Best Movie Musicals
Broadway Musicals Adapted to Film
Very rarely are Broadway musicals adapted well for the silver screen. Some stage plays just do not translate well to film and others are poorly cast or poorly written. However, when a musical is adapted well and paired with a superb cast, the result can be celluloid gold. A few adapted Broadway musicals have even won the Best Picture Oscar, including three that appear on our top ten list including West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Chicago. Broadway musicals come in many different shapes and ...

The 1950s - The Golden Age of Musical Films
1950s Musical Films - Hollywood's Golden Age of Musical Films
Musicals were an important and popular part of the American theater scene of the 1950s even though the Library of Congress dubbed that time as the least musical innovative. Many movies of the 50s were adaptations of the stage musicals; some transposed beautifully while others were not so successful. Rogers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe were two popular partnerships that created Broadway and consequently musical film productions. Despite the fact that many critics say the 1950s were th...

Top 10 Musicals
I Love Musicals!
Ever since I as a little girl, and I saw Julie Andrews twirling around and singing how the hills were alive with music, I was hooked. Over the years my tastes in music have changed again and again, yet I still love a really great musical, regardless of the musical style. I've always secretly wished that real life was more like a musical, and people would just burst into song whenever they had strong emotions. Because that's really what musicals are all about, the songs are moments of strong...

Broadway Meets Hollywood- The Quizzes
All Movie Musicals, All The Time
Musicals have been a staple on the stage since anyone can remember, but especially since the first part of last century. Musicals like "Cats," "Les Miserables," "The Sound of Music," "Chicago," and "The Lion King" have captured audiences of all ages. To make theatre more accessible, many of these wonderful shows have been turned into movies as well. These quizzes are all about just such movies. That does not include movies that are musicals, with lots of songs, but have not been on the stage ...

Greatest Musicals Ever Made
Musicals
Musicals are all about song and dance, and some things in between such as love = ] Here are a few musicals I grew up watching and the newer ones as well = ] Lots of musicals make you feel like you're in a whole other world, where you're happy and carefree and full of love!

My Favorite Musicals
All My Favorite Movie Musicals
My mother brought me up in a home full of music. Records albums, radio, television, and movies. The first musical I ever went to see in the theater was probably Fantasia by Walt Disney. Fantasia apparently was frightening to smaller children and I was one of them. I loved coloring books of the movie but the only thing I remember of it at the theater was being scared while watching one of the musical scenes where the screen was all solid colored and silhouettes danced while the orchestra playe...