Broadway. A street in Reservoir or a stage in New York? Both are places where people can make a name for themselves - one with their singing, the other with the sound of their V8. Both are mutually exclusive in my experience, and if a Commodore was ever heard playing a Broadway musical soundtrack through their Alpine oots-oots-doof-doof systems, a paradox would occur whereby a portal to hell would open up and swallow everything normal.

Surely this reviewer can't be serious? Only partly. Growing up near Reservoir almost sucked me into that void - a V6 is as close as I came - but a taste of broadway from time to time would help counter balance any instability. That's not to say that I'm a fan of the music and know each and every musical - far from it. I'd consider myself a passive broadway listener of the 5db variety. Take this into account when reading from here on.

My Favorite Broadway - The Leading Ladies, was a concert filmed live at Carnegie Hall featuring a smattering of leading ladies over the recent span of Broadway musicals. One of the more popular ladies, Julie Andrews, is present but only in a MC role, probably due to her highly reported not-so-perfect throat operations. Others of note that are present include a larger than life, and larger than her clothes, Liza Minnelli, Dorothy Loudon, Judy Kuhn, Andrea McArdle and more. This is a dazzling show that is sure to have fans singing along as I found myself doing.

Obvious from the beginning, the image quality seemed a little soft but not soft enough to make the assumption of the video being from an analog source. Colors are rich and evenly saturated with deep blacks visible in some close up shots. Audience footage displayed visible grain and noise, obviously due to the recording hardware used and nothing to do with the quality of the DVD compression here, although a lower than normal average bit-rate for a Warner Vision DVD doesn't help.

Audio wise we are given a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack and Dolby Stereo. Obvious here, from doing the David Gray review moments earlier, is that the Dolby Stereo soundtrack lacks fidelity and richness in comparison to what a Linear PCM soundtrack has to offer. This also translates to the 5.1 track whereby the inclusion of surround information, mainly audience participation, doesn't do much more. On its own it is a decent musical experience. Don't look for anything extras wise here.