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Musical Movies
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Starring Gene WilderJack AlbertsonPeter Ostrum
By Mel Stuart, 1971.
Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) prompts a frenzy when he announces that five golden tickets hidden inside his candy bars will get their holders into his top-secret factory. Amidst a world of Oompa Loompas and chocolate rivers, young Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) and Grandpa Joe (Jack...
- Grease
Starring John TravoltaOlivia Newton-JohnStockard Channing
By Randal Kleiser, 1978.
Director Randal Kleiser's film version of the hit Broadway musical about 1950s teen angst took the country by storm, inspiring a wave of nostalgia and receiving a slew of Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. In between flashily choreographed musical numbers, the film chronicles the romantic...
- Moulin Rouge
Starring Nicole KidmanEwan McGregorJohn Leguizamo
By Baz Luhrmann, 2001.
Naïve young poet Ewan McGregor falls in love with cabaret star Nicole Kidman, and their ill-fated romance serves as a convenient peg on which to hang a dazzling array of numbers that span musical idioms (from snatches of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" to Madonna's "Like a Virgin").
- The Sound of Music
Starring Julie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor Parker
By Robert Wise, 1965.
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischevious children, Maria is given the job.
- Sweeney Todd
Starring Johnny DeppHelena Bonham CarterAlan Rickman
By Tim Burton, 2007.
Johnny Depp reteams with director Tim Burton for this big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, earning an Oscar nod as vengeful Sweeney Todd, who becomes a deranged murderer after being falsely imprisoned by a sinister judge (Alan Rickman). To cover his tracks, Todd enlists the help of...
- Mary Poppins
Starring Julie AndrewsDick Van DykeDavid Tomlinson
By Robert Stevenson, 1964.
Julie Andrews made her screen debut and won an Oscar for her portrayal of the "practically perfect" nanny who revolutionizes the prim and proper Banks family. Dick Van Dyke's unforgettable rendition of "Chim Chim Cheree" won an Oscar for best song (he's also great in the dual role of chimney sweep...
- Chicago
Starring Catherine Zeta-JonesRenée ZellwegerRichard Gere
By Rob Marshall, 2002.
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from...
- Mamma Mia!
Starring Meryl StreepPierce BrosnanColin Firth
By Phyllida Lloyd, 2008.
On the idyllic Greek isle of Kalokairi, single mom Donna Sheridan (Meryl Streep) goes into a tizzy when her bride-to-be daughter (Amanda Seyfried), in a bid to learn her father's identity, invites three of Donna's ex-lovers to the wedding. Buoyed by the tunes of ABBA, this effervescent yarn -- a...
- Across the Universe
Starring Jim SturgessEvan Rachel WoodJoe Anderson
By Julie Taymor, 2007.
An American girl (Evan Rachel Wood) and a British lad (Jim Sturgess) fall in love amid the social and political upheaval of the 1960s in this movie musical from director Julie Taymor that features classic Beatles songs and a mix of live action and animation.
- Rent
Starring Rosario DawsonTaye DiggsIdina Menzel
By Chris Columbus, 2005.
Members of the original 1996 Broadway cast star in Chris Columbus's adaptation of the award-winning musical set in New York's East Village. Based on Puccini's "La Boheme," the story follows a group of bohemians through life's ups and down as they face true love, broken hearts, HIV, drug addiction...
- Dreamgirls
Starring Beyoncé KnowlesJamie FoxxDanny Glover
By Bill Condon, 2006.
Twenty-five years after its Broadway debut, the definitive girl-group musical, earning the most Oscar nods in 2007, finally makes its way to the screen with Bill Condon at the helm and a dream cast that includes Jamie Foxx and Beyoncé Knowles. A trio of women have high hopes for fame but end up...
- Fame
Starring Thomas DekkerKherington PayneKay Panabaker
By Kevin Tancharoen, 2009.
When a group of ambitious teenage dancers, musicians and actors enter a new semester at New York's prestigious High School of Performing Arts, they try to make the most out of their chance at stardom in this remake of the Oscar-winning 1980 drama. Director Kevin Tancharoen's energetic update stars...
- Fiddler on the Roof
Starring Norma CraneLeonard FreyPaul Mann
By Norman Jewison, 1971.
Filmed on location in Eastern Europe, this beloved musical based on Sholem Aleichem's stories was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three. Director Norman Jewison chronicles the trials of Jewish peasant Tevye the milkman (Israeli actor Topol), humble father of three strong-willed daughters...
- Cabaret
Starring Liza MinnelliMichael YorkJoel Grey
By Bob Fosse, 1972.
Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on Christopher Isherwood 's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles.
- Newsies
Starring Christian BaleDavid MoscowLuke Edwards
By Kenny Ortega, 1992.
It's 1899, and the ragtag orphans who deliver the news to New York City stage a protest when publisher Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall) raises the price they must shell out for their papers. A local trolley workers' strike inspires newsie Jack Kelly (Christian Bale) to organize the boys into a...
- Once
Starring Glen HansardMarkéta IrglováAlaistair Foley
By John Carney, 2006.
In this charming contemporary musical helmed by John Carney, a street musician (Glen Hansard) in Dublin, Ireland, strikes up a friendship with a migrant street hawker (Markéta Irglová), and the duo ends up composing and recording a series of songs over the course of a week.
- The Producers
Starring Nathan LaneMatthew BroderickUma Thurman
By Susan Stroman, 2005.
Washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) schemes with neurotic accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) in Mel Brooks's musical. The men plan to raise a ton of money for a play that's sure to be a flop and then keep the extra dough. They pick "Springtime for Hitler," written by a...
- Guys and Dolls
Starring Marlon BrandoJean SimmonsFrank Sinatra
By Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955.
A singing Marlon Brando stars as Sky Masterson opposite Frank Sinatra in this musical take on Damon Runyon's Manhattan short stories. One of the richest scores to spring from Broadway to Hollywood includes such classic songs as "Luck Be a Lady." The mix of movie stars and veterans from the show's...
- Everyone Says I Love You
Starring Alan AldaWoody AllenDrew Barrymore
By Woody Allen, 1996.
In director Woody Allen's Golden Globe-nominated musical comedy of intertwining stories, Steffi (Goldie Hawn) marries Bob (Alan Alda) after her divorce from Joe (Woody Allen), whose attempt to win the heart of Von (Julia Roberts) takes him to Europe. This is all told through the eyes of narrator DJ...
