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It’s been nearly 25 years since WTTW’s “Wild Chicago” first hit the air waves — and a decade since it left — and now fans of the popular, offbeat show can own a piece of it for the first time.
Highlights from the first two seasons of the show, hosted by the show’s ever-safari-ready Ben Hollis, are newly available on DVD.
The show — which premiered on Jan. 6, 1989 — turned the spotlight on some of the city’s most eccentric and off-beat corners, all to the bizarre soundtrack provided by composer Roger Adler. As Robert Feder notes, though the show remained on the air through 2003, its heyday was when Hollis was at the helm through 1992.
Among the highlights of the release are a pre-fame Stephen Colbert, a supremely awkward interview with Mayor Richard M. Daley, features on the “Tiger Moves” man, the Belmont and Clark punks and “Rat Lady” and other segments featuring some of the city’s most offbeat inhabitants and institutions.
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Image Entertainment will release the film of the New York Philharmonic concert staging of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Company’, starring Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris and Tony and Olivier winner Patti LuPone, on DVD and Blu-ray this Fall.
Director Lonny Price, who staged the starry concerts, told Playbill.com that a November release is expected, though an official date has not been finalized.
Source: Playbill.com
The film of the New York Philharmonic concert staging of Company, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone, will be released on DVD, director Lonny Price told Playbill.com.
“It will for sure happen,” Price confirmed. Negotiations are currently underway, though a timeline for the DVD release has not been set.
Price staged the April 7-9, 2011, concerts at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Featuring a Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Sondheim and a Tony-winning book by George Furth, the film of Company in concert was also released in cinemas across the U.S. in June.
Source: Playbill.com
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Those hoping to find a copy of The New York Philharmonic’s concert version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company in their holiday stockings will be disappointed to learn that there are no current plans to release the critically acclaimed production, which was filmed and later screened in movie theatres, on DVD.
A spokesperson for the New York Philharmonic told Playbill.com, “At this point we don’t know of any plans for a DVD of Company.”
Full Article: Playbill.com
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