I was happy to see this Channel 4 countdown repeated on TV, because I never saw it when it was first broadcast, so even though I knew the list a little, I could easily forget it and enjoy the films I haven't seen from it. Hosted by Denise Van Outen, herself a star of related stage and screen shows, this counts down the greatest musicals in cinema, television and theatre. Musicals in the list include All That Jazz, Gigi, The Producers, Doctor Dolittle, The Jazz Singer, Easter Parade, Top Hat, Funny Girl, An American in Paris, Paint Your Wagon, On the Town, Cinderella, Carmen Jones; Hello, Dolly!, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Summer Holiday, A Star Is Born (Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland versions), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 8 Mile, South Pacific, The Nightmare Before Christmas, White Christmas, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Fiddler on the Roof, The Jungle Book, Calamity Jane, The King and I, Little Shop of Horrors, Bugsy Malone, Cabaret, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Lion King, My Fair Lady, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Moulin Rouge, Oliver!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Singin' in the Rain, Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, and number one Grease. With contributions from Bugsy Malone's Scott Baio, Michael Ball, John Barrowman, Leslie Caron, Willy Wonka's Julie Dawn Cole, Jeff Conaway, Brian Conley, Didi Conn, Jamie Cullum, Roy Disney, Mis-Teeq, EastEnders' Anita Dobson, Four Poofs and a Piano, Sadie Frost, Carrie Grant, Cabaret's Joel Grey, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Tony Hadley, Anthony Head, Amanda Holden, Chitty Chitty's Sally Ann Howes, Blur's Alex James, Norman Jewison, Mark Kermode, Randal Kleiser, John Landis, Bonnie Langford, Mark Lester, Lord Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Traci Lords, Matt Lucas, Rob Marshall, Shazia Mirza, Ron Moody, Richard O'Brien, Miss Piggy (Frank Oz), Elaine Paige, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Sir Alan Parker, Greg Proops, Annie's Aileen Quinn, Rocky Horror's Patricia Quinn, Bruce Reitherman, Sir Cliff Richard, Joan Rivers, Jane Russell, Ken Russell, Susan Sarandon, Phillip Schofield, Omar Sharif, Richard Sherman, Adam Smith, Mel Stuart, Claire Sweeney, Topol, Kim Wilde, Jonathan Wilkes, Toyah Willcox, Esther Williams, Jason Wood, Michael York and many more. Very good!
Review of The 100 Greatest Musicals
