The MoFo Top 100 Musicals Countdown

The Uncle Tom's Cabin segment is absolutely stunning.

42nd Street was my number 17! Really dug it.

Never got to The King and I although I wanted to.

Seen both, but neither made my ballot.

Seen: 25/26

That surprises me. But very cool!

It's gonna be an interesting one for sure. I would have had both of these in the top-50 in my wildest imagination of how low they could go.

That's because it's a true story?

New topic! CHICAGO! What a great movie! Where you think it'll fall in the top 100?


I'm going to say around #35.

(Super subtle topic change!)

I was all excited to see yesterday and today's classic musicals, but come to think of it, you're right they are low on the countdown, which then makes me think just what the heck is the top 25 going to look like??? (that was one long run-on sentence)

You're probably right. I'm thinking newer musicals will dominate the upper part of the countdown, to me newer is anything made after the 1980s

42nd Street is very good, but it didn't make my ballot.

I haven't seen The King and I.

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Where did I leave off? Okay, I have seen everything that has been mentioned since Gigi (which was on my list) except The Burden, which can be rectified quickly. Only Funny Girl is on my list. I had to pick at least one Streisand musical.
Fun fact, Calamity Jane was embraced by lesbians when It came out. It is one of those movies that was considered to be coded gay and especially the song Secret Love. I love Doris Day and I meant to have at least one of her musicals on my list but I did not.
White Christmas is not on my list, but it is my favorite Danny Kaye musical as an adult. Before that I loved him in Hans Christian Andersen which was on every year when I was a child in the Sixties.
I didn’t like Purple Rain, the movie. Of course, I did love the music and I especially liked Morris Day’s performance.
The Bandwagon is not a favorite of mine. The set pieces are great but the story is too loose for me.
As for Charlotte’s Web, Paul Lynde was hilarious as Templeton.
I love Easter Parade, it should have been on my list.
I haven’t seen 42nd St. in ages so its not on my list, but I am a Dick Powell fan. He is in one of my favorite noirs.
The King and I is great and I wish it was on my list. It is Yul Brynner’s iconic role. And the whole thing is dazzling. Too the young people in our forum, you really need a broader historical perspective. Women in the Siam of that time, were chattel. In the United States, women have only had the vote for a little over a century. You are living in a very new world that is in tremendous flux.

CHICAGO! I'm focusing on talking about Chicago.

He Had It Coming was definitely the best number, although We Both Reached for the Gun is a strong second.

Join me in talking about Chicago!

Whoa, my internet/cable was down all day or I would have been on here much earlier. In fact, I was on here when it when down and we were texted that it would not be up till 9:00 pm then 11:00 pm! Well, it hit somewhere in-between so there's that. I'm just happy we didn't bundle our phone with our services. Even so, the phone was acting wonky. But anyway, I digress.

42nd Street is grand fun. I love all these spectacles, with the mix-and-match cast that usually has Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler at least in there. And the beautiful Ginger Rogers and sometimes Joan Blondell. And Ned Sparks. Love that guy, the eternal grump. I didn't include it, though.

I haven't watched The King and I in a long time but I really enjoyed it. Yul Brynner deserved his Oscar for this film. And Deborah Kerr is lovely as can be here. I currently have the non-musical version from 1946 that stars Rex Harrison and Irene Dunne. I haven't seen it yet but I'm looking forward to it. I was lucky enough to see the stage musical starring Stacy Keach (one of my favorite actors) and It was great. So all kinds of connections to this classic. Need to see it again. Not on my list. I'm glad to see both made it.

So far:
#1. On the Town #93 (list proper)
#6. Easter Parade #78 (list proper)
#10. Gigi #85 (list proper)
#12. Calamity Jane #84 (list proper)
#25. Neptune's Daughter (one-pointer).

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I think it's gonna lean heavily into animated films, honestly, maybe a couple very contemporary ones, with jukebox "musicals" and movies that have music performed in them but not in the way traditional musicals do, pretty evenly split with traditional musicals.

Also, same. To me, Grease is a pretty modern musical.

(And not anything that would cause the thread to melt down to everyone yelling at each other.)

I would like to but I was a bit underwhelmed by Chicago. I think probably it was just Marshall's, to me, very modern style.

SPOILER: It's on my list, but not on the top half. If we were only judging the musical numbers alone, and not the movie as a whole, it'd be in my top 4.


I agree many parts of it couldn't been done better.