Product Details

• Actors: The Osmonds
• Directors: Not available
• Format: DVD, Enhanced, Live, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Denon Records
• DVD Release Date: April 1, 2008
• Run Time: 61 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0013FYT9O
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,475 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
A whole generation of Americans grew up with the Osmond family, an exceptionally musical family of six brothers and one sister that has enjoyed success in the music industry for over 50 years. In this live reunion concert, dubbed "a celebration of looking back," Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie, and Jimmy Osmond perform some of their most popular hits onstage at The Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas. The siblings sing in varying performing configurations including the five original Osmond Brothers, the seven Osmonds, and the duo Donny and Marie. Hits like "One Bad Apple," "Puppy Love," "Paper Roses," and the rock sensation "Crazy Horses" are delivered with feeling and are enthusiastically received by the multi-age audience. The Osmonds have matured over 50 years and their passion for music, innate musicality, rich harmonies, and devotion to one another as siblings are as strong as ever. Interspersed throughout the concert performance is interview footage with Andy Williams and all of the individual Osmonds as well as clips from various historical Osmond performances and interviews. The interviews touch upon everything from the Osmond children's start on The Andy Williams Show in the early 1960's to Donny's and Marie's roles as hosts of Donny and Marie from 1976-1979, the Osmond clan's involvement in virtually every aspect of the music business over the years, and the frenzied "Osmondmania" that swept through America and England in the 1970's. The extra "Thank God for Kids" track by Marie Osmond is especially moving and features a rare appearance by the eldest Osmond brothers Virl and Tom. --Tami Horiuchi

Product Description
As Seen on Public Television! The Osmonds celebrated their 50th anniversary with a sold-out reunion show in 2007 in Las Vegas. This landmark concert featured all seven performing Osmonds: Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie and Jimmy.

THE OSMONDS LIVE IN LAS VEGAS 50TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION CONCERT features the Osmonds performing 22 of their chart-topping hits including "One Bad Apple," "Puppy Love," "Paper Roses," "Love Me For A Reason," "Crazy Horses," "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and a Donny and Marie medley with seven of their greatest hits. Includes a special Bonus Track, "Thank God For Kids."

THE OSMONDS LIVE IN LAS VEGAS 50TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION CONCERT is also available on cd from Denon Records.

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fabulous Osmonds!, May 28, 2008

By	Roni (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Osmonds Live in Las Vegas 50th Anniversary 2 DVD Collector's Edition (DVD)

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I purchased The Osmonds Live in Las Vegas 50th Anniversary 2 DVD collector's edition and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

It certainly brought back a lot of memories for me when I was just a young kid listening to the Osmonds many albums or watching the Donny and Marie shows.

It was delightful to see all the siblings performing on one stage. I have purchased many of the Osmonds' concerts on DVD but I never had the pleasure of seeing them all performing together , not even when they came to Singapore for a concert in 1980. That year Merrill suffered a heart attack and couldn't join his siblings for the tour.

The Osmonds are coming to Singapore again this year for their 50th reunion and I am going to see them again and this time Merrill is coming too!!! YUPPEE!!! Okay. I know I am getting too excited but how can I not?!!

This is a must get_must see-must keep DVD. In fact, my sister who is also an Osmond fan saw this DVD and loved it so much and I, in keeping with that sentiment felt she just had to keep the DVD, so I gave that to her and I am purchasing another one for myself.

So...I am recommending that for a recurring fun filled adventure of family fun, music, warmth, and love, get this DVD, no regrets!!!!

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not released yet, February 29, 2008

By	Monica Wesolowski "MonicaW" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The person who reviewed this DVD is, I think, confusing it with the DVD that the Osmond fan club released of the reunion. That DVD is primarily about the fan reunion and the "Meet & Greet" and only shows bits of songs. This DVD that will be released in April is the concert (and is different than the DVD that PBS will be offering in conjunction with broadcasting the concert during pledge week). I saw portions of this new concert video this past weekend (at an Osmond gathering in Las Vegas) and it is, in fact, full songs and is very, very well done, which is why I'm giving it 5 stars. I look forward to seeing the entire DVD!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect, but still very worthwhile..., April 3, 2008

By	Jean T. Gilliland "Jatg" (Owensboro, KY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Osmonds Live in Las Vegas 50th Anniversary 2 DVD Collector's Edition (DVD)

For the sheer, simple pleasure of watching the seven performing members of the Osmond family reunite on stage for the first time in over 25 years, this dvd set is worth owning. The real on-stage reunion is between Donny and the original quartet of Alan, Wayne, Merrill, and Jay, the five of whom have not performed together as The Osmond Brothers since the early '80s (although various combinations of the brothers, including youngest brother Jimmy, continued performing together throughout the '80s, '90s, and 2000's). The seven siblings, including sister Marie, appear to be truly having a party, despite the ocassional misstep or flubbed lyric. It is especially gratifying to see Alan back on stage, sometimes playing piano, sometimes singing out fron with his family (for health-related reasons, he retired from perfoming ten years ago). Vocally, the siblings are in top form, their voices having gained texture and richness with maturity since their '70s heyday--individually, each voice is distinctive and pure, but as with most family groups, it is their multi-part harmonizing which really catches the ear. Their signature concert closers, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and the spine-tingling, gospel-tinged "Are You Up There/I Believe" (on Disc 2), in which they are joined on-stage by hearing-impaired oldest brothers, Virl and Tom (who perfom their parts by signing the lyrics), are particularly moving.

Disc 1 features the special which aired on PBS, plus interviews inserted between songs that lend historical perspective and serve as introductions to songs that immediately follow. The brothers' recollections of "Osmondmania", and the accompanying archival footage, might be startling to viewers who either don't remember or were simply unaware of the massive impact this family had on pop culture in the '70s. Interviews with longtime friend and mentor Andy Williams are included, along with snippets from The Andy Williams Show, on which the Brothers appeared regularly throughout the '60s. Many of the family's biggest hits are performed, at least in part, most memorably the full-bodied, warmly delivered "Love Me for a Reason", and the energetic, almost cultish favorite, "Crazy Horses".

On Disc 2, bonus performances are added in piecemeal fashion, including several hits from the original quartet's and Marie's quite successful forays into country music during the '80s. And lest we forget that heartthrob Donny is a well-established entertainer in his own right, Disc 2 includes attention-grabbing solo performances of "Breeze on By" and "Will It Go Round in Circles".

It is true that these performances are edited and arranged out-of-sequence, so the feel of a full concert is missing (for that I highly recommend the Brothers 2006 Live in London concert dvd). I would've liked fuller treatment of a few songs, as well as anything that would've highlighted the brothers' skills as musicians, but overall, this 2-disc set presents a fairly comprehensive overview of the family's 50-year career. The warmth which exists between the Osmonds and their enthusiastic, loyal audience is palpable--that their fans know every lyric and dance move says a lot about the endurance of this family's music and popularity.

The packaging is bare bones (the menu on the back cover does not even mention the interviews, and there is no insert). I don't have a fine enough ear to detect any major shortcomings in sound quality, and whatever there are didn't detract from my enjoyment of the program.