Leonard Bernstein's New York / Mandy Patinkin, Dawn Upshaw, Donna Murphy
by Hart Perry
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Actor: Audra McDonald, Dawn Upshaw, Judith Blazer, Mandy Patinkin, Richard MuenzDirector: Hart Perry
Brand: Kultur
Cinematographer: Ken Kobland
Cinematographer: Peter Trilling
Editor: Alison Ellwood
Producer: Marilyn Harris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 58 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
Movie Reviews of Leonard Bernstein's New York / Mandy Patinkin, Dawn Upshaw, Donna Murphy
Movie Review: Wonderful Town!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bernstein at his best! This is one terrific compilation. I started out with the CD, then the VHS, and now this. Paul Theroux wrote in one of his books, that what he loved most about New York, (if you're from 'out of town'), was the feeling that you had as much right to be there as the person walking past you. I'm from the UK but have been lucky enough to live in NY for a good few months in the past, and as a Lenny-admirer to boot, this is simply great. I have a huge distrust of the word 'genius' and it gets thrown around willy-nilly these days, but if Bernstein possessed it in however small measure, it's evidenced particularly in this side of his achievement.
It's an idea that could have proved an embarrassment, the soloists trotting off on location round NY and singing their numbers in the streets, (to playback, presumably), often surrounded by bemused gawpers, but it works, brilliantly.
Dawn Upshaw singing 'Lonely Town' is worth the price of the disc on its own, Mandy Patinkin may be an acquired taste for some, but is totally at home in his numbers, and Audra McDonald is gorgeous in every sense. (To mention but three of what really feels like a 'team')
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Summary of Leonard Bernstein's New York / Mandy Patinkin, Dawn Upshaw, Donna Murphy
A new generation of American musical theater artists come together in a "glorious mosaic of Leonard Bernstein?s show tunes" (New York Times). Brilliantly filmed in the very New York locations celebrated by the songs - Coney Island, Central Park, Times Square - this DVD joins today?s performers with the ageless music of perhaps New York?s greatest musical personality. On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story chronicle the city in all its variety and excitement, and these performances bring a heightened measure of entertainment to Bernstein?s singular achievement. "New York, New York! a helluva town!" the company sings - it was never truer than in "Leonard Bernstein?s New York" today.With Dawn Upshaw ? Mandy Patinkin ? Donna Murphy ? Audra McDonald ? Judy Blazer ? Richard Muenz. Produced and directed by Hart Perry.
On The Town: New York, New York (ensemble) ? Ya Got Me (Murphy, Blazer, Patinkin) ? Come Up To My Place (Patinkin, Blazer) ? Lonely Town (Upshaw) ? Some Other Time (Patinkin) ? Ain?t Got No Tears Left (Murphy)
Wonderful Town: What a Waste (Muenz, Upshaw, Murphy) ? A Quiet Girl (Muenz) ? Wrong Note Rag (Patinkin) ? Story of My Life (Blazer) ? A Little Bit in Love (McDonald)
West Side Story: One Hand, One Heart (Upshaw, Muenz) ? Balcony Scene (Tonight) (McDonald, Patinkin)
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
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