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PAINT YOUR WAGON

Directed by Joshua Logan / 1969 - Starring: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston - Songs: Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner

Rated by Jorge: * *


THE PAJAMA GAME

Directed by Stanley Donnen and George Abbott / 1957 - Starring: Doris Day, John Raitt, Eddie Foy Jnr., Reta Shaw, Carol Haney - Songs: Richard Adler & Jerry Ross

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


PAL JOEY

Directed by George Sidney / 1957 - Starring: Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, Bobby Sherwood, Hank Henry - Songs: Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

Rated by Jorge: * * *


THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Directed by Joel Schumacher / 2004 - Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Simon Callow, Ciaran Hinds - Songs: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Charles Hart

Rated by Jorge: * * *


THE PIRATE MOVIE

Directed by Ken Annakin / 1982 - Starring: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Garry Macdonald

Rated by Jorge: * *


THE PRODUCERS

Directed by Susan Stroman / 2005 - Starring: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Roger Bart, Jon Lovitz - Songs: Mel Brooks

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


RENT

Directed by Chris Columbus / 2005 - Starring: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs, Julia Roth, Porscha Radcliffe - Songs by Jonathan Larson


ROBERTA

Directed by William A. Seiter / 1935 - Starring: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Claire Dodd - Songs: Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh


THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

Directed by Jim Sharman / 1975 - Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn - Songs: Richard O'Brien

Rated by Jorge: * *


1776

Directed by Peter Hunt / 1972 - Starring: William Daniels, Howard da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, Blythe Danner - Songs: Sherman Edwards


SHOW BOAT

Directed by George Sidney / 1951 - Starring: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, William Warfield, Gower Champion - Songs: Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


SILK STOCKINGS

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian / 1957 - Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Peter Lorre, Jules Munshin, Janis Paige - Songs: Cole Porter

Rated by Jorge: * * * * *


SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS

Directed by Lewis Seiler / 1944 - Starring: Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Peggy Ryan, Perry Como, Judy Holliday - Songs: Cole Porter, Jimmy McHugh & Harold Adamson

Rated by Jorge: * * *


THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Directed by Robert Wise / 1965 - Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood - Songs: Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II

Rated by Jorge: * * * * *


SOUTH PACIFIC

Directed by Joshua Logan / 1958 - Starring: Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, Ray Walston, John Kerr, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen - Songs: Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II

Rated by Jorge: * *


SOUTH PACIFIC

Directed by Richard Pearce / 2001 - Starring: Glenn Close, Rade Serbedzija, Harry Connick Jr, Lori Tan Chinn, Natalie Jackson Mendoza - Songs: Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II


SWEET CHARITY

Directed by Bob Fosse / 1969 - Starring: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis Jr. - Songs: Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields

Rated by Jorge: * * *


SWEENEY TODD

Directed by Tim Burton / 2007 - Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter,Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Ed Sanders, Anthony Head, Peter Bowles - Songs: Stephen Sondheim

Rated by Jorge: * * *


THE THREEPENNY OPERA

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst / 1931 - Starring: Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Carole Neher, Reinhold Schünzel, Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert - Songs: Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill


THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN

Directed by Charles Walters / 1964 - Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley - Songs: Meredith Willson

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


WEST SIDE STORY

Directed by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins / 1961 - Starring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn - Songs: Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim

Rated by Jorge: * * * *


THE WIZ

Directed by Sidney Lumet / 1978 - Starring: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor - Songs: Charlie Smalls

Rated by Jorge: * *


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