The BEST episodes of Great Performances season 31
Every episode of Great Performances season 31, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Great Performances season 31!
Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on PBS since 1972. The show is produced by WNET in New York City. It is one of the longest running performing arts anthologies on television, second only to Hallmark Hall of Fame. Great Performances presents concerts, ballet, opera, an occasional documentary, and plays. The series has also won many television awards, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an Image Award, with nods from the Directors Guild of America and the Cinema Audio Society.
#1 - Broadway's Lost Treasures
Season 31 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/10/2003
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 -- the period during which 'Alexander H. Cohen' and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
#2 - Kiss Me Kate
Season 31 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/2003
A live performance of the 1999 revival, taped in London in the theatre in which it was staged, and in front of a live audience
#3 - Josh Groban in Concert
Season 31 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/30/2002
Josh Groban In Concert is a special package, including a DVD featuring footage from his PBS Great Performances appearance and a CD including songs not available on his self-titled debut album. It tentatively features "Broken Vow," "For Always (from the A.I. soundtrack) and his exclusive Christmas song "O Holy Night," as well as selected tracks from the live PBS special.
#4 - The Great American Songbook
Season 31 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/2003
Documentary assembling film clips of musical numbers from songwriters considered significant contributors to pop culture before the advent of rock and roll. Sparkling performances by Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Al Jolson, the teenage Dorothy Dandridge and the flash-dancing Nicholas Brothers light up this great documentary that originally aired on educational television. Using rare and never-before-seen footage, singer-pianist and musical historian Michael Feinstein hosts an informative look at the composers and lyricists who wrote America's standards from the 1890s through the mid-1950s.
#5 - 30th Anniversary: A Celebration in Song
Season 31 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/7/2003
Nathan Lane introduces a series of performance clips from many of the 600 programs that have been aired under the “Great Performances” banner, including such theatre stars as Bernadette Peters, Elaine Paige, Karen Ziemba, Bebe Neuwirth, Liza Minnelli, and Michael Crawford.
#6 - Dance in America: Born to Be Wild
Season 31 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/9/2003
A documentary crew follows four leading men of American Ballet Theatre to their respective hometowns as they rehearse a newly commissioned work by choreographer Mark Morris.