As Pseudolus so memorably put it, "Why not?" :)
Most of the New York Philharmonic concert performances of musicals have been telecast and/or shown in movie theatres: Camelot, Candide, Show Boat, Company and Sweeney Todd. With Carousel, that makes six. Follies in Concert had a documentary that included performance excerpts. The ones that went unshown were the first Sweeney (although that got a CD issue and the later San Francisco concert with the same two leads but a different conductor and a partly different supporting cast was telecast) and the My Fair Lady.
Of course, if we go way back in time there were a couple of others, both in 1968: an Oklahoma partly conducted by Rodgers, and the famous Candide in celebration of Bernstein's 50th birthday, but in those days such events were rarely telecast. |
