Directors What Is Your Favorite Film Musical? (1 Viewer)

[Tony_Faville]

Moulin Rouge is the favorite but the short list is Wizard of Oz, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Nightmare Before Christmas and Fiddler on the Roof.

 

[Michael Caicedo]

School Daze

 

[Steve Christou]

Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain.

nuff said.

 

[Richard Kim]

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

 

[Ricky Hustle]

A Hard Day's Night
Second and third: The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain

 

[Nate Anderson]

Anne M- You are awesome! To this day, I still don't get why Newsies got so many bad reviews!

Other Favs:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Grease

Moulin Rouge

Singin' in the Rain

Little Shop of Horrors

P.S: Rick, I love your sig, but shouldn't it be credited to 'The Dude'? The rich guy was Jeff Lebowski. He was The Dude. Or Duder, or El Duderino, His Dudeness...

 

[Tommy G]

Hands Down - The Wizard of Oz.

 

[Blaine Skerry]

THE MUSIC MAN

"Ya gotta know the territory."

"Great Honk!"

"Ye Gods!"

 

[Jon_Are]

Because I don't think 'A Hard Days Night' fits - although I can't really articulate why - my vote goes to:
Singin' in the Rain.
I challenge anyone to watch this film and not be uplifted.
Jon

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Shock Treatment
- Hair
- The Wizard of Oz
- Phantom of the Paradise
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Moulin Rouge
- Singin' in the Rain
- South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Grease

 

[Bobbi*L]

Streets of Fire (surprised no one mentioned this one)

It's hard to choose there are so many that are enjoyable.

Phantom of the Paradise

Rocky Horror Picture Show

The King and I

West Side Story

Grease

 

[ChrisV]

One more vote for Singin' in the Rain.
My girlfriend just bought me the disc. Ain't she sweet?

 

[Hunter P]

I too love all those great musicals from the 50's and 60's. However, I am a big Fred Astaire fan. My fav would have to be a split vote between Swing Time and Shall We Dance.
I judge musicals based on the music (and dance), regardless of plot, acting or whatever else. The dancing is top notch of course but there is also some of the greatest songs ever in those two musicals.
Here are some selected songs:
Swing Time (Jerome Kern)
The Way You Look Tonight
A Fine Romance
Never Gonna Dance
Pick Yourself Up
Shall We Dance (George Gershwin)
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Shall We Dance?
They All Laughed
Astaire was a limited singer but I can't stand any versions of the songs but the originals.
BTW, I liked Grease II more than Grease. Plus, I liked The Wiz more than The Wizard of Oz.:b

 

[Adam_S]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

It's a satire with the funniest songs ever plus its a grand example of a musical and unlike some of the joy-of-living musicals like singin in the rain (my second favorite) has an emotionally satisfying arc to characters that grow and change. Delightful and perfect from beginning to end.