Victor/Victoria

VIDEO: VICTOR, VICTORIA

VICTOR/VICTORIA (1995 BROADWAY CAST - JAPAN TV) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N4MS1SC3

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"One of the world's most talented and best-loved performers, Julie Andrews reaches new heights in the most challenging role of her career as a woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman! Filmed on the Broadway stage in 1995 (and based on the 1982 film), the immensely popular Victor/Victoria is a warm, funny, wildly energetic look at the nature of love, gender perceptions and the battle of the sexes. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, with an unforgettable score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse, Victor/Victoria tells the story of an out-of-work singer whose life changes when she meets the flamboyant Toddy (Tony Roberts). With his help, she becomes "Victor," an overnight singing sensation in the nightclubs of Paris. But success becomes hilariously complicated when she meets the love of her life, King Marchan, a macho Chicago gangster (Michael Nouri). Adding her two cents to the couple's troubles is Marchan's ex-girlfriend, the ditzy Norma Cassidy (Rachel York). From the electrifying excitement of "Le Jazz Hot" to the contemplative "Crazy World," from the humor of "Chicago, Illinois" to the touching "Almost a Love Song," this truly classic musical has it all. 146 minutes. Filmed in High-Definition video. 16x9 anamorphic widescreen transfer..."

Halloween Goodies!

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - BBC Radio.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus
Published in 1886 the novel was written and printed in 10 weeks. The focus on split personality and the underlying suggestion that evil is potentially more powerful than good grabbed the public's imagination from the start. When a London lawyer studies the last will of his old friend Dr Jekyll, his suspicions are aroused. Why has respectable Dr Jekyll left everything to sinister Edward Hyde?
Dr Jekyll ...... Adam Godley
Utterson ...... David Horovitch
Enfield ...... Mark Straker
Mrs Utterson ...... Christine Kavanagh
Lanyon ...... Sam Dale
Poole ...... Joseph Kloska
Sir Danvers ...... Ian Masters
Girl/Maid ...... Emma Noakes
Housekeeper ...... Bethan Walker
Director Claire Grove.



Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

The classic play written in 1604 about a man who defies the authority of God by selling his soul to the Devil in return for 24 years of knowledge and power on Earth.

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story (Faustus is Latin for Faust), in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level, this play shows the decay of a person who chooses material gains (by commanding the devils to suit his desires) over spiritual belief and in doing so, loses his soul. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play.

"No Elizabethan play outside the Shakespeare canon has raised more controversy than Doctor Faustus. There is no agreement concerning the nature of the text and the date of composition...and the centrality of the Faust legend in the history of the Western world precludes any definitive agreement on the interpretation of the play...." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragical_History_of_Doctor_Faustus )



With:
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Faustus....Paterson Joseph
Mephistopheles....Ray Fearon
Wagner....Toby Jones
Evil Angel....Janet McTeer
Good Angel/Duchess....Tanya Moodie
Lucifer....Julian Bleach
Old Man....David Bradley
Robin....Nicholas Burns
Rafe....Iain Robertson
Valdes/Pope....David Bamber
Cornelius....Paul Bazely
Emperor....Anton Lesser
Scholar/Horse-Courser....John Lloyd Fillingham
Scholar/Knight....Don Gilet
Scholar/Duke....Derek Riddell

Original music composed by Olly Fox.

NIGHT OF THE WOLF
1984, A Werewolf Horror Play by Victor Pemberton

Starring Vincent Price,Coral Browne, Peter Whitman, Sheila Grant, Elizabeth Proud, John Rye, Michael Cochrane, Hugh Manning, Haydn Jones, Paul Gaymon and Norma Ronald.

Set around the end of the 19th century in Cambridge and the Fen Country. Vincent plays a Judge who encounters the terrible curse of lycanthropy in his district

Bram Stoker's DRACULA
with Christopher Lee
Adapted by Russ Jones
Music by Dennis Rogers

Dracula by Bram Stoker
BBC Radio
Dramatised for radio by Eric MacDonald
September 22nd, 1979

Cast

David March - Dracula
Audbrey Wood - Van Helsing
Michael Harbour and Rosalind Shanks
Produced and Directed by: Glyn Dearman

Some Of My Favorite Plays

Don Juan in Hell by George Bernard Shaw

Don Juan in Hell consists of a philosophical debate between Don Juan , and the Devil , with Doña Ana and the Statue of Ana's guardian looking on. This version has a star studded cast with Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Charles Laughton as the Devil, Cedric Hardwicke as the Commander, and Agnes Moorehead as Doña Ana.

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Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, following the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

This version stars Ian Ogilvie--as Charles Condomine- Rosalind Ayres as Ruth and Judy Geeson as Elvira . Shirley Knight Madame Arcati.

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M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

Based on a true incident involving a French diplomat who carried on an affair for 18 years with a man the diplomat thought was a woman , this play looks at the life and loves of Rene Gallimard, who learns that his Chinese mistress of twenty years is actually a man and Communist spy. This is one of my personal favorites.

Starring: B.D. Wong as Song Liling, John Lithgow as Rene Gallimard, Margaret Cho, David Dukes, Joanna Frank, Arye Gross, Kathryn Layng

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Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula by Loren D. Estleman.

The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its murdered captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passanger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled. Clearly the crew have been murdered and dumped overboard, but what can account for the captain's expression of imponderable terror and his acute loss of blood, or the ship's strange cargo - fifty boxes of earth?
The game is afoot, and Sherlock Holmes, aided as ever by the faithful Dr. Watson, finds himself on the trail of no mortal enemy, but the arch-vampire himself - Count Dracula...

Sherlock Holmes...........John Moffatt, Doctor John Watson........Timothy West, Count Dracula..............David March, Professor Van Helsing.....Aubrey Woods
Thomas Parker..........Michael Maloney, Mr. Caffyn................Noel Howlett, Mary Watson........Theresa Streatfeild, Vampire.................Frances Jeater. Inspector Lestrade...Nicholas Courtney, Mrs. Barton.............Katherine Parr, Red Bridger................John Hollis