Your top 5 movie musicals!

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Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:36pm

Mine:

1.The Producers
2.The Pajama Game
3.How to Succedd.....
4.Little Shop of Horrors
5.The Rocky Horror Picture Show

yours?

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:29pm

This has probably been posted before, but I'll play.

1. The Sound of Music
2. Evita
3. Damn Yankees
4. Moulin Rouge
5. The Producers

The only reason I put Moulin Rouge (which wasn't even a solid stage musical to begin with) is because I thought the Producers was awfully slow. And they took out King of Broadway. WHY?

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re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:30pm

They took out King of Broadway because Mel felt that all of that would be explained in the next scene where Max and Leo first meet! It's a shame they took it out but o well! It's on the deleted scenes!

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:31pm

The Producers? OH PLEASE.

1) Moulin Rouge!
2) Oliver!
3) Chicago
4) Mary Poppins
5) West Side Story

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:33pm

1) Newsies (Please go to Broadway soon!)
2) Bye Bye Birdie (It's only high now because I'm in the show :P)
3) West Side Story (Classic... c'mon!)
4) Annie (Cheno/Cummings version)
5) Chicago

Updated On: 7/9/06 at 02:33 PM

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:34pm

I forgot all about Mary Poppins! And The Producers was the best movie musical EVER! It stayed very true to the stage show!!! In fact....it really was the stage show! I LOVE it. Oh and uh....Nathan Lane?

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:37pm

Oh! And I change Rocky Horror Show and Pajama Game to Once Upon a Mattress (Trcy Ullman version) and Gypsy (Bette Midler version!)

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:43pm

the producers was terrible. and If ANYONE puts Rent on their list I will hunt them downa nd cut off their fingers so they can never post again because they clearly have no business posting if they think Rent anywhere near one of the best movie musicals.

with that said, the first four were easy choices, and the fifth was a fight.

1. Chicago (simply the best)
2. Newsies (christian bale has been amazing his whole life)
3. Evita (Madonna, a solid performance in a movie? Yes, it is possible)
4. Annie (how can you say no to Burnett/Curry/Peters, oh, and of course, little Aileen Quinn)
5. 8 Femme (8 Women, one house, a corpse in the bedroom, everyone has a secret, oh yeah, did i mention it's all in French?)

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:47pm

Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Cabaret
Evita
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:49pm

1.Chicago
2.Rent
3.My Fair Lady
4.West Side Story
5.Guys and Dolls

In no particular order.

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#11

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:49pm

Chicago
Rocky Horror
Evita
Moulin Rouge
Guys and Dolls (Frank Sinatra <3)

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"Interesting choice"

#12

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:50pm

1. On the Town
2. The Gay Divorcee
3. Top Hat
4. Guys and Dolls
5. My Sister Eileen

All completely different from their stage manifestations (though I guess Top Hat didn't have one), but great in their own right.
And I guess Moulin Rouge gets a special mention for being absolutely insane.

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#13

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:55pm

Mary Poppins (I've always loved that movie!)
Chicago
Evita
Annie
West Side Story

I did like The Producers and Rent, but I do believe there are better movies out there.

Oh crap! I forgot 1776! It should be in there somewhere.

Updated On: 7/9/06 at 02:55 PM

#14

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:55pm

1. 1776
2. Fiddler on the Roof
3. West Side Story
4. The Sound of Music
5. Chicago

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#15

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:02pm

1) CHICAGO- 2002 Oscar Award. 'nuff said.
2) THE PRODUCERS- Can't go wrong with Natahn & Matthew and staying true to the stage show
3) RENT- I liked Rosario and Tracie MUCH better than anyone else in the roles of Mimi and Joanne and Adam and Anthony... Simply wonderful. It is different than the stage show, yes, but it is still amazing. I wish it had done better at the box office.
4) MOULIN ROUGE
5) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA -Only this low because of Gerard Butler

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#16

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:06pm

In no particular order:
Singin' in the Rain
West Side Story
The Music Man
Chicago
My Fair Lady

The recent movies (Phantom, Rent and Producers) have been alright, but not great, if you ask me.

#17

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:07pm

the mind boggles

How can two movies, so badly done be loved by so many people?

Rent and The Producers were SH*T FILMS.

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#18

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:07pm

1) OKLAHOMA!
2) RENT (Come get me, ZONEACE)
3) CHICAGO
4) NEWSIES
5) SOUND OF MUSIC

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#19

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:08pm

In no particular order:

Chicago
RENT (Do NOT shoot me.)
Evita
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Honorable Mentions: Guys and Dolls, Cabaret

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Updated On: 7/9/06 at 03:08 PM

#20

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:15pm

Aargh, this is difficult. We should have done a top 10.

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. West Side Story
3. Cabaret
4. The Music Man (with Robert Preston)
5. The Sound of Music

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#21

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:33pm

It also depends how many movie musicals people have seen.

EponineAmneris, you listed the most recent 5 movie musicals...have you SEEN West Side Story?? The Sound of Music? The Music Man? Annie? Oliver!? Mary Poppins? Top Hat? The Wizard of Oz?????

#22

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 3:45pm

1. Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. Kiss Me Kate
3. Bells Are Ringing
4. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
5. The Wizard of Oz

"One day, is that enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." --Waiting for Godot

#23

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 4:18pm

I was shocked to scroll down this list and see only a few who list Singin' in the Rain, which is probably the BEST movie musical ever made. My five, in no order would be. . .

Singin' In the Rain
Sound of Music
West Side Story
Oliver
(and my current obsession) Reefer Madness

#24

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 4:20pm

LOL, yes CapnHook, I have seen them all

West Side Story. LOVED the music. The Sound of Music- Julie Andrews and the score, marvelous. The Music Man. Eh- The one with Matthew Broderick and KC was wonderful, but I get threats for saying that... Wizard of Oz is wonderful, yes... Annie was my first movie musical. Loved both versions as each has something to offer the other doesn't... Mary Poppins is fun and again Julie

Been a while since I have seen Oliver! ... I simply didn't realize we were able to consider those.

I enjoyed the five I listed very much

I like them all. I chose those five because- overall- they are my favorites. Maybe because of who is in them, the music, they are more "modern" - I don't know. I love them. And I love the other older ones. But this was to list 5. So I did

I can't win

I get ridiculed and threatened for liking the RENT movie- it is amazing and well done... And THE PRODUCERS- what is not to love if you love the stage show?!

I should just keep my mouth shut.

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

Updated On: 7/9/06 at 04:20 PM

#25

re: Your top 5 movie musicals!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 4:28pm

I *HAVE* to change my list...

1) Moulin Rouge!
2) Oliver!
3) Chicago
4) Mary Poppins
5) West Side Story *tied with* Funny Girl

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