No I ain't gay.

I just like showtunes.

My Pick for the best is Grease!

Grease 2, it's more canadian.

Without any shadow of doubt the best musical ever turned into a film was My Fair Lady

PREDOMINANT said:

You stole my answer!

One of my favorite movies ever.

FruitToAttractBears said:

I could watch it a 1000 times, great cast, great story, great songs.....
.....and no, I am not gay either

PREDOMINANT said:

There was a time where there wasn't anything else on our TV. My dad (not gay either) must have watched this over 50 times over about a 6-month period. We all kind of became obsessed with it. Now that I think about it, I quote this movie all the time...

"This where ya wawsh claowz?!"

And OMG her "polite conversation" at the race "does me in" every time.

That movie is perfect.

in no particular order:

hedwig and the angry inch
chicago
evita
little shop of horrors
sound of music
a funny thing happened on the way to the forum
grease (which is a VAST improvement on the play)
reefer madness

1) West Side Story

2) Oliver

3) Camelot

4) The Sound of Music

5) Mame

6) Chicago

cborgman said:

Which one?

FruitToAttractBears said:

only one musical version. the older non-musical movie (with nicholson in a small role) is what the musical was based on

purplerein said:

definitely.

i forgot that one

cborgman said:

Whoa I didn't even know that. All this time I thought the musical came first. Makes sense though.

That was Jack's debut by the way
[Edited 9/29/06 6:08am]

FruitToAttractBears said:

the movie (Jack) was in 1960, became a big cult hit over the years, and then the musical was put off-broadway in 1982, also developed cult following, and then they made the movie in 1986.

I'm gonna say Grease just because of John Travolta's hair

[Edited 9/29/06 6:27am]

FruitToAttractBears said:

Me too!

Hotstuff said:

that was never a musical made into a movie, it was written for the movies.

Dreamgirls is getting huge oscar buzz, so that should be good, and Hairspray is brilliantly cast, so those are this years contenders.

my fair lady

me and my girl

oklahoma

caberet

the music man

man of la mancha

purplerein said:

that's another one i forgot

Singin in the Rain is one of the finest films ever, not just out of musicals, but out of every film in existence.

kidelrich said:

Ooh I forgot about that one! Definitely...

but how sad is it that I originally learned the song from A Clockwork Orange?

Grease