Tracks: 1. Patti LuPone, Anything Goes
2. Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur, Mame
3. Robert Morse, How to Succeed
4. Jane Lapotaire, Piaf
5. Richard Kiley, Man of La Mancha
6. Nell Carter and cast, Ain't Misbehavin'
7. Michael Jeter and Brent Barrett, Grand Hotel
8. Gregory Hines and cast, Jelly's Last Jam
9. Walter Bobbie and Nathan Lane, Guys and Dolls
10. George Hearn and cast, La Cage aux Folles
11. Cast, Les Miserables
12. Shirley Verrett and cast, Carousel
13. Jerry Orbach, Chicago
14. Katharine Hepburn, Coco [*]
15. Robert Lindsay, Me and My Girl [*]
16. Tom Bosley, Fiorello! [*]
17. Kathi Moss and cast, Nine [*]
18. Bill Hutton and cast, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [*]
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48: Amazon.com Editoral Review: The follow-up to the original Broadway's Lost Treasures delivers more of the same--historic performances of great moments in American musical theater televised on the Tony Awards--but is a step up in terms of sheer entertainment value. The first volume included only performances before 1987, and while they had bigger stars (Yul Brynner, Robert Preston), some of them were lip-synced and considerably less polished than their feature-film equivalents. Broadway's Lost Treasures II features newer performances that are almost indistinguishable from an actual show, including scenes from splashy, high-energy revivals such as Anything Goes (Patti LuPone and company performing the title tune) and Guys and Dolls (the fabulous "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat"), and new shows such as Grand Hotel (Michael Jeter and Brent Barrett in a gloriously exuberant "Take a Glass Together"), Les Miserables ("One Day More"), La Cage aux Folles (George Hearn solo and with a chorus line in drag in "I Am What I Am"), and Jelly's Last Jam (Gregory Hines tapping "That's How You Jazz"). There are classic performances too, including Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur's 1987 reunion of "Bosom Buddies" (Mame), Richard Kiley's "The Impossible Dream" (Man of La Mancha), Jerry Orbach's "All I Care About" (Chicago), and (in the DVD's bonus content) Katharine Hepburn in a 15-minute part-dramatic, part-musical scene from Coco. Fans were disappointed when performances from Dreamgirls and A Chorus Line were pulled from the first program due to rights issues, and those still aren't included here, but one can always hope they might appear in a future volume. --David Horiuchi
