Broadway's Lost Treasures II

Oct 26, 2004

1h 31m

★ 8.0

18 Rare Performances from Broadway's Greatest Musicals

Overview

The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jerry Orbach introduce these one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony memories.

Genres

Music

Documentary

Production Companies

Acorn Media Enterprises

Broadway's Lost Treasures II Trailers

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Cast

Host

Lauren Bacall

Host (segment "The Leads")

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Host (segment "All Singing, All Dancing")

Bebe Neuwirth

Host (segment "Revivals and Record Breakers") / Billy Flynn (segment "Chicago")

Jerry Orbach

Reno Sweeney (segment "Anything Goes")

Patti LuPone

Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")

Angela Lansbury

Vera Charles (segment "Mame")

Bea Arthur

J. Pierrepont Finch (segment "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying")

Robert Morse

Edith Piaf (segment "Piaf")

Jane Lapotaire

Don Quixote (segment "Man Of La Mancha")

Richard Kiley

Performer (segment "Ain't Misbehavin'")

Nell Carter

Performer (segment "Ain't Misbehavin'")

Ken Page

The top stars from the original London and Broadway productions join together with a 150-voice chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's venerated Royal Albert Hall for a truly magical gala performance of Les Misérables. You'll watch and listen time and again to the magnificent Tony Award-winning score as sung by stars forever linked to these roles.

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5.0

A Star Is Falling Upwards

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Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important thing in life or what he is looking for and what he longs for in life.

6.1

Bring on the Girls

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0.0

A Night on the Town

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A 1980s photographer and advertising designer trying on clothes in a vintage clothing store find themselves transported to the 1930s.

5.8

Hot Summer

Jun 20, 1968

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6.3

Madonna: Truth or Dare

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From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the icon, from a prayer circle before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.

6.3

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8.1

When Frank Met Carlitos

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6.5

High School Musical

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A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.

6.8

Rhythm is it!

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RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the ivory tower of high culture into boroughs of low life for the sake of 250 youngsters. They had been strangers to classical music, but after arduous but thrilling preparation they danced to Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du Printemps' ('The Rite of Spring'). Recorded with a breathtaking fidelity of sound, this film from Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch documents the stages of the Sacre project and offers deep insights into the rehearsals of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

7.5

My Fair Lady

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A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

7.2

The Muppet Movie

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A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

5.0

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6.7

Yentl

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