DVD musicals

Best Musicals for Same-Language-Subtitling
A Listmania! list by G. McCall "subtitling nut"
"Same-Language-Subtitling (SLS) is the practice of using high quality text subtitling and video editing technologies (comparable to Karaoke) with music video and multi-media presentations as a repetitive reading resource. The activity combines captioned music videos with a response worksheet to create group rehearsed reading exercises. In other words --learn to read by watching musicals!" These are my recommendations -- there are many more possibilities. I have partially ranked by reading level/difficulty for high school students.

1. The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition) DVD ~ Matthew Broderick

2. Aladdin (Disney Special Platinum Edition) DVD ~ Scott Weinger

3. Beauty and the Beast DVD ~ Paige O'Hara

4. Little Shop of Horrors DVD ~ Rick Moranis

5. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat DVD ~ Donny Osmond

6. The Music Man (Special Edition) DVD ~ Robert Preston

7. Cats - The Musical (Ultimate Edition) DVD ~ Elaine Paige

8. My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition) DVD ~ Audrey Hepburn

9. Hair DVD ~ John Savage

10. Evita DVD ~ Antonio Banderas

11. Chicago (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Renée Zellweger

12. The Phantom of the Opera (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Gerard Butler

13. Les Miserables: The 10th Anniversary Dream Cast in Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall DVD ~ Colm Wilkinson

14. Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway) (Keepcase) DVD ~ Angela Lansbury

15. Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance / Kline, Ronstadt, Smith, Routledge, Delacorte Theater (Broadway Theatre Archive) DVD ~ Kevin Kline

16. Hello, Dolly! Widescreen Edition DVD ~ Barbra Streisand

17. Into the Woods DVD ~ Bernadette Peters

18. MGM Classic Musicals (West Side Story/Guys and Dolls/Fiddler on the Roof/A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum/How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) DVD ~ Topol

19. The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection [Remastered] (The Sound of Music / The King and I / Oklahoma! / South Pacific / State Fair / Carousel) DVD ~ Rossano Brazzi

20. The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition) DVD ~ Julie Andrews

SLS4Reading presents:

Same-Language-Subtitling ............................................................................................... (Dynamic subtitled music videos as a repetitive reading activity)

Best Musicals for Same-Language-Subtitling