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  2. List of musicals adapted into feature films - Wikipedia

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    The title of the musical is followed by its first public performance, the composer, the lyricist, the book writer, the title of the film adapted from the musical, the year of the film, and the film's director. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.

  3. Musical film - Wikipedia

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    The 1930s through the early 1950s are considered to be the golden age of the musical film, when the genre's popularity was at its highest in the Western world. Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the earliest Disney animated feature film, was a musical which won an honorary Oscar for Walt Disney at the 11th Academy Awards.

  4. American Theatre in the 1920s - Wikipedia

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    The first film including synchronized sound and audible lines was The Jazz Singer in 1927. Many of the talking films in the twenties revolved around Broadway in plot and theme. At the end of the decade, movie musicals were popular, especially in 1929, since they took special advantage of the addition of sound by having singing.

  5. List of musical films by year - Wikipedia

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    The Cheetah Girls: One World (television film) High School Musical: el desafío (Argentine film) High School Musical: el desafío (Mexican film) High School Musical 3: Senior Year; The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (animated) Mamma Mia! Repo! The Genetic Opera; Roadside Romeo (animated) Were the World Mine

  6. Majestic Theatre (San Antonio) - Wikipedia

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    The city actually deemed the month of the opening "Prosperity Month," celebrating the recent era of development Texas was experiencing. In size, the Greater Majestic was second in the nation only to Atlanta, Georgia's Fox Theatre , and it was the first theatre in Texas to be fully air-conditioned, something that alone was a major attraction in ...

  7. List of highest-grossing musical films - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of highest-grossing musical film by year. Disney tops the list 29 times. All films in Saturday Night Fever , Beauty and the Beast , The Lion King , Rio and The Little Mermaid are on the list, along with Alvin and the Chipmunks franchises are the most represented franchises each have two films on the list.

  8. Category:Films based on musicals - Wikipedia

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    Mack the Knife (1989 film) The Maid of the Mountains (film) Mama, I Want to Sing! (film) Mame (film) Mamma Mia! (film) Man of La Mancha (film) Matilda the Musical (film) Merrily We Roll Along (film) Mexican Hayride; Les Misérables (2012 film) Monster Mash (1995 film) The Music Man (1962 film) The Music Man (2003 film) My Fair Lady (film)

  9. List of musicals filmed live on stage - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of works of musical theatre that have been notably filmed live on stage, also known as professionally shot musicals or, colloquially, proshot musicals. [1] Musicals are listed by the year they were filmed, not necessarily by the year they were first broadcast or released to the public.