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1.Studs Terkel's Working (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Studs Terkel, Barry Bostwick, Scatman Crothers, Barbara Browning, Vernee Watson-Johnson directed by: Kirk Browning, Stephen Schwartz October 01, 2002
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never say you "have it bad" until you have walked in someone elses shoes..everyone has troubles.. this play tells the story from the other side..and everybody has a story..you are not the only one.. this is the story of "working" I love the dvd .. and it is the best for the year of 1982..the play was from the year 1978 and it was on a stage.. the only thing is ..the actor "david patrick kelly " sings a song called "the mason" which was from the play. but is not on this dvd ..it has been cut from this ..he has a great voice and is a fantastic actor even today..I am sorry to have missed seeing that part being I am such a big fan of his . the play was shot for the tv station PBS and is in "play form" the film was remastered and sound is great also. there ... Read More

2.King Lear / Jones, New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: George Addison, Tom Aldredge, Rene Auberjonois, Rosalind Cash, Lee Chamberlin directed by: Edwin Sherin
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James Earl Jones does an OUTSTANDING job as King Lear at one point even foaming at the mouth in his raving madness! Raul Julia, Rahay Shamay Rabah Amayn, is almost as good while he is being very very bad as Edmund. The play itself is utter Genius, second in plays only to Hamlet, and this performance with its live character in Central Park, captures an air of excitement that can only be captured on very very special occassions. DO NOT miss this one.

3.Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Tom Aldredge, Michael Baseleon, Albert Dekker, Hurd Hatfield, Kazimir Kokich directed by: Jack Landau February 04, 2002
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My husband still hasn't forgiven me for buying this recording. I got it at a library sale for $2.00, and even that was too much to pay.

4.Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Ed Flanders, Edwin McDonough, John O'Leary directed by: Gordon Rigsby, José Quintero October 01, 2002
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This is an example of a product simply being what it is; that is: this is a transcription of the television special of the celebrated production of O'Neill's great play A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, starring Jason Robards Jr. and Colleen Dewhurst at their peak. These two performances are probably among the greatest ever put on the American stage: Robards and Dewhurst were the perfect interpreters for the raging emotions of this tortured genius of a playwright. There's little filmic technique to speak of, and there's no real imagination in terms of the visual handling or the filming (to see a really brilliant example of "filmed theater" which truly transcends itself, you can check out Louis Malle's VANYA ON 42nd STREET), but it doesn't matter, because what you're getting, the absolutely sublime performances of ... Read More

5.Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Stellar Bennett, Roberts Blossom, Bruce Davison, Jeffrey DeMunn, Joan Hackett directed by: Nick Havinga
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I saw this version many years ago. It was really engrossing and well acted. I think this was Joan Hackett's best performance.

6.Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance / Kline, Ronstadt, Smith, Routledge, Delacorte Theater (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Kevin Kline, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith, Patricia Routledge directed by: Joshua White, Wilford Leach September 24, 2002
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I bought this DVD because of my addiction to Gilbert & Sullivan, and "Pirates" in particular, but I hesitate to recommend it to someone encountering the opera for the first time (not that there are any other better options on the market, regrettably). It is full of energy and great fun but, as other reviewers have noted, the picture quality is often very poor, and, especially in the choruses, the sound is frequently "muddy". Kevin Kline and the other principals who went on to make the later "Pirates" film are all in good voice here (although I cannot understand why George Rose introduced the irritating nasal whine in "I am an orphan boy" here, which he later repeated in the film - there must be some subtle cultural reference that I am missing). Linda Ronstadt seems less secure in her singing than she was in the ... Read More

7.Hamlet / Kline, New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Diane Venora, Dana Ivey, Kirk Browning directed by: Diane Venora, Dana Ivey, Kirk Browning, Kevin Kline December 01, 1999
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I saw this production when our local PBS station aired it over 17 years ago and I never forgot it. I was thrilled to find it on DVD. Costuming is understated, contemporary and the focus of Kevin Kline's minimal set designs is the lighting (mood) rather than overproduced dressings which are inconsequential here when the stength in this "HAMLET" are the actors; their hands, eyes, posture, movement, voice, inflections absorb and hold you with completeness. There is no distraction because it is obvious Kevin Kline decided that less was more in his interpretation and he knew exactly what he was talking about. It is Simple and SIMPLY the best!

8.The Human Voice (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Ingrid Bergman directed by: Ted Kotcheff February 04, 2002
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Jean Cocteau's landmark "voice play," published in 1947 and produced by Broadway Theatre Archive in 1966, starring Ingrid Bergman, is a bit dated now, a reflection of a society which has changed irrevocably. A middle-aged woman, devastated because her five-year relationship has ended and her lover has moved on, tries to come to grips with her future and largely fails. When her lover calls to offer whatever support he can--and to ask for his belongings by tomorrow--his call becomes her lifeline. "I knew you would give me a ring," she says, with ponderous irony, then adds to herself, "A wring of the neck," or "a boxing ring" from which there is no escape. The entire play consists the woman talking with her former lover in a series of increasingly fraught phone calls, as the connection keeps getting lost. Though ... Read More

9.Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Richard Thomas, Jeff Daniels, Kirk Browning, Marshall W. Mason directed by: Richard Thomas, Swoosie Kurtz, Kirk Browning, Marshall W. Mason December 01, 1999
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"Fifth of July" is one of my favorite films and a great film of a stage play. As someone who lived through the Vietnam War and the 1970s, I found the characters very accurately drawn . And, what a cast: Richard Thomas, Jeff Daniels, Swoozie Kurtz, and a very young but talented Cynthia Nixon!!! You are drawn into the characters and the play from the very beginning, and it never lags.

10.Tennessee Williams' Dragon Country (Broadway Theatre Archive) starring: Alan Mixon, William Redfield, Lois Smith, Kim Stanley directed by: Glenn Jordan September 24, 2002
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Once again Kim Stanley is breathtaking to watch. Oh to have seen her in her hey day on Broadway. Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley

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