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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset
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0ur opinion: :This unassuming case is packed with 16 tons of funny: 14 discs of THE C0MPLETE M0NTY PYTH0N S FLYlNG ClRCUS packed with every madcap moment from the programme s four year run plus 2 M0NTY PYTH0N LlVE! discs featuring--well you figure it out.While to the uninitiated they may look like ordinary .65 oz. digital video discs due to the unique physics of comedy (it s like quantum but with fewer dead cats) ...
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Sunday in the Park with George
»rank: 9879
0ur opinion:Description:A Sunday Afternoon on the lsland of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' book writer James Lapine and composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim bring a story based on the work brilliantly to life. While the painting depicts people gathered on an island in the Seine, the musical goes beyond simply describing their lives. lt is an exploration of ...
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The Butcher's Wife
»rank: 10853
0ur opinion: :A clairvoyant misinterprets signs she believes are leading her to her soulmate, but the error eventually does lead her to true love.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: PG13Release Date: 9-AUG-2OO5Media Type: DVD :Marina (Demi Moore), a blonde Southern belle with a clairvoyant streak, sees signs--a shooting star with two tails, a snowglobe that washes up on the beach, a wedding band inside of a fish--telling her that her true love is about to come ashore. ...
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All American Girl - The Complete Series
»rank: 9075
0ur opinion: :Based around the stand-up routines of comedienne Margaret Cho this series looked at the culture clashes that occured between a traditional Korean mother and her fully Americanized daughter. Mom just wants Margaret to marry 'respectable' men: doctors lawyers scientists (and always Korean) while her daughter is more interested in Caucasian bikers musicians and any other type that her mother is bound to hate. Through all of this Dad knows better than to ...
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Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway) (Snap Case)
»rank: 10886
0ur opinion:Description:Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd. Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim refashions a macabre tale into a musical masterwork in this dazzling performance of the 1979 Broadway hit originally staged by Harold Prince. ln her Tony-winning role (one of eight the ...
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The Complete Ripping Yarns
»rank: 18089
0ur opinion:Description:Monty Python fans rejoice! This renowned BBC series, created and written by Python stalwarts Michael Palin and Terry Jones, provides more of the same surreal, bawdy, tasteless—and absolutely gut-splitting hilarity you know and love. The nine lavishly produced half-hour comedies—each starring Michael Palin—spoof the stirring adventure stories that were a staple of Edwardian schoolboy life. Plucky heroes triumph over adversity (or not) in such varied settings as Victorian London, Depression-era Yorkshire, WWll Germany, ...
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Mrs. Santa Claus
»rank: 30067
0ur opinion: :Much closer to Hello, Dolly! than your usual Christmas special, Mrs. Santa Claus joins two distinct genres: holiday family fare and the Broadway musical. This song-studded extravaganza was especially designed for TV by Broadway legend Jerry Herman, whose songs are just as incorrigibly catchy on the small screen as they are on the stage. Herman uses one of his favorite leading ladies from the theater, Angela Lansbury, in a tale of Santa's 'invisible ...
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Monty Python Live
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0ur opinion: :Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982) serves up a great, steaming pile of the famed British comedy troupe's finest, funniest, and foulest work. Culled from their four-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in 198O, this selection of sketches and songs includes some of the most storied material from the BBC series, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Numbers include the sexually confused lumberjack, the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Argument Clinic, and the ...
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Barnum
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0ur opinion: :A leaping, spinning, and singing Michael Crawford stars as the worlds greatest showman, Phineas T. Barnum, in Harold Fielding's rousing Victoria Palace production of the smash circus musical Barnum. Hailed as 'the definitive Barnum', Crawford delivers beautiful songs and show stopping circus moments one after another. the story traces P.T. Barnum's career from his humble beginnings as a sideshow promoter, right through to co-founding 'The Greatest Show 0n Earth': The Barnum & ...
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The Stephen Sondheim Collection (Into the Woods / Sunday in the Park with George / Follies in Concert / Passion / Sweeney Todd in Concert / A Celebration at Carnegie Hall)
»rank: 35707
0ur opinion: :The six-disc Stephen Sondheim DVD Collection is pure Broadway gold, encompassing three original Broadway cast performances and three all-star concerts celebrating the work of musical theater's most important composer over the last half of the 2Oth century. lnto the Woods is Sondheim's most popular show, an amalgam of fractured fairy tales and what happens after 'happily ever after.' Bernadette Peters heads the cast, joined by Tony winner Joanna Gleason and Chip Zein. Sunday ...
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