11. Fiddler on the Roof
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris
Plot: Tevye is a milkman, a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia who tries to adhere to tradition while his daughters grow up and the world changes.
12. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Musical
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Jacques d'Amboise, Jane Powell, Julie Newmar
Plot: Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin.
13. Les Misérables
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tom Hooper
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen
Plot: Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel-turned-musical - paroled prisoner Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) seeks redemption and a new life, and so breaks his parole. Set Amidst the French Revolution, he is pursued by Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) and has the chance to change the fortunes in the life of Fantine (Anne Hathaway) and her daughter Cosette (Amanda Seyfried).
14. The Music Man
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Morton DaCosta
Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
Plot: Professor Harold Hill, a gilt-edged con artist, tricks the citizens of River City into organizing a boys band so he can sell them nonexistent band instruments.
15. Meet Me in St. Louis
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Tom Drake
Plot: A year in the life of a well-to-do St. Louis family and their four daughters is recounted, leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
16. Rent
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel
Plot: A year in the life of a group of bohemians living in the East Village of New York and their struggle with relationships, drugs, AIDS and life.
17. Cabaret
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper
Plot: An entertainer in Germany during WW II entertains a couple of men while the Nazi party begins to come to fruition.
18. The Phantom of the Opera
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds
Plot: At the most popular opera house in Paris, a masked man haunts the aspiring star. But when another man starts to pay attention to her, her "guardian angel" swears to have her all to herself. Now she must choose between her childhood sweetheart and her mentor.
19. Top Hat
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Sandrich
Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick
Plot: Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
20. Nashville
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Shelley Duvall, Scott Glenn, Barbara Baxley, Keith Carradine
Plot: During a political convention a group of unrelated people learn secrets
and lies about what is really going on.
