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As alluded to earlier, while the Region 4 DVD release includes all six episodes of the series in full, that’s all it includes. In contrast, the Region 1 release features: - Over THREE HOURS of additional interviews with Broadway composers, directors and stars (full interviews from which excerpts were used for the series)
- Additional performances: early vaudeville films from the Library of Congress Variety Stage collection; Bill Robinson performance featured in the movie Harlem Is Heaven (1932); Eddie Cantor's tailor-shop routine in the 1929 feature film Glorifying the American Girl; "Hostesses of the Stage Door Canteen" from Irving Berlin's wartime revue This Is the Army; "If I Loved You" from Carousel performed by John Raitt and Jan Clayton; "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific performed by Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin; "Someone in a Tree" with an interview by Frank Rich and performance by Stephen Sondheim and the original cast of Pacific Overtures; Jonathan Larson's "Sunday"; "For Good" - a glimpse into rehearsal with Wicked composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz and musical director Stephen Oremus, and performed by Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel
- Special featurette: "Wicked: The Road to Broadway"
Clearly there is NO WAY one can recommend the Region 4 release in comparison. It is really a terrible shame that these extensive bonuses were not included.
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