Musical Bucket List

Two sisters, an ice palace and "Let It Go", which took the Oscar for best song.

Rapunzel, a thief and a frying pan; the floating lanterns scene.

Jack Skellington kidnaps Santa; Selick and Burton's stop-motion musical.

The first animated film nominated for Best Picture; the ballroom scene.

A Colombian family with magical gifts, and the one daughter without; "We Don't Talk About Bruno".

An emperor penguin who cannot sing but can tap dance.

A governess, seven children and the Salzburg hills; still the musical everyone can sing.

A groom accidentally marries a dead woman; stop-motion, with Danny Elfman songs.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the first half of the Broadway musical; "Defying Gravity".

Twin brothers open a juke joint in 1932 Mississippi and vampires arrive; Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.

A Polynesian chief's daughter sails past the reef with a demigod; the ocean as a character.

Ariel under the sea and the start of the Disney Renaissance.

Robin Williams as the Genie, a magic carpet ride and "A Whole New World".

The Odyssey in Depression-era Mississippi with a soundtrack that outsold the film.

How Willy Wonka got the factory, as a musical with Chalamet and a Hugh Grant Oompa-Loompa.

Hugo’s barricades sung live on set, with Hathaway’s one-take I Dreamed a Dream.

P. T. Barnum as a pop musical; the songs outlived the reviews.

Baz Luhrmann sets 1900 Paris to Elton John and Nirvana, and gets away with it.

Arthur Fleck on trial from Arkham with Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel, told as a jukebox musical; the lowest CinemaScore ever given a comic-book film.

Sondheim's musical as a blood-soaked Victorian London; Depp and Bonham Carter sing.

Bjork as a factory worker going blind, singing musical numbers in her head; von Trier's Palme d'Or.

A Dublin busker and a Czech pianist write songs for a week; "Falling Slowly" won the Oscar.

Villagers play the British at cricket to escape a tax; three hours and forty-four minutes of it.

Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol from London to Punjab; running in a Mumbai cinema since 1995.

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga; "Shallow" sung live for the first time.

Two revolutionaries in 1920s India, a tiger, a motorbike and "Naatu Naatu"; Tollywood at full scale.

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, ending with twenty minutes of Live Aid recreated.

A jazz pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; the freeway opening and the ending that hurts.

Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway singing live on set and the barricades of 1832.

Nobody puts Baby in a corner; the summer of 1963 at a Catskills resort.