Emily Omar's FAVORITE MUSICALS

Unfamiliar with musicals, why not give these a try!
Listed here are 15 of my all-time favorite musicals.


Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Howard Keel as Adam Pontipee and
Jane Powell as Milly Pontipee


On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Doris Day as Marjie Winfield and
Gordon MacRae as Bill Sherman


West Side Story (1961)
Natalie Wood as Maria and
Richard Beymer as Tony


Carousel (1956)
Gordon MacRae as Billy Bigelow and
Shirley Jones as Julie Jordan


Show Boat (1951)
Kathryn Grayson as Magnolia Hawks,
Ava Gardner as Julie LaVerne and
Howard Keel as Gaylord Ravenal


Hello Dolly! (1969)
22 year old Barbra Streisand playing 40 year old Dolly Levi
and Walter Matthau as Horace Vandergelder


The Sound of Music (1965)
A favorite around the world, with Julie Andrews in a never forgetable role, as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg von Trapp


Evita (1996)
More of an opera than a Hollywood musical which should have given a chance at an Oscar to Madonna, but Madonna had turned the voters against her, Antonio Banderas was excellent in his role as the person telling the background for Evita's rising stardom.
Madonna plays Eva Perón and Antonio Banderas plays Che


Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Such beautiful music and a great story line
with Topol as Tevye and
Norma Crane as Golde


Gigi (1958)
Leslie Caron as Gigi, Louis Jourdan as Gaston Lachaille,
Maurice Chevalier as Honore Lachaille and
Hermione Gingold as Madame Alvarez


Brigadoon (1954)
Gene Kelly as Tommy Albright,
Van Johnson as Jeff Douglas and
Cyd Charisse as Fiona Campbell


My Fair Lady (1964)
Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and
Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins


State Fair (1945)
Jeanne Crain as Margy Frake and
Dana Andrews as Pat Gilbert


Singin' in the Rain (1952)
See the unforgetable Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood,
the multi-talented Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown,
Debbie Reynolds in one of her finest roles as Kathy Selden
and the hilarious Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont


Yentl (1983)
Barbra Streisand as Yentl (aka Anshel),
Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor and
Amy Irving as Hadass

There are so many of my favorite musicals. This is just a sampling to get you started. Hopefully, after these, you, too, will love musicals and there will be no stopping you.


*Contributed by: "Emily Omar" Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2005 / 06:43:40 PST