Post Your Top 10 Musicals

[lovejuice]

trying to do this just from the top of my head.

Stormy Weather - for nicholas brothers
Sweet Charity - for fosse
The Saddest Music in the World - for maddin and medeiros
Moulin Rouge! - for how it revive the genre
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - for the origin of love
Broadway Melody of the 1940s - for astaire
My Fair Lady - for hepburn
Beauty and the Beast - for ashman, the god of lyricist
Singing in the Rain - for kelly
The Company - for Altman (although it's more dance movie than musical)

i have yet included the more "contemporary" one in consideration.

[Spinal]

Moulin Rouge! - for how it reinvented the genre

How did it do that?

[Sycophant]

Singin' in the Rain
The Band Wagon
Memories of Matsuko
Meet Me in St. Louis
Happiness of the Katakuris
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Moulin Rouge!
The Wizard of Oz
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mary Poppins

EDIT: Um... forgot Katakuris.

[lovejuice]

How did it do that?

"reinvent" is a wrong word. i'm thinking more like "revive."

[Spinal]

1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Marat/Sade
4. All That Jazz
5. The Wizard of Oz
6. The Brave Little Toaster
7. The Lorax
8. What's Opera, Doc?
9. Happy Feet
10. Little Shop of Horrors

[lovejuice]

1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Marat/Sade
4. All That Jazz
5. The Wizard of Oz
6. The Brave Little Toaster
7. The Lorax
8. What's Opera, Doc?
9. Happy Feet
10. Little Shop of Horrors

what're number 3 and 7?

these are nice selections and recommendations. i'm pleasantly surprise to see Happy Feet.

[Sycophant]

"reinvent" is a wrong word. i'm thinking more like "revive."
Did it really? It didn't exactly mark a resurgence of the musical as a genre (I think that if there are more than there were, it's only a marginal increase). I love the film and think its marriage of old and new is refreshing and certainly could have provided a launching pad for a new era of modern musical experimentation, but sadly, it didn't.

[Sycophant]

1. Dancer in the Dark
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Marat/Sade
4. All That Jazz
5. The Wizard of Oz
6. The Brave Little Toaster
7. The Lorax
8. What's Opera, Doc?
9. Happy Feet
10. Little Shop of Horrors
The presence of numbers 6 and 7 here are making me very happy.

The Lorax, lovejuice, is a thirty-minute-long 1972 made-for-TV animated adaptation of an environmentally-minded Dr. Seuss story. It's amazing.

[lovejuice]

Did it really? It didn't exactly mark a resurgence of the musical as a genre (I think that if there are more than there were, it's only a marginal increase). I love the film and think its marriage of old and new is refreshing and certainly could have provided a launching pad for a new era of modern musical experimentation, but sadly, it didn't.

i tend to think of the 80s and 90s as the musical grave. if anything, moulin rouge! raises public awareness; it does to musicals what bono and michael clayton...i mean, george clooney do to darfur.

and i agree that in a way, a comparison to scream might be appropriate since for every good musical released after MR, there are ten more craps.

i'm still thankful.

[Spinal]

what're number 3 and 7?

these are nice selections and recommendations. i'm pleasantly surprise to see Happy Feet.

Written for my top 100:

An ingenious concoction based on the historical truth that the Marquis de Sade, while imprisoned at Charenton Asylum late in his life, staged plays using other inmates as performers, Marat/Sade is a dangerous and electric film adapted from the original stage play by Peter Weiss. Weiss proposes the idea that a very likely subject for de Sade may have been the French revolutionary, Jean Paul Marat, who played a pivotal role in launching the so-called Reign of Terror and was murdered by 25-year old Charlotte Corday, a sympathizer to the monarchy. After an introduction by the director of the asylum -- who seems to take pride in the humane rehabilitation techniques on display – the highly combustible cast composed of insane actors performs de Sade’s politically charged analysis of revolutionary fervor. Often the play is interrupted when one of the performers becomes excessively agitated or violent. While this gives the drama a feeling of bubbling anarchy waiting to erupt, the outbursts also occur at moments that wittily comment on the ideas or characters within de Sade’s play. Director Peter Brook begins the film with cast iron bars separating the actors from the camera, but also takes advantage of the freedom of film to plunge the viewer in the midst of the unsettling performance as actors maneuver unpredictably around the minimalist stage and often bellow political rallying cries that mirror their own feeling of imprisonment. Although one character ironically assures the audience that such class warfare and bloodshed are relics of the past, Marat/Sade is just as relevant and inflammatory today as it was during the Vietnam era when it was released. It is a special film to me not just as an ultra-compelling document of the possibilities of metaphorical drama, but also for its poetic expression of unbridled political rage.

[lovejuice]

The presence of numbers 6 and 7 here are making me very happy.

The Lorax, lovejuice, is a thirty-minute-long 1972 made-for-TV animated adaptation of an environmentally-minded Dr. Seuss story. It's amazing.

just watch part 1 on youtube. amazing indeed.

[Ivan Drago]

The top 5 are definite, the rest are in no order:

1. Fiddler On The Roof
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
4. Man of La Mancha
5. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
What's Opera, Doc?
The Lion King
Singin' In The Rain
Beauty and the Beast
Sweeney Todd

[Russ]

To mix things up a bit, my top "left field" musicals:

1. Forbidden Zone
2. Shock Treatment
3. Happiness of the Katakuris
4. The Saddest Music in the World
5. Rocky Horror Picture Show
6. True Stories
7. Princess Raccoon
8. The American Astronaut
9. The Terror of Tiny Town
10. Cannibal: The Musical


Anyone here seen Hellzapoppin'? I'm kinda itchin' to see it...

[Spinal]

1. Forbidden Zone

I generally consider you to have extraordinary taste, but this was honestly one of the worst films I think I've ever seen.

[Russ]

I generally consider you to have extraordinary taste, but this was honestly one of the worst films I think I've ever seen.

1. The ABC song.
2. Susan Tyrell + Viva = catfight.
3. The delightful Marie-Pasqual Elfman IS "Frenchy" ooh-la-la
4. Human chandelier
5. Frog servants

Need I go on? A great, great, (great) underground classic.

My work is done. :cool:

[Spinal]

I did kind of like the frog servants.

[Gizmo]

10. Evita
9. The Lion King
8. Singin' in the Rain
7. Sweeney Todd
6. All That Jazz
5. Cabaret
4. Les Triplettes de Belleville
3. The Little Mermaid
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
1. Chicago

[number8]

I wonder... do Disney movies count?

Because... Goofy Movie is easily #1.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Young Girls of Rochefort (hence the avatar)
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Golddiggers of 1933
4. Pennies From Heaven (love the Hollywood version)
5. Rebelove
6. -reserved for Repo: The Genetic Opera-
7. Top Hat
8. Forbidden Zone
9. Dancer in the Dark
10. The Singing Detective (Again, I have a guilty apprection for the Hollywood one)

[Spinal]

6. -reserved for Repo: The Genetic Opera-


:lol:

Awesome.

[Rowland]

Not a single mention for Phantom of the Paradise or even Lagaan?

I don't think I can even make a list.

[Yxklyx]

Written for my top 100:

Marat/Sade

I just couldn't stand this one - at all.

[Spinal]

I just couldn't stand this one - at all.

May I recommend Forbidden Zone?

[Yxklyx]

1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Gold Diggers of 1933
4. Yellow Submarine
5. Phantom of the Paradise
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. Black Orpheus
8. Fantasia
9. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
10. West Side Story

I don't consider The Saddest Music in the World a musical but if I did it would be #6.

[Yxklyx]

May I recommend Forbidden Zone?

No, you may not!

[Yxklyx]

Stop Making Sense is excellent as well but that's more a live concert than musical.

[lovejuice]

2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Phantom of the Paradise
8. Fantasia


i feel really bad unable to include these three. although i don't consider fantasia a musical, per se.

glad many people like sweeney todd. i feel funny including a film that i just watch once in the top ten. but it actually has potential.

[origami_mustache]

barely seen 10

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. O Lucky Man!
3. Singin' In The Rain
4. Footlight Parade
5. Pennies From Heaven
6. Yankee Doodle Dandy
7. Meet Me in St. Louis
8. The American Astronaut
9. The Lion King
10. Team America: World Police

[monolith94]

Gold Diggers of 1933
Summerstock
Singing In The Rain
Pennies From Heaven
Yellow Submarine
Les Desmoiselles De Rochefort
Doctor Dolittle
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Chicago
Shock Treatment
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Happiness of the Katakuris
The Saddest Music in the World
Cabaret
Fiddler On The Roof

just a list of musicals I'd probably consider great. There are others of course. Is All That Jazz really a musical? Sure, throw it in too. Not really a fan of the Astaire/Rogers musicals - I find their plots way too banal.

[baby doll]

1. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
2. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
3. Red Psalm (Miklos Jancso, 1972)
4. Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978)
5. Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955)
6. Hairspray (Adam Shankman, 2007)
7. Pas sur la bouche (Alain Resnais, 2003)
8. The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli, 1948)
9. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970)
10. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
bubblin' under...
11. Popeye (Robert Altman, 1980)

[lovejuice]

4. Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978)
10. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)


is number 4 really a musical? i always like rohmer's films.

and i just can't get into number 10 at all.

[baby doll]

is number 4 really a musical? i always like rohmer's films.

and i just can't get into number 10 at all.It's not a conventional musical by any standard, though it does have a singing chorus, onscreen musicians and often the dialogue is sung.

As for Topsy-Turvy, it's been a few years since I've seen it, but I loved the period ambience, the music and, typical for Leigh, the performances are wonderful across the board.