyn die in poverty and Swann ends as the theatre doorman. Fortunately, Kit senior's grandson, also named Kit, decides to save and run the hall. He does so until he joins the RAF to fight in WWII.

• Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera | Blu Ray | (09/07/2021) from £34.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 3 Classic Musicals Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 1 - Second Chorus / The Duke Is Tops / Private Buckaroo | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Second Chorus: Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both ho

• The Royal Opera Collection | Blu Ray | (01/09/2017) from £121.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Baroque Opera Classics Box | Blu Ray | (26/02/2016) from £47.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Netrebko And Hvorostovsky | Blu Ray | (28/10/2013) from £19.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Saturday Night Revue | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Starring British blonde bombshell Sally Gray opposite debonair film/radio star songwriter and music-hall veteran Billy Milton Saturday Night Revue is a delightfully engaging musical comedy/drama set in '30s London which showcases some the era's finest light musical talent – including Sydney Kyte and his Orchestra Billy Reid and his Accordion Band and Webster Booth. This rare film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer from original film elements in its original aspect ratio. There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one but her father who does not approve of her singing career believes she is performing at the Society one...

• Rhythm Serenade | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £4.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (110.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Forces Sweetheart Vera Lynn stars in this splendid 1943 British musical romance. When the evacuee school at which she teaches closes down, Ann Martin (Vea Lynn) is torn between joining the Wrens and looking after her disabled father (Charles Victor). However, she is persuaded instead to establish a day-care centre for women doing war work in the local factory. While conveting a big empty house ready for the children, Ann stumbles upon John (Peter Murray-Hill) living secretly in the grounds. John is tormented with a secret and - whle big-hearted Ann tries to help him and slowly falls in love - others believe he's a conscientious objector or even, possibly a spy... The second of Vera Lynn's three wartime movies, RHYTHM SERENADE boasts an intruiging supporting cast that includes the comedy duo Jimmie Jewel & Ben Warriss, Irene Handl and Jimmy Clitheroe as a Hackney street urchin. The film also includes seven unforgettable songs performed by Vera Lynn - 'The Sunshine of Your Smile', 'Home Sweet Home Again', 'I Love to Sing', 'Bye and Bye', 'So It Goes On', 'With all my Heart' and 'It Doesn't Cost a Dime'. ABOUT THE DVD: The film is presented in BLACK & WHITE and FULL SCREEN format (4:3 Aspect Ratio) and runs for 83 minutes - the AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language and MONO - SUBTITLES are English (Hard of Hearing) only