All about the upcoming Live Action Musical Hall of Fame

Rex Everhart was his understudy. He is fine, I think. I can listen to the album whenever I want to. So, I guess I am used to him. But as far as seeing an actual performance as Franklin, I have no opinion on that except to say that I think it would be awfully hard to live up to Da Silva. He is so perfect as Benjamin Franklin.

You have no idea what you are in for with this movie. It is so good. It really is. And the real highlight (at least I think so) is William Daniels as John Adams. His performance is priceless!

That is OK. And thanks. I will gladly welcome your compliment as I know your taste is as good as mine.

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Hey, you're right. I think it was Ðèstîñy who posted that earlier. My mother taught me that if you think something bad might happen, you shouldn't mention it out loud because it can cause it to happen, kind of like a karma thing, (like you're not supposed to talk about the no hitter in baseball), so it must be Ðèstîñy's fault that we all want to nominate the same movie.

Well... July 4th IS fast approaching! Prime time of year for a re-viewing of '76! Possibly why it was so quick to jump into a few people's minds.

(That's also a hint to Rules - there's no better time to watch it than on or around Independence Day!)

If Captain is in then I will be watching it. I'm looking forward to it too.

Oh...your guy's nominations are not secret, so you can mention them here on this thread, then you're musical choice will be yours. Or you can PM me your nomination.

I will choose my nomination last, so that way I don't pick something somebody else had in mind. That's what I did in the Film Noir HOF and Sci-Fi HOF.

Catch ya all later, good night.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. It's like watching a remake of a movie before seeing the original, and not being able to understand why everyone else thinks that the original is better.

Turner Classic Movies usually airs 1776 every July 4th, along with Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney. I watch both of those movies every year on July 4th.

I thought I had time to narrow down my list, but now I have to choose fast or someone else could pick my choice.

Wait, maybe that could help narrow down my list and make it easier to pick a movie to nominate.

Good Night

I'm tempted to join, but I'll wait for the western HOF

I don't think anybody would try to nominate that since it's already in a HoF, but that's a tough one. Besides musical numbers from Calloway, Hooker, and The Blues Brothers, you do have the sudden musical style performances from Brown, Charles, and Franklin. Plus, unlike many other musicals, music is a central theme of the story.

Is there going to be a second specific HoF going alongside this?

I don't think they're overlapping. You can join both if you want to.

Actually, I just really love this movie and I wanted others to see it, too.

Yeah, I was going to mention this, also. I figured that in case someone shouldn't have a chance to obtain the film, TCM would be showing it. I, too, will be watching these that day. It is definitely an annual thing for me.

Firstly, yep CitRules, I initially mentioned that Eddie and the Cruisers isn't a true musical, yet instead a movie about music . . . and a lot of other cool things. You should really watch it, but not for this.

Ahha! My plan worked!

. . . or it could just be what he said!

I wanted to add this to the discussion on rules. I just don't see why we bother pming them in, and all that. Half the fun, is picking them out, and discussing it. You know I'm right!

This right here is what made me think about my last comment. It helps in two ways, honestly. One, we can weed through all the choices a lot better, nail our selection before someone else gets it, or at least know we missed out, with plenty of time to dwell on another choice. Two, there's always a two . . . Don't hate me for bringing this back up . . . When I first joined, a few people kept asking me, and reminding me on how I need to know I want to be in these Hall of Fames. I kept getting told that I best not have people watching The Thing, and then bailing. Anyway, picture this . . . You really believe you want to be a part of the Hall of Fame, and then here we are, a lot of us picking out movies you just know you don't want to watch. You will have a good week or so to decide that, now won't you!?! It's just a thought.

You booby! Join in, my dear Raul!

Hopefully, and if we're lucky, bloody scenes will be a big part of it.

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As much I knew that The Thing wasn't going to be my kind of movie, I never even once thought about bailing from the HoF.

For me, the whole point of these HoFs is not only to get other people to watch a movie that I love, but also to watch movies that I wouldn't have chosen to watch on my own. If I bailed every time someone nominated a movie that I didn't think I'd like, I probably wouldn't finish any of these HoFs.

And there have been several movies that I didn't think I would like that surprised me. They'll probably never make my favorites list, but they were good movies.

For me to bail on a HoF based on a movie that I've never seen, someone would have to nominate a movie like Arachnophobia.

So...how much time do you guys need to decide on your nominations? No rush. I just want to know when I should be making the actual Musical HOF thread.

That's why I started the tradition of not keeping secret the movies that are nominated for the HOF. I think a person should have the right to know what they are about to watch before joining an HOF.

All the other HOFS have kept the movies secret until after you've joined and the actual HOF starts. That's the persons running the HOF choice. My choice is that the movies will be posted before the HOF starts.

I like keeping it a secret, but I also like the idea of knowing ahead of time. I think for musicals it would be best to know ahead of time as it is a small crowd of fans of the genre.

Raul you should join!

Yea, a lot of people like the 'secret reveal' as it's fun for them, I can understand that. For me personally, I haven't join any hofs except the ones I ran because I was concerned I would be committing to watching something I couldn't watch.

But like I said it's up to the individual running each of the Hofs on how they do it. I do think some experimentation is good and makes for fun and for a learning experience too.

I have a couple new ideas for this Hof that I've not done before. I hope they work OK.

I have my short list ready, so I can make a spur of the moment decision whenever you're ready to start.

Yeah, that was my point, too. Well, hopefully there's not a bunch of foreign gore musicals out there.

p.s. I love that movie, and I love spiders.

I suppose I am ready, whenever. I'm curious about your new ideas.