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A companion to the fabulous PBS series, the 21-song, 77-minute The Best of "Broadway: The American Musical" provides about as good a single-disc compilation as anyone could hope for. (There's also a five-CD version.) What sets it apart from so many other "best of Broadway" collections is its breadth--because it had access to a variety of record-label vaults it doesn't have to try to disguise gaps by using revivals or solo recordings. Here you get all the authentic stuff, including: Paul Robeson singing "Ol' Man River" from the first modern American musical, Show Boat; Ethel Merman singing "You're the Top"; the title song from Oklahoma!; Julie Andrews singing "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady; West Side Story's "America"; Betty Buckley singing "Memory" from Cats; Hairspray's "Good Morning Baltimore"; and "Defying Gravity" from Wicked, the newest show discussed in the PBS series. And it's hard to argue with the songwriters represented: Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Leonard Bernstein, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, among others. Obviously, no single-disc compilation could ever please everyone (did we really need two ALW songs?), but as a sampler intended for people who watched the series and want to hear more of the Great White Way, The Best of "Broadway: The American Musical" can't be topped. --David Horiuchi

Thirty-one years after Heart released its breakthrough album Dreamboat Annie, the Seattle-based band has made a DVD companion to that record. The concert performance for Heart: Dreamboat Annie Live was recorded in April 2007 at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. The rest of the DVD includes documentaries on the band, along with interviews with Ann and Nancy Wilson--the sisters who are Heart. When Heart exploded onto the rock music scene in the 1970's, they were an anomaly: Women were either in girl groups or played secondary roles in bands. Not the Wilsons. With raven-haired Ann singing with a powerful voice that's equal parts Janis Joplin and Robert Plant, and blonde Nancy playing the guitar the way only men are supposed to, they took center stage, literally and figuratively. Their bandmates came and went, but Heart was all about the working and familial relationship between the sisters. Seasoned performers, Ann and Nancy shine in the concert footage.! Age has barely tempered Ann's vocals, which are strong and fierce throughout, particularly singing "Crazy on You" and "Black Dog" (a favorite Led Zeppelin song of theirs). Heart purists will scoff that original guitarist Roger Fisher and drummer Michael Derosier are absent from the DVD, but Craig Bartock and Ben Smith do a formidable job as their respective replacements. Heart has always been best heard live. Yes, their songs sound crisper and clearer on CDs, but it's their live performances where their passion and energy truly shine through. Dreamboat Annie Live doesn't replace a concert experience, but it's a worthwhile simulation. --Jae-Ha Kim

Recorded live at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California, this concert from Heart features the band performing their "Dreamboat Annie" album in its entirely for the first time. Led by siblings Ann and Nancy Wilson, the group presents such classic songs as "Magic Man," "Crazy on You," "Soul of the Sea," "(Love Me Like Music) I'll Be Your Song," plus covers of hits from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and more. 90 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; featurette; interviews; photo gallery.

The Broadway Kids are just that: a group of preternaturally gifted young habitués of the stage (and television). They now have several CDs under their belts and this one combines songs from two of them, Sing Broadway and Back on Broadway. A lot of the material, like medleys from Annie and Oliver, is an obvious choice, but that doesn't make it any less welcome. Other songs are simply kid-friendly, like "You Gotta Have Heart." Then there are choices you don't immediately associate with children, like Hair (the original of which appears on Celebrate Broadway, Volume Seven: Kids, with the note that the song is "just a lot of fun to sing") and "Seasons of Love" from Rent. Overall, the album is best when you don't feel that the material's a stretch for children, as interpreters or listeners. For budding fans who need to hear their peers to relate to a show, this CD is a perfect introduction to Broadway, a first step toward what may well turn into a lifelong love. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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George Stevens (Giant) directed this 1959 film adaptation of the hit play based on the writings of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl from Amsterdam who hid in an attic with her family and others during the Nazi occupation. As Anne, Millie Perkins is something of a milky eyed enigma and--in retrospect--too old for the part; but she is surrounded by an outstanding cast, including Joseph Schildkraut as Anne's patient father, Ed Wynn as a cranky dentist who moves into Anne's "room," and Shelley Winters as the loud Mrs. Van Daan. Stevens turns the many overlapping dramas of the caged characters into the foundation of Anne's growth as a young woman, ready for life and love just at the moment the dream comes to an end. Beautifully shot by cinematographer William C. Mellor, and written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from their stage production. --Tom Keogh

George Stevens (Giant) directed this 1959 film adaptation of the hit play based on the writings of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl from Amsterdam who hid in an attic with her family and others during the Nazi occupation. As Anne, Millie Perkins is some

Brewery worker Albert Robinson and financier Jeremy Coward seem like average British guys, until the Russian government claims they're Russian KGB agents defected to England, in Sleepers. This four-episode miniseries stars Vladimir Zelenski as Albert and Sergei Rublev as Jeremy, agents suddenly in danger of losing their anonymity when KGB agent Nina dedicates her work to solving the mystery of their whereabouts. Dry comedy in Sleepers transforms a potentially serious subject into satire about post-Cold War bumbling and bureaucracy, as various secret groups in the UK and the US get a whiff of what the sneaky Russians are up to and begin interfering. Scenes alternating between the KGB, the CIA, and the MI5 make it clear that no one really knows why they're hunting these two retired men, or what threat they pose. Sleepers' humor capitalizes on outmoded Cold War obsessions with keeping tabs regardless of purpose. Many comic moments center on military tracking of an unknown friend of Albert's, named Morris, who turns out to be his daughter's stuffed monkey. --Trinie Dalton

As the Cold War draws to a close, two Soviet spies who've been working on a deep cover assignment in London for 25 years are expected to return home. There's just one problem--they don't want to. Now they must evade a beautiful and determined KGB agent in an effort to remain in the lives they've grown accustomed to, attracting the attention of MI5 and the CIA in the process. Funny and fast-paced BBC miniseries stars Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke, Michael Gough, Joanna Kanska. 3 1/2 hrs. on two discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; filmographies.

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Features: This giant two-volume resource will be indispensible for teachers working with children singing solos. There is a large variety of material, from classic Disney songs to Broadway to movie favorites to songs from Sesame Street. Each volume has songs for both girls and boys. Volume 2 includes 30 songs from stage, screen and television musicals. These are by far our largest collections of solos for children. Contents: Baby Mine (Dumbo) ¢ Be Kind to Your Parents (Fanny) ¢ Bein' Green (Sesame Street) ¢ Dream for Your Inspiration (The Muppets Take Manhattan) ¢ Friend (Snoopy!!!) ¢ Gary, Indiana (The Music Man) ¢ Getting to Know You (The King and I) ¢ God Help the Outcasts (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) ¢ I Always Knew (Annie Warbucks) ¢ I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (Sesame Street) ¢ I Won't Grow Up (Peter Pan) ¢ I'm Late (Alice in Wonderland) ¢ I've Got No Strings (Pinocchio) ¢

"(Baker's) heartbreaking works of staggering focus have actually rescued realism from the aesthetic scrap heap" -- Helen Shaw, Time Out New York"Baker has as natural an ear for how people talk--and shut up--as any American playwright of recent years... She is the aural equivalent of a good photo-realist painter, someone who makes us see the quotidian in such heightened detail that it looks almost shockingly new." --Ben Brantley, New York Times"Baker is a writer whose plays have a quiet, hypnotic charm, a grace and humor. She's able to take ordinary, low-key situations--a small-town acting class, guys wasting time in an alley behind a cafe--and fill them with gentle comedy, generosity of spirit and an eye (and ear) for the foibles that make us all so hopelessly human." --Village VoiceWith her quartet of plays set in small-town Vermont, twenty-nine-year-old Annie Baker is making a big impact on the American theater. Circle Mirror Transformation, which takes place in a summer acting class and alternates between theater exercises and moments between classmates, shares the 2010 OBIE Award for Best Play with The Aliens, Baker's "gentle and extraordinarily beautiful new play" (The New York Times) that explores weighty topics of love and death through the easy banter of the slackers behind the local coffee shop. Also included in The Vermont Plays is Body Awareness, set during Body Awareness Week at the local college, and Nocturama, in which a twenty-six-year-old Brooklynite returns to live with his mom and video game obsessed stepfather.Annie Baker's plays include Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, The End of the Middle Ages, and Nocturama. Her honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Special Citation, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, and a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship.

Short Monologues for Auditions. How to select, perform and shorter monologue for an audition. Includes 70 original monologues specifically geared for auditions.Frank Catalano is a member of the faculties of the School of Theatre of the University of Southern California and Film, Theatre and Social Science programs at Moorpark College, Pierce College and Pasadena City College. In addition, he has served in various executive capacities at Lorimar Studios, Beverly Hills Playhouse and Warner Bros and has written and performed in animated and live action television series and feature films including, "The Adventures of Dynamo Duck" for Fox TV, the Sci-Fi series" Robotech" and "Flint the Time Detective," ABC television series including "LA Law," "NYPD Blue" and "Ugly Betty." He currently is the president of The Creative Edge, an organization providing individual coaching - seminar programs for actors, writers and creative organizations. He is also the author of two other books : Art of the Monologue (2007), and The Creative Audience - the collaborative role of the audience in the Visual and Performing Arts (2009).

Short Monologues for Auditions. How to select, perform and shorter monologue for an audition. Includes 70 original monologues specifically geared for auditions.Frank Catalano is a member of the faculties of the School of Theatre of the University of Southern California and Film, Theatre and Social Science programs at Moorpark College, Pierce College and Pasadena City College. In addition, he has served in various executive capacities at Lorimar Studios, Beverly Hills Playhouse and Warner Bros and has written and performed in animated and live action television series and feature films including, “The Adventures of Dynamo Duck” for Fox TV, the Sci-Fi series” Robotech” and “Flint the Time Detective,” ABC television series including “LA Law,” “NYPD Blue” and “Ugly Betty.” He currently is the president of The Creative Edge, an organization providing individual coaching - seminar programs for actors, writers and creative organizations. He is also the author of two other books : Art of the Monologue (2007), and The Creative Audience – the collaborative role of the audience in the Visual and Performing Arts (2009).

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