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Sky Buys ‘My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert’, Music Doc Featuring Michael Ball, Audra McDonald & Daniel Dae Kim

Sky has landed UK broadcast rights to My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, a music doc feature.

The film includes a concert captured in London in December 2023 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane – the same venue that premiered the original West End productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, Carousel, SouthPacific and The King and I. Sky has also acquired UK rights from Concord Originals to the 1958 musical film South Pacific, which is based on the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical and stars Mitzi Gaynor, and the rights from Samuel Goldwyn Films to the 1965 US TV production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic fairy tale Cinderella starring Lesley Ann Warren. : Made in America) and director Jamila Wignot ( Ailey), which screened at SXSW; a documentary feature with White Horse Pictures, Shari & Lamb Chop, which is directed by Lisa D’Apolito ( Love, Gilda); Alison Ellwood documentary feature Let The Canary Sing, chronicling musical icon Cyndi Lauper, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival; and Ilya Chaiken’s music doc Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks from RBG’s Julie Cohen and Betsy West.

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