The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

1. All That Jazz (1979)
2. Dancer in the Dark
3. Le Million
4. The Burden (2017)
5. Cabaret
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. The Young Girls of Rochefort
8. Top Hat (1935)
9. Some Like it Hot
10. Dumbo
11. The Blue Angel
12. Duck Soup (1933)
13. Hellzapoppin' (1941)
14. Woodstock
15. My Fair Lady (1964)
16. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
17. The Music Man (1962)
18. Mary Poppins
19. Annette
20. The Nightmare Before Christmas
21. OPAL
22. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
23. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
24. The Wizard of Oz
25. Little Shop of Horrors

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The Wizard of Oz was my #1 and Singin' in The Rain was My #2. Two of my all time favourite films, both classics and masterpieces and not just great musicals, but great films. Great countdown everyone! Excellent job hosting Thursday.

Seen: 98/100

Also, excellent job hosting, Thursday!

Were the near misses posted yet, btw? I might've missed them.

My ballot:

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
3. Frozen (2013)
4. The Sound of Music (1965)
5. The Lure (2015)
6. Into the Woods (2014)
7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
8. Doctor Dolittle (1967)
9. West Side Story (1961)
10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
11. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
12. The Little Mermaid (1989)
13. Aladdin (1992)
14. The Lion King (1994)
15. Pinocchio (1940)
16. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
17. Annie (1982)
18. Curly Top (1935)
19. Bugsy Malone (1976)
20. Bright Eyes (1934)
21. Little Miss Broadway (1938)
22. Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
23. La La Land (2016)
24. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
25. A Week Away (2021)

Yes, here

Aye, thanks. I'm sad Annette just missed out on the countdown, but hopefully some more people will check it out now.

Annette was on my watchlist, I just didn't get round to it in time.

I've linked the near misses on the second post now so people can find them more easily.

I have seen 86/100

If we count the one pointer all 25 of mine made the list, because I remain now and forever a cinematic fraud.

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The Wizard of Oz: In which an idiotic teenager lets her little dog bite the neighbor, then flees to a far away land where she murders a woman, steals her shoes, then takes up with three strange men, gets high on opiates, and also kills the dead woman’s sister.

If Dorothy only had a brain.

Yeah, I REALLY don't like The Wizard of Oz. It's not my least favorite musical, but it's not that far off either. I watched Singin' In the Rain for this countdown. I respected some aspects of it but it's just not my kind of movie. I am happy to see it took the top position over Oz, though.

A big thank you to Thursday and Yoda for making this happen. Musicals are still definitely my least favorite movie genre, but I enjoyed this process far more than I thought I would.

Seen: 58/100
My Full Ballot:
1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (#15)
2. Charlotte's Web (#79)
3. The Broken Circle Breakdown
4. Stingray Sam (#46)
5. Black Snake Moan
6. Walk the Line (#95)
7. Death to Smoochy
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas (#16)
9. Follow That Bird
10. A Mighty Wind
11. Les Misérables (#34)
12. Corpse Bride (#61)
13. Chicago (#21)
14. Dancer in the Dark (#20)
15. The Jungle Book (#63)
16. Enchanted
17. Crazy Heart
18. Coco
19. Love & Mercy
20. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (#66)
21. Alice in Wonderland (#48)
22. All Dogs Go to Heaven
23. Sing Street (#40)
24. Almost Famous
25. Joe's Apartment (One Pointer)

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As I think of it now I could have at least got a 10 movies list going, oh well I still liked seeing how this countdown folds.

My list would probably be like this:

1. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
2. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
3. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
5. Lion King (1994)
6. School of Rock (2003)
7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
8. Willy Wonka (1971)
9. Aladdin (1992)
10. Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

Thursday and Yoda did well putting this countdown together, hopefully the next countdown we get a 90's redo, I'm looking forward to it.

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This may be my worst ballot ever, in terms of number of films placed on the collective, with seven misses (I usually have only three or four). But at least my number one choice matched the rest of MoFo. And how could it have been anything else?


Singin’ in the Rain is one of the most delightful, funny, rewatchable motion pictures Hollywood ever produced, Musical or otherwise. With 34 out of 52 of us voting for it, there’s no need to go into much detail. Gene Kelly is almost superhuman the way he moves, graceful and powerful, each muscle working to perfection with every sway and leap and spin, yet as athletic and precise as it is it seems almost effortless on screen. He was never more charming or bigger than life than here. Kelly's next picture, An American in Paris, would get all of the Academy Awards attention, but I will take this one over any and every Musical, including the post-modern ones that more suit my cinematic sensibility and worldview. Singin' in the Rain began with a cold business decision to utilize a catalogue of songs. That the resulting movie is so endlessly witty and timelessly fun must be Hollywood magic mixed with exactly the right craftsmen being assembled at exactly the right time, similar to Casablanca in that regard, that it almost accidentally turned into priceless film gold via alchemy. Peerless and immortal. "What am I, dumb or somethin'?"

HOLDEN’S COMPLETE BALLOT
1. Singin’ in the Rain (#1)
2. La La Land (#13)
3. Pennies from Heaven (#56)
4. Dancer in the Dark (#20)
5. A Hard Day’s Night (#23)
6. The Blues Brothers (#19)
7. That Thing You Do! (#31)
8. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (#11)
9. Bound for Glory (#DNP)
10. The Commitments (#107)
11. This is Spın̈al Tap (#55)
12. Hearts Beat Loud (#101)
13. A Star is Born (#43)
14. Hair (#47)
15. Sing Street (#40)
16. Xanadu (#DNP)
17. Amadeus (#97)
18. Once (#25)
19. The Muppets (#DNP)
20. Bye Bye Birdie (#DNP)
21. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (#69)
22. Little Shop of Horrors (#18)
23. King Creole (#DNP)
24. My Fair Lady (#10)
25. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (#74)

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Close but no cigar...

Both Funny Face and Sweet Charity were on four ballots, but not high enough to give them enough points to make the list. Funny Face got to around #127 with 26 points, while Sweet Charity made approximately #119 with 29.

I see you. I see you Opal.

The right film won for me, I'm a big fan of The Wizard of Oz but Singin' in the Rain is THE musical.

I had it at number three behind Cherbourg and One From The Heart, so I'm glad that it topped the list. I have found the placement of some of these films very odd so I'm glad that this won. What a wonderful film.

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1. Labyrinth (1986)
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
3. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
4. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
6. A Star Is Born (1954)
7. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
9. Yellow Submarine (1968)
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
11. The Lion King (1994)
12. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
13. Encanto (2021)
14. Mary Poppins (1964)
15. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
16. Coco (2017)
17. Chicago (2002)
18. The Muppet Movie (1979)
19. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
20. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
21. Frozen (2013)
22. The Sound of Music (1965)
23. Guys and Dolls (1955)
24. The Little Mermaid (1989
25. Muppet Treasure Island (1996)


All in all, more of my movies made it than I expected. Most of the ones that didn't were Disney or Muppets. I'm still shocked Guys and Dolls didn't crack the top 100. I expected that to be top 50.

MoFo Musicals (18 selections)

01* The Lion King (#6)
02* The Blues Brothers (#19)
03* Grease (#9)
04* The Jungle Book (#63)
05* Pink Floyd - The Wall (#41)

06* Aladdin (#22)
07 Dirty Dancing
08* A Hard Day's Night (#23)
09 Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
10 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

11* Beauty and the Beast (#12)
12* That Thing You Do! (#31)
13* Fantasia (#35)
14* Little Shop of Horrors (#18)
15* Phantom of the Paradise (#37)

16* Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (#5)
17* South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (#27)
18* My Fair Lady (#10)
19* The Little Mermaid (#49)
20 The Aristocats

21* Charlotte's Web (#79)
22 Top Secret!
23 Pocahontas
24* The Muppet Movie (#45)
25 Paint Your Wagon

Apparently Elvis is a blind spot for me cinema/wise.

A great 1,2,3 finish with The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain. I like them all! But didn't vote for any of them, though they deserve their top spots in the countdown. Congrats to everyone who did vote for them!

A BIG thanks to @Thursday Next for hosting this! She did an amazing job, she didn't miss a beat and got a large turnout! Thanks so much for doing this for the MoFo Community!


And a BIG thanks to @Yoda for all his hard work behind the scenes that's totally required to make these MoFo Countdowns happen. Much appreciated!


And one more thank you, and that's to all the MoFos who participated. You all rock, so take a bow

If only it sync'd up with Dark Side of the Moon.