# New! Improved! Musical Lovers' Salon and Debating Society **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308 "2005-05-04T01:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308/21 "2005-07-20T19:04:23Z")
Take it up with **Archive Guy** – **lamia** and I both voted for “something by Busby Berkeley” but didn’t get sufficiently specific, so he did. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308/22 "2005-07-20T19:21:19Z")
Given that **Footlight** may be my favorite musical ever, you’ll get no argument about how _GD’35_ belongs on a much lower tier. Unwatchable? Well, that’s open to debate (note our group name), plus sometimes, mediocre musicals have indelible moments, and those are worth exploring, too. This was never about exploring the “best” as mere canon fodder–we wanted to cast things a bit farther afield. _GD’35_ seemed a good place to start (and obviously, any discussion of Busby will bring up his superior works anyway…) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308/23 "2005-07-23T03:10:01Z")
Okay, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6397447#post6397447)’s the **8 Women** thread. Not the most brilliant OP ever – sorry! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308/24 "2005-07-23T12:04:06Z")
Oh, forgot to remind y’all of the next film – **Gold-Diggers of 1935**. Two weeks would be Friday the 5th – let’s say Monday the 8th, it’s summertime and the livin’ is easy. 😃 (woo hoo! I’m on vacation the first week of August! I’m probably gonna be late to that thread as well.) **Archive Guy** will be providing the OP. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308/25 "2005-08-17T01:50:33Z")
**Archive Guy** tells me he’ll be doing the OP for **Gold Diggers** sometime early next week. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308/26 "2005-08-30T16:49:46Z")
Dunno what happened to **ArchiveGuy** – since I haven’t found a copy of this, I can’t write an OP. (I’ve seen it – on the big screen, even – but not recently.) Rather than hold things up indefinitely, let’s set a date for the next film: **Cabaret** – OP on Tuesday, September 13th. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308/27 "2005-08-30T17:09:29Z")
I’ll be posting the OP today–sorry about the delay… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-improved-musical-lovers-salon-and-debating-society/302308.md?page=1)