Best Kids & Family Movie – Musicals

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1. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella

by: Shout! Factory
Release date: Sep 09, 2014
Run Time: 83 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Cinderella comes to life in this 50th Anniversary Edition of the most beloved fairy tale of all time. A sparkling fantasy of music, magic and romance, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella captivates from overture to finale with a delightful score and stunning flittering performances from an all-star cast. Academy Award nominee Lesley Ann Warren is charming as the raggedy waif turned belle of the ball with Broadway star Stuart Damon as the Prince. Also starring Academy Award nominee Walter Pidgeon, Academy Award Winners Ginger Rogers and Celeste Holm as the Fairy Godmother, Cinderella will waltz into the hearts of the entire family and live happily ever after as one of the most irresistible musicals ever made.

Featuring a new high quality digital transfer from the original master. Digitally restored from the original source material.

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2. Singin’ in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)

by: Warner Home Video
Release date: Sep 24, 2002
Run Time: 103 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Jean Hagen. Movie actors struggle to make the transition from silents to talkies in this acclaimed and highly entertaining musical. Includes the outtake number You Are My Lucky Star, the documentary “Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM,” a Debbie Reynolds commentary and much more. 2 DVDs. 1952/color/102 min/NR/fullscreen.
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3. The Sound of Music

by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: Nov 02, 2010
Run Time: 175 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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4. Fiddler on the Roof

by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: Sep 04, 2007
Run Time: 181 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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“An outstanding accomplishment in every category” (Boxoffice), this lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the century czarist Russia. Nominated* for eight Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Picture and Best Director, and featuring such classic songs as “If I Were A Rich Man,” “Matchmaker” and “Sunrise, Sunset,” Fiddler on the Roof is a universal story of hope, love and acceptancea “stunning, joyful and jubilant” (New York Daily News) musical masterpiece.
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5. Scrooge [VHS]

by: Fox Home Entertainme
Release date: Sep 15, 1998
Run Time: 113 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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This movie is based on the story by Charles Dickins.
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6. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

by: Warner Bros.
Release date: Oct 01, 2009
Run Time: 100 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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7. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Two-Disc Special Edition)

by: Warner Home Video
Release date: Dec 13, 2005
Run Time: 102 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: 50th Anniversary Edition (Dbl DVD)
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8. Music Man, The

by: Warner Home Video
Release date: Oct 05, 2010
Run Time: 151 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Let 76 trombones lead the big parade from the Great White Way into your home. It’s the Music Man, the screen version of one of Broadway’s all-time blockbusters, a skyburst of Americana as irresistible as 4th of July fireworks. Robert Preston and Shirley J Year: 1962
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9. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Full Screen Edition)

by: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release date: Nov 10, 1998
Run Time: 144 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls start your engines. You’re about to take an incredible ride with one of the most wonderful family films of all time! Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has never looked or sounded better. Dick Van Dyke stars as eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, who creates an extraordinary car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It not only drives but also flies and floats as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), into a magical world of pirates, castles and endless adventure.
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10. The Wizard of Oz: 75th Anniversary Edition

by: Warner Bros.
Release date: Oct 01, 2013
Run Time: 101 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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The magic of M-G-M’s wonderfully colorful and unique fantasy has melted hearts for more than seven decades with its indelible melodies and transcendent themes of family, home and the courage to pursue dreams. To celebrate the beloved movie’s 75th anniversary, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is re-releasing The Wizard of Oz on DVD.

Adapted from L. Frank Baum’s timeless children’s tale about a Kansas girl’s journey over the rainbow, The Wizard of Oz starred Judy Garland as Dorothy, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow; Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion; Jack Haley as the Tin Woodman and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch.

The Wizard of Oz received five Academy Award® nominations[1], including Best Picture (Outstanding Production), and captured two Oscars® — Best Song (“Over the Rainbow”) and Best Original Score — plus a special award for Outstanding Juvenile Performance by Ms. Garland.

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11. My Fair Lady [VHS]

by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: Apr 10, 2001
Run Time: 170 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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12. Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition)

by: Walt Disney Video
Release date: Dec 14, 2004
Run Time: 139 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Experience the extraordinary animation, dazzling special effects, and award-winning music of Walt Disney’s MARY POPPINS in this fully restored and remastered 2-Disc 40th Anniversary Edition! Join the “practically perfect” Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) for a “Jolly Holiday” as she magically turns every chore into a game and every day into a whimsical adventure. Along the way you’ll be enchanted by unforgettable characters such as the multitalented chimney sweep Bert (Dick Van Dyke). Unpack Mary’s magical carpetbag full of bonus features, including an all-new animated short, games, and a never-before-heard deleted song. You won’t need “A Spoonful Of Sugar” to love every moment of this timeless Disney classic!
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13. The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection (South Pacific, The Sound Of Music, The King And I, State Fair, Carousel, & Oklahoma!) [VHS]

by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: Aug 29, 2000
Rated: G (General Audience)
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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 Mornin'” and “People Will Say We’re in Love.” The subsequent 1955 film starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, who teamed up again for 1956’s Carousel. While that film’s dark nature made it less popular than its predecessor, the score (“If I Loved You,” “You’ll Never Walk Alone”) was Rodgers’s favorite. The King and I (also 1956) featured stage star Yul Brynner as the King of Siam and Deborah Kerr as schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who must learn Asian customs even as she tries to instill some of her Western ones. The somewhat bloated version of South Pacific (1958) follows two couples during World War II and features standards such as “Some Enchanted Evening” and “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair” from stars Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi. The last film, The Sound of Music (1965), proved to be the most popular, with Julie Andrews winning the hearts of seven children and their father with her blissful songs. And if the perhaps saccharine music and plot may test the patience of some, there’s no doubt that songs such as “My Favorite Things” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” have charmed audiences around the world for decades.

Accompanying the Big 5 in this set is the relatively minor State Fair from 1945 (though it does have “It Might as Well Be Spring” and “It’s a Grand Night for Singing”). Some may prefer other entries in the R&H canon such as Flower Drum Song or the television production Cinderella, but State Fair was included because it was one of the five films (not including Sound of Music) released in 1999 in sumptuous remasterings that allow their scores and locales to truly shine. The remasterings ensure good sound and picture quality throughout this historic collection. –David Horiuchi

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14. Doctor Dolittle (1967)

by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: Aug 18, 2008
Run Time: 150 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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15. Hello, Dolly! Widescreen Edition

by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: Aug 19, 2003
Run Time: 146 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Barbara Streisand is a knockout as Dolly Levi, the woman “who arranges things like furniture and daffodils and lives.” And Hello Dolly, is the blockbuster musical you’ll want to see her in again and again. The famed plot concerns Dolly, a young widow and professional matchmaker who sets her sights, and whatever else she can muster, on conquering tight-fisted Yonkers merchant, Horace Vandergeider, beautifully played by Walter Matthau. How she does it has to be the grandest, singingest, dancingest, marchingest flag-wavingest musical there ever was.
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16. Cats Don’t Dance

by: Turner Home Ent
Release date: Sep 03, 2002
Run Time: 120 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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17. Gay Purr-ee

by: Warner Bros.
Release date: Aug 14, 2013
Run Time: 85 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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18. Brigadoon

by: Warner Home Video
Release date: Jun 06, 2000
Run Time: 108 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
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19. Pete’s Dragon (High-Flying Edition)

by: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release date: Aug 18, 2009
Run Time: 128 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Get ready for a magical adventure filled with friendship, fun and heartwarming songs in the new Special Edition DVD of Walt Disney’s classic family film Pete’s Dragon, now with dazzling new bonus features! It’s a Brazzle Dazzle Day when an orphan named Pete and his best friend, Elliott, an invisible dragon, wander into the seaside village of Passamaquoddy. Although Pete befriends the lighthouse keeper, Nora and her salty old father , the townspeople think he is behind the hilarous accidents that keep happening. But after a daring rescue, everyone believes in Pete’s fire breathing buddy. Featuring an all-star cast, Pete’s Dragon is a timeless classic every member of your family will love.

Bonus Features Include: Disney’s Movie Magic a history of Disney’s magical mix of live action with animation, narrated by Sean Marshall (Pete), deleted Story board Sequence Terminus & Hoagy Hunt Elliot, rare demo dialog track and storyboard sketches, Original Song Concept: Boo Bop Bopbop Bop (I Love You Too) first demo recording March 1976 with story sketches for an early concept of the song Pete sings to Elliot, Original Demo Recordings: Brazzle Dazzle Day, Every Little Piece, The Greatest Star of All (Deleted Song for Deleted Character), Promotional Record, Four songs are pop versions of the songs used to promote the music and originally released on one 7 inch record including Academy Award nominated Candle on the Water.

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20. Annie: Broadway Tribute Edition [VHS]

by: Sony Pictures
Release date: Sep 05, 2000
Run Time: 272 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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21. Bye Bye Birdie

by: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date: Jul 13, 1999
Run Time: 112 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Lots of laughs and great songs have made this all-time favorite based on the hit Broadway show one of the most memorable musicals of all time. When rock star and teenage heart-throb Conrad Birdie gets drafted, the nation’s teenagers go haywire and Conrad’s manager, Albert (Dick Van Dyke), faces unemployment. So Albert and his girlfriend (Janet Leigh) organize a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss from Conrad on the Ed Sullivan Show. Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) turns outto be the lucky teenager and Conrad’s whole entourage moves into her quiet, Midwestern home much tothe chagrin of her ever irritable father (Paul Lynde) and her jealous boyfriend (Bobby Rydell). Theresult is chaos and a series of hilarious romantic complications.
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22. Bedknobs and Broomsticks Enchanted Musical Edition

by: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release date: Sep 08, 2009
Run Time: 139 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Experience the extraordinary animation, enchanting music and Academy Award-winning special effects (1971: Best Effects, Special Visual Effects) of Disney’s beloved classic BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS — now fully restored and remastered in this Enchanted Musical Edition with dazzling new bonus features! Hold on tight for a magical, musical, fun-filled journey! When young Charlie, Carrie and Paul move to a small village during World War II, they discover their host, Miss Price (Angela Lansbury), is an apprentice witch! Although her early attempts at magic create hilarious results, she successfully casts a traveling spell on an ordinary bedknob, and they fly to the fantastic, animated Isle of Naboombu to find a powerful spell that will save England! All-new fun is brewing in this Enchanted Musical Edition, including “The Wizards of Special Effects” feature. Also starring David Tomlinson (MARY POPPINS) and Roddy McDowall, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS is a heartwarming adventure your family will love sharing again and again!

Bonus Features Include: The Wizards Of Special Effects — Hosted By Jennifer Stone From Disney’s WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE, A Step In The Right Direction Reconstruction, Music Magic — The Sherman Brothers, David Tomlinson Portobello Road Recording Sessions, Theatrical Trailers

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23. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella

by: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Release date: Jan 01, 2002
Run Time: 84 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Cinderella comes to life in this enchanting version of the most beloved fairy tale of all time. A sparkling fantasy of music, magic and romance, RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA captivates from overture to finale with a delightful score and glittering performances from an all-star cast. Academy Award(r) nominated Lesley Ann Warren is charming as the raggedy waif turned belle of the ball with Broadway star Stuart Damon as the Prince. Also starring Academy Award(r) nominated Walter Pidgeon, AcademyAward(r) Winner Ginger Rogers and Academy Award(r) Winner Celeste Holm as the Fairy Godmother, CINDERELLA will waltz into the hearts of the entire family and live happily ever after as one of the most irresistible musicals ever made.
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24. The Little Princess

by: Gaiam – Entertainment
Release date: May 15, 2001
Run Time: 94 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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25. Thoroughly Modern Millie

by: Universal Studios
Release date: Jun 03, 2003
Run Time: 152 minutes
Rated: G (General Audience)
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Not only is Thoroughly Modern Millie a zany romantic spoof of the Roaring Twenties, it’s a musical that won an Oscar for Best Original Music Score! Julie Andrews stars as Millie, an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon (John Gavin), befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman, Jimmy (James Fox). In the end it takes a rich nutty jazz baby like Muzzy (Carol Channing) to unravel all these complications, give a great party, and match up lovers.
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