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Celebrate Valentine’s Day and Black History Month

By Stewart F. Lane

BroadwayHD has thrilling performances ready for you to stream in February, including new releases like The Wiz Live! and Anything Goes. For more information on BroadwayHD, visit broadwayhd.com to learn more!

ROMEO AND JULIET
This production, starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad as Shakespeare’s famous star-crossed lovers, was captured during its 2013 Broadway run. Set in Verona, Italy, the Capulets and the Montagues have been engaged in an ancient feud that has been lost to time. However, when Romeo of the house of Montague and Juliet of the house of Capulet meet and fall in love, nothing can stop them from being together, not even death.


LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is a jukebox musical featuring several of Billie Holiday’s most famous songs. Filmed before a live audience at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans, it features six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in her history-making, tour-de-force performance as jazz icon Billie Holiday.


THE WIZ LIVE! 
The Wiz Live! brings the wonderful world of Oz to life like never before, featuring a star-studded cast of performers and the awe-inspiring Cirque du Soleil Theatrical. Whisked away from home by a tornado, young Dorothy is transported to the magical Land of Oz, where she sets off to meet the powerful Wizard and find her way home. This star-studded cast features Ne-Yo, Common, Uzo Aduba, Mary J. Blige, Amber Riley, Stephanie Mills, and more.


ANYTHING GOES
This light-hearted musical comedy with multiple entangled love stories is the perfect date night watch! As the S.S. American heads to sea, etiquette, and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set a course to true love. But destiny needs some help from singing sailors, comical disguises, and good old-fashioned blackmail. Directed by Kathleen Marshall, this production of Cole Porter’s classic musical comedy features Sutton Foster, Robert Lindsay, Felicity Kendal, and Gary Wilmot.


BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN:
THE OPERA

Brokeback Mountain is the heart-wrenching tale of ranch hand Ennis del Mar and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist, two young men who meet and fall in love on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963. Based on Annie Proulx’s extraordinary 1997 short story, Brokeback Mountain was subsequently made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger. Composed by master operettist Charles Wuorinen, this marks one of the most ambitious and significant works in his long and storied career. Teatro Real’s production is helmed by Tony Award-winning Ivo Van Hove, known for his gritty and ground-breaking direction.


PIPELINE
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? This critically acclaimed play by Dominique Morisseau is a must-watch.