Musicals & Cast Recordings

Four-disc set includes: The Little Mermaid (1989)The instant-classic animated film that launched the "Disney Renaissance," this charming adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fable follows young Ariel on her quest for true love with a land-dwelling...

Three-disc set includes: 100 Men And A Girl (1937)With her out-of-work trombonist dad (Adolphe Menjou) at his wit's end, plucky teen soprano Patsy Cardwell (Deanna Durbin) resolves to help him-and 99 of his colleagues in the same boat-by whipping them...

Soundies have been called the music videos of the 1940s, but that doesn't begin to describe their cultural importance. It's true that they feature a remarkable range of talent, from big-band luminaries like Duke Ellington and Count Basie to then-emerging...

Remarkable live-action/CGI redo of the '89 Disney musical classic stars Halle Bailey as the mermaid princess Ariel, whose curiosity about the surface world and attraction to the human prince Eric (Jon Hauer-King) leads her to clash with her...

Shirley MacLaine stars as lovelorn New York City taxi dancer Charity Hope Valentine, who hopes her string of broken romances has finally ended when fate throws her together with a naive accountant (John McMartin) who knows nothing about her line of work...

Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's immortal musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's sprawling novel receives it's most faithful and enduring cinematic adaptation under the elegant direction of James Whale. A rich portrait of changing American...

Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters...

The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe the Doyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician...

The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in this extraordinary dramatization of the staging of their legendary 1885 comic opera THE MIKADO from Mike Leigh (NAKED, SECRETS AND LIES). Jim Broadbent (MOULIN ROUGE, IRIS) and Allan Corduner...

A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, One Sings, the Other Doesn't is one of Agnes Varda's warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages.

Mounted for Swedish television broadcast, (an uncredited) Ingmar Bergman's take on Mozart's classic fantasy-rendered as an 18th-century stage production before an audience-became perhaps the most acclaimed and successful filmed opera ever produced. The...

In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match. Director George Stevens laces their...