The best musical of all time?

You're the twelfth person that's told me that...
Ironically, I only like two songs in carousel (You'll never walk again, um, alone, and what's the use of wond'rin). Just goes to show you how much variation there can be in one show.
I do quite like If I Loved You, but personally I don't think it's that good in the context of the show (it always remains me of 'don't like you' from the boys in the photograph. A few songs later and they're married. A bit superfluos really). However, I have only seen two productions of Carousel, so it might be the actor and actress involved and not the song.

I finally got the chance to see Camelot and State Fair a while back. I was unimpressed with both films.

"Camelot" was filmed on the old "Kung Fu" TV series set with David Carradine, just redressed to look like more like a castle. You know when they "borrow" a set, there isn't much effort put into making the film extraordinary, and no Julie Andrews or Richard Burton. It was way too long, also. Then the set was used again in the terrible "Lost Horizons" musical version. "State Fair" isn't one of Rodgers and Hart's best musicals but there's a couple of good songs in it that became standards. It likely looked better on the big screen because the prints I have seen are terrible with muted, almost distorted, sound. No excurse, really, as in the theaters it was CinemaScope and 4 channel stereo sound.

those old boyband songs. (Y) at 90's

For someone who claims to be a manager living in London, England, UK?

Your reading comprehension really stinks.

I'm not too keen on musicals as a genre and my choice probably reflects that.

I just skimmed through this thread and am stunned speechless (almost) that the Wizard of Oz wasn't mentioned. It's one of my favorite movie musicals.

When I saw the thread title, I thought it was referring to shows, not movies. Although I'm not a big fan of musicals, I've seen more than my fair share. The one that had the greatest impact on me was Les Miserables. The one that makes me smile when I think about it is Fiddler on the Roof. The first one I saw was Bells Are Ringing with Judy Holliday.

I've been listening to Mario Lanza. The Student Prince is pretty fabulous.

I wrote another musical related poll that got published at IMDb (shocking... I know!).
I Want ... Disney Songs!

Every time I channel surf, if I run across Fiddler on the Roof, or My Fair Lady, I get hooked and watch.

It's hard to beat the uplifting Sound of Music or My Fair Lady or even Westside Story where, as in Romeo and Juliet, everybody dies in the end. Another fabulous downer is Porgy and Bess produced in 1959 with Dorothy Dandridge and Sydney Poitier. Porgy and Bess is actually an opera, a splendid American opera that would make opera as popular here as it is in Europe except that it requires an all-black cast, and there are few if any black opera companies, so it's very expensive to produce.

I don't know if Poitier actually did the singing, or he just mouthed the words like Natalie Wood did in West Side Story, but it worked out pretty well in popularizing the stories.

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.