25 Best MOVIE Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly- Page 2
25 Best MOVIE Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#25re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:17pmWizard of Oz is so iconic, i think it should be on a list by itself. Agree totally with West Side Story being #2. Sound of Music is #3
#26re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:40pmThese are Movie-Musicals, not Musicals.
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#27re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:42pmI wouldn't trust a magazine that has only recently started including Broadway in their issues as a touch stone of this subject.
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JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#28re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:53pm
=sigh=
Little Shop and Hedwig will forever go unnoticed. 
#29re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:56pm
EW needs to hire me. Seriously. That list was ridiculous.
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
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ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#30re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:01pmThe fact that South Park:B,L&U made the list makes me smile... I love that movie!
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bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#31re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:04pmWhy no Guys and Dolls or Kiss Me, Kate?
#32re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:39pm
Another vote down for Seven Brides and Seven Brothers. It's alright but I rather see Evita. A few I haven't seen. I agree with LSOH, it is just so catchy. I enjoy Singin in the Rain but did that deserve to be so far up the list? I consider the source though.
Can't believe I didn't see the King and I? Did I go through the list too fast? South Park? Humm...funny but best Musical? Even Movie Musical? Makes me wonder.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#33re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:48pm
What is this list? Movie musicals, musicals, hybrid?
South Park? Please.
The fact that "Once" is there in place of all the other possible best musicals makes me gag
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
Updated On: 12/10/07 at 09:48 PM
#34re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 10:10pmThey really needed to add My Fair Lady and Oliver. Both are terrific films, and took home the Oscar for Best Picture. But Once? I didn't think it was that great of a film. My Fair Lady was 100 times better as was Oliver.
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joniray
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/04
#35re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 10:39pmThe only thing that surprises me more than not seeing Fiddler and All that Jazz on the list is the apparent lack of love for them in this thread.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#36re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 10:44pm
Fiddler is one of my favorite musicals. Frankly I'm just so stunned by this that I didn't even start thinking about the myriad of musicals that should be on this list.
I forgot about Oliver! I love that movie
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#37re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 10:49pm
I can't believe THE KING & I didn't make it but HAIRSPRAY and SEVEN WIVES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS did. That's pretty absurd.
MOULIN ROUGE, DREAMGIRLS (yes, it had awkward musical moments but when it was unabashedly musical, it was mind-blowing), THE KING & I, and HEDWIG all needed to be there.
CHICAGO and THE SOUND OF MUSIC should have made the top 5, or at least the top 10.
I can't wait to see SWEENEY, NINE, and MAMMA MIA! and rate them among these other great musicals.
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#38re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 10:57pm
well my top 5 are in the list (Cabaret, Wizard of Oz, On the Town, Singin in the Rain, An American in Paris) but "South Park" - seriously?
what about "All That Jazz" and "Grease 2" or "Xanadu"?
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#39re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:05pmWhat happend to little shop of horrors?
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#40re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:16pmI actually love Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. I was happy to see it on the list.
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#41re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:17pmand "rocky horror" and "nightmare before christmas" are absent
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#42re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:25pm
People get so touchy when their shows are not recognized.
Don't worry, I was about to go, "What!? This as an outrage! How could they omit -- " and then I saw it. All good.
But really... no modern musical should make this list.
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Updated On: 12/10/07 at 11:25 PM
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#43re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:27pmHello?????????? Where's Fiddler? How can Beauty and the Beast and South Park even be considered? They are cartoons!!!!
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#44re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:32pm
"But really... no modern musical should make this list."
Oh please...
(and funny that you say that, but list the Hairspray site as your blog...)
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#45re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:32pmFYI re: South Park -- no less an authority on musical theatre than Stephen Sondheim himself called South Park the best original musical (stage, film or otherwise) to come along in a decade and he even wrote a fan letter to the creators of it (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) to sing their praises.
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BruceWayne5148
Stand-by Joined: 7/10/06
#46re: 25 Best Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:33pmOh geeze I just stopped reading after I saw Southpark was ahead of Meet Me in St. Louis. Those don't even deserve to be anywhere in the same ballpark.
#47re: 25 Best MOVIE Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:36pm
Plus, South Park could boast the genius of Marc Shaiman.
(And I changed the title to placate anyone confused...)
Updated On: 12/10/07 at 11:36 PM
#48re: 25 Best MOVIE Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:41pm
I would add All That Jazz and FAME to the list..
and I might be in the minority - but Li'L Abner too
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#49re: 25 Best MOVIE Musicals-- per Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 12/10/07 at 11:43pm
"How can Beauty and the Beast and South Park even be considered? They are cartoons!!!!"
Are you being serious?
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