Guys and Dolls
Broadway hustler Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) bets high-flying gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) that he cannot take Christian missionary Sergeant Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) on a date, in this 1955 […]
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Coyote Ugly
Violet (Piper Perabo) leaves New Jersey for New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter but ends up working at a dive bar in this 2000 drama they […]
Six
The six wives of Henry VIII hold a singing competition in this West End musical they should have called The Ex-Factor. Or The Tudorvision Song Contest. Or The Reformation Eras […]
Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Emmy Rossum (Shameless) and Gerard Butler (talentless) star in this 2004 adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has been running on the West End since 1986. After watching […]
Oklahoma!
The original Rodgers and Hammerstein musical is revamped at the Young Vic in all its bucking glory. But this is no corny production or cowboy operation; Daniel Fish and Jordan Fein have […]
Dreamgirls
Bill Condon goes from Chicago to Detroit in this Oscar-winning musical about a Motown-type girl group (Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose and Beyoncé). Few genres are as homogeneous as music movies, […]
Heathers the Musical
Lately it seems as though musical producers are working their way through the alphabet for films to ruin, starting with Amélie and Back to the Future before moving on to […]
Little Shop of Horrors
A nerdy florist (Rick Moranis) discovers an all-singing, all-dancing, all-consuming alien plant (the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs) in this 1986 horror musical. Just as John Waters’ Hairspray went from indie […]
Anna and the Apocalypse
An all-singing, all-shuffling ensemble deliver a pandemic in the key of George A. Romero in this 2017 zombie musical that one might call Song of the Dead. The singalong story […]
Rhinestone
Multi-Razzie-nominated Rhinestone belongs in the rare subcategory of films based on songs (in this case Rhinestone Cowboy; the country song, not the Madvillain track) alongside Love Me Tender, Yellow Submarine […]
Screen Goblin 