Top 5 classic musicals on DVD

List by Annie

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But man, there's no boundary line to art."
- Charlie Parker

Thanks to my mum, I have an ingrained love of classic musicals. Thanks to my dad, I also laugh at them.

These are my favourite musicals I could re-watch again and again. And can sing many of the songs.

Honourable mentions:

Darby O'Gill and the little people [DVD videorecording] / directed by Robert. An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together - YouTube link: This has a signing Sean Connery!

Paint your wagon [DVD videorecording] / directed by Joshua Logan. The story of a goldmining boom town centering on the work-and-play partnership of two miners and the wife they share - YouTube link: Lee Marvin AND Clint Eastwood singing...

Seven brides for seven brothers [DVD videorecording] / directed by Stanley Donen. Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers -- all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness . . . kidnap the women they want! - YouTube link: The barn dance is amazing!

Top 5 old-school animated classics for the family

List by Danielle

Look for the bare necessities / the simple bare necessities

Forget about your worries and your strife...

~ Baloo, the Jungle Book (1967)

As road-tested on pre-schoolers! If you're getting tired of the glossy geometry and smooth surfaces of modern 3-D characters, and the hefty doses of morality, education and behavioural lessons, kick back and enjoy some of our older offerings... guaranteed to include catchy soundtracks inspired by jazz, scat, country and folk music, rip-roaring villains who made evil look sexay, and the kind of friendships between kids and animals that will make your under fives go awwwww... can we get a bear, mummy?

Top 5 musicals on dvd

List by Jax Williams

"Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time."
- David Fincher

Hard to choose just 5 - in the end I had to cut from my list:

• Chicago
• Moulin Rouge
• Annie
• The Sound of Music
  

After a lot of scribbling and crossing out here's my final list.