Frank Carlson Library

Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.

Two unemployed muscians accidently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.

Starring the original Broadway cast, this is the musical adaptation of the novel 'The Year The Yankees Won The Pennant'. A Washington Senators fan sells his soul to the devil to become a great baseball player and to help his favorite team win the pennant.

Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into organizing a boy's band so he can sell them nonexistent bank instruments, then tries to skip town before his chicanery is unmasked by the suspicious and lovely town librarian.

Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams....

Musical about St. Louis in 1903. Just before the opening of the St. Louis World's Fair, the entire Smith family is crushed to learn that Father has accepted a transfer to New York City. The five children do not want to leave their friends, or, most of all, miss the fair.

Suddenly thrust into the bright lights and big stages of Nashville country music stardom, small-town Kentucky girl Bobbie Thomas loses not just her way but her angelic gift of song.

As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...