Broadway's Lost Treasures III - The Best of the Tony Awards

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Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.
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Tony Awards Best Lost Treasures
Broadway's Lost Treasures A look of the historic moments on the Broadway stage. Quite entertaining.

Please deliver me from lip-synched "live" theatre
The "Broadway's Lost Treasures" series is such a wonderful idea and the Tony Award telecast has offered a treasure chest of legendary performances over the decades. Why then do the producers tap into the unrelated Broadway t.v. special that was pretty much lip-synched and way too forced in delivery? More than half of this DVD is very, very good though. The scenes from "Ragtime' and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" are worth the price of the video. At the other end of the spectrum Angela Lansbury is just embarrassing. And I LOVE Angela Lansbury!Of the four DVD's in this series; it's the second one that I think is best ("Coco", "Grand Hotel", and "Nine" are stunning clips). As someone else pointed out ANY record of live theatre preserved is a step in the right direction and I applaude this series for those "live" moments. Please lose the lip-synch and release volumes four, five, six, seven, eight....

Best Ever
It was wonderful seeing the great stars of the present and the past.I am so glad they have been preserved for everyone to enjoy. An excellent program.

A good volume 3
I now have all 3 volumes of this particular set, and like the other ones, it has its' ups and downs. Ups?? Definitely "My New Philosophy" by Kristin Chenowith from the revival of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"; Jonathan Pryce doing "The American Dream" from "Miss Saigon"; the late (and most definitely great) Jerry Orbach doing "She Likes Basketball" from "Promises, Promises" (so that is what he looked like in 1968), Zero Mostel doing "Comedy Tonight" from "Forum". The downs?? Desi Arnaz's song was much too short, Roert Goulet singing "The Happy Time" (is that the best they could find for him?)

But the best part is that for the younger Broadway fans is that this volume, like the others, lets them see the greats of Broadway at their best. And it reminds the rest of us just how much fun it was to watch the Tony Awards then.

It's ok.
I only bought this one for the song by Jerry Orbach. The first 2 DVDs were better.

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