Musical Theatre: Videos & CDs

Our Films on Demand database allows you to stream documentaries and, in some cases, entire musicals.

Complete musicals

• Oklahoma (1999, shown on PBS, with Hugh Jackman)
• Kiss Me, Kate (2003, shown on PBS)
• Camelot (1982 revival with Richard Harris and Meg Bussert)
• The Pirates of Penzance (1980, Broadway Digital Archive, with Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt)

Excerpts

• The Cradle Will Rock (Blitzstein; 1964, 28 minutes)
• Street Scene (Weill-Elmer Rice-Langston Hughes; 1960, 28 minutes)

Documentaries

• Diamonds as Big as the Ritz:  The Musical (2008, “from a script by Stephen Sonheim”)
• Six by Sondheim (2014)
• Face to Face:  Stephen Sondheim (1995 interview)
• Acting in Musicals (2004)
• American Tap (2018)
• Leonard Bernstein:  Larger than Life (2015, includes interviews with Sondheim)
• An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber (1982)
• Marc Blitzstein’s Life and Work Explored (1976)

BBC Proms featuring songs from musicals

• BBC Proms 1996:  Dawn at Dusk
• BBC Proms 2010:  Rodgers and Hammerstein

Documentaries on film musicals

• Series:  Hollywood Singing and Dancing
• Broadway Goes Hollywood:  Musical Comedy in American Cinema (2008)
• Discovering Dance on Film (2019)
• Vincente Minnelli (2018)
• Stanley Donen (2012)

Documentary (on the upper level)

• Broadway:  The American Musical (call number DVD ML1711.8 .N300 B762 2004, 3 volumes) (6-hour PBS documentary; highly recommended—archival footage and interviews)

DVDs of stage productions (on teh main level):

• Sweeney Todd (stage production, with Angela Lansbury and George Hearn) (DVD PN1997 .S913 2004)
• Sunday in the Park with George (stage production, with Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters) (DVD PN1997 .S944 1999)
• Into the Woods (stage production, with Bernadette Peters; commentary by Sondheim and others) (DVD PN1997 .S944 1999)
• Pippin (DVD PN1995.9 .P577 2000)
• Barnum (with Michael Crawford, DVD PN1997 .B285 2001)
• Gypsy (with Imelda Staunton,  DVD PN 1997 .G97 2016)

DVDs of concerts (DVD M on the upper level, DVD PN on the main level)::

• Candide (concert performance with Kristin Chenoweth, additional lyrics by Sondheim) (DVD M1505 .B485 C36 2005)
• Les Misérables (25^th anniversary concert) (DVD PN1997 .M589 2011)
• Phantom of the Opera (25^th anniversary concert) (DVD PN1997 .P474 2012)
• South Pacific (DVD M1500 .R633 S68 2006)
• The Last Ship (DVD M1630.18 .S756 2014)

Feature films made from musicals

• Cabaret (DVD PN1997 .C143 2003)
• Carousel (DVD PN1997 .C208 1999)
• Chicago (DVD PN1997 .C412 2002)
• Evita (DVD PN1997 .E921 1998)
• The Fantasticks (DVD M1500 .F155 2001)
• Fiddler on the Roof (DVD PN1995.9 .F533 2001)
• Funny Girl (DVD PN1997 .F869 2001)
• Godspell (DVD PN1995.9 .G637 2000)
• Grease (DVD PN1997 .G794 2002)
• Hairspray (DVD PN1997 .H256 2007)
• Into the Woods (2014, with Meryl Streep)  (DVD PN1997 .I5945 2015)
• Les Misérables (with Hugh Jackman, DVD PN1997 .M589 2013)
• L’il Abner (DVD PN1997 .L656 2005)
• The Music Man (DVD PN1997 .M924 2010, Blu-ray)
• My Fair Lady (DVD PN1997 .M943 2009)
• 1776 (DVD PN1997 .S371 2002)
• Show Boat (1951 version, DVD PN1997 .S583 2000)
• The Sound of Music (DVD PN1997 .S684 2002)
• South Pacific (DVD PN1997 .S852 1999)
• Sweeney Todd (directed by Tim Burton) (DVD PN1997 .S944 2008)
• West Side Story (DVD PN1995.9 .W471 2005)

…and, of course, many movie musicals (Singin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, The Band Wagon, Meet Me in St. Louis) and Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, and Moana) you can find in our online catalog.   Most are in the DVD PN 1997 area (more or less alphabetically by title).  

CDs for musicals are on the upper level.  Most of these have call numbers beginning CD M 1505 (though some begin CD M1503).  The letter following this depends on the composer's name (thus, for Gershwin, CD M 1505 .G; for Sondheim, CD M 1505 .S). 

The CDs listed below are original Broadway or off-Broadway cast recordings unless indicated.

• And the World Goes ‘Round:  The Songs of Kander & Ebb (call number CD M1503 .K1725 A53 1991)
• Annie (Strouse-Charnin, CD M1505 .S855 A64 1998)
• Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin, 1999 revival, CD M1505 .B499 A55 1999)
• Anyone Can Whistle (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S694 A64 2003)
• Anything Goes (Porter, revival, CD M1505 .P866 A63 1988)
• Assassins (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S655 A71 2012 and CD M1505 .S694 A81 2009)
• Avenue Q (Lopez and Marx, CD M1505 .L844 A92 2003)
• Bat Boy (O’Keefe, CD M1503 .O444 2011)
• Cabaret (Kander-Ebb, CD M1005 .K166 C18 1998)
• Camelot (Loewe-Lerner, CD M1505 .L644 C36 1998)
• Candide (Bernstein-Wilbur, CD M1505 .B485 C36 2003)
• Carousel (Rodgers-Hammerstein, CD M1505 .R623 C31 1993)
• Chicago (Kander-Ebb, 1996 revival, CD M1505 .K166 C48 1996)
• A Chorus Line (Hamlisch-Kleban, CD M1505 .B477 C59 1997)
• City of Angels (Coleman-Zippel, CD M1505 .C617 1990)
• The Color Purple (Russell, Lewis, and Bray, CD M1505 .R897 C76 2005)
• Company (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S694 C66 2009)
• Dear Evan Hansen (Pasek, CD M1500 .D43 2017)
• The Fantasticks (Schmidt-Jones, CD M1500 .J87 F15 2000)
• Fiddler on the Roof (Bock-Harnick, 1968 cast, CD M1505 .F63 1996)
• Finian’s Rainbow (Lane-Harburg, revival, CD M1505 .L257 F56 2010)
• Follies (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S694 F65 1992)
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S694 F91 1993)
• Godspell (Stephen Schwartz, CD M1500 .S39 G63 1989)
• Guys and Dolls (Loesser, 1992 revival, CD M1505 .L817 G91 1992)
• Gypsy (Styne-Sondheim, CD M1505 .S655 G98 1999)
• Hamilton (Miranda, CD M1505 .M57 H36 2015) 
• Hello, Dolly! (Herman, CD M1505 .H475 H45 2009)
• Into the Woods (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S694 I68 1991)
• The King and I (Rodgers-Hammerstein, CD M1505 .R623 K68 2000)
• Kiss Me, Kate (Porter, CD M1505 .P866 1998)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kander-Ebb, CD M1505 .K166 K59 1992)
• Lady in the Dark (Weill-Ira Gershwin, 1997 London cast, CD M1505 .W41 .L21 1998)
• A Little Night Music (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S655 L57 1998)
• Little Shop of Horrors (Menken-Ashman, CD M1505 .M43 L525 1982)
• Man of La Mancha (Leigh-Darion, CD M1505 .L433 M29 1987)
• Merrily We Roll Along (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S694 M51 1981)
• The Music Man (Willson, CD M1505 .W642 M89 1992)
• My Fair Lady (Loewe-Lerner, CD M1505 .L644 M92 2002)
• Of Thee I Sing/Let 'Em Eat Cake (Gershwin, 1987 concert, CD M1505 .G475 039 1987)
• Oklahoma! (Rodgers-Hammerstein, CD M1505 .R623 O61 2000)
• On the Town (Bernstein-Comden & Green, 1961 studio cast, CD M1505 .B41 O6 1998)
• On the Twentieth Century (Coleman-Comden & Green, CD M1505 .C617 O54 1991)
• On Your Toes (Rodgers-Hart, 1983 revival, CD M1500 .R623 O555 2002)
• Pacific Overtures (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S655 P32 1984)
• Paint Your Wagon (Lerner-Loewe, CD M1505 .L644 P34 1989)
• Pippin (Stephen Schwartz, CD M1505 .S399 P59 2000)
• Rent (Larson, CD M1505 .L38 R53 1996)
• Saturday Night (Sondheim 2000 recording, CD M1505 .S655 S28 2000)
• She Loves Me (Bock-Harnick, CD M1505 .B633 S45 1987)
• Show Boat (Kern-Hammerstein, 1962 studio cast, CD M1505 .S41 1962; 1994 revival, CD M1505 .K43 S51 1994)
• The Sound of Music (Rodgers-Hammerstein, CD M1505 .S79 1998)
• South Pacific (Rodgers-Hammerstein, CD M1505 .R623 S68 1998)
• Strike up the Band (Gershwin, studio cast, CD M1505 .G475 S77 1991)
• Sunday in the Park with George (Sondheim, CD M1505 .S655 S86 2007)
• Sweeney Todd (Sondheim, CD M1503 .S66 S93 2007; concert, M1505 .S655 S9 2006)
• The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Finn, CD M1505 .F632 T91 2005)
• West Side Story (Bernstein-Sondheim, CD M1505 .B485 W47 1998)
• Wicked (Stephen Schwartz, CD M1505 .S399 W52 2003)