Musical Theatre

New York Shakespeare Festival, 1981, 1 hour, 12 minutes
Writer: Elizabeth Swados; Producer: Joseph Papp; Director: Emile Ardolino
Performers: Betty Aberlin, Debbie Allen, Stuart Baker-Bergen, Richard Cox, Sheila Dabney, Rodney Hudson, Michael Jeter, Charles Lanyer, Mark Linn-Baker, Kathy Morath, Deborah Rush, Meryl Streep

1 hour, 23 minutes; includes synchronized transcript
This is a 1983 production of Florida Friebus and Eva La Gallienne's Alice in Wonderland directed by Kirk Browning

Contents: The Avenue Q theme -- What do you do with a B.A. in English -- It sucks to be me -- Purpose -- The Internet is for porn -- I'm not wearing underwear today -- Special -- Fantasies come true -- My girlfriend, who lives in Canada -- There's a fine, fine line -- The more you ruv someone -- Schadenfreude -- I wish I could go back to college -- For now.
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2 hours, 24 minutes; includes synchronized transcript
This performance, directed by Lonny Price, is a 2011 staged concert performance of the 1971 musical 'Company.'

Contents: Another hundred people -- Barcelona -- Being alive -- Company -- Getting married today -- Have I got a girl for you -- The ladies who lunch -- The little things you do together -- Marry me a little -- Poor baby -- Side by side by side/What would we do without you? -- Someone is waiting -- Sorry--grateful -- You could drive a person crazy.
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50 minutes; includes synchronized transcript
This is a 1966 production by Entertainment One, Ltd. featuring Anthony Perkins, Dorothy Stickney and Larry Gates, produced by John Houseman, with music by Stephen Sondheim

Contents: Aquarius -- Donna -- Hashish -- Manchester England -- Abie Baby/Fourscore -- I'm Black/Ain't got no -- Air -- Party music -- I got life -- Frank Mills -- Hair -- Electric blues/Old fashioned melody -- Where do I go? -- Black boys -- White boys -- Walking in space -- Easy to be hard -- Good morning starshine -- 3-5-0-0 -- What a piece of work is man -- Somebody to love -- Let the sunshine in.
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2003 Tony Award winner for Best Musical
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1 hour, 42 minutes; includes synchronized transcript

1 hour, 27 minutes; includes synchronized transcript
This is a 1974 performance of Jon Jory's In Fashion directed by Jon Jory and Neil Smith

1 hour, 18 minutes; includes synchronized transcript
This 1958 Video Artists International production by director George Schaefer and with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, features Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, and Julie Wilson

Contents: Overture -- Another op'nin', another show -- Why can't you behave -- Wunderbar -- So in love -- Padua Street scene : We open in Venice -- Dance (end Padua Street scene) -- Tom, Dick or Harry -- Rose dance -- I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua -- I hate men -- Were thine that special face -- Change of scene -- I sing of love -- Dance : tarantella -- Finale, Act I --Entr'acte -- Too darn hot -- Change of scene -- Where is the life that late I led? -- Change of scene -- Always true to you in my fashion -- Change of scene -- Bianca -- Incidental music -- So in love (reprise) -- Brush up on your Shakespeare -- Pavane -- Why can't you behave -- I am ashamed that women are so simple -- "Shrew finale : So kiss me Kate -- Finale : dance -- Grand finale : last curtain.
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1993 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Book of a Musical, Original Score, Costume Design, Leading Actor, Leading Actress, & Featured Actor
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Contents: Still hurting -- Shiksa goddess -- Moving too fast -- A part of that -- The Schmuel song -- A summer in Ohio -- The next ten minutes -- When you come home to me -- If I didn't believe in you -- I can do better than that -- Nobody needs to know -- Goodbye until tomorrow.
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Filmed live on Broadway in 2011
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Contents: Nunsense is habit-forming -- Turn up the spotlight -- Lilacs bring back memories -- Growing up Catholic -- We've got to clean out the freezer -- I just want to be a star -- I could've gone to Nashville.
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1994 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Book of a Musical, Original Score & Leading Actress
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From the Publisher: Finally, an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is "no day but today." Includes 16 color photographs of productions of Rent from around the world, plus an introduction ("Rent Is Real") by Victoria Leacock Hoffman.
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Contents: Rent -- Out tonight -- Without you -- Halloween -- I'll cover you -- Santa Fe -- One song glory -- Seasons of love -- Another day -- What you own -- Take me or leave me -- Your eyes.
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Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony for Best Musical, South Pacific flourished as the golden musical of Broadway's post-WWII golden era. Nearly 60 years after its 1949 premiere, South Pacific returned to Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater's glorious Tony-winning production, setting box-office records and bringing this timely and timeless musical to new generations.
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56 minutes; includes synchronized transcript
This is a 1979 performance of Vinnette Carroll's When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate directed by Vinnette Carroll and Emile Ardolino

1 hour, 25 minutes; includes synchronized transcript
A presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York, American Playhouse 1982

Missing - replacement ordered 9/17/22
Contents: All the livelong day : (I hear America Singing / Walt Whitman) -- Lovin' Al -- The mason -- Neat to be a newsboy -- Nobody tells me how -- Un Mejor Dia Vendra -- Just a housewife -- Millwork -- If I could've been -- Joe -- It's an art -- Brother Trucker -- Fathers and sons -- Cleanin' women -- Something to point to.
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Videodisc release of the 1982 Thirteen/WNET New York, American Playhouse presentation
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