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Broadway Inspired Musical Films

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Jazz & Blues - Rock & Roll - Other

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Year

Rating

Brief Description

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Classics

Annie Get Your Gun

1950 NR Sharpshooter Annie Oakley Aims Her Sights on Rival, Frank Butler, in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show IMDb

Brigadoon

1954 NR An American in Scotland is Lured by Love in a Mystery Shrouded Village That Appears Every Hundered Years IMDb

Camelot

1967 NR King Arthur Loves Guenevere, Guenevere Loves Lancelot, Lancelot Loves Lancelot and the Doomed Love Triangle Brings Down the Perfect Kingdom IMDb

Carousel

1956 NR Carnival Barker Asks Heaven for a One Day Reprieve to Make Amends for a Badly Lived Life IMDb

Gigi

1958 NR In the Fin de Siécle Society of Paris, a Young Parisianne is Trained by Her Grandmother and Aunt to Be a Wealthy Man's Mistress, but Love Intervenes IMDb

Girl Crazy

1943 NR A Fun Loving Rich Kid is Sent to a Western All-Male College to Straighten Up but Falls for the Granddaughter of the Dean IMDb

Guys and Dolls

1955 NR In Order to Finance a Crap Game, a Gambler Proposes a Bet That a Big-Shot Cant't Get a Straight-Laced Missionary to Go to Havana with Him; Unintended Consequences Ensue IMDb

The King and I

1956 NR A Widowed English School Teacher and Her Son Travel to Siam Where She Is to Teach the Many Children of the King IMDb

Kiss Me Kate

1953 NR A Musical Version of the Taming of the Shrew Brings Together Two Divorced Actors Who Behave Much Like the Characters in Shakespeare's Play IMDb

The Music Man

1962 NR A Con-Man of a Salesman Tries to convice a Mom and Apple Pie Midwestern Town That What They REALLY Need is a Boy's Marching Band but His Scam Goes Awry When He Encounters the Town Librarian IMDb

My Fair Lady

1964 NR In a Musical Verion of Shaw's Pygmalion, an Upper-Crust Phonetics Professor Makes a Wager That He Can Transform a Cockney Flower Girl into a Lady and Fool the Aristocracy IMDb

Oklahoma

1955 NR Cowboys in Love in the Oklahoma Territory at the Turn of the 20th Centuty. Yeow! IMDb

On Your Toes

1939 NR Balanchine Meets Rodgers and Hart in This Ballet Musical Where a Vaudvillian Turns Classical Composer and Writes for a Russian Ballet Company IMDb

Show Boat

1951 NR A Family-Owned Entertainment Riverboat in the Early 19th Century Sets the Scene for Miscegenation, Gamblers and the Women That Love Them. IMDb

Tea for Two

1950 NR In this remake of "No, No, Nanette," an heiress who's trying to loosen her guardian/uncle's purse strings so that she can invest and star in a new Broadwy production, bets him $25,000 that she can say no to everything for 48 hours IMDb

The Sound of Music

1965 NR A Young,Musically Inclined Austrian Postulant, Unsure of Her Vocation, is Sent to the Home of the Widowed Baron von Trapp and His Seven Children; Their Personal Story is Set Against the Backdrop of the Nazi Anschluss IMDb

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1964 NR A Rough Start in Life Nor Snooty Denver Society Nor the Titanic Can Sink the Indomitable Spirit of Molly Brown IMDb
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Contemporary

Annie

1982 PG
Ever Optimistic Depression-Era Orphan Seeks Her Family With a Little Help from Her Wealthy Industrialist Benefactor IMDb

A Chorus Line

1985 NR A Director is Looking for that Singular Sensation While Auditioning Dancers for a New Broadway Production IMDb

Evita

1996 PG Eva Duarte rises from poverty to B Movie Actress and Captures the Hearts of Dictator Juan Peron and the Working Class of Argentina While Increasing Her Political Clout and the Enmity of the Ruling Elite IMDb

The Fantasticks

1995 PG The Long-Running Off-Broadway Musical Comes to the Big Screen: A Mystery Shrouded Carnival Comes to a Rural Town Where Two (Allegedly)Feuding Fathers and Their Smitten Offspring Come Under the Influence of the Fair's Ring Master With Dire Results IMDb

Fiddler on the Roof

1971 NR In the time of Pogroms in Czarist Russia a Philosophically Disposed Jewish Milkman Juggles the Struggles of Daily Life, Jewish Traditions and His Daughters' Fierce Independence (Worth Every Minute of its Three Hours) IMDb

Funny Girl

1968 NR Comedienne/Singer Fanny Brice Makes Her Way from the Lower East Side to The Zigfield Follies to Her Marriage and Divorce to Nick Arnstein IMDb

Hello, Dolly

1969 NR A Matchmaker Takes Her Meddling to Yonkers so as to Set Up a Half-Millionaire and Others in His Millieu IMDb

Man of La Mancha

1972 NR A Musical Retelling of Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Dotty Nobleman Tries to Revive the Age of Chivalry IMDb

The Phantom of the Opera

2004 PG-13
A Disfigured "Ghost" Haunts a French Opera Company and a Young Singer. Alas, Love is Unrequited! IMDb
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Jazz & Blues

Cabaret

1972 NR Willkommen to the Weimar Republic Where Amorality is Just the Calm Before the Nazi Stormtroopers and Sally Bowles Struts Her Stuff at the Kit-Kat Club IMDb

Chicago

2002 PG-13 In Chicago of the Roaring Twenties, Two Murderesses Vie For Press Attention and Fame Via a Smarmy Lawyer IMDb

West Side Story

1961 NR A Contemporary Re-Telling of Romeo and Juliet Pitting the Jets(Montagues) vs. Sharks Capulets) in Hell's Kitchen, New York IMDb
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Rock & Roll

Godspell 1973 NR A Modern Version of the Gospel According to St. Matthew in Song and Dance IMDb
Grease 1978 NR Good Girl Meets Bad Boy Over Summer, but Fall Finds Them Unexpectedly at the Same High School Where Their Differing Social Status Interferes with Their Romance Renewal IMDb
Hair 1979 NR Young Oklahoman, Enroute to Vietnam, is Detoured by Hippies and a Golden Girl in Central Park IMDb
Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 NR Webber & Rice Rock Opera of the Passion of the Christ IMDb
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Other

1776

1972 PG
The Rocky Road to Independence...in Music and Song IMDb
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