This pop-cultural phenomenon has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, churning more than $2 billion in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided Cats until now. The video ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Elaine Paige, John Mills, Ken Page, Rosemarie Ford, Michael Gruber
Directed By: David Mallet

Riding the strange '50s nostalgia wave that swept through America during the late 1970s (caused by TV shows like Happy Days and films like American Graffiti), Grease became not only the word in 1978, but also a box-office smash and a cultural phenomenon. Twenty years later, this entertaining film adaptation of the Broadway musical received another successful theatrical ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl
Directed By: Randal Kleiser

When it was released during Hollywood's golden year of 1939, The Wizard of Oz didn't start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but it wasn't until its debut on television that this family favorite saw its popularity soar. And while Oz's TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the rights), the advent of home ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Directed By: King Vidor, Mervyn LeRoy, Richard Thorpe, Victor Fleming

The late Dennis Potter was a master at mining the popular songs of the 1930s and '40s for dramatic effect, but he never did it better than in this British miniseries starring the inestimable Michael Gambon. Gambon plays a mystery writer named Philip E. Marlow, who is suffering a torturous bout of psoriatic arthritis in a British hospital, where he is a victim of both his disease and the national ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Lyndon Davies, David Ryall
Directed By: Jon Amiel

Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Starring: Derek Jacobi, John Carlisle, John Bowe, Pete Postlethwaite
Directed By: Terry Hands

This lavish set contains film versions of the five major works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped define the American musical landscape and rewrite the direction of musical theater. After enjoying extremely successful careers working with others, Rodgers and Hammerstein first teamed up in 1943 for the prairie tale Oklahoma!, with songs including "Oh, What a Beautiful ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi
Directed By: Fred Zinnemann, Henry King, Joshua Logan, Robert Wise, Walter Lang

This five-tape set includes Swing Time, Shall We Dance, Carefree, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, and The Barkleys of Broadway.

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields
Directed By: H.C. Potter, Charles Walters, Mark Sandrich

Nunsense Join a live audience to watch the Little Sisters of Hoboken display their divine talents in a zany benefit revue. In an effort to raise money for their fallen Sisters--unfortunate victims of a convent cooking accident--Mother Superior (The Golden Girls' Rue McClanahan) and her order of eccentric and endearing nuns show the lighter side of being Catholic. With ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: Rue McClanahan, Christine Anderson, Semina De Laurentis, Christine Toy Johnson, Terri White
Directed By: Dan Goggin, David Stern

When Barbra Streisand played Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, she brought to life a sympathetic yet strong-headed performer of stage and radio. In the sequel, Funny Lady, Brice comes off as a harsher woman, slightly bitchy, without the tremendous charm she possessed in the first film. Herbert Ross takes over as director (William Wyler oversaw Funny Girl), and the film just seems to ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan, Kay Medford, Anne Francis
Directed By: Herbert Ross, William Wyler

Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Starring: Julian Bream