LoC 70: Top 50 Musicals!

[Johnny Unusual]

1.   Once
2.   The Muppet Movie
3.   Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
4.   The Blues Brothers
5.   The Muppets

6.   The Rabbit of Seville (I always preferred this one to What's Opera Doc)
7.   South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
8.   What’s Opera, Doc?
9.   Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Once More With Feeling
10.    A Hard Day’s Night
11.    Dancer in the Dark (easily the most depressing movie of all time, but great.  Especially the soul shattering final number)
12.    Labyrinth
13.    Little Shop of Horrors
14.    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
15.    Yellow Submarine
16.    Les Miserables
17.    8 Women (I remember enjoying this one)
18.    Camelot
19.   The Producers
20.   Clone High – Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in 3 Parts (I'm curious if Relaxed Dragon took part, because I imagine he would have included this)
21.   The Muppets Take Manhattan
22.   Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
23.   Quadrophenia
24.   Chicago
25.   Moulin Rouge

here's the trailer for 8 Women
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ttPhGfyyWQ4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/ttPhGfyyWQ4</a>

and a song
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KqBhSl9uco0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/KqBhSl9uco0</a>

And a song from Dancer in the Dark, a powerful one about a woman accepting her impending blindness.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/62pLY5zFTtc" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/62pLY5zFTtc</a>

Clone High
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ymqkFKADcn4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/ymqkFKADcn4</a>

[Tripe]

Ok mine, with my favourite parts from each.

1   Jesus Christ Superstar - Herod, This Jesus Must Die, Simon Zelotes and Superstar
2   Hair - What A Piece Of Work Is Man, The Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In and White Boys/Black Boys
3   Wicked - Dancing Through Life, Defying Gravity and Thank Goodness
4   The Rocky Horror Show - Sweet Transvestite and Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me
5   Toxic Avenger - Who Will Save New Jersey and Evil Is Hot
6   Jekyll and Hyde - First Transformation, Alive (both parts), Murder, Murder and Good n Evil.
7   A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - Comedy Tonight and Bring Me My Bride
8   The Three Penny Opera - Pirate Jenny and Polly's Song
9   Evil Dead - Look Who’s Evil Now
10   Fiddler On The Roof - Sunrise, Sunset, Matchmaker, Matchmaker
11   Man Of La Mancha - I, Don Quixote, The Impossible Dream and I Really like Him
12   Assassins - The Ballard of Booth and Everybody's Got The Right
13   Avenue Q - Everyone's a Little Bit Racist, The More You Ruv Someone and You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love)
14   Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog - Brand New Day and Everyone’s a Hero
15   The Wiz - You Can’t Win
16   Little Shop Of Horrors - Dentist and Don't Feed the Plants
17   La Cage Aux Folles - I Am What I Am
18   The Mikado - A More Humane Mikado
19   Les Miserables - Who Am I?, Master of the House and Stars
20   Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Wilkomen and Cabaret
21   Oliver - Pick a Pocket or Two, Oom-Pah-Pah and Reviewing The Situation
22   Bugsy Malone - Bad Guy and You Give a Little Love
23   Legally Blonde - Omigod You Guys and There, Right There
24   A Shoggoth on the Roof - Tentacles! and Byakhee Byakhee
25   Sweeney Todd - Ballad of Sweeney Todd and The Contest

Did I miss any? So, not a bad result really, shame some of the others didn't place but really I like almost all of the entries on the top fifty.

Good stuff Compound.

[Johnny Unusual]

Yeah, Compound did a stellar job on this long-awaited list.  Thanks a lot, man!  Lots of interesting, surprising and fun results and lots of films and plays I need to see.  Also, I am delighted how Once placed so high.  An amazing and absolutely touching musical that changes the usual Guy meets Girl story.  Also, when they came out and where Glen and Marketa were played off the stage and shortly after Jon Stewart brought them back out is definitely my favourite Oscar moment.

BTW, just to remind people, the vote for the next list is happening... now!  Songs from the 70's, Video Games of the 90's, Cover Songs, Fantasy Movies, Picnic foods... what will we see next?

[Zombie Monty]

Awesome job with the list.  So cool that Once made it at #2.  Has anyone here seen the stage version yet, it is coming to town this year and I can't wait to see it.

Here's my list.
1. Singin' In The Rain
2. Grease
3. Once
4. South Park Bigger Longer Uncut
5. The Wizard Of Oz
6. Rocky Horror Picture Show
7. Mamma Mia!
8. Wicked
9. Rent
10. The Phantom Of The Opera
11. All That Jazz
12. The Nightmare Before Christmas
13. The Muppet Movie
14. Hairspray
15. Bye Bye Birdie
16. Xanadu
17. Purple Rain
18. The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
19. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
20. Beach Blanket Bingo
21. Blue Hawaii
22. Cannibal The Musical
23. Sweeney Todd
24. True Stories
25. Godspell

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

1.  Grease
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. Crybaby
4. Smokey Joe's Cafe
5. South Park Movie
6. Hairpray
7. The Muppet Movie
8. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
9. My Fair Lady
10. Bye Bye Birdie
11. Little Shop of Horrors
12. Rocky Horror Picture Show
13. Hair
14. Victor/Victoria
15. Guys and Dolls
16. Damn Yankees
17. Anything Goes
18. Chicago
19. Sweeny Todd
20. Jersey Boys
21. Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
22. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
23. The Buffy musical, Once more with feeling
24. Gigi
25. Crazy for You

John Waters, who I love, says that Crybaby was his musical.  He never saw Hairspray as a musical.  I love Crybaby so much.  Its so cheesy, and it has Johnny Depp and Iggy Pop.

[ColeStratton]

Here's my list. I guess I'm one of the few that was just like "Meh" about the South Park movie, though I did include Book of Mormon on my list. I also skewed mostly with Broadway musicals. I did see "Once" on Broadway a few months back -- it translated super well to the stage. The Frames are my all time favorite band (Glen Hansard wrote me a wedding blessing note as I was getting married the day after I went to one of their concerts) and I was thrilled with the success of the movie and the Swell Season since then.

Matilda is fresh to Broadway, but it's gonna clean up at the Tonys. Just a delightful, awesome musical with music by Tim Minchin!

1.   Into the Woods
2.   Chess
3.   Hedwig and the Angry Inch
4.   West Side Story
5.   Evita
6.   Once
7.   Matilda: The Musical
8.   Sweeney Todd
9.   Little Shop of Horrors
10.   Avenue Q
11.   The Music Man
12.   Grease
13.   Les Miserables
14.   The Pirate Movie
15.   How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
16.   The Book of Mormon
17.   Sunday in the Park with George
18.   Next to Normal
19.   Jersey Boys
20.   The Full Monty
21.   The Phantom of the Opera
22.   Snoopy!
23.   Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
24.   Follies
25.   Red, White and Blaine (from Waiting for Guffman)

[Starman!]

I don't know what the exact rules were for musicals since I didn't take part in this, but why is The Book of Mormon not on this list?!

As for Across the Universe, even I don't like that movie and Bono's in it!

Speaking of, where's Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark? (I kid, I kid)

[CJones]

I don't know what the exact rules were for musicals since I didn't take part in this, but why is The Book of Mormon not on this list?!

Probably because too few of us has seen it. I had it on my list, but to be honest, I've only seen excerpts of it.

[Johnny Unusual]

Yeah, it's only on stage for now, though it looks like Matt and Trey have a new production company, with the plan to make it a movie!

[Starman!]

Yeah, I guess I didn't think of that. I didn't know they were planning a movie!