Cases where the Film was better than the Musical.

- Sound of Music.
- Funny Girl
- Fiddler

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^ Including me. The Fiddler film was blah. Best way to describe it.

Yeah I know, I just think the film is superior. The film really got the grainy look that I have always envisioned fiddler to look like. Some scenes are really just perfection.

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Chicago

THe Producers... matthew broderick and nathan lane are no Gene Wilder and Zero Moztel

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Hairspray.

(I know I'm probably alone on this one).

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"Hello Dolly. I'm sorry but Carol Channing does nothing for me. "

Nate i agree. though i obviously didnt see it, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. no way Carol was as good as Marilyn;

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Rocky Horror

Cabaret.

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Catch Me if You Can

"Cabaret"

Ya know, I almost put that on my list but then I went on youtube to watch clips of the revival and realized I really just couldn't. I think the cabaret film is great but the musical is really just one of the best musicals of all time. On a side note: Can we really consider the cabaret film a "musical"?

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Funny Girl is a good musical but it's a terrific movie.

Chicago's screenplay is a vast improvement on the original libretto (notwithstanding that many of us justly lament the loss of "Class"); the resolution of the trial with Velma as a contrived witness cleverly completes the narrative, resonantly bonds the female leads and resolves both of their fates. What was sadly missing from the stage show in terms of an interesting denoument is remedied in a very entertaining way. It's also a great movie. And a kind of miracle, it's the most theatrical of musicals turned into a movie lover's movie.
It's still a great stage show, of course, especially in the right hands.

Cabaret on film and stage are probably too different, and for very good reasons, to fairly compare them.

If you are going to compare the stage show The Producers to the original film The Producers, why stop there? Nine and A Little Night Music might be very fine shows (not as good as The Producers IMHO) but they pale in comparison to 8 1/2 and Smiles of a Summer Night, which are movie masterpieces (almost everyone agrees that the movie adaptations of the musicals aren't very good, and in the case of A Little Night Music, horrendous). Not to mention all the bad musicals based on fair to great movies.

Annie