# Best Movie Musical Numbers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649 "2001-07-24T18:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649/61 "2001-07-29T00:56:55Z")
“The Next to Last Song” from Dancer in the Dark. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649/62 "2001-07-29T04:29:11Z")
No votes for the numbers from “The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert”? I’m shocked! Dragonblink the Drag King ---
**Author:** ![NicoleMarieBernadette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@NicoleMarieBernadette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicoleMarieBernadette)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649/63 "2001-07-29T05:31:50Z")
I’m new here so I hope I’m not infringing or breaking the etiquitte of the boards but I noticed there was not one mention of one of my favorites Grease “Summer Lovin’” “Sandra Dee” “Greased Lightnin’” I know they weren’t Fred and Ginger but there was certainly some chemistry between John Travolta and Oliva Newtom John! Other musicals with big production numbers that are favs of mine: Anchors Aweigh Singin’ In The Rain Wizard of Oz The Sound of Music Mary Poppins White Christmas just to name a few 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649/64 "2001-07-29T20:11:38Z")
“Springtime for Hitler” from The Producers. “The Rabbit of Seville” from The Rabbit of Seville. (Always Look on) The Bright Side of Life from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649/65 "2001-07-30T03:14:25Z")
For the sake of my almost three year old I have to second Donald O’Connor’s “Make Em Laugh” number from Singing in the Rain. He (my three year old) dances to it and does pratfalls… I prefer the “Moses Supposes” number from the same film. Temple and Robinson in “The Little Colonel” for the cuteness factor. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649/66 "2001-07-30T13:40:41Z")
And no one’s mentioned **Hair**? Now, the play has aged dreadfully (to the point that I’m deeply suspicious of whether it was _ever_ any good), but the Milos Formann film is really a gem. A few highlights: _Aquarius_ _Black Boys/White Boys_ (with Nell Carter!) _The Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In_ The Flesh Failures opens with this brilliant shot of a long line of soldiers bording a transport bound for Vietnam. Deeply affecting. And I’d argue **Yellow Submarine** merits a mention, especially for the unbelievably gorgeous _Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds_ sequence - if you haven’t seen the newly-restored version released last year, rent it! Oh, and the entire **Umbrellas of Cherbourg** , with the most radiantly beautiful Catherine Deneuve. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649/67 "2001-07-30T19:45:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OxyMoron \* > \*\*And no one’s mentioned **Hair**? > > Now, the play has aged dreadfully (to the point that I’m deeply suspicious of whether it was _ever_ any good)…\*\* Another 70’s musical that has **not** aged well…“GodSpell.” But it does have some great songs. “Day By Day” “Prepare Ye The Way” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-musical-numbers/73649.md?page=3)