Even though movie musicals were at their prime between the 1930s and 1950s, the 1960s still featured some phenomenal and ...

Learn about Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s - Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived ...

In the 1960s, film adaptations of Broadway's musicals were big box office events. The pinnacle was "The Sound of Music," winning Best Musical in 1960 over "Gypsy," though the latter still received ...

The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s” as “The Musical That Ate Hollywood.” Critics might disdain the schmaltzy 1965 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s smash play, but audiences ...

The new book Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals In the 1960’s has been on my desk taunting me for a few days. I’ve been poking through it and can’t find most of my favorite movie musicals ...

Even the popular film musicals churned out by the Dream Factory after 1928 posed no real threat to the aspirations of Broadway; film musicals ran only about 90 minutes, they were in black-and ...

A bit of wizardry, classic musicals, and two movies starring the elfin Robert Morse are on tap for this week’s movies on TV. Today “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” 10 p.m ...