Best Movie Musicals

[observer]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 10:45pm

I'm sure this has been discussed, but...

What musicals do you think are better in the movie version than on stage?
Chicago and Sound of Music top my list.

[NoDayButToday2]

Posted: 9/24/04 at 10:49pm

Yes this has been discussed before, but I'll answer anyway...

I love Sound of Music but Chicago is great too. Little Shop is up there too.

[Barbra Streisand]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 12:21am

FUNNY GIRL

I LOVE BARBRA STREISAND!

[pab]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 12:23am

"Hair" is an underrated but very good movie musical.

[observer]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 12:44am

What about the original Wizard of Oz? Not sure I have seen it done on stage, though I know there is a version out there... The movie would seem tough to top on stage, though it is very close to a stage performance on film...

Is Oz not done/revived because the 1939 movie is such a definitive performance that no one would be satisfied with anything short of an exact replica? Or have the spinoffs smothered the original? Or are there legal/other reasons for its general absence?

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 12:59am

General abscence?
I've played Dorothy three times.....it's definately not absent up here!

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 1:31am

i've never seen the play version, but i love camelot. richard harris and vanessa redgrave are really good (i know, richard whispers most of his lines but so what). i also like south pacific (which again, i haven't seen the play) and west side story. and chicago.

[lvpblues]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 3:33am

The Sound of Music (God that stage libretto is syrupy)

Singin' in the Rain
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (for those musicals that came after their film version)

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 3:42am

WEST SIDE STORY Winner of no less than 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture!

CABARET
HAIR
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (yeah, yeah..so they changed the ending..get over it)
GYPSY (Yes, I'm talking about the 1962 Natalie Wood version)
MY FAIR LADY
GREASE
SWEET CHARITY
CHICAGO
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
BYE BYE BIRDIE (Okay, okay so they changed it around abit and made Ann-Margret the focal point...they had to, who wants to put up with Janet Leigh in a bad brunette wig, and besides Ann-Margret rocks!)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 4:24am

The ones that have captured my heart:

The Wizard of Oz
A Star is Born (Garland/Mason)
The King and I
Kiss Me Kate
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
The Music Man
Fiddler on the Roof
Cabaret
The Rose
All That Jazz
Yentle
Chicago
Moulin Rouge

And in a seperate category, Disney's:
Cindarella
Sleeping Beauty
The Jungle Book
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King

[Sant]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 6:22am

The King And I and Chicago

[BwayLover]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 6:34am

If we're talking stage-to-screen..

The King and I
Funny Girl
The Sound Of Music
Hair
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Grease
Little Shop Of Horros

If we're talking general best musicals...

YENTL

And if we're talking filmed-on-stage...

PASSION.

Updated On: 9/25/04 at 06:34 AM

[Jon]

Posted: 9/25/04 at 8:37am

The Wizard of Oz movie came before the stage version.

Wait - let me clarify: There was a stage version in the early 1920's, but it was totally different - developed for the vaudeville comedy team of Montgomery and Stone as the scarecrow and tinman. Oc course, it didn't have any of the songs we know and love. It was later made into a silent movie.