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The BBC Acting Series has surpassed all other video acting programs in its influence on the acting profession and in the high standard it has set for arts education. While each program is targeted toward a particular realm of acting, an abundance of general wisdom is offered in each, which easily applies to a diversity of acting challenges. This specially priced 6 DVD set includes all six titles in this stimulating landmark series: Michael Caine's Acting in Film; Simon Callow's Acting in Restoration Comedy; Janet Suzman's Acting in Shakespearean Comedy; Brian Cox's Acting in Tragedy; Jonathan Miller's Acting in Opera; and Maria Aitken's Acting in High Comedy. Each DVD is available for purchase separately as well. 6 hours total running time.

A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most talked about theatre events of our time - Tantalus, the ten-hour, nine-play cycle written by Royal Shakespeare Company co-founder John Barton and directed by Sir Peter Hall. The filmmakers take a no-holds-barred approach, exposing the fears, creative tensions and euphoric breakthroughs through the rehearsal period. We are present for the volcanic conflicts between author and director, the grueling rehearsals, the resignations, the schedule havoc, and finally the triumphant opening night. The film team was granted full access, roaming freely through rehearsal halls, climbing catwalks as they captured the gargantuan challenges of mounting this epic reinvention of the ancient Greek myths. 1 hour, 54 minutes.

Actors, directors, and teachers now have the opportunity to study with the legendary actress and teacher Uta Hagen for the first time on DVD. Shot over the course of two years, the interaction between Ms. Hagen and the actors and audience puts the viewer right in the room. All ten of her celebrated Object Exercises are clarified and performed. Jack Lemmon, Whoopi Goldberg and Christine Lahti, among others - all former students - recall their classes with Ms. Hagen and her enduring influence on their work. As Ms. Hagen herself states, When I believe that there is a human being in action up there, in that moment, alive - right there - then I get spellbound. When you really achieve that understanding of human nature, the ability to place yourselves in the shoes of another human being and reveal that life onstage, is to me the ultimate experience. 2 DVDS, 200 MINUTES TOTAL! Uta Hagen has received the Tony and Drama Critics Awards for her roles in Odets' The Country Girl and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She won an Obie Award for her role in Mrs. Klein and was awarded a Tony for Special Lifetime Achievement and the National Endowment for the Arts Medal of Honor. Because I love the theater, and believe it to be not only the actor's training but testing ground, it is with great pleasure that I recommend this set. - Meryl Streep Here is Ms. Hagen at her extraordinary best - witty, compassionate, inspired and inspiring. Will watching this make you a better actor, director or teacher? Yes, yes and yes! - David Hyde Pierce How fortunate that Hagen's teaching has been captured on film ... This is an important work. - Library Journal It is absolutely required viewing. - Richard Brown, Professor of Humanities, New York University This DVD was produced and directed for the HB Studio by Pennie duPont and Karen Ludwig.

Featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Emily Watson, Robert Sean Leonard, Helen Hunt, Blythe Danner, Toby Stephens, Kate Burton, Victor Garber, Clare Danes and other fine actors. The complete set is accompanied by a 128-page Guide for Teachers by Cicely Berry.

Trumpet player & Jazz icon Freddie Hubbard is immortalized in this timeless DVD. Hubbard will always be remembered as a powerful, hard playing purveyor of bebop and hard bop. Hubbard is also famous for performing on some of the most influential albums of the post bop era. This DVD captures one of the 20th century's greatest jazzmen, impressing everyone who heard him blow his horn. Freddie Hubbard, known throughout his career as a passionate yet bold and ferocious trumpeter, constantly adapted his playing style with a seemingly effortless poise, creating an individual style with powerful grace. Songs include: UK 40 One of a Kind First Light There Is No Greater Love Love Connection One of Another Kind UK 41. 1 hour.

This DVD features jazz pianist Dorothy Donegan, who is primarily recognized for playing the boogie-woogie style of jazz, as well as being the protg of, and successor to, Art Tatum. Known as a jazz pianist, her classical background and eclectic musical taste helped create an impressive and flamboyant live act that had the ability to engross any audience. Honed in Chicago's vibrant music scene, her act consisted of her splendid blend of jazz styles infused with pop, classical, ragtime, gospel, and vaudeville, among numerous other genres. Her irresistible charm, vicious sense of humor, spunky attitude, and daring musical prowess all played a role in her individual persona and career. 1 hour.

Raised in Spanish Harlem neighborhood, William Bobo Correa was one of the premiere jazz & Latin percussionists of the 1960s and '70s, most recognized for playing Afro-Cuban jazz. Correa joined Tito Puente's band at the age of 19, where he was supposedly given his stage name, Willie Bobo, by piano virtuoso Mary Lou Williams after seeing him perform on timbales and congas. Bobo was given his first mainstream exposure after playing on the George Shearing album The Shearing Spell. Bobo later joined Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet during the peak of the 1950s mambo craze, before finally assembling his own group. After relocating to Los Angeles in the 1970s, Bobo worked with Latin Rock icon Carlos Santana, as well as for Bill Cosby on his variety show Cos, before his health began to suffer. This DVD features this influential infuser of Latin, jazz, rock and popular music as he performs: Bobo's Theme Rise Thus Spake Zarathustra Pisces Love's Theme A Snort of Green Keep That Same Old Feelin' Mister Magic Summertime. 1 hour.

As one of the hottest Windows-based professional virtual workstation programs today, Project 5 sparks creativity at the touch of a button. Cakewalk has developed Project 5 using a unique approach to creating pattern-based electronic music with DirecX and VST synths and incredible effects that make it a program you'll want to learn in a hurry. This DVD covers: setting up your audio and MIDI hardware, creating and sequencing virtual synths, importing and using digital audio loops, mixing using real-time effects, exporting your song as a digital-audio file and more. 77 minutes.

Propellerhead Software's Reason is a revolutionary software synthesizer and sequencer that can function as a total virtual production environment, integrating software synths and drum machines with sampler, playback and effects modules. Reason has become the weapon of choice for many electronic musicians, and this DVD will make sure you don't get left behind! Covers all of Reason's (versions 1.0 and 2.0) functions from basic sequencing and sound production to advanced effects and integration with other programs via ReWire. 75 MIN.