"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
It's always been said that "Singin' in the Rain" is the greatest movie musical of all time. That will probably be first with "Wizard of Oz" a close second.
Guesses on the others?
West Side Story Sound of Music Oliver! Chicago Cabaret My Fair Lady Easter Parade Beauty and the Beast The Broadway Melody Fiddler on the Roof 42nd Street Grease Hedwig and the Angry Inch The Lion King Mary Poppins South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut White Christmas HAIR
is afi affiliated with disney? if so i think that High School Musical may appear (low)on the list, or are these purely voted on by real people and not paid advertisments?
does "walk the line" count? do the cartoons (disney again) count?
my ideas based from their 100 songs list WIZARD OF OZ SINGIN' IN THE RAIN PINOCCHIO SOUND OF MUSIC FUNNY GIRL MY FAIR LADY CABARET SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS WEST SIDE STORY SHOW BOAT SOUTH PACIFIC MARY POPPINS GUYS AND DOLLS FAME KING AND I GREASE MOULIN ROUGE
Its actually a pretty good list. I'm surprised and pleased such films like ON MOONLIGHT BAY, BABES ON BROADWAY, SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES and HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM are on there. But of course, there are a few inexplicable omissions. I'm dumbfounded BORN TO DANCE isn't there, and my list would have included THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT and BILLY ROSE'S DIAMOND HORSESHOE.
And GIVE A GIRL A BREAK, SALLY, IRENE AND MARY, INCENDIARY BLONDE, THE THREE CABALLEROS, EVERYBODY SING, and I LOVE MELVIN.
I love that COURT JESTER and SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS are on it. love those.
but why the hell is SOUTH PARK on there? I realize it has songs in it but, uh, no? not one of the greatest of all time.
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You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree. ~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
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It's true, by the way, that Sondheim loves the South Park movie (and South Park in general..during Frogs rehearsal. he would watch runthroughs in a Mister Hanky t-shirt). Personally, I would love to see the South Park musical in the top 100. I would much prefer it to the embalmed My Fair Lady, that will probably make the top 10.
For number one? My vote would be Top Hat, but I'm sure it will go to Singin' In The Rain.
Behind the fake tinsel of Broadway is real tinsel.
Dollars to doughnuts BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT will be in the Top 25. Voters will sooner choose a newer film that they know and have recently seen than esoteric stuff like HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM or THE LOVE PARADE.
1. Wizard of Oz 2. Sound of Music 3. West Side Story 4. Oliver! 5. Singin' in the Rain 6. An American In Paris 7. Chicago 8. Meet Me In St. Louis 9. My Fair Lady 10. Gigi 11. Cabaret 12. The King and I 13. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 14. 42nd Street 15. Moulin Rouge 16. Fiddler on the Roof 17. Yankee Doodle Dandy 18. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 19. Easter Parade 20. The Band Wagon 21. Top Hat 22. Babes In Arms 23. Swing Time 24. Funny Girl 25. Mary Poppins
And of course… Burt Barcharach’s “Lost Horizon”
EDITED: Because I missed some.
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In AFI's Top 100 Movies of All time back in the late nineties, The Wizard of Oz was the first musical on the list at #6. Singin' in the Rain was the second musical on the list at #10. I think it will be a close race between these two.
My personal opinion is that The Wizard of Oz should definitely take home the honor. I personally have never even liked Singin' in the Rain and have always found it quite generic and recycled (which most to all of the songs are).
Heh, I too feared responses like that...however...
I'm probably going to get branded a crazy "new movie musical" lover who hasn't taken the time to see some classics (not true), but I would like to know why the movie versions of "Phantom", "Rent", and "The Producers" didn't even make the ballot list. I wouldn't expect any of them to be in the Top 25, but I'm not sure what would be wrong with at least including them on a ballot. Yes, I know they are all too recent to have had any significant impact yet, but keep in mind "Chicago" and "South Park" (both Oscar winners, I know) made it to the list and neither is more than a decade old (also, how much impact have films like "The Girl Can't Help It" and "The Court Jester", both of which made it to the list, had in the world of movie musicals?). And yes, I know that the general concensus among critics was that these newer movies were not masterpieces, but they are at least more entertaining and sophisticated than some of the older films that made it to the ballot list. Remember, not all of the greats we love today were hailed by critics when they first opened, and some of the older movies on this list still wouldn't be.
There could be an understandable technical reason that newer films didn't make the cut--maybe there was a date cut-off, who knows--but in the absence of an explanation, I still wonder why these films were given the cold shoulder. Yes, the ballot list is made up of truly great films from every decade, from "Singin' in the Rain" to "Meet Me In St. Louis" to "West Side Story" to "Cabaret" to "Chicago", ones that deserve to make the Top 25 and which probably will. But I think the newer films, which--admit it--many of us have enjoyed, should have been given a fair chance along with the classics (and the "meh" films that seem to have simply made the list because they were old).
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