Broadway theatre archive. Great performances, set 1.
(DVD)

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Originally broadcast in 1966 (Death of a Salesman); 1981 (Alice at the Palace); 1978 (Uncommon Women and Others); 1982 (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide).

Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock (Death of a Salesman); Meryl Streep, Betty Aberlin, Debbie Allen (Alice at the Palace); Meryl Streep, Swoosie Kurtz, Jill Eikenberry (Uncommon Women and Others); Alfre Woodard, Lynn Whitfield (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide).

This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, a "choreopoem" illuminating the story and struggle of black women in America in song, poetry, and dance.

DVD; Fullscreen 4:3 presentation; All regions, NTSC; 2.0 Dolby; Dolby Digital.

English audio.

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