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Originally Posted by Melaus
Have to ask this again, just for the last time in 2013?
Surely this Rogers & Hammerstein release as a Box Set, would be an absolute winner, both for the studio and consumers!
Really want this, more-so than any other Blu-ray I can think of that's yet to grace my "Disk-Tray"
Any info would be very much appreciated 
Doesn't matter what country! |
I am starting to think that they are waiting for the anniversary of The King and I and Oklahoma, which would be 2015, the 60th anniversary of Oklahoma and 2016, the same for King and I. I am saying my prayers that they will be released sooner.
With Fox releasing more and more classics, you would think the Rodgers and Hammerstein films would be very high priority.
What I do know is this: The King and I has been restored from the original Cinemascope 55 negative, that should look outstanding, and Oklahoma has been restored in both the Todd-AO version and the Cinemascope version. Carousel has been restored using the Cinemascope 55 negative. So where are they? C'mon Fox!
I was looking at my blu-rays on my shelves and happen to glance at the musicals section, which is my favorite category. It is the smallest shelf of them all. I can count on my fingers and toes the number of classic musicals released so far. It's a very sad situation.I can't believe how many musicals remain unreleased.
I hope Warner Archive continues to release musicals, we got Gypsy and Jumbo (Jumbo is awesome as far as picture quality and sound, ah that great MGM orchestra and you get alot of it in Jumbo). But Warner has gems like Victor Victoria, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Brigadoon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and the list goes on and on. Now that Mary Poppins came out, I am hoping for Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Happiest Millionaire from Disney, but I am not holding my breath!
You know it's sad, every time I look at the front page of this site at the new pre-orders, there is a list of about 30-40 titles there, I have never heard of about 80% of those titles, and it's once in a blue moon that a musical appears. I see MGM announced A Chorus Line. Could this mean MGM Home Video is back in the Blu-ray game?