Film: Favorite Musical?

[Forbosis.]

What's your favorite musical?

Sweeney Todd is my winner.
Followed by Chicago.

 

[cletus]

As this is Film & Television, I will assume you mean Musicals that have been given the old movie treatment?

Personally, I go with Evita - Yes, even with Madonna in it. Probably her best role because she never actually spoke in it. Love the songs for some reason

Saw the new Hairspray with my daughter & was surprised by how much I liked it.

Also a fan of Moulin Rouge.

 

[Belisarius]

Man of La Mancha, hands-down.

"I am a little barber, and I go my merry wayyyy..."

 

[wanderlust]

south pacific

do shirley temple movies count? because i loved them with all the singing when i was little. it may change my answer to 'the little princess'

 

[Groovy guru]

Cabaret - but that's really a great film that just happens to be a musical. The scene with the young brown shirt singing in the cafe is one of the best in any film, eloquently explaining the rebirth of German nationalism better than any textbook ever could.

For a Broadway style musical, I'd probably go with South Pacific or the King and I (just for Yul Brynner..)

 

[masonyoung]

Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

[EA-1475]

Naughty, bawdy, gawdy, sporty, 42nd Street

 

[ladyinthesky]

Sweeney Todd
Rocky Horror Picture Show
or Phantom of the Opera

i love them all equally

 

[dshock]

I'll be a little cheesy here, but I usually don't like musicals, nay, I usually hate them.
But I loved

Rent and
Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

[EA-1475]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Wizard of Oz or Singing In The Rain.

 

[TALLY]

South Park, Bigger Longer and Uncut

 

[dshock]

^Oh man, almost forgot about that one.........classic

 

[EJ]

The Sound of Music, closely followed by Mary Poppins. Then there's a bit of a drop off to The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Grease. South Pacific is alright.

I have zero love for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (except for Timewarp) and Tommy. Just not my style at all, they'd be at the bottom of my list.

 

[NikkiNumberNine]

Sweeney Todd is great, and Chicago. I love Rocky Horror, and Little Shop Of Horrors. Willy Wonka, but the original, not the remake.
There's a super-cheesy Xmas musical with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye that I love, called White Christmas.

 

[EA-1475]

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a rock musical that wasn't crap. I saw the stage musical Tommy and thought it was great. But the movie is an abomination.
For songs, I'd go with 42nd Street. For choreography, Singing In The Rain. For story... too many to mention. Favorite singer, Bing all the way. Favorite individual dancer, Eleanor Powell's stuff is breathtaking.

 

[egor]

Sweeny Todd was awesome

 

[Benefit]

An American in Paris has some great numbers, particularly the virtuoso 13 minute closing sequence. Who doesn't like Gene Kelly and the Freed Unit? Donald O'Connor's vaudevillian tribute Make Em Laugh from Singin' in the Rain is one of my all time favorites. The story goes he was hospitalized for a week afterward suffering from exhaustion.

New York, New York. 80% of the entire movie is awful, and 20% is spectacular production numbers.

How about.... The Lion King? The Little Mermaid? Aladdin? I'd go with Beauty and the Beast myself.

I like Grease. But Saturday Night Fever was better.

Oklahoma! The King and I. South Pacific. Carousel. I don't like the Sound of Music but everything else Rodgers and Hammerstein touched was gold. It makes me sad that the 50s happened 35 years before I was born.

I don't even really think of the Wizard of Oz as a musical.

Vintage Simpson's does great musical parodies: the Streetcar Named Desire and the Planet of the Apes musicals are terrific. They should be turned into full length productions.

 

[alasdairm]

south park: bigger, longer & uncut
cabaret
chitty chitty bang bang
will wonka and the chocolate factory
the rocky horror picture show
jesus christ superstar
on the town
seven brides for seven brothers
grease

alasdair

 

[indelibleface]

I think Moulin Rouge was a disaster. Wow.

 

[tribal girl]

I can't decide.

Hedwig And The Angry Inch:

Labyrinth:

Easter Parade:

Meet Me In St. Louis:

Grease:

Carmen Jones: