Classic musical adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. A tornado whisks Dorothy (Garland) and her house from Kansas to Munchkin City, squashing the Wicked Witch of the East upon landing. The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) vows revenge, while Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to see the Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan), hoping he can tell her how to get home. On the way she makes friends with a scarecrow (Bolger), a tin man (Haley) and a cowardly lion (Lahr) - all of whom have specific reasons for wanting to meet the magical Wizard. With the Wicked Witch out to get her, will Dorothy ever get home again?

From the smash hit stage show comes this larger than life musical epic. Bringing you an all star cast, the songs of ABBA and an extravaganza of dancing and laughter, Mamma Mia! The Movie is the feel good film of the year.

Bride to be Sophie is on a quest to find her father before her big day. There is just one problem... she's just not sure who it is. After secretly reading her mother Donna's (Meryl Streep) old diaries, she discovers he is one of three past loves. Knowing her mother would not approve, she invites them all.

Sophie desperately tries to keep their presence hidden but it's not long before the secret is out and the fun begins.

Stephan Mai and the Berlin Akademie fur Alte Musik perform Johann Sebastian Bach's 'The Art of Fugue' at The Radialsystem, Berlin in November 2007.

Tim Burton's film version of the Stephen Sondheim musical starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Based on a 'penny dreadful' tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th Century, this musical tells the tale of Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away - the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the barber's chair...

Inarguably one of the most important figures in 20th-century American music, jazz impresario Norman Granz introduced live jazz to mainstream audiences with his Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. This program celebrates Granz' pioneering legacy with an amazing live jam session featuring saxophonists Benny Carter and Zoot Sims, trumpeters Clark Terry and Roy Eldridge, pianist Tommy Flanagan, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Keeter Betts, and drummer Bobby Durham. Recorded at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975, the historic performance includes such classic numbers as "For You," "Autumn Leaves," "Sunday," "If I Had You," and "I Never Knew."

The New York's School of Performing Arts offers its students a path to fame and fortune - but fame costs. Budding ballerinas, musicians, dancers and actors all clamber up the rocky road to stardom in this modern day musical. This film was directed by Alan Parker (The Commitments, Evita) and led to a very successful television series spin-off.

Richard Attenborough's film version of the smash Broadway musical, in which dancers audition for an important new show in front of hard-bitten director Zach (Michael Douglas). The number of hopefuls is reduced to just sixteen and Zach asks each one to step into the spotlight to reveal their hopes and fears. Meanwhile, he has to contend with his own past when his ex-girlfriend turns up looking for a part in the show. Musical numbers include 'Dance Ten, Looks Three' and 'What I Did for Love'.

Musical film starring Annabel Scholey, Hannah Arterton and Leona Lewis. After a whirlwind romance while on holiday in Spain, Maddie (Scholey) accepts the proposal from Italian hunk Raf (Giulio Berruti) and starts planning a wedding in the sun. When her sister Taylor (Arterton) flies over to be with her she is shocked to discover that Maddie's husband-to-be was also her holiday fling. As Taylor tries to ignore the feelings she still holds for Raf, Maddie's ex Doug (Greg Wise) shows up in an attempt to win her back. The soundtrack features music from the 1980s including 'Holiday' by Madonna, 'How Will I Know' by Whitney Houston and the film's title track by Katrina and the Waves.

Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic as they perform a selection of favourites at a summer picnic concert at the Berlin Waldbuhne in 2009.

Elvis Presley plays a singing rodeo cowboy who gets himself a job at a ranch-cum-healthfarm with an exclusively female clientele. One of the girls has a treasure map leading to a stash of gold hidden in a ghost town. Elvis has to protect her from potential kidnappers.

Mean-spirited and stingy, Ebeneezer Scrooge has a sour face and "humbug" for anyone who crosses his path.

But on this Christmas Eve, he will learn the horrible fate that awaits him if he continues his miserly ways.

One by one, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future take the startled Ebeneezer on an incredible journey through time - showing him in one magical night what takes most people a lifetime to learn.

Opulently blood-spattered sci-fi gothic rock opera. In the near future, humankind is suffering a worldwide epidemic of organ failures. In the midst of the crisis, a multinational biotech corporation called GeneCo launches a finance programme for organ transplants. But there's a catch: those who miss their monthly payments are hunted down and 'repossessed' by the dreaded Repo Men, who are out to retrieve their property as quickly - and as painfully - as they can. Alexa Vega stars as Shilo Wallace, an over-protected young girl seeking answers to her own rare disease and her family's mysterious history. Will her questions finally be answered at the eagerly-anticipated, flamboyantly spectacular Genetic Opera? Paul Sorvino and Paris Hilton co-star.

Austria's Hagen Quartett perform Ravel's String Quartet in F major, and Schubert's String Quartet in D minor, "Death and the Maiden" in this classical music release.

Classic musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. When Huck Haines (Astaire) travels to Paris with his friend John (Randolph Scott) to perform a gig at a local club, he is disappointed when the proprietor refuses to honour the engagement after meeting the band. John turns to his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley) for help and visits her boutique where he meets and falls in love with his Aunt's assistant Stephanie (Dunne). Meanwhile, Huck also finds love when he encounters his childhood sweetheart Lizzie (Rogers), who manages to get Huck's band an engagement at a nightclub where she works.

Alan Parker's musical spoof of gangster films features an all-child cast with guns that fire cream. When gang warfare erupts between Fat Sam and Dandy Dan, hustler Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio), singer Tallulah (Jodie Foster) and newly arrived showgirl Blousey Brown (Florrie Dugger) find themselves caught up in the middle of it.

Double Oscar-winning musical drama following the meteoric rise of a 1960s all-girl vocal group. Based on the 1981 Broadway hit musical, the film follows full-figured belter, Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), and her school friends, Deena Jones (Beyonce Knowles) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose), aka The Dreamettes. They're a Chicago amateur vocal group who enter the famous amateur night at the legendary Harlem Apollo in New York singing a song by Effie's brother, CC (Keith Robinson), and come out on top. The four girls meet sweet-talking Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx), a promoter and manager who in no time gets the star-struck gang the gig as back up vocalists for the famous Jimmy 'Thunder' Early (Eddie Murphy). The match is perfect and their combined career takes off. Soon things get complicated when Lorrell begins dating married man Jimmy, and Effie starts getting busy with Curtis. When the two acts part ways, The Dreamettes become the Dreams and consequently famous in their own right, while Jimmy's career tanks in a mire of smooth-pop balladry. Infighting between Effie and Deena over lead privileges, as well as offstage rivalry in love, makes for a lot of tears and heartache for all concerned.

The Jolson Story
The film traces the meteoric singing/performing career of Asa Yoelson, a talented cantor's son determined to make it big in the "biz". After changing his name to Al Jolson, Asa captivates audiences everywhere as a spellbinding minstrel and jazz performer. Featuring 25 songs by Jolson and big hits such as "My Mammy" and "You Made Me Love You", The Jolson Story is a compelling tribute to an incomparable performer once hailed as America's Greatest Entertainer!

Jolson Sings Again
The drama unfolds when Jolson exits retirement and heads back to Broadway, where he discovers that musical styles have changed and his exuberant brand of minstrel jazz no longer pulls top billing. Discouraged and tired of a life of wine, women and little song, Jolson turns to his friend and manager who enlists him to entertain troops during the war. There he falls in love with and marries a beautiful army nurse, who encourages Al to sing again.

Zubin Mehta leads the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in this production of Puccini's final opera staged at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in May, 2008. This visually spectacular production from Chinese film director Chen Kaige features performances from Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou, and Alexander Tsimbaliuk

The film, loosely based on the 1968 Broadway musical Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, centres on two men, Claude (John Savage, The Deer Hunter, a naïve young man from America's 'Bible Belt' and Berger (Treat Williams), the leader of a hippie tribe in New York. Drafted into the army and soon to ship out to Vietnam, Claude spends his last time as a civilian with Berger, learning for the first time about race and class issues in 60s America. He soon meets and falls for Shelia, a rich debutante with a rebellious soul. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

The film marked Milos Forman's return to directing after winning an Oscar® for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 and was nominated for two Golden Globes in 1980.

Made-for-TV musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's classic play. Broadcast in June 1956, Doretta Morrow plays Nell Valentine, a young schoolteacher who sets off on an adventure to Europe. While on her trip, she meets fellow American Ray Binton (Keith Andes) and the pair quickly fall in love. However, as the couple continue on their journey together, secrets from Ray's past begin to emerge which could put their romance in jeopardy.

Collection of British musicals from the 1930s. In 'Facing the Music' (1933), directed by Harry Hughes, Stanley Lupino stars as Jack who has fallen head over heels in love with Nina (Nancy Burne). In his pursuit of her, Jack discovers that she is the niece of an opera singer looking to bolster her fame. When Jack proposes a fake jewel robbery to Nina during one of her aunt's shows she agrees, but when the jewels really do go missing Jack must recover them before the end of the performance. Thomas Bentley directs 'Sleepless Nights' (1932) in which Lupino stars as Guy Raynor, a reporter in Nice who pretends to be the wealthy husband of Marjorie Drew (Polly Walker) to stop her from running away with a crook. Paul Merzbach directs 'A Star Fell from Heaven' (1936) in which a musical film star suddenly loses his voice. An aspiring singer dubs over his performances and becomes unexpectedly famous in the process. In 'The Student's Romance' (1935), directed by Otto Kanturek, young student Max (Patric Knowles) and Princess Helene (Grete Natzler) fall in love, but must overcome the barrier of her royal status if they are to be together.

Documentary focusing on the jam band music scene. The feature follows musicians Umphrey's McGee, Keller Williams, The Disco Biscuits and Particle as they perform at the first annual Jam in the Dam festival in March 2005. Filmed in Amsterdam's Melkweg, the feature includes interviews with the various artists and fans taking part in addition to the group's live performances.

Stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name which is set in County Durham during the 1984 miners' strike. Young Billy Elliot (Matteo Zecca/Mitchell Tobin/Bradley Perret/Elliott Hanna) becomes fascinated with the ballet lessons which are being held in the same hall as his boxing class. The ballet teacher, Mrs Wilkinson (Ruthie Henshall), recognises his potential and encourages him to join her class. As his talent gradually reveals itself, it becomes clear that Billy should be attending the Royal Ballet School in London, but with his father (Deka Walmsley)'s opposition and the extreme poverty which descends on the area during the strike, Billy's future is far from certain.

A live TV performance from 1955 of the Rogers and Hart musical, featuring Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling and Cornelia Otis Skinner.