The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

Time for my own 'shoulda been higher' moment! I was hoping Cabaret would crack the top 5 but it was just 15 points away.

Anyway, this was #1 on my ballot. It's not my favourite stage musical, but it is (just) my favourite musical film. It's a good balance of music and straight drama. It's got some particularly good dialogue ("You're about as fatale as an after dinner mint"), memorable characters, well acted (especially Liza Minelli's Sally Bowles), and a mood that goes from Weimar republic decadence to a chilling glimpse of the future in 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me'.

If we're applying the 'would I watch it right now' test, then yes, any day of the week.

I watched Cabaret for the 70s Countdown. I vaguely remember not really caring for it and I didn't rewatch it for this countdown so it was never in consideration for my ballot.

Glad to see Cabaret make it this high. I had meant to rewatch it for my ballot but ran out of time.

Two correct so far!

Anyway, I have not seen Cabaret. Not exactly sure if I have an interest in it outside of the fact that its reputation is seemingly great.

Cabaret was a gimme, #5 on my ballot. Bit of a downer, but a great film.

Haven't seen Cabaret, so here's where I stand...

SEEN: 33/94
MY BALLOT: 15/25

Seen before, hadn't watched in a while, wasn't sure on eligibility, would have made a late ballot appearance. It's MoFo.

The last six remaining...probably....

The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, The Lion King, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The Sound of Music or Willy Wonka is coming up next, watch it will be Lion King next instead

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I didn't have Mary Poppins on my list. I loved it as a kid.
Cabaret is definitely on my list. I wanted to be able to sing like Liza. My parents had the album which I listened to a lot.
Great movie! Not nearly as harrowing as the stage play which is quite different.

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Cabaret is a horrible film.

Liza Minnelli pales compared to her mother, Judy Garland. Michael York is a bore and Joel Grey just mugs for the camera too. Something else of note, Bob Fosse might be a great choreographer, but he can't direct. And what's with all the musical numbers, except for one, taking place on stage instead of bursting out into song like a real musical.

Geesh. What a silly, overrated film!

















OK, OK,

Now with that nonsense and idiocy out of the way... No, Cabaret was my pick for the second best musical of all time, behind only My Fair Lady. It's brilliant and perfect and it was my wife and I's New Years Eve movie last year. I love it to death, so many great and wonderful things going on... take everything I said in the first part of this post where I was being flippant and reverse it! I'll do a proper write-up later, but Cabaret is a masterpiece in all sense of the word. It has held up sooo amazingly well over the years, and I wish I still had my review of it I wrote over 20 years ago from the long-defunct www.moviejustice.com, maybe I still do on an old hard drive or flash drive someplace before the whole cloud thing and google documents.

One other thing to note about Cabaret, it was in MoFo's own the late Mark F's top 10 list and certainly deserved that spot. As much as I loved to argue with him over the fish film and how that was truly overrated, we always went back to how we both agreed that Cabaret is a masterpiece and a one-of-a-kind film. The historical context among so many underlying themes in one of a whole laundry list of reasons why it's great. Glad to see it show in the top 10 even though I was hoping for a top five spot. Also for years if anyone asked me on my top three or five musicals, I would hesitate on the fifth, fourth, and even third spot and can go-back-and-forth a bit, but My Fair Lady has always been the top spot and Cabaret has always been in second and I find it impossible that it could ever change.

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I had Cabaret at #15 on my ballot.

I've seen it about three times or something, last time about 15 years ago, so it is a time for rewatch. Anyway, I couldn't skip it. Not so great as All That Jazz, in my view, but good enough.

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I've seen Cabaret, but was never a big fan.

Seen: 92/94

I can only hope it (The Lion King) shows next.

If the Big Kitty Kat Di$ney, Mr, Sir, etc Elton John taking his Elton-ing up to level eleven, every 10, 11, 12, and 13 year old girl in 1994 "OMG it's JTT! JTT!!! OMG!"-ing King is number one taking the spot from either Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz or Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain I'm going to vomit and die just a bit.

And I can only offer one real solution to handle a number one Lion King spot, watch it will be.