Oscar Hammerstein
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Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winner of five, The Sound of Music was the number one box office champion from 1966 to 1972 according to Variety's survey. Today it stands as the most successful movie musical of all time. This special edition includes a very special nod to the music's impact and influence on younger generations: My Favorite Things, sung by Lea Michele of the hit TV show Glee.
5) Oklahoma!
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"The Royal National Theatre's Olivier Award-winning 1998 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman as Curly. This Rodgers & Hammerstein classic is an exuberant and tuneful musical full of cowboys, farmers, romance and fearless optimism."--Container.
Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.
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Reba McEntire sings the Broadway role of Nellie Forbush in the stage production of South Pacific accompanied by Broadway and Hollywood icons Brian Stokes Mitchell as the French planter Emile de Becque, and Alec Baldwin as wise-guy sailor Luther Bills.
A concert performance South Pacific at Carnegie Hall.
10) Sweet Adeline
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A lushly tuneful nineties musical about the trials of Adeline Schmidt, a singer who could rise from headlining at her father's Hoboken beer garden to starring on Broadway, if she can straighten out her love life. Will she choose the dashing Spanish-American war hero backing her show or the brash tunesmith who's all work and no romance?
12) The great waltz
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Poldi is the wife of composer Johann Strauss, but she is forced to sit and sulk as her husband carries on a lengthy affair. But husband and wife mend their differences shortly before being introduced to the court of Emperor Franz Josef.
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The timeless magic of Cinderella returns with Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1965 version of the classic tale filled with music, singing and magic. A poor and mistreated servant girl is transformed into a beautiful princess with the help of her fairy godmother, a pumpkin, a glass slipper and belief in impossible things in order to attend a lavish ball and find her prince!
14) Reckless
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"A Broadway star married for love. The tabloids say she murdered for money. ... [Jean Harlow] plays musical star Mona Leslie, the bride of a champagne-stewed blueblood. When he blows his brains out, Mona is suspected of his murder, igniting a media frenzy"--Container.
15) South Pacific
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Set in the Pacific theater during World War II, this musical film explores the theme of racial prejudice in two parallel stories--that of a Navy nurse's love for a plantation owner with two Eurasian children, and a Marine lieutenant's love for a native woman.
17) State fair
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Each member of the Frake family seeks a different prize when they attend the Iowa State Fair.
18) Show boat
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Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
20) Rose Marie
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Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the most famous film of their careers! Resounding with such songs as "Rose-Marie, I Love You," "Song of the Mounties" and the beloved "Indian Love Call," Rose-Marie immortalized Hollywood's greatest singing team. This 1936 screen version of the Rudolf Friml-Herbert Stothart Broadway hit is set in the breathtaking wilderness of the Canadian Rockies. Marie de Flor (MacDonald), a glamorous Canadian prima donna, is...