Mill Playhouse

disc 1: 20 tracs: Let There Be, The Tree of Knowledge, The Naming, Grateful Children, Father's Day, Perfect, The Spark of Creation, In Pursuit of Excellence, The End of a Perfect Day, Childhood's End, A World Without You, The Expulsion, The Wasteland, The Spark of Creation(reprise 1), Lost In the Wildersness, Close to Home, A Ring of Stones, The Death of Abel, The Mark of Cain, Children of Eden Disc 2: 17 tracs: Generations, The Gathering Storm, A Piece of Eight, The Return of the Animals, Noah's Lullaby, Stranger to the Rain, In Whatever Time We Have, The Flood, What is He Waiting for, Sailor of the Skies, The Spark of Creation(Reprise 2), The Hardest Part of Love, Words of Doom, The Hour of Darkness, Ain't It Good, Precious Children, In the Beginning

John McGlinn's sprawling, monumental three-CD set is about all the Show Boat any listener could ever ask for. In an obvious labor of love, McGlinn reconstructs the show as it ran on opening night, November 15, 1927, including every song, the original orchestrations, and all underscored dialogue. The most significant restoration is the dark choral number "Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'," as Show Boat's serious subject matter helped establish its place as the most important turning point in the history of American musical theater. McGlinn also adds an appendix that includes songs cut before opening night and every song subsequently written for the show's many productions, most notably the love duet "I Have the Room Above Her," written for the 1936 film. (The recording is also available in a one-disc reduction called the "Broadway Show Album.") Rest assured this 221-minute blockbuster is not just dry scholarship; it's also terrific listening, with McGlinn conducting a dynamic London Sinfonietta and a strong cast including Frederica von Stade as Magnolia, Jerry Hadley as Ravenal, Teresa Stratas as the tragic Julie, Bruce Hubbard as the worldly wise Joe, Karla Burns as Queenie, and David Garrison and Paige O'Hara as the comic couple Frank and Ellie. And of course the songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II are among the most glorious ever written: "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Make Believe," "Why Do I Love You," "Bill," "You Are Love," and "Life upon the Wicked Stage." Also included are exhaustive production notes, a history of the show, a detailed synopsis, and a libretto. John McGlinn's Show Boat is a staggering achievement and a recording for the ages. --David Horiuchi

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Calico Critter babies love to spend time in the pretty Play House with a windmill on top. It has everything they need to enjoy a delicious meal or take a nap after house of fun at the playground. Unique "build on" features allows you to add more rooms, such as Baby Bathroom", that are specially designed to fit the Play House. Comes with over 20 furniture pieces and accesories, roof detaches to add more rooms, balloon goes up & down, windmill rotates and makes the pretty ceiling mobile inside rotate as well!

Studio: Digital1stop Release Date: 07/22/2008 Run time: 1260 minutes Rating: Nr

Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 08/12/2003 Run time: 180 minutes Rating: Nr

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever.  The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun.""The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times.  "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."  This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.