The MoFo Musicals Countdown - Preliminary Thread

"Don't Walk Away", ELO (Xanadu)


"City of Stars", Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone (La La Land)


"Let's Duet", John C. Reilly & Jenna Fischer (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)

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Only 12 days left...tell the deadline of Sept 17th. Let's keep this thread bumped so hopefully people will see it and send in a ballot (the rules and info are on the 1st and 2nd post of this thread)

There's a few I'd like to see yet. It probably won't happen but I'll wait a bit till I submit.

My ballot is in! An abundance of great musicals to choose from - but I think with this countdown my taste is more particular and a little more divergent from the general consensus - to a degree. Some of my favourite musical moments (aside from Wig in a Box, which seems pretty popular!) :

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Great to see so many Hedwig posts (if it translates into points it'll do really well, which would be great) but I'm surprised that no one's mentioned the best song in the whole film/soundtrack. For me Angry Inch is obviously the stand out track.

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Phoenix's submission takes us up to 11, like Spinal Tap.

New question to ponder over the weekend: what is your favourite stage musical that hasn't been made into a film yet? And who would you cast in it?

I was just gonna ask this question. Gotta get crackalacking on my ballot.

Barnum. I love the movie The Greatest Showman (2017), but it's not really the same as the Broadway show. The story is similar, but the songs are completely different. I saw the Broadway show starring Jim Dale (live on Broadway), and the London show with Michael Crawford (on DVD), and I loved both.

Also, Pippin. I saw the Broadway show starring Ben Vereen many years ago. I don't remember it well because it was so long ago, but I remember that I loved it. I would love to see a movie version of it.

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And speaking of movie versions of Broadway shows, has anybody watched the movie version of The Pirates of Penzance (1983) for this countdown?

The full movie is on YouTube:

Some more recommendations:

(in alphabetical order)
Annie (1982)
Bright Eyes (1934)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Curly Top (1935)
Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Into the Woods (2014)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
The Lure (2015)
A Week Away (2021)

Submitted mine because I doubt I'll have time to watch anything new in the next week so I don't want to risk forgetting completely and miss the chance to see some of my favourites get extra some points.

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Only 9 Days left...The deadline for submissions will be Tuesday 17th September.

I've still got a few movies left to rewatch which I probably won't get to until the weekend. Then I just need to finalize my ballot. I'll probably vote on Monday.

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We're up to 14 ballots. Keep them coming, the deadline is A Week Away ....

I guess, it's time me to wake up.
btw, I've forced myself to see some musicals in-between my regular film watch during the last months. Alas, not satisfied by most of them.

Anyway some stats,

the ones I saw for the countdown (my very first view), randomly listed:

Funny Face (1957)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Sound of Music (1965)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Once (2007)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
Victor/Victoria (1982)

I plan to watch today Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

I've rewatched:

Everyone Says I Love You (1996) (probably my seventh rewatch, it's so enjoyable)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)

I have about ten other titles that are absolute lock for my ballot from the very beginning.
Not sure how to proceed the ballot now, considering my mixed feelings about most of the newly seen musicals.

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Those movies are on my too watch list for the countdown, but so are like 30 others and I can't watch them all. Of those three listed above did you really like them? or what would you rate them at? I'm just trying to get an idea if I should watch any of those or skip them.

Of these three, I'd recommend only Funny Face (1957). Although the plot and the screenplay are silly, the visuals are very nice. I even think this is one of the first movies applying a new modern visual design as a whole.

I guess, you'll probably like An American in Paris too but meh, there is too much filler - overly-extended musical sets, etc.

Thanks I'll try and get Funny Face watched. It's so damn hard making my ballot I need another 3 months!

We now have 16 ballots ... 16 going on 17...?