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Lately I've been watching a fare amount of musicals while at the Hungarians. So far off the top of my head I've seen Meet Me In St Louis, Holiday Inn, Sound Of Music and a couple I can't think of right off the top of my head. I absolutely LOOOOOVE them! The dresses are so elegant, the ladies so graceful, the men so handsome and the songs, imho timeless and so catchy! Any suggestions on what I should see next?

 

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Greg

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Singing in the Rain is at the top of my list. I also enjoy Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

 

Yes Oklahoma is one that I was forgetting. That dance scene where the scary dude killed the "good guy" was kind of disturbing.

 

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Greg

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West Side Story... great dancing and of course, music by Leonard Bernstein.

Mary Poppins.....great mix of live and animation with Julie Andrews

My Fair Lady with the wonderful Audrey Hepburn

South Pacific

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One of my favorite but heavy movie musicals was Cabaret. This movie musical was great (Liza played Sally Bowles, Michael York played Brian) -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068327/

 

And now the broadway musical is back on the road, and in Miami thru tomorrow(sunday) and I'm going. :).

http://miami.broadway.com/buzz/184483/leave-your-troubles-outside-national-tour-of-cabaret-opens-in-miami/

 

And Randy Harrison of QAF fame is the Joel Grey Emcee character from the movie.

http://chicago.gopride.com/news/interview.cfm/articleid/894609

 

and then on Youtube:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtFWSd_l8s

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The king and I_ Easter Parade, The Pirate ( with a VERY hunky Gene Kelly), On the Town, for Me and My Gal, and......... oh Mein Gott....there are so many wonderful film musicals. Happy viewing. Watch your buttered popcorn intake. We like you svelte and sexy.

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Lately I've been watching a fare amount of musicals while at the Hungarians. So far off the top of my head I've seen Meet Me In St Louis, Holiday Inn, Sound Of Music and a couple I can't think of right off the top of my head. I absolutely LOOOOOVE them! The dresses are so elegant, the ladies so graceful, the men so handsome and the songs, imho timeless and so catchy! Any suggestions on what I should see next?

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

After "Holiday Inn" you must see "White Christmas". (It's the only holiday tradition I observe.)

 

I'll second "Cabaret". But, dude, if musicals is the goal you MUST put "Grease" on the list. Just avoid "Grease 2". And if you're in a Liza mood, look for "Stepping Out". It's a little hard to find, but worth the hunt. (I think it's on Amazon Prime.)

 

And, of course, "Chicago". It marked the resurgence of the movie musical.

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An American in Paris is my fave. I'm sure you've seen The Wizard of Oz, but I thought it needed a mention in this list. A buddy & I just saw Seven Brides for Seven Brothers last night & it was a treat! By the way, I don't know if this has happened to any of you guys, but during a sleepless night a couple of years ago, I rediscovered TCM...so good to have an alternative to today's offerings.

 

pS: Don't get your gay card confiscated: watch A Star is Born and Funny Girl. ;)

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If you still have a DVD or computer that plays them, the TCM Shop, Target, Amazon, ebay and other places have sales of just $10-20 for the TCM 4-picture deals like...

- AMERICAN MUSICALS... giving you SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, THE BAND WAGON (the one everybody misses the first time around because it isn't as famous as the others and then suddenly discover... "hey! this is really great stuff!"), MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS and EASTER PARADE together

- BEST PICTURES... includes AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and GIGI with two non-musicals (CASABLANCA included)

- BROADWAY MUSICALS (a.k.a. the Howard Keel collection)... with SHOW BOAT, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, KISS ME KATE & SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS. The latter two are better than the former, but all have their classic numbers. SEVEN BRIDES is likely the most "heterosexual" musical ever made (with every brother hooking up with a woman), but it is also the one that mocks the "evangelicals" the most. Howard Keel's Adam takes the "holy" text quite literally and demonstrates just how barbaric, male chauvinistic and impractical it is.

-there are the two Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers combos... covering their 30s classics. TOP HAT is a masterpiece simply because all of the hilarious "orientation" confusion going on. It seems like Fred is the only "straight" male in that one. Then again, when he is caught embracing (friend-like) Edward Everette Horton's Horace, wife Madge simply assumes something else and says "Don't mind me, boys".

-also two sets sporting the name Busby Berkeley. His musicals for Warner Bros. in the early 1930s are the ones with all of those bizarre camera angles and lengthy chorus lines. 42ND STREET is a "pre-code" masterpiece from start to finish, but others like FOOTLIGHT PARADE are likely ones you will see more than once simply for their numbers.

-of course, any combo featuring James Cagney in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, but that is probably the most widely available title

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Some great suggestions here! And you've already seen two that would be at the top of my list.

 

For a slight detour with decidedly unglamorous attire, there's the Australian new wave musical Starstruck (in the Jusy Garland-Mickey Rooney "let's put on a show to save the family finances" vein).

 

In the Good Old Summerime - another Judy Garland film (with Buster Keston in a supporting role)

 

All That Jazz is fantastic, but I wouldn't call it elegant.

 

Top Hat

 

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - with a very young Julie Newmar as Dorca

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Hey Greg, I have always loved the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. One of my favorites is the mini drama that comes at the end of Follow the Fleet (1936). It is pure high Art Deco style. The blonde on the left of Astaire at Roulette table is Lucille Ball in an early appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMuKRbJa3O8

All done in one take. Amazing. Ginger Rogers said she had to do everything Fred did but backwards and in heels.

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Singing in the Rain is at the top of my list. I also enjoy Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

 

Singing in the Rain is my all time favorite. It's the quintessential Hollywood musical. I drop whatever I'm doing and watch it on TCM every time it's run. Best stylized satire of the motion picture business as well.

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Auntie Mame is one of my all-time favorite movies, and HIGHLY recommended, but it's not a musical.

That would be Mame, the horrible musical version starring a woefully miscast Lucille Ball in the title role.

 

Rob

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Thanks :D

 

Autocorrect doesn't just smite you. As a Chicago Cubs fan I was stunned to see a headline in "USA Today" online saying "Obama removes Cubs from list of terror sponsors". They meant Cuba, of course.

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All That Jazz is fantastic, but I wouldn't call it elegant.

 

A great Fosse movie. I particularly enjoy the Take off with Us and the extension into Air-otica. My first recollection is seeing guys in jocks on big screen.

 

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Paint Your Wagon

 

one of my favorites.....and where else do you get to see Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing??!!.....it cost $20M to make in 1968 (very high for the time) and was the first time an actor was paid $1M for a movie (Lee Marvin)....."Wandering Star": very haunting melody and lyrics

 

 

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