Tony Award For Best Musical
by tonytv | created - 27 Jun 2018 | updated - 01 Apr 2023 | PublicFilms Adapted From Broadway Productions That Won The Tony Award For Best Musical
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1. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 299,280 | Gross: $57.39M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2021)
2. Little Songbird: Backstage at 'Hadestown' with Eva Noblezada (2019)
Reality-TV
Eva Noblezada, the multi-talented Hadestown star who recently received her second Tony nomination, has signed on to lead Broadway.com's latest vlog, "Little Songbird," beginning on May 9. ... See full summary »
Star: Eva Noblezada
Tony Award For Best Musical (2019)
3. The Band's Visit (2007)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Director: Eran Kolirin | Stars: Sasson Gabay, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour
Votes: 14,148 | Gross: $3.05M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2018)
4. Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
PG-13 | 137 min | Drama, Musical
Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high-school senior with social anxiety disorder, and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance after a classmate's suicide.
Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams
Votes: 18,588
Tony Award For Best Musical (2017)
5. Hamilton (2020)
PG-13 | 160 min | Biography, Drama, History
The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.
Director: Thomas Kail | Stars: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry
Votes: 113,636
Tony Award For Best Musical (2016)
6. Fun Home
Biography, Comedy, Drama | Pre-production
Based on the musical and Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir, "Fun Home" concerns Bechdel's discovery of her own sexuality, her relationship with her gay father, and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life.
Director: Sam Gold
Tony Award For Best Musical (2015)
7.
Theater Talk (1996– )
Episode:
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
(2014)
27 min | Talk-Show
Director: Elvin A. Badger | Stars: Susan Haskins, Woodie King Jr., Jefferson Mays, Bryce Pinkham
Tony Award For Best Musical (2014)
8. Kinky Boots: The Musical (2019)
135 min | Musical
A filmed version of the popular stage musical, in which a feisty drag queen attempts to rescue a shoe factory by designing fabulous and fetishistic footwear.
Directors: Jerry Mitchell, Brett Sullivan | Stars: Matt Henry, Killian Donnelly, Natalie McQueen, Sean Needham
Votes: 1,045 | Gross: $0.39M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2013)
9. Once (I) (2007)
R | 86 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick
Votes: 121,260 | Gross: $9.44M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2012)
10. The Book of Mormon
Comedy, Musical | Announced
Two young Latter-day Saints are sent on a mission to convince the people of a small village in Uganda to become part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Director: Casey Nicholaw | Star: Billy Peter
Tony Award For Best Musical (2011)
11. Memphis the Musical (2011)
Not Rated | 165 min | Musical
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original ... See full summary »
Director: Don Roy King | Stars: James Monroe Iglehart, Todrick Hall, Chad Kimball, Paul McGill
Votes: 284
Tony Award For Best Musical (2010)
12. Billy Elliot (2014)
R | 169 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
Directors: Stephen Daldry, Brett Sullivan | Stars: Elliott Hanna, Ollie Jochim, Bradley Perret, Matteo Zecca
Votes: 1,982
Tony Award For Best Musical (2009)
13. In the Heights (2021)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In Washington Heights, a sympathetic New York bodega owner saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera
Votes: 52,098
Tony Award For Best Musical (2008)
14. Spring Awakening (II)
87 min | Drama | Completed
From the 1891 Masterpiece, written by German playwright Frank Wedekind, comes the true tale of teenagers growing up in an oppressed society, finding ways to fight back and discovering as individuals who they truly are.
Director: Kurt Leitner | Stars: Kenneth Fantry, Dan Sickles, Kaitlyn C. Burke, Alyssa Lee Lewis
Tony Award For Best Musical (2007)
15. Jersey Boys (2014)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza
Votes: 36,557 | Gross: $47.03M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2006)
Tony Award For Best Musical (2005)
17.
Working in the Theatre (1976– )
Episode:
Production: Avenue Q
(2003)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Members of the creative team of the Tony-winning musical "Avenue Q" -- Robert Lopez (Composer/Lyricist), Rick Lyon (Puppet Designer/Actor), Jeff Marx (Composer/Lyricist),and Jeff Whitty (... See full summary »
Director: Adam Walker | Stars: Robyn Goodman, Robert Lopez, Rick Lyon, Jeff Marx
Tony Award For Best Musical (2004)
18. Hairspray (2007)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Michelle Pfeiffer
Votes: 138,686 | Gross: $118.87M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2003)
19. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
G | 138 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In New York City during the Roaring Twenties, would-be flapper Millie Dillmount's self-appointed mission to marry her boss is complicated by white slavers and true love.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
Votes: 7,029 | Gross: $34.34M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2002)
20. The Producers (2005)
PG-13 | 134 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Director: Susan Stroman | Stars: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
Votes: 44,768 | Gross: $19.38M
Tony Award For Best Musical (2001)
21. Contact (2002 TV Movie)
120 min | Musical
Stars: Sean Martin Hingston, Scott Taylor, Joanne Manning, Charlotte d'Amboise
Votes: 49
Tony Award For Best Musical (2000)
22.
Great Performances: Dance in America (1976– )
Episode:
From Broadway: Fosse
(2001)
127 min | Music
A filmed Broadway production of a 1999 tribute that strings together acclaimed choreographer Bob Fosse's "greatest hits."
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, Eugene Fleming, Edwaard Liang
Votes: 176
Tony Award For Best Musical (1999)
23. The Lion King (1994)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg
Votes: 1,141,774 | Gross: $422.78M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1998)
24. Titanic (1996)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the 1912 sinking of the largest luxury liner ever built, the tragedy that befell over two thousand of the rich and famous as well as of the poor and unknown passengers aboard the doomed ship.
Stars: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint
Votes: 4,677
Tony Award For Best Musical (1997)
25. Rent (2005)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 55,913 | Gross: $29.08M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1996)
26. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,360
Tony Award For Best Musical (1995)
27. Passion (1996 TV Movie)
114 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In 19th century Italy, a young soldier becomes shattered by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin.
Director: James Lapine | Stars: Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, Marin Mazzie, Gregg Edelman
Votes: 333
Tony Award For Best Musical (1994)
28. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
R | 120 min | Drama
A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
Director: Hector Babenco | Stars: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, José Lewgoy
Votes: 17,346 | Gross: $17.04M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1993)
29.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Crazy for You
(1999)
TV-G | Music, Musical
Bobby Child, scion of a New York banking family (and also a talented song-and-dance man), is sent by his mother to foreclose the Gaiety Theatre in Deadrock, Nevada. Once there, however, he ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Bruce Adler, Lori Alexander, Jeb Brown, Jane Connell
Votes: 159
Tony Award For Best Musical (1992)
30. The Will Rogers Follies (1991 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 144 min | Comedy, Musical
A filmed version of the Broadway musical focusing on the life of Will Rogers.
Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Keith Carradine, Dee Hoty, Roxane Barlow, Bonnie Brackney
Votes: 27
Tony Award For Best Musical (1991)
31. City of Angels (I)
Comedy, Musical | Announced
A writer named Stine in 1940s Hollywood tries to adapt his book into a screenplay and becomes immersed into the fictional world of his leading man, Stone, a hard-boiled detective looking to... See full summary »
Director: Barry Levinson
Tony Award For Best Musical (1990)
32. Live from Studio 8H: An Evening with Jerome Robbins (1980 TV Special)
90 min | Music
Director: Rodney Greenberg | Stars: Peter Martins, Patricia McBride
Votes: 10
Tony Award For Best Musical (1989)
33. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 130,649 | Gross: $51.27M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1988)
34. Les Misérables (2012)
PG-13 | 158 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
Votes: 345,955 | Gross: $148.81M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1987)
35. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012)
120 min | Drama, Mystery
An exploration of Charles Dicken's unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined.
Stars: Matthew Rhys, Freddie Fox, Tamzin Merchant, Rory Kinnear
Votes: 1,126
Tony Award For Best Musical (1986)
36. The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Missouri, during the 1840s, young Huck Finn fearful of his drunkard father and yearning for adventure, leaves his foster family and joins with runaway slave Jim in a voyage down the Mississippi River toward slavery free states.
Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards
Votes: 9,239 | Gross: $24.10M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1985)
37. La Cage aux Folles (1978)
R | 97 min | Comedy
The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Rémi Laurent
Votes: 11,906 | Gross: $20.42M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1984)
38. Cats (2019)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba
Votes: 55,902
Tony Award For Best Musical (1983)
39. Nine (2009)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori
Votes: 45,250 | Gross: $19.68M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1982)
40. 42nd Street (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 13,036 | Gross: $2.30M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1981)
41. Evita (1996)
PG | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail
Votes: 37,569 | Gross: $50.05M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1980)
42. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall
Votes: 386,848 | Gross: $52.90M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1979)
43. Ain't Misbehavin' (1982 TV Movie)
120 min | Musical
Televised version of the Broadway sensation celebrating the music, life and times of 'Fats' Waller, featuring 29 songs he wrote or performed.
Director: Don Mischer | Stars: Nell Carter, André De Shields, Armelia McQueen, Ken Page
Votes: 195
Tony Award For Best Musical (1978)
44. Annie (1982)
PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking
Votes: 49,484 | Gross: $57.06M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1977)
45. A Chorus Line (1985)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges
Votes: 11,624 | Gross: $14.20M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1976)
46. The Wiz (1978)
G | 134 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross
Votes: 17,035 | Gross: $21.05M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1975)
47. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Approved | 128 min | Drama
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands
Votes: 9,565
Tony Award For Best Musical (1974)
48. A Little Night Music (1977)
PG | 124 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An actress, her married ex-lover, her current lover's wife and other guests gather at a circa-1900 estate.
Director: Harold Prince | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down
Votes: 919
Tony Award For Best Musical (1973)
49. The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 137 min | Comedy
In 16th century Italy, two inseparable friends suddenly become rivals for the love of a noblewoman.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Frank Barrie, Tessa Peake-Jones, Hetta Charnley, Tyler Butterworth
Votes: 129
Tony Award For Best Musical (1972)
50.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Company: A Musical Comedy
(2007)
Not Rated | 132 min | Music, Musical
Centering on Bobby, a confirmed bachelor celebrating his 35th birthday with his 10 closest friends (who also happen to be five couples), "Company" culminates in Bobby's transformation from unattached swinger to tentative monogamist.
Director: Lonny Price | Stars: Kelly Jeanne Grant, Angel Desai, Elizabeth Stanley, Matt Castle
Votes: 514
Tony Award For Best Musical (1971)
51. Applause (1973 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Musical
An aspiring actress, whose sugar-coated appearance belies her ruthless drive, worms herself into the life of an aging star and schemes to replace her on the stage as the star of a new play.
Directors: Ron Field, Bill Foster | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Larry Hagman, Penny Fuller, Sarah Marshall
Votes: 189
Tony Award For Best Musical (1970)
52. 1776 (1972)
G | 141 min | Drama, Family, History
A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.
Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden
Votes: 10,305 | Gross: $6.10M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1969)
53. Halleluja (1968 TV Movie)
47 min
Hallelujah is one of Kagel's major works, a surreal story about the mouth and it's many permutations. Hands, eyes, lips, tongues, etc are in quite a quandary without means of escape.
Director: Mauricio Kagel
Tony Award For Best Musical (1968)
54. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,371 | Gross: $42.77M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1967)
55. Man of La Mancha (1972)
PG | 132 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews
Votes: 4,759 | Gross: $3.79M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1966)
56. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon
Votes: 47,844 | Gross: $80.50M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1965)
57. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
G | 146 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew
Votes: 16,956 | Gross: $7.24M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1964)
58. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical
A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford
Votes: 9,844
Tony Award For Best Musical (1963)
59. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
Approved | 121 min | Comedy, Musical
Armed with the titular manual, an ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder.
Director: David Swift | Stars: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Anthony 'Scooter' Teague
Votes: 5,141 | Gross: $6.32M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1962)
60. Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Approved | 112 min | Comedy, Musical
A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 9,325 | Gross: $13.13M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1961)
61. The Sound of Music (1965)
G | 172 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn
Votes: 260,950 | Gross: $163.21M
Tony Award for Best Musical (1960)
62. Redhead (1962)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A redhead, approaching forty, is bored with her husband and with life in general. Having an affair with another man fails to produce the excitement she is craving. So she leaves Germany, ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Ruth Leuwerik, Rossano Brazzi, Giorgio Albertazzi, Harry Meyen
Votes: 132
Tony Award for Best Musical (1959)
63. The Music Man (1962)
G | 151 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.
Director: Morton DaCosta | Stars: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 19,163 | Gross: $14.95M
Tony Award for Best Musical (1958)
64. My Fair Lady (1964)
G | 170 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 101,793 | Gross: $72.00M
Tony Award for Best Musical (1957)
65. Damn Yankees (1958)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Stars: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown
Votes: 3,439
Tony Award for Best Musical (1956)
66. The Pajama Game (1957)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Stars: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 4,107
Tony Award for Best Musical (1955)
67. Kismet (1955)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Musical, Fantasy
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen | Stars: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone
Votes: 1,682
Tony Award for Best Musical (1954)
68. My Sister Eileen (1942)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy
Two sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias
Votes: 1,734
Tony Award For Best Musical (1953)
69. The King and I (1956)
G | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson
Votes: 27,914 | Gross: $21.30M
Tony Award for Best Musical (1952)
70. Guys and Dolls (1955)
Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Votes: 19,353 | Gross: $13.00M
Tony Award for Best Musical (1951)
71. South Pacific (1958)
Approved | 157 min | Musical, Romance, War
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston
Votes: 9,799
Tony Award For Best Musical (1950)
72. Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 6,798 | Gross: $4.38M
Tony Award For Best Musical (1949)
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