Top 50 Musicals! FYC Closed! Final List Goes Up CATS OW!

[Avatree]

12 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Not one but two Chazelle joints in the top 50 I'm into this.

Wait, what? Why would First Man qualify as a musical?

[baumer]

We're going to move this to the Speakeasy until October (probably first week).

 

Reason being, the staff has decided to do a 1994 best of thread.  This will be fast.  Two weeks to get your list in and one week for me and @grim22 to put it all together.  

[Cap]

22 hours ago, The Panda said:

Whiplash and Amadeus qualifying changes things since musical wasn’t defined necessarily by singing

The first two elements of the definition on the first page do empathize the singing and/or dancing.

 

Amadeus is pushing the limits, but we did say OK to musician bio pics and that's a musician bio pic.  It also features staged scenes of Mozarts' Operas -- that have singing and dancing in them.  

 

Whiplash is really pushing the limits.  

[Cap]

TCM October Schedule.

These are when the movies air, and then they are normally available on TCM.com for another 5 days.

 

Currently Until October 5 on TCM.com:

Ever Knew Her Apples (1945), Good News (1947), Luxury Liner (1948), Rose Marie (1936), West Side Story (1961), Zou Zou (1934)

 

Upcoming:

 

October 3: The French Line (1954)

 

October 4: Jupiter's Darling (1954), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), The Harvey Girls (1946)

 

October 6: Shall We Dance (1937)

 

October 7: Kiss Me Kate (1953)

 

October 12: West Side Story (1961), Tom Thumb (1958), Pennies from Heaven (1981)

 

October 13: Footlight Parade (1933)

 

October 15: Anne (1982), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

 

October 20: Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)

 

October 21: A Song to Remember (1945)

 

October 22: Lady Sings The Blue (1972), Lovely To Look At (1952)

 

October 23: Beat The Band (1947), Boy! What A Girl (1947), Time Out For Rhythm (1941), Little Miss Broadway (1938)

 

October 25: Kissin' Cousins (1964)

 

October 26: Cabin In The Sky (1943), The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

 

October 29: Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Victor/Victoria (1982)

[The Panda]

My list rn, going by a strict “No Disney except for Poppins” rule.

 

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Sound of Music
3. Singin’ in the Rain
4. A Star is Born (1954)
5. Amadeus
6. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. Fiddler on the Roof
9. Labyrinth
10. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
11. The Umbrellas of Cherboug
12. Whiplash
13. Cabaret
14. All That Jazz
15. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
16. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
17. La La Land
18. Once
19. The Muppet Movie
20. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
21. West Side Story
22. Swing Time
23. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
24. My Fair Lady
25. School of Rock
26. Mary Poppins
27. The Nightmare Before Christmas
28. Meet Me in St Louis
29. White Christmas
30. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
31. A Star is Born (2018)
32. The King and I
33. Rocketman
34. An American in Paris
35. Show Boat
36. 42nd Street
37. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
38. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
39. Straight Outta Compton
40. Tommy
41. Purple Rain
42. Guys and Dolls
43. A Hard Day’s Night
44. Funny Girl
45. The Music Man
46. Hairspray (1988)
47. Moulin Rouge
48. Paint Your Wagon
49. Little Shop of Horrors
50. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Edited October 12, 2019 by The Panda

[Cap]

Great list!!

 

4 minutes ago, The Panda said:

My list rn, going by a strict “No Disney except for Poppins” rule.

1. The Producers (1967)

 

Not eligible:

 

On 9/5/2019 at 5:40 PM, captainwondyful said:

 

The best way to think about it is this: Mel Brook's 1967 The Producers is not a Movie Musicals.  The 2005 movie, based on the Broadway Musical, based on the 1967 movie, IS.

 

 

[Melosh]

Nowhere more is a song in a musical felt coming from the desires of a characters soul then in ״part of your world” from The Little Mermad.

[Melosh]

The unsung hero of that sequence is glen keane.

Edited October 6, 2019 by Melosh

[TalismanRing]

1 hour ago, Melosh said:

Nowhere more is a song in a musical felt coming from the desires of a characters soul then in ״part of your world” from The Little Mermad.

Ashman/Mencken were masters of the "I want" song (also the creators of four of the best musicals of the last forty years)

 

Little Mermaid - Part Of Your World

Little Shop Of Horrors - Somewhere That's Green
Beauty & The Beast - Belle

 

[The Panda]

19 hours ago, Melosh said:

Nowhere more is a song in a musical felt coming from the desires of a characters soul then in ״part of your world” from The Little Mermad.

Ahem

 

 

 

[Melosh]

It’s a really powerful song in its own right, but for me with in the context of a narrative “part of your world” is so strong in expressing what the character wants to the point that with out the song the film is not strong anymore.

[Cap]

Based off the Weekend Thread, it seems like a bunch of users watched Judy this weekend.  (Yay!) I figured this is a good time to bring this article back out:

 

EW.com: 8 Essential Judy Garland Movies That Aren't The Wizard Of Oz

 

Their picks are:

 

For Me and My Gal

 

 

 

 

 

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Girl Crazy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

Meet Me in St. Louis

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

The Pirate

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

A Star Is Born (1954)

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

Summer Stock

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

They also include two of her non-musicals, The Clock and Judgment at Nuremberg.  So if you're looking for some good musicals or to dive deeper into her work, this is a pretty good start.

 

Even if they left of Easter Parade which is a personal favorite:

 

 

 

 

 

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[TalismanRing]

I like Easter Parade and love Astaire but I'd love Easter Parade if Gene Kelly hadn't broken his foot.  I'd put The Harvey Girls and In The Good Old Summertime above a couple on that list (still probably won't break my Top 50 though)

 

 

 

Speaking of not breaking the Top 50 -  I adore Deanna Durbin (own the box set) but even if she did save Universal from bankruptcy they didn't give her the best material - they just couldn't make a musical like MGM.  Maybe It Started With Eve.  I love her with Laughton.

 

 

 

 

[Cap]

20 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

like Easter Parade and love Astaire but I'd love Easter Parade if Gene Kelly hadn't broken his foot

This is how I feel about Guys and Dolls.

 

 

[Jake Gittes]

Broadway Melody of 1938 is underseen/underrated. One of the better movies with Garland though she's not in a lot of it. Presenting Lily Mars is also fun. 

[cdsacken]

Taking daughter to Frozen in February. 

[Nerfy]

FYC:

 

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUKcXxbU4U

 

Also, most of the musicals I have watched are Bollywood so I'll post some of my favorites in case anyone wants to watch them, and I'm hoping for suggestions of some others to watch, because I have not kept up with the more modern ones.

 

Om Shanti Om - Homage/Satire of musicals and Bollywood film industry

 

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Main Hoon Na - (action-comedy)

 

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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... - Family melodrama

 

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I haven't actually seen this one yet, but I'm going to have to watch it after seeing this musical number:

 

Bajirao Mastani - Historical epic

 

 

 

 

Edited October 7, 2019 by Nerfy

[Melosh]

The Prince of Egypt proves three things: it proves the power of animation, it proves the power of musicals, and it proves how Jeffrey Katzenberg can really push an animation crew to exciting  places.(despite most of the animation fandoms׳ disdain towards him).

[chasmmi]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Melosh]

“Let It Go” from Frozen is one of those rare musical moments where if you skip the scene, you truly miss out on plot and character depth.