Musicals! Your Favourite Musical Number

David · June 2014

Following up on a discussion elsewhere

My mum loved musicals, so I ended up watching so many I can't even remember all the ones I have seen until they come round again on TV. If you like musicals then you probably have a favourite musical number from a movie (or two), add yours here! It'll serve as a double bonus for some of us to watch them for the first time, or even again!

To start: here's one of my fav musical numbers from one of my favourite musicals

jayn_j · June 2014

I'm at work now and don't have time to dig up clips. My problem is that I absolutely love old musicals and it would be difficult to narrow it down to just a couple:

Title song from Singin' in the Rain
'Have yourself a very merry Christmas' from Meet Me in St Louis
'A Couple of Swells" from Easter Parade
"Brotherhood of Man" from How to Succeed in Business
"Skid Row" or "Big Bad Mother" from Little Shop of Horrors.
...

The list just goes on and on.

David · June 2014

This is one of my fav classical musicals, lot of people don't know that Yul Brynner performed this on stage over 2,000 times

Charlie · June 2014

Really! DNK...

Matt · June 2014

2000. Over how many years? :-O

HumphreyBogart · June 2014

I love funny face. Audreys dance sequence in a french bar is awesome!

HumphreyBogart · June 2014

David · June 2014

"In 1951, he landed the defining role of his career as the King of Siam in the original stage production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, The King and I. Brynner won a Tony Award for his role...He went on to star in and co-direct the film version of The King and I, and was intimately involved in virtually every aspect of the production."

Yup, he did the stage show before the film and then for many years after...

Bruce · June 2014

This was very common. An actor gets a perfect role and they perform it ad nauseum. Two examples of this are Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts and Jose Ferrer in Cyrano. I always wonder how they felt as they performed it for the 2,000th time!

[Deleted User] · June 2014

My favourite musical number at the moment is actually an entire movie as the whole movie is one musical number (every word that is spoken is sung)

Bruce · June 2014

Great choice! I have watched the ending a million times. A tad sad, wouldn't you say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbxCZC8-NQ

David · June 2014

Never seen it but read the synopsis...a real tear jerker by the looks of it

Peter · August 2014

The Cyd Charisse/Gene Kelly Broadway Melody Ballet from Singin in the Rain. In fact, the entire Kelly sequence is amazing.

Charlie · August 2014

When Debbie stresses the "morning" while on the table I fall in love...

David · August 2014

Always was impressed with this one, apparently O'Conner had to be hospitalised after doing this.

jayn_j · August 2014

Let me put up that Brotherhood of Man one.

David · August 2014

Love it!

Musicals! Your Favourite Musical Number

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