A-five, six, seven, eight: Broadway's Lost Treasures is a show-tune queen's delight.Broadway's Lost Treasures Lost Treasure is an American magazine, found both online and in print, which describes lost treasures and different methods and items used finding them. Examples are lost mines, and valuables lost through wars, theft, or forgetfulness. * Various artists * Acorn Media * $24.95 (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. ), $19.95 (VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. ) If you're the sort of person who tapes the Tony Awards every year, then Broadway's Lost Treasures is probably for you. Of course, if your tapes of the Tonys go back to the early '70s, you might already have everything in this collection, which features Broadway's biggest stars giving their Tony-night performances of some of the biggest hits of the American musical theater. The collection is something of a mixed bag: Some of the performances come from the year that the show in question was nominated, whereas others are from retrospectives of Broadway past. (Seven of the songs presented here were taken from the 1971 Tony broadcast, which means you get to see, for example, Carol Channing Carol Elaine Channing (born on January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer and actress. The winner of three Tony Awards (including a lifetime achievement award), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nominee, Channing is best remembered for two roles: Lorelei Lee sing "Before the Parade Passes By" from Hello, Dolly! in front of a giant, light-up "1964.") One of the featured numbers--Julie Andrews singing A Little Night Music's warhorse "Send in the Clowns"--doesn't even feature a member of the show's original cast. But while the host segments are mostly palaver and some of the numbers disappoint (Angela Lansbury Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress and singer. lip-synchs Sweeney Todd's "The Worst Pies in London"), there are enough Treasures here to please any show-tune fanatic. |
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