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EVITA

Directed by Alan Parker / 1996 - Starring: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus, Julian Littman - Songs: Andrew Lloyd Webebr & Tim Rice

Rated by Jorge: * * *


EXPRESSO BONGO

Directed by Val Guest / 1959 - Starring: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Cliff Richards, Yolande Donlan, Hermione Baddeley - Songs: David Heneker & Monty Norman

Rated by Jorge: * *


THE FANTASTICKS

Directed by Michael Ritchie / 2000 - Starring: Jean Louisa Kelly, Joseph McIntyre, Joel Grey, Barnard Hughes, Jonathon Morris - Songs: Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones


FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Directed by Norman Jewison / 1971 - Starring: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon - Songs: Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick

Rated by Jorge: * * *


FINIAN'S RAINBOW

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola / 1968 - Starring: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Hancock, Al Freeman Jnr. - Songs: Burton Lane & E. Y. Harburg

Rated by Jorge: * * *


FLOWER DRUM SONG

Directed by Henry Koster / 1961 - Starring: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, Sen Yung - Songs: Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II

 


FUNNY FACE

Directed by Stanley Donen / 1956 - Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng - Songs: George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


FUNNY GIRL

Directed by William Wyler / 1968 - Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Lee Allen, Gerald Mohr, Frank Faylen - Songs: Jule Styne & Bob Merrill

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

Directed by Richard Lester / 1966 - Starring: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford, Michael Hordern, Buster Keaton, Patricia Jessel, Leon Greene, Beatrix Lehmann - Songs: Stephen Sondheim

Rated by Jorge: * * *


GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

Directed by Howard Hawks / 1953 - Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Norma Varden, Elliott Reid, George Winslow - Songs: Jule Styne & Leo Robin

Rated by Jorge: * * *


GODSPELL

Directed by David Greene / 1973 - Starring: Victor Garber, David Haskell, Jerry Sroka, Lynne Thigpen, Robin Lamont - Songs: Stephen Schwartz


GOOD NEWS

Directed by Charles Walters / 1947 - Starring: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken, Mel Tormé - Songs: De Sylva, Brown & Henderson

Rated by Jorge: * * *


GREASE

Directed by Randal Kleiser / 1978 - Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostley - Songs: Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey

Rated by Jorge: * * *


GUYS AND DOLLS

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz / 1955 - Starring: Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, B. S. Pully, Robert Keith, Sheldon Leonard, George E. Stone - Songs: Frank Loesser

Rated by Jorge: * * * * *


GYPSY

Directed by Mervyn Le Roy / 1962 - Starring: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood (dubbed by Marni Nixon) , Karl Malden, James Milhollin - Songs: Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


GYPSY

Directed by Emile Ardolino / 1993 - Starring: Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Edward Asner, Christine Ebersole, Michael Jeter, Andrea Martin, Linda Hart - Songs: Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim

Rated by Jorge: * * * * *


 

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