Broadway musicals
(Video) 

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Show boat based on the play and on Edna Ferber's novel ; Seven brides for seven brothers based on "The sobbin' women" by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Special features: Commentary by director Stanley Donen on Seven brides ; Donen movie musicals trailer gallery ; Ann Miller hosts Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too darn hot ; vintage FitzPatrick TravelTalks short Mighty Manhattan, New York's wonder city ; music-only audio track for Kiss me Kate ; 3D footage for Kiss me Kate (right eye view only) ; theatrical trailers ; production notes ; introduction by Susan Lucci for Annie get your gun ; 4 outtake musical numbers from Annie get your gun, one with Betty Hutton and the other 3 with originally cast players Judy Garland, Frank Morgan and Geraldine Wall ; audio recording session track for "There's no business like show business".

Show boat: Music and lyrics by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II ; lyrics for "Bill" by P.G. Wodehouse ; dances by Robert Alton ; musical direction, Adolph Deutsch ; director of photography, Charles Rosher ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons and Jack Martin Smith ; film editor, John Dunning ; costumes by Walter Plunkett.

Annie get your gun: Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin ; director of photography, Charles Rosher ; film editor, James E. Newcom ; musical numbers staged by Robert Alton ; musical direction, Adolph Deutsch ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons and Paul Groesse.

Seven brides for seven brothers: Lyrics by Johnny Mercer ; music by Gene de Paul ; musical direction, Adolph Deutsch ; dances and musical numbers staged by Michael Kidd ; director of photography, George Folsey ; film editor, Ralph E. Winters ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary ; costumes designed by Walter Plunkett.

Kiss me Kate: Music and lyrics, Cole Porter ; director of photography, Charles Rosher ; choreography, Hermes Pan ; musical direction, Andre Previn and Saul Chaplin ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary ; film editor, Ralph E. Winters ; costumes designed by Walter Plunkett.

Show boat: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead, Lief Erickson, William Warfield.

Annie get your gun: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Keenan Wynn, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Louis Calhern.

Seven brides for seven brothers: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards, Tommy Rall.

Kiss me Kate: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, James Whitmore, Bob Fosse.

Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.

Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who meets Frank Butler. Frank is the star sharpshoot in Colonel Buffalo Bill's show. He finds himself falling for Annie, but feels that she is not marriage material. In the end, they both discover that love is wonderful.

Seven brides for seven brothers: Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness.

Kiss me Kate: Fred is a director and Lilly is an actress who are divorced. They are brought back together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, not to mention the two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

Not rated, except for Seven brides for seven brothers, which is rated G.

DVD, region 1, full screen and widescreen (Seven brides only) presentations; Dolby digital surround 5.1, Dolby digital mono.

In English, dubbed French (Annie, Seven brides), or dubbed Spanish (Show boat) with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

National Film Registry selection, 2004 (Seven brides for seven brothers).

Academy Awards, 1951: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Annie get your gun).

Academy Awards, 1955: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Seven brides for seven brothers).