These are 2 rare promotional/reviewer's DVDs from PBS.  

The first DVD is from 1995.  It contains the entire PBS special: "Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II."  90 minutes.

The second DVD is from 2012.  It contains the full documentary: "Oscar Hammerstein II, Out Of My Dreams."  60 minutes.

Both DVDs come in plain jewel cases with no inserts and no artwork.  The DVDs were not issued sealed.  The DVDs are in mint condition and the quality is perfect. 

First DVD: "Oscar Hammerstein II, Out Of My Dreams."

The new documentary contains more than a dozen new interviews, plus archival ones with Hammerstein and his late son James, also there's an interview with Tony Award-winning producer-director Harold Prince, who had an acquaintance with Hammerstein in the 1950s.

"He was a very political fellow without being, you know, cantankerous or bullish," said Prince, who directed the award-winning 1994 revival of "Show Boat."

"He was very concerned with human rights and they were reflected in his musicals," Prince said. "The idea of someone dealing with all [racism and miscegenation] in 1927 is pretty damn extraordinary."

"It's funny what we call liberal now and what we call liberal back then," said Andy Hammerstein, who lectures about his grandfather and is the author of "The Hammersteins: A Musical Theatre Family."

"He was a very pre-hippie, pre-drug small 'l' liberal," said Hammerstein, who was 3 when his grandfather died in 1960 of cancer. "He was a writer, and a writer doesn't like to have someone in the government tell him what he can or cannot write or make suggestion on what he should be writing."

As a result of his liberal leanings, his grandson said, Hammerstein was not popular with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. And during the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings, Hammerstein was called in to testify informally if he was or had ever been a member of the Communist party.

"He was asked the usual set of questions and his responses were interesting," said his grandson. "When he was asked would you ever work with a Communist, he surprised them by answering, 'Of course I would. If there are going to help me load my gun to shoot Nazis' — which is what the Russians had just done — 'I would be happy to work with them.'

"It kind of shut them up."

Mitzi Gaynor, who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 feature film version of "South Pacific," describes Hammerstein as a mensch. "He was a real person and a real human being," she said, adding that she felt he was very much like the sentiment of the "South Pacific" song, "A Cockeyed Optimist."

"I think that's what he thought," she said. "He was very optimistic. He was not a sour man in any way. He believed in our way of life."

Second DVD: "Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II."

A musical tribute to lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, through performances of songs he wrote with composers Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers. Includes archival footage. Taped before a live audience at City Center, New York City, 1995. 90 minutes.

Harold Prince
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Stephen Sondheim
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Peabo Bryson
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Bernadette Peters
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Lonette McKee
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Dawn Upshaw
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Audra McDonald
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Julie Andrews
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Patti LaBelle
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Willie Nelson
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Mandy Patinkin
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Vanessa Williams
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·      "All the Things You Are"
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "Very Warm for May")
Sung by Willie Nelson


·      "Bali Ha'i"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "South Pacific")
Sung by Mandy Patinkin


·      "A Cock-Eyed Optimist"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "South Pacific")
Sung by Julie Andrews


·      "Edelweiss"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "The Sound of Music")
Sung by Julie Andrews


·      "The Last Time I Saw Paris"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by Dawn Upshaw


·      "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "Oklahoma!")
Sung by Keith Carradine


·      An operetta medley
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by Peabo Bryson and Audra Ann McDonald


·      A medley from "Show Boat"
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by Michel Bell, Rebecca Luker, Mark Jacoby, Lonette McKee,
Gretha Boston and Ensemble


·      "What's the Use of Wond'rin'?"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "Carousel")
Sung by Bernadette Peters


·      "Why Was I Born?"
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "Sweet Adeline")
Sung by Vanessa Williams


·      "You'll Never Walk Alone"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "Carousel")
Sung by Patti LaBelle and the New York City Gay Men's Chorus


·      "You've Got to be Carefully Taught"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "South Pacific")
Sung by Mandy Patinkin


·      "If I Loved You"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "Carousel")
Sung by Sally Murphy and Michael Hayden


·      "Soliloquy"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
(from "Carousel")
Sung by James Barbour