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Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Show BoatIn London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The 3 Penny OperaHeidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent HeidiMusician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cyni...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Four DaughtersThe future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent They Shall Have MusicGulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and P...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Gulliver's TravelsLavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Great ZiegfeldAn orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Little Miss BroadwayA composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Broken Melody