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An ultimate Blu-ray edition (all regions) of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning musical Cats has been released and includes bonus features with the creative team behind the long-running musical.

This month’s column looks at the controversial 1993 miniseries “Tales of the City,” with said tales from San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin; and two new Blu-rays from the Criterion Collection, Peter Brook’s 1963 “Lord of the Flies” and Gabriel Axel’s 1987 “Babette’s Feast.”

British conductor John Wilson led a well-received Rodgers and Hammerstein concert as part of the BBC Proms series at Royal Albert Hall August 22, 2010. (This, incidentally, was the day before the fiftieth anniversary of Hammerstein’s death).

This month’s column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, “Monsieur Verdoux”; Laurence Olivier’s stunning “Richard III”; and the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler, “The Thief of Bagdad.” *

The 1973 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar is released on Blu-ray by Universal Studios May 7.

This month’s column looks at Baz Luhrmann ‘s “Strictly Ballroom”; the recent documentary “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy”; the Judi Dench sitcom, “A Fine Romance”; and Anthony Andrews and Ian McKellen in the 1982 version of the swashbuckling “Scarlet Pimpernel.”

This month’s column looks at the international blockbuster “Les Misérables”; Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty”; Fritz Lang’s “Ministry of Fear”; “Life and Death of Colonel Blimp”; a Bea Lillie comedy, “On Approval”; and the documentary “Hands on a Hardbody.”

Just in time for the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody, which opens March 21 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, comes the home-video release of the source film documentary of the same name.

The 1973 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar will be released on Blu-ray by Universal Studios May 7.