Musical Bucket List

Kansas in sepia, Oz in Technicolor, and the ruby slippers.

An emperor penguin who cannot sing but can tap dance.

Gene Kelly in the rain, Donald O'Connor up the walls, and Hollywood's own switch to sound.

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

Dickens as a musical: workhouse, pickpockets and "Consider Yourself".

Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.

Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.

Two murderesses and one lawyer in Jazz Age Chicago; "Cell Block Tango".

Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.

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

Three hours of Broadway spectacle around the impresario who invented the revue.

Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.

Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.

The first talkie to win, a backstage musical about two sisters and one man.