Musical Bucket List

Altman's 24 characters over five days of country music and a political rally.

Kermit crosses America by bicycle to Hollywood; "Rainbow Connection".

Every line sung, every wall painted; Catherine Deneuve at a petrol station in the snow.

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

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

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".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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