Movies about Theatre

[DMsquared2]

Movies about Theatre#1

Posted: 7/25/09 at 1:54pm

Let's put together a list of movies which focus on theatre.

42nd Street
All About Eve
Camp
Deathtrap
Hamlet 2
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Illuminata
Life After Tomorrow
Moliere
Moon Over Buffalo
Noises Off
The Producers (1968/2005)
Shakespeare in Love
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Stage Beauty
Stage Door (1937)
Stagedoor (2006 Documentary)
Stage Fright
Waiting for Guffman

[justagirl2]

re: Movies about Theatre#2

Posted: 7/25/09 at 2:02pm

An Awfully Big Adventure! Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant blew my mind in that movie. A truly bizarre film.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Movies about Theatre#2

Posted: 7/25/09 at 2:11pm

THe Phantom of the Opera.

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[DMsquared2]

re: Movies about Theatre#3

Posted: 7/25/09 at 2:20pm

Phantom is about opera but thanks for the suggestion.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Movies about Theatre#4

Posted: 7/25/09 at 2:29pm

Is Opera not theatre? (Sorry if I sound retarded)

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[StageManager2]

re: Movies about Theatre#5

Posted: 7/25/09 at 2:47pm

CRADLE WILL ROCK

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[Gothampc]

re: Movies about Theatre#6

Posted: 7/25/09 at 2:51pm

Bullets Over Broadway

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[StageManager2]

re: Movies about Theatre#7

Posted: 7/25/09 at 2:57pm

MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[TimesSquareRegular]

re: Movies about Theatre#8

Posted: 7/25/09 at 4:36pm

THE TALL GUY - Jeff Goldblum as an American actor in London appearing as a stooge for Rowan Atkinson in a West End show. Romance supplied by Emma Thompson. It gets even better - our hero gets cast in the title role of an RSC musical (think Les Miz, etc.) based on THE ELEPHANT MAN - and we get to see a few of the musical numbers from ELEPHANT!

2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)

[LaurenB]

re: Movies about Theatre#9

Posted: 7/25/09 at 4:53pm

The Leading Man - with Jon Bon Jovi and a great British cast

(The Tall Guy was a hoot!)

[Q]

re: Movies about Theatre#10

Posted: 7/25/09 at 4:57pm

WHO AM I THIS TIME?

An episode of American Playhouse from 1982, based on a story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon.

[best12bars]

re: Movies about Theatre#11

Posted: 7/25/09 at 6:03pm

The Goodbye Girl
A Double Life

EDIT: Both featuring Oscar-winning actors (Richard Dreyfuss and Ronald Colman) playing stage actors.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 7/25/09 at 06:03 PM

[StageManager2]

re: Movies about Theatre#12

Posted: 7/25/09 at 6:12pm

BEING JULIA (The Somerset Maugham novel it's based on is even titled THEATRE)

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[spiderdj82]

re: Movies about Theatre#13

Posted: 7/25/09 at 6:50pm

FAME

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[Q]

re: Movies about Theatre#14

Posted: 7/25/09 at 6:56pm

So, is everyone consciously avoiding mentioning A CHORUS LINE?

[Reginald Tresilian]

re: Movies about Theatre#15

Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:15pm

A Midwinter's Tale

[Jon]

re: Movies about Theatre#16

Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:26pm

Topsy Turvy
Finding Neverland

[Q]

re: Movies about Theatre#17

Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:26pm

ALL THAT JAZZ.

[spiderdj82]

re: Movies about Theatre#18

Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:28pm

kiss me, kate

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[iflitifloat]

re: Movies about Theatre#19

Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:30pm

On Broadway

Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10

[Dollypop]

re: Movies about Theatre#20

Posted: 7/25/09 at 7:59pm

There's No Business Like Show Business

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[madbrian]

re: Movies about Theatre#21

Posted: 7/25/09 at 9:52pm

Summer Stock

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[best12bars]

re: Movies about Theatre#22

Posted: 7/26/09 at 10:24am

Babes in Arms
Babes on Broadway

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 7/26/09 at 10:24 AM

[SueleenGay]

re: Movies about Theatre#23

Posted: 7/26/09 at 10:52am

The Dresser
Prick Up Your Ears
To Be Or Not To Be

PEACE.

Updated On: 7/26/09 at 10:52 AM

[SueleenGay]

re: Movies about Theatre#24

Posted: 7/26/09 at 11:15am

Rushmore
Quills
Children of Paradise
The Actress
Valley of the Dolls

PEACE.