which is your favorite musical film?

[dodoy]

Hi, how are you? Do you like musical film? i like musical film very much!
The phantom of opera and the sound of music is my favorite one!
which is your favorite one?
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[marval]

Hi dodoy,

Yes I like musicals, I am not sure which is my favourite. I like the ones you do, I also like "The King and I" and "Carousel", there are so many to choose from.


Margaret

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha dodoy,

Welcome Aboard! A good question I might add...Well, I come to think about three films which are tied for first place as my favorites:

*I'm Singing In The Rain*
*An American In Paris*
*The Sound Of Music*

[rovikered]

I don't do films.

[jhnbrbr]

Hi Dodoy
I notice you sneaked in a crafty advertisement under cover of your innocent sounding question! Naughty! But since you ask, I too like the Sound of Music, I love Richard Rodgers' tunes and I adore Julie Andrews' singing voice, even if her acting isn't up to much!

[Tûrwethiel]

How about a very old one: Meet Me in St Louis? I just adore it. Judy Garland, trolley cars, great songs, snow people, a degree of silliness and the opportunity for a really good cry towards the end. Who could ask for more?

Cheers

Vicki

[marval]

Yes, that's a good one Vicki. And who can forget "The wizard of OZ"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8ip4x2e68


Margaret

[methodistgirl]

I like these movies.

The Jazz Singer
Grease
Footloose
and
Dirty Dancing.

Judy tooley

[Tûrwethiel]

Ah, The Wizard of Oz. I think one of the most magical moments in film is when Dorothy wakes up from black and white Kansas and finds herself in full colour Oz.

[greatcyber]

West Side Story
My Fair Lady
Mary Poppins/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (still hum those tunes)
The Sound of Music
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Phantom of the Opera
Chicago

And a whole lot more... or should I say, "And All That Jazz?"

[jhnbrbr]

Vicki -thanks for reminding us of that magical moment - truly imaginative use of the medium of film. It must have had an enormous impact on the first audiences who saw it.

I remember once hearing Andrew Lloyd Weber being interviewed and saying that his father was an admirer of Richard Rodgers and told the young Andrew that when he had written a song as good as "Some enchanted evening" he could consider himself a composer of musicals. Perhaps one day he will ........ John

[Krummhorn]

In no particular order - All equal favorites

Paint Your Wagon
State Fair
The Sound of Music
Phantom of the Opera
Mary Poppins

And there are more ...

[tittualex]

the sound of music...........

[Buchpteclare]

But what popped into my mind (shh - it's early here), was a film I first saw in New York in 1939. It was also my first introduction (that I can remember) to classical music. Fantasia.

Rob

[Chopinlover49]

Well, of course all of the famous Broadway musicals are great such as the Rodgers-Hammerstein classics, State Fair, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Sound of Music, King and I, and so on, and the Lerner-Lowe hits like My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, and the works of Cole Porter such as Kiss Me Kate. To go on, there is Lionel Bart's Oliver, Sondheim's works, and so on. But to change the picture to movies that are musical but not Broadway musicals, I love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Legrand, and all those wonderful movies where music carries the film although the films are not truly musicals (no singing) such as Korngold's Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, and Adventures of Robin Hood, or the great Pride and Prejudice soundtrack by Marinelli, or Bernard Hermann's works, or...