Yellow Fang
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Gypsy for me.
Film Musicals
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I didn't like his R&J, and I was in slightly better shape when I saw that. McGregor's horrible singing was the thing I couldn't really get past with Moulin Rouge. The disastrous nepotistic casting of Helena Bonham-Carter as Mrs Lovett in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd I found similarly horrifying....
Good call. And while we're on the Howard Keel thing, Kiss Me Kate. Can't go wrong with men in tights leaping from the rafters.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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Although not a musical, Baz's Strictly Ballroom is a really good film. In fact it's almost perfect entertainment. So he's not a complete nurk.
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
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Singin' In The Rain
Cabaret
Cabaret
Dayvo
just passin' through
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Oh oh oh What a Lovely War comes to mind as an OK film/musical!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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A while back, I was searching YouTube for Gerry & the Pacemakers' version of You'll Never Walk Alone which I did find...
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And then I discovered that the song actually comes from the musical Carousel which I've never seen, but would quite like to if this is anything to go by...
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And then I discovered that the song actually comes from the musical Carousel which I've never seen, but would quite like to if this is anything to go by...
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6V9EbnNx6U[/media]
Arch
Married to Night Train
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Carousel was the Leicester Haymarket's Christmas musical one year. We happened to go to a matinee for some reason, and found ourselves almost entirely in the company of coach parties of OAPs. Just after a vital piece of action, a voice piped up, in thick Leicester accent "Ooooh! Ee's stabbed hisself...."
Rogers and Hammerstein aren't top of my list, generally a bit too mawkish, although I'll happily singalong with most of the songs.
I'd agree about Astaire and Rogers - Top Hat would be my favourite, with Puttin' on the Ritz best song in that. I am forever in awe of Astaire (and Rogers, who did it all backwards and in high heels), and Gene Kelly and the like for appearing utterly weightless when dancing.
Pedantry alert - I don't think Astaire did 'Puttin' on the Ritz' on film until Blue Skies - I'm pretty sure it wasn't in Top Hat. 'Pick Yourself Up' from Swing Time is one of the most joyous Fred n Ginger things, I think....
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We'll go and see it together and I'll convince you of it's epochal significance!
Can't we just mention Eartha Kitt and call it quits?
Enough bubbly, and the epochal significance might start to grow on me...
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
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I don't 'get' musicals. Cinema is make believe, and then in the middle of a scene the whole cast starts warbling some soon-to-be-over-hyped song - yet the bystanders carry on as if nothing happened......?
I like my escape from reality to be a little more believable.....soz
I like my escape from reality to be a little more believable.....soz
