DVD for The Osmonds 50th Anniversary World Tour?
- 06.04.08
- The Osmonds, Pay Per View, wembley arena
I have recently seen lots of Osmond fans asking the above question both here and on the various Osmond Websites.
The answer at the moment, from The Osmonds PA’s is that NO there will not be a DVD for sale later for any of the concerts in the 50th Anniversary World Tour. However, you have a couple of alternatives..
First of all you can buy “The Osmonds 50th Anniversary Reunited Live in Las Vegas” DVD - I bought that when it came out and watched it before going to the Cardiff concert on the 28th May. I highly recommend it and my particular favorite part of this DVD is when all The Osmonds, including their two older brothers Tom and Virl (who are deaf) go on stage with them in the line-up and whilst their brothers (and sister) are singing, Tom and Virl at opposite ends of the line-up sign the words to the song, that is lovely and I have to admit bought a tear to my eye because as we all know, the whole reason we even got The Osmonds was because they started to perform to raise money for hearing aids and so their brothers could go on their Mormon Missions.
Available now and possibly for a limited time, certainly via membership of donny.com you can buy, for $9.95 a “Pay Per View” of a live recording of the Wembley Arena concert, taped on Friday 30th May.
Go onto the store at donny.com and purchase your Pay Per View, then when you want to watch it, simply click on VIEW in your member area, please be aware though that once you click VIEW you then have 4 hours only to watch it, so make sure you have allotted a couple of hours where you know you will not be interrupted. This recording was made by Jeremy Hall, official photographer for the UK part of the World Tour. During filming for the Pay Per View, Jeremy even went on stage with The Osmonds.
Jeremy will be producing a photographic book (with blog style commentary) after the Tour finishes, no estimated date for completion yet. He has been giving sneak peeks of his work on his site Osmondmania.com. If you want to get a copy of that then also on donny.com a pre-sale for the book started this week. Doing a pre-sale means they get a good idea of how many print runs to do of the book later and of course it means you won’t miss out on this fantastic book which I know is going to provide so many wonderful memories of a great tour.
If you know you would like both the Pay Per View (PPV) and the book and you like a bargain, then you can buy from the store a special deal of the book and PPV with about $5 off the PPV.
I have not had the chance yet to watch the PPV so I am sorry, I can’t give any recommendations on that score.
6 Responses to “DVD for The Osmonds 50th Anniversary World Tour?”
Hi Sue
I know you were at the same M&G as me on 28th May in Cardiff. Did you manage to record the Q&A section?
If you haven’t would you be able to put a post on your website asking for me please?
The reason I’m after a recording of this is because Jayne (my sister) doesn’t believe that Donny read out my question. lol
Thanks
Dave
Hi Dave,
No I didn’t record any of the QA, to be honest, didn’t even think of it, I am pretty sure nobody else did either and I am afraid it is not something I can ask on my website as that could be against some copyright law that I may not be aware of.
HOWEVER…..,
Please do tell your sister Jayne that I can confirm that Donny did read out your question because I remember it and as you said, I was there, so I would know
Thanks
Sue
Hi, I went to the Birminghm concert with a friend and my 13 year old son. My son was enthralled by the whole experince of his first ever concert and keeps asking when the DVD wlll be available? I will now have to tell him that it is unlikly that he will get one. We have the Las Vegas DVD but it not a patch (to my son) on the concert he went to. Has the Osmond’s P.A. explained why there will not be a DVD? I have sent many emails to the Omond and Donny’s sites but never get a reply. This is the sort of thing that big companies do when they have a total lack of respect for their supposed customers (perhaps I am getting more cynical as I get older!). I still love them though but I think my son is disillusioned by all this. Thank you for a great site.
Hi Deborah and thanks for your comments, it is nice to hear that your son enjoyed the concert.
All I can say abotu whether there will be a DVD or not is that, having been a member of http://www.donny.com for a long time, whenever he tours and there is going to be a DVD made then the arrangements for that are made well before the tour actually starts.
Many fans asked on Donny’s website if there would be a DVD made for the Osmonds Tour and the answer was always that there would not be one, this time around the organisers decided to go with the Pay Per View showing of one of the Wembley concerts.
I do feel it is an oversight of the tour organisers not to do one (it is not always just up to the performers themselves if a DVD is made). I can only conclude that because they were not taking the tour round the US that the DVD was made for the actual 50th Anniversary which happened in Vegas and we got the tour.
I know that is not helpful in your case but have you tried to see if you can still purchse the payperview from Donny.com?
Thanks again
Sue
If we aren’t going to get a DVD, why was there a film crew all over the place at the O2 Arena?
Thanks
Helen
Hi Helen
There were camera crew at all venues, they are the guys filming to get the images onto the big screens at either side of the stage. Also, at 02 the concert was filmed for the pay per view.
Thanks
Sue
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