One of the most common complaints about musicals is that the books are flimsy pretexts from which to hang numbers. Wicked runs into the opposite problem: it has a great plot, but too often the songs just get in the way...

Turner Classic Movies' Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals collects four movies on two double-sided discs, with top picture quality and the bonus features that appeared on disc 1 when one of those films was released on a two-disc set, or the features that appeared on the single discs of the other three...

"The Best of Times" is indeed now! The classic American musical LA CAGE AUX FOLLES returned to the Broadway stage in 2010 in high fashion, claiming three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, in a production the Associated Press hailed as Riotously funny, emotionally affecting and more timely than ever! The songs ooze charm, romance and melodies that are impossible to get out of your head! Starring Kelsey Grammer (Frasier, Cheers) and Douglas Hodge, who took home a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as the irrepressible Zaza, LA CAGE features a Tony Award-winning score by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!, Mame) and a Tony Award-winning book by Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy, A Catered Affair)...

Like its fellow PBS series Ken Burns' Jazz, Broadway: The American Musical is an ambitious and absorbing exploration of a unique American art form that has always been best experienced in live performance...

The long-awaited update of this acclaimed, best-selling title. The most comprehensive and widely used Broadway reference book has been expanded and updated to include more than 300 of the most important and memorable productions of the American musical theatre, including revivals...

CD set that goes with PBS series. Include origianl cast recordings from many important muscials

This pop-cultural phenomenon has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, churning more than $2 billion in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided Cats until now...

For passionate fans of Rent--the popular Broadway rock musical that updated La Boheme with electric guitars, steel drums, strippers, and drag queens--Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway is a must-have.Written and composed by Jonathan Larson (who died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm just before the show premiered), Rent follows an absurdly clean-cut gaggle of hipster artists who, after having been squatting in a run-down building for a year, are now being told they have to pay that rent by the building's owner, a former friend...

If you enjoyed the PBS series Broadway: The American Musical but wanted a bit more detail and substance, try curling up with the companion book to the series. Expanded from Michael Kantor's script by Laurence Maslon, it follows the same six-part structure but its 470 pages give it more space to stretch out with the history of key musicals and the historical context behind them, or add significant trends such as revivals...