Les Miserables featuring David Willetts

Les Miserables

Originally conceived and produced in early-80s France, before its English-language version’s  inauspicious beginnings at London’s Barbican Centre in 1985, the modern interpretation of Les Miserables has gone on to make its mark as one of the most successful stage musicals of all-time – both in the West End and on Broadway, as well as in theatres around the world - and as a bona fide Hollywood blockbuster featuring a stellar cast.

Based on Victor Hugo’s classic 19th-century novel, Les Miserables tells the story of Jean Valjean, a peasant of brawny stature and unpredictable, fiery character. Having spent 17 years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, Jean seeks redemption and is inspired by a compassionate bishop to break parole to start a new life, but is vigorously pursued by police inspector Javert. As they make progress, Jean and a cast of characters find themselves becoming involved in a momentous period in revolutionary France, when a gang of young radicals makes its final stand.

Les Miserables music by Claude-Michel Schönberg;  Original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel , English adaptation by Herbert Kretzmer

Miss Saigon

Based on Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon tells a similarly tragic story of love lost between an Asian woman and her American lover, transferred from early 20th-centruy Japan  to Vietnam War-era Saigon.

Apparently inspired by a photograph of a Vietnamese mother leaving her daughter at the departure gate of a Vietnamese airbase to board a flight to the US, where her ex-army father could give the child a much better future, co-composer Claude-Michel Schönberg thought this the ‘ultimate sacrifice’ and the show is constructed around this central premise.

Opening at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in September 1989, Miss Saigon ran there for over 10 years and more than 4,000 performances. The show had its debut on Broadway in 1991, later playing in many other cities and embarking upon globe-spanning tours.

Les Miserables and Miss Saigon have become legends of the stage, each permeating popular culture far beyond their original imaginings.

Miss Saigon music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr.

Nora Roberts Carnal Innocence 20th February 2012!

Available on Amazon UK & Deltamusic.co.uk

*Update - Release date update, the Carnal Innocence will be available from Delta Music on the 27th February 2012.*
 
Nora Roberts Carnal Innocence will be released on DVD in th UK on 20th February 2012! Staring Gabrielle Anwar and Colin Egglesfield Carnal Innocence takes place in Caroline Waverly home town of Innocence.

Based on a best selling book by the author Nora Roberts. After suffering a professional setback, world-renowned violinist Caroline Waverly (Gabrielle Anwar) decides to head to Innocence, Mississippi, where she spent summers as a child, for some peace and solitude away from the spotlight. Shortly after arriving, Caroline meets the arrogant but charming Tucker Longstreet (Colin Egglesfield), a member of one of the town’s most prominent families, who is quickly smitten by her. But Caroline’s dreams for tranquility turn into a nightmare when she discovers the body of a young woman, the possible victim of a serial killer whom the authorities suspect may be Tucker.

The Nora Roberts Movie Trailer can be seen here on our blog.

An Excerpt from the book "Josie Longstreet, the only daughter and youngest child, had been married twice in her thirty-one years. Both unions had been short-lived but had provided the people of Innocence with endless grist for the gossip mill. She regretted both experiences in the same way a woman might regret finding her first gray hairs. There was some anger, some bitterness, some fear. Then it was all covered over. Out of sight, out of mind.

A woman didn't intend to go gray any more than a woman intended to divorce once she'd said "till death do us part." But things happened. As Josie was fond of saying philosophically to Crystal, her bosom friend and owner of the Style Rite Beauty Emporium, she liked to make up for these two errors in judgment by testing out all the men from Innocence to the Tennessee border.

Josie knew there were some tight-lipped old biddies who liked to whisper behind their hands that Josie Longstreet was no better than she had to be. But there were men who smiled into the dark and knew she was a hell of a lot better than that."

Nora Roberts Movies, Carnal Innocence DVD Trailer.

Carnal Innocence a Nora Roberts Movie, Coming Soon to DVD! Keep in touch on facebook or check out our blog for further news.

Burned out by a whirlwind career, world-famous concert violinist Caroline Waverly arrives in Innocence looking for a little peace and some time to think. She hopes that a stay at her late grandmother's house--the one with a covered porch just made for soft summer nights--will provide the tranquillity she needs.  But Innocence has something else to offer Caroline: handsome, charming Tucker Longstreet.

Elizabeth Taylor DVD

Elizabeth Taylor, Movie Star is a collection of  her greatest movies, one of Britain's most successful actresses, this Elizabeth Taylor box set contains 3 Movies; Divorce His, Divorce Hers, The Last Time I saw Paris, Father’s Little Dividend.

This collection spans three decades of her legendary career. Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973) Jane (Elizabeth Taylor) and Martin (Richard Burton) have been married for almost twenty years,The couple find themselves on the verge of divorce. The film is in two parts, each telling the story from the individual partner's perspective. 

In The Last Time We Saw Paris (1954), a World War 2 veteran (Van Johnson) falls in love with a restless expatriate (Elizabeth Taylor) in postwar Paris.

Father's Little Dividend (1951) is the sequel to the hugely popular movie Father of the Bride, and reunites the entire cast of the previous movie for another charming turn. Although Stanley's (Spencer Tracy) hoping for some peace and quiet now that Kay's (Elizabeth Taylor) been married off, he soon learns he's in for more chaos as an expectant grandfather.