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The Musical Musical
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An inordinate number of musicals are about professional singers and dancers, who are themselves sometimes performing in musicals. The advantages are obvious — the creators get to write what they know, the characters actually have a good reason to keep breaking into song (this doesn't mean that they don't still break into song off stage as well), and musical numbers can be thrown in without needing any kind of plot relevance. A Sub-Trope of Music Stories. Compare with Most Writers Are Writers, Set Behind the Scenes, and Show Within a Show. See also That Reminds Me of a Song. |
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On with the Show! | |
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In Footlight Parade, James Cagney has to impress some skeptical producers by putting on three big musical numbers in one night. | |
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Kiss Me, Kate — often described as a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew — would be more accurately described as a musical about a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. | |
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Smash is about the conception and production of a Broadway musical. | |
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Bye Bye Birdie is about a 50s rock singer performing one last concert before he goes off to the army. | |
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Just like the movie it's based on, Sister Act is about a lounge singer who goes into hiding at a convent, taking over said convent's choir. | |
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The Drowsy Chaperone is a about an agoraphobic musical-lover listening to his collection of musical records. His favorite one—The Drowsy Chaperone—which he listens to with the audience, is about the wedding of two 1920s musical stars, and several other supporting characters in that show are related to the stage as well (although there's no musical in the show-within-a-show). There's also a scene from a different, also made up show called Message from a Nightengale, an obvious riff on The King and I. | |
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Ziegfeld Girl is about three women who join the Ziegfield Follies. Songs and musical numbers follow. | |
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Every High School Musical film is about the staging of a high school musical. Not the second, though it is about a talent contest that many of the cast members are planning to sing at. Even better, the first two films have stage adaptations. |
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Gypsy is about a vaudeville dancer who transitions into the Burlesque scene. | |
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Bright Lights focuses on the performers in a Broadway show called Bright Lights. The female lead is leaving show business to marry a rich guy but her male co-star and old admirer is jealous. Lots of musical numbers. | |
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The Commitments is about a working-class Irish band. | |
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The Music Man is a light example: Harold Hill is selling band instruments, band uniforms and the false promise of starting a band. At the very end the band does wind up performing, once, not very well. The fact that his love interest is a music teacher adds to things a bit. | |
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42nd Street is a musical about Peggy Sawyer and her having to learn all the dance steps, songs and lines in the In-Musical production The Pretty Lady in a night after accidentally breaking the leg of the intended leading woman, Dorothy Brock. | |
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Cabaret, as the title suggests, is about performers in a cabaret. | |
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Chicago is about a wannabe singer, with the secondary female lead a former singer ("former" because now she's in prison). They both get out of prison and become famous performers. | |
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In Darling Lili, Julie Andrews plays a World War I music hall singer. | |
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Heads Up is about a long-running musical adding an extra performance after closing. | |
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Glee is about a high school glee club. | |
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Billy Elliot is about a boy who wants to be a dancer; the original was a film, but this trope applies to the musical adaptation. | |
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Hunky Dory is a film about students performing a glam rock musical version of The Tempest. | |
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The Broadway Melody (1929) is probably the first example, or one of the first. Two sisters with a song-and-dance act come to Broadway to make it big. | |
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In Top Hat, Fred Astaire plays a song-and-dance man. There's also Easter Parade (with Judy Garland and Ann Miller) and Blue Skies (also starring Bing Crosby). Also The Gay Divorcee, and The Barkleys of Broadway, which featured Ginger Rogers. | |
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Show Boat, as the title suggests, is about performers on a show boat. | |
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The stage adaptation of The Producers turns the story into a musical producing the fictional musical Springtime for Hitler. | |
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The Sound of Music is about a family singing act. Also, the "Lonely Goatherd" puppet show. |
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In Gold Diggers of 1933, Dick Powell's character is putting on a musical. Again. | |
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Fame is set at a performing arts school. | |
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Once is about a busker. | |
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Singin' in the Rain is about the making of a musical motion picture. Many other Gene Kelly films, including For Me and My Gal and Summer Stock (both of which also starred Judy Garland). A lot of Garland's own films were like this (Easter Parade, Strike Up The Band, A Star Is Born (1954)) along with Fred Astaire. Gene Kelly also made his film debut (For Me And My Gal) after being discovered performing in Pal Joey on Broadway. |
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The Muppets Take Manhattan is about The Muppets trying to bring their college show Manhattan Melodies to Broadway. Similarly, The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted are about them bringing back The Muppet Show, first as a telethon, then as a live tour of Europe. | |
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In Dames Dick Powell's character is putting on a musical called Sweet and Hot. | |
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Hairspray is about the stars of a dance-oriented TV show. | |
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La La Land is about an aspiring actress and a jazz pianist. | |
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Miss Adelaide and the Hotbox Girls in Guys and Dolls. Adelaide's numbers at the Hotbox actually do very little to propel the story; they're mostly there to provide transitions into other scenes set at the Hotbox (the other Hotbox girls are so alternatively insignificant that only one has any lines outside of those numbers). | |
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The Greatest Showman follows the story of the founding of the first circus and frames it as a precursor to later Vaudeville performances, complete with all-cast musical numbers and individual talent performances, and refers to the circus as "the greatest show."note Besides the obvious reference to theater, Barnum's circus did/does refer to itself as "the greatest show on earth." It also heavily features opera singer Jenny Lind, and her relationship with Barnum as they tour the US. | |
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Bullets over Broadway would obviously become this when adapted to a Broadway musical. Subverted, though, since the play being put on isn't a musical. Just a play. | |
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The Band Wagon is about the staging of a musical. | |
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Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge! is about a show being put on in the club-turned-theater. | |
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Pal Joey is about a nightclub singer. | |
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A Chorus Line features dancers auditioning for a show. | |
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Sunny Side Up: Although Molly isn't a professional dancer and singer, she does perform for her neighbourhood on several occasions and eventually a carnival for rich people. | |
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The Phantom of the Opera, strangely enough. | |
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[title of show] features friends writing a musical. Not only that, but the musical they are writing is [title of show]. They are writing a musical about writing a musical about writing a musical about writing a musical about... |
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