The Year of Living Cinematically

The only rule: each entry was watched in its entirety. All films that I saw for the first time are marked with an asterisk.

High Noon (1952) 1/4
Lilies of the Field (1963) 1/11
*The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 1/18
Vertigo (1958) 1/29
*Topaz (1969) 1/30
The Parent Trap (1998) 2/9
All That Heaven Allows (1955) 2/13
The Music Man (1962) 2/14
*Three Little Words (1950) 2/16
Moonstruck (1987) 2/20
*The French Dispatch (2021) 2/28
*West Side Story (2021) 3/3
*Summer of Soul (2021) 3/18
*CODA (2021) 3/24
*White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022) 4/20
The Crucible (1996) 4/30
Imitation of Life (1959) 4/30
Flower Drum Song (1961) 6/5
*Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) 6/18
*The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 7/4
Moonstruck (1987) 7/29
*Local Hero (1993) 9/7
The Clock (1945) 9/8
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 9/13
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 9/14
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 9/17
The Parent Trap (1998) 9/18
*The Piano (1993) 9/28
*Claudine (1974) 10/3
The Sound of Music (1965) 10/5
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 10/22
Peyton Place (1957) 10/24
Vertigo (1958) 10/24
Funny Girl (1968) 10/25
*In a Lonely Place (1950) 10/25
*To Sleep with Anger (1990) 10/26
Gypsy (1962) 10/27
*See How They Run (2022) 11/16
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) 11/17
*Quartet (1981) 11/18
The Goonies (1985) 11/19
*Matilda (2022) 11/29
Desk Set (1957) 12/5
*Heat and Dust (1983) 12/8
*The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 12/16
Elf (2003) 12/22
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/25
Moonstruck (`1987) 12/26
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/27

My Year in Show Music

Old habits die hard. I haven’t written about theatre in years but I am still keeping track of what I listen to; a grasp at normalcy in abnormal times, perhaps. Every recording—which I listened to in its entirety; the only criterion—is linked to its own page on castalbums.org (a site I highly recommend for serious collectors of theatre music).

An asterisk indicates a first-time listen.

1/2 – The King and I [1977 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
1/11 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
1/17 – The Card [Original London Cast Recording]*
1/18 – Charlie Girl [Original London Cast Recording]
1/19 – The Most Happy Fella [Complete Studio Cast Recording]
1/20 – I Can Get It For You Wholesale [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/24 – Linzi Hateley: For the First Time*
1/30 – Ragtime [Concept Cast Recording]
2/8 – Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/18 – Regina [1958 NYCO Cast Recording]
2/19 – Crazy For You [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/21 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/23 – Brigadoon [2019 Vienna Cast Recording]*
2/24 – The Sound of Music [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
2/25 – Flying Over Sunset [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
3/3 – West Side Story [2021 Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
3/8 – Hamilton [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/13 – Brigadoon [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/15 – No Strings [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/16 – Assassins [The 2022 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
3/17 – A Strange Loop [Original Cast Recording]*
3/19 – A Chorus Line [Original Spanish Cast Recording]*
3/20 – A Chorus Line [Original Spanish Cast Recording]
3/22 – The Sound of Music [1999 Australian Cast Recording]*
3/24 – The Sound of Music [Original Salzburg Cast Recording]*
3/28 – Camelot [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/1 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/3 – The Sound of Music [1983 Australian Cast Recording – LP Edition]*
4/3 – A Family Affair [Original Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/3 – Matilda [Original Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/4 – Six [Studio Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/4 – My Fair Lady [Original London Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/5 – Christine Andreas: Piaf: No Regrets [LP Edition]
4/6 – The Color Purple [New Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/8 – 42nd Street [First Complete Recording]*
4/9 – Sugar [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/18 – Thoroughly Modern Millie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/18 – Marilyn Maye: Meet Marvelous Marilyn Maye [LP Edition]
4/24 – Funny Girl [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
4/26 – A Strange Loop [Original Cast Recording]
5/2 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
5/6 – Six [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
5/6 – Six [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/7 – Spring Awakening [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/8 – The Drifters Girl [Original London Cast Recording]*
5/8 – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/9 – Nine [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/14 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
5/14 – No, No, Nanette [1971 Broadway Cast Recording]
5/16 – Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/16 – High Society [Original London Cast Recording]
5/24 – A Chorus Line [Original Spanish Cast Recording]
6/3 – Fanny Und Alexander [Original Cast Recording]*
6/12 – A Strange Loop [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/15 – Matilda [Original Stratford Cast Recording]
6/19 – Stars in Your Eyes [Original Studio Cast Recording]*
6/21 – Irma La Douce [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/22 – Hair [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/23 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/25 – The Baker’s Wife [Original Cast Recording]
7/26 – The Unsinkable Molly Brown [The New Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
8/11 – Once Upon a Mattress [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/14 – Brigadoon [1991 Studio Cast Recording]
8/15 – Hairspray [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet [Original Cast Recording]*
9/4 – The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/12 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/21 – Donnybrook! [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
9/22 – Dreamgirls [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/23 – The Music Man [The 2022 Broadway Cast Recording]
9/23 – 1776 [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
9/30 – Into the Woods [2022 Broadway Cast Recording]*
9/30 – Into the Woods [2022 Broadway Cast Recording]
10/4 – Kismet [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/7 – Cats [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/11 – Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Dear World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Gypsy [Original London Cast Recording]
10/12 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Prettybelle [Studio Cast Recording]
10/12 – A Little Night Music [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
10/13 – Bedknobs and Broomsticks [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
10/13 – Beauty and the Beast [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
10/13 – Mrs. Santa Claus [Television Cast Recording]
10/21 – Knoxville [World Premiere Cast Recording]*
10/23 – Pippin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/24 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/28 – Company [Original Spanish Cast Recording]*
10/28 – Company [Original Spanish Cast Recording]
11/3 – Robert and Elizabeth [Original London Cast Recording]
11/4 – Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir*
11/11 – December Songs [For Voice and Orchestra]*
11/11 – To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim*
11/17 – Little Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/21 – Funny Girl [New Broadway Cast Recording]*
11/29 – Matilda [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
12/8 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/11 – The Girl Who Came to Supper [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/13 – Chess [Concept Cast Recording]
12/13 – Chess [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/17 – Cabaret [2021 London Cast Recording]*
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/26 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]


The Year of Living Cinematically

As usual: each film was watched in its entirety. All films that I’d never seen before have been marked with an asterisk.

*Yentl (1983) 1/3
The Birds (1963) 1/5
Waiting for Guffman (1996) 1/8
*Beauty and the Beast (2017) 1/9
*84 Charing Cross Road (1987) 1/15
Down Argentine Way (1940) 1/15
*Vacation from Marriage (1945) 1/17
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 1/19
Roman Holiday (1953) 1/19
*Every Little Step (2008) 1/21
*The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) 1/24
*The Canterville Ghost (1945) 1/25
Moonstruck (1987) 1/26
*The Pumpkin Eater (1964) 1/26
The Pajama Game (1957) 1/27
*Moulin Rouge (1952) 1/27
*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) 1/28
Pat and Mike (1952) 1/30
Good News (1947) 2/1
*Hold Back the Dawn (1941) 2/1
*Murder at the Gallop (1963) 2/2
*That Thing You Do (1996) 2/8
*Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) 3/1
On Golden Pond (1981) 3/2
*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) 3/3
*Coming 2 America (2021) 3/5
Show Boat (1951) 3/6
Saved! (2004) 3/6
*DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) 3/17
Tender Mercies (1983) 3/21
*Tina (2021) 3/31
The Harvey Girls (1946) 4/22
Mister Roberts (1955) 4/22
The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) 4/24
Lover Come Back (1961) 4/26
Moonstruck (1987) 5/1
*Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) 5/4
A Little Night Music (1977) 5/4
Clue (1985) 5/11
Secrets & Lies (1996) 5/11
On Golden Pond (1981) 5/12
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 5/13
One, Two, Three (1961) 5/14
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943) 5/20
*Christmas in July (1940) 5/24
*Little Women (1994) 5/27
*The Great McGinty (1940) 5/28
*A New Leaf (1971) 5/30
Twister (1996) 5/30
Summertime (1955) 5/31
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 6/12
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 6/12
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 6/12
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 6/13
*In the Heights (2021) 6/15
San Francisco (1936) 6/16
*A Face in the Crowd (1957) 6/20
On the Town (1949) 6/22
Topkapi (1964) 6/26
*Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) 6/27
Father of the Bride (1950) 6/28
*Knives Out (2019) 6/29
*The Preacher’s Wife (1996) 7/5
Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7/11
Pickup on South Street (1953) 7/12
Bell Book and Candle (1958) 8/8
*The Immortal Story (1968) 8/30
*Full of Life (1956) 9/1
Moonstruck (1987) 9/1
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) 9/8
*The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) 9/8
*Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) 9/22
The Sound of Music (1965) 9/28
Summertime (1955) 9/28
An Affair to Remember (1957) 9/30
Mary Poppins (1964) 10/16
Howards End (1992) 10/16
The King and I (1956) 10/24
Titanic (1997) 10/26
*Carnival of Souls (1962) 10/29
Moonstruck (1987) 11/4
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) 11/10
*Tick, Tick…BOOM (2021) 11/20
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 11/21
Gosford Park (2001) 11/23
Death on the Nile (1978) 11/28
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 11/29
Reds (1981) 11/30
*The Power of the Dog (2021) 12/3
Moonstruck (1987) 12/5
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/7
Scrooged (1988) 12/13
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 12/15
Holiday Inn (1942) 12/15
Elf (2003) 12/16
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 12/19
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 12/22
Desk Set (1957) 12/23
Fitzwilly (1967) 12/24
*Fatman (2020) 12/25
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 12/25
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/26
Damn Yankees (1958) 12/28
*Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) 12/30
*The Thrill of It All (1963) 12/30

My Year in Show Music

Old habits die hard. I haven’t written about theatre in years but I am still keeping track of what I listen to; a grasp at normalcy in abnormal times, perhaps. Every recording—which I listened to in its entirety; the only criterion—is linked to its own page on castalbums.org (a site I highly recommend for serious collectors of theatre music).

An asterisk indicates a recording I listened to for the first time.

1/9 – Kiss Me, Kate [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
1/26 – Big [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
1/27 – The Pajama Game [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/28 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/29 – Baby [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/31 – Les Miserables [10th Anniversary Concert Cast Recording]
2/3 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Encores! Cast Recording]
2/5 – Chrysanthemum [Original London Cast Recording]
2/5 – Cyrano [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/5 – The Band’s Visit [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/7 – The Sound of Music [Original London Cast Recording]
2/11 – Saturday Night [Original Cast Recording]
2/21 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/22 – Chess [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/25 – Wonderful Town [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/25 – A Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/9 – Show Boat [1971 London Revival Cast Recording]
3/10 – Hello, Dolly! [1967 Broadway Cast Recording]
3/11 – Sondheim: A Musical Tribute [Concert Cast Recording]
3/19 – Merrily We Roll Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/21 – Funny Girl [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – The King and I [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – The King and I [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
4/11 – The Grass Harp [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/13 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/14 – Gypsy [1989 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
4/19 – The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/22 – My Fair Lady [Original London Cast Recording]
4/23 – Judy at Carnegie Hall
5/3 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/5 – Cinderella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/5 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/6 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
5/31 – Do I Hear a Waltz? [Pasadena Playhouse Cast Recording]
6/11 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/16 – Dreamgirls [Concert Cast Recording]
6/17 – Guys and Dolls [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
6/23 – Li’l Abner [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/27 – Anything Goes [1988 Studio Cast Recording]*
7/1 – Very Good Eddie [Broadway Revival Cast Recording]*
7/26 – Sunset Boulevard [Kim Criswell EP]*
8/8 – Mame [London Studio Cast Recording]
8/9 – Sweet Charity [London Studio Cast Recording]*
8/10 – Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/11 – Funny Girl [2016 London Cast Recording]
8/18 – Applause [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/18 – A Little Night Music [Original London Cast Recording]
8/20 – Girl From the North Country [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
8/25 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]
9/6 – Miss Liberty [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/6 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/14 – Barbara Cook: It’s Better With a Band
9/19 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
9/20 – Kismet [1964 Studio Cast Recording – Mantovani]
9/20 – Naughty Marietta [1981 Studio Cast Recording]
10/5 – Little Women [Original Television Cast Recording]*
10/9 – Caroline, or Change [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/11 – Diana [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
10/14 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/28 – Caroline, or Change [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/30 – Tina [Original London Cast Recording]
11/1 – Half a Sixpence [London Studio Cast Recording]*
11/6 – Tina [Original Hamburg Cast Recording]*
11/7 – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [1991 London Revival Cast Recording]*
11/14 – The Bridges of Madison County [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/16 – Merrily We Roll Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/17 – Diana [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/18 – They’re Playing Our Song [Original London Cast Recording]*
11/24 – Cabaret [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/26 – West Side Story [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/26 – Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/26 – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Do I Hear a Waltz? [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Follies [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – A Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Pacific Overtures [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Merrily We Roll Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/28 – Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/28 – Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/28 – Assassins [Original Cast Recording]
11/28 – Passion [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/30 – Brigadoon [Encores! Cast Recording]
`12/1 – Candide [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/3 – Annie Live! [Television Cast Recording]*
12/5 – Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim
12/9 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/10 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – 50th Anniversary Edition]
12/12 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/14 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/17 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/18 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/21 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/23 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/25 – Ballroom [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/31 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

The Year of Living Cinematically

As usual: each film was watched in its entirety. All films that I’d never seen before have been marked with an asterisk.

*Show Boat (1929) 1/1
Pinocchio (1940) 1/6
Sleeping Beauty (1959) 1/10
101 Dalmatians (1961) 1/12
*The Aristocats (1970) 1/23
*Sister Kenny (1946) 2/26
*The Farewell (2019) 2/27
Victor/Victoria (1982) 2/28
*Written on the Wind (1956) 2/29
*One Hour With You (1932) 2/29
*The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) 2/29
Good News (1947) 3/6
*Cabin in the Sky (1943) 3/7
The Quiet Man (1952) 3/20
Clue (1985) 3/27
*Love and Death (1975) 4/12
*Little Women (2019) 4/15
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 5/18
Show Boat (1936) 5/19
Life After Tomorrow (2006) 5/19
Show Business: The Road to Broadway (2007) 5/19
*Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) 5/21
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) 5/22
Holiday (1938) 5/25
42nd Street (1933) 5/26
The Thin Man (1934) 5/28
Easy Living (1937) 6/1
Hope and Glory (1987) 6/3
Flower Drum Song (1961) 6/3
*The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) 6/4
*Spitfire (1934) 6/4
*It’s Love I’m After (1937) 6/4
Calamity Jane (1953) 6/5
High Society (1956) 6/6
*Music in the Air (1934) 6/6
*King of Jazz (1930) 6/7
*Undercurrent (1946) 6/7
*The Talk of the Town (1942) 6/7
Z (1969) 6/8
*The Whole Town’s Talking (1935) 6/9
*Gidget (1959) 6/10
*The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) 6/10
*The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) 6/11
She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952) 6/13
The Trouble With Angels (1966) 6/15
*Beat the Devil (1953) 6/17
*Raintree County (1957) 6/17
*Pin Up Girl (1944) 6/18
My Favorite Wife (1940) 6/18
*Bitter Sweet (1940) 6/18
*The Wings of Eagles (1957) 6/19
*New Moon (1940) 6/20
*So This Is Love (1953) 6/20
*Song of Love (1947) 6/22
*A Midsummer’s Night Sex Comedy (1982) 6/23
*King Solomon’s Mines (1950) 6/24
*The Petrified Forest (1936) 6/25
Sister Act (1992) 6/26
The Party (1968) 6/26
*Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) 6/26
*Atlantic City (1980) 6/27
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965) 6/28
*Murder She Said (1961) 6/29
*Melvin and Howard (1980) 6/30
*The Front (1976) 6/30
*The Human Comedy (1943) 7/1
Twister (1996) 7/3
*Hamilton (2020) 7/4
*San Francisco (1936) 7/5
Guys and Dolls (1955) 7/6
My Favorite Year (1982) 7/25
Light in the Piazza (1962) 7/26
*It’s a Date (1940) 8/4
*The Story of Irene and Vernon Castle (1939) 8/5
*Lady of Burlesque (1943) 8/5
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 8/6
*The Student Prince (1954) 8/6
*The Opposite Sex (1956) 8/9
*Butterflies Are Free (1972) 8/9
The First Wives Club (1996) 8/10
The Letter (1940) 8/14
*A Free Soul (1931) 8/16
Steel Magnolias (1989) 8/18
*Dream Wife (1953) 8/18
Moonstruck (1987) 8/18
*The Prince of Tides (1991) 8/20
The Lady Eve (1941) 8/22
Suspicion (1941) 8/25
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 8/25
Clash of the Titans (1981) 8/25
State Fair (1945) 8/28
Moonstruck (1987) 8/30
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970) 9/1
Grease (1978) 9/3
*Grease 2 (1982) 9/4
*Flying Down to Rio (1933) 9/7
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) 9/8
*Footlight Parade (1933) 9/9
Psycho (1960) 9/17
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 9/22
Destry Rides Again (1939) 9/24
The Sound of Music (1965) 9/29
Summer Stock (1950) 9/30
Oklahoma! (1955) 10/2
*The Goodbye Girl (1977) 10/8
*Cats (2019) 10/12
Barefoot in the Park (1967) 10/15
Now, Voyager (1942) 10/17
*Howard (2018) 10/20
Auntie Mame (1958) 10/21
Hud (1963) 10/22
To Sir With Love (1967) 10/24
*Cluny Brown (1946) 10/30
*Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) 11/3
*The Gunfighter (1950) 11/4
Brigadoon (1954) 11/5
Lifeboat (1944) 11/7
*Mother Wore Tights (1947) 11/10
Moonstruck (1987) 11/13
Moonstruck (1987) 11/13
*Baby Boom (1987) 11/16
*Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) 11/16
The Queen (2006) 11/17
*You’ll Never Get Rich (1941) 11/20
A Star Is Born (1954) 11/20
*Love Me Tonight (1932) 11/24
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) 12/1
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) 12/2
Les Girls (1957) 12/3
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 12/3
*Mank (2020) 12/4
*Marnie (1964) 12/8
*Nothing Sacred (1937) 12/10
*Grace Quigley (1984) 12/11
Moonstruck (1987) 12/12
*Let Them All Talk (2020) 12/15
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) 12/15
*Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) 12/18
Desk Set (1957) 12/20
Remember the Night (1940) 12/21
Come to the Stable (1949) 12/22
Elf (2003) 12/24
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/24
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/25
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 12/27
*The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) 12/29
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 12/31
Operation Petticoat (1959) 12/31

My Year in Show Music

Old habits die hard. I haven’t written about theatre in years but I am still keeping track of what I listen to; a grasp at normalcy in abnormal times, perhaps. Every recording—which I listened to in its entirety; the only criterion—is linked to its own page on castalbums.org (a site I highly recommend for serious collectors of theatre music).

An asterisk indicates a recording I listened to for the first time.

1/3 – Fiorello! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/6 – Chicago [1998 London Cast Recording]
1/9 – A Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/13 – The Visit [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/14 – Barbara Cook: It’s Better with a Band
1/20 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/2 – Kwamina [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
2/2 – Porgy and Bess [2019 Metropolitan Opera Cast Recording]*
2/3 – Prettybelle [Studio Cast Recording]
2/4 – Show Boat [1993 World Premiere Cast Recording]
2/8 – A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/12 – Annie [Original London Cast Recording]
2/14 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/15 – Lady in the Dark [1963 Studio Cast Recording]
2/16 – Bright Star [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/24 – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/2 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]*
3/3 – The Merry Widow [1968 Studio Cast Recording]
3/17 – Juno [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/25 – June Bronhill at the Sydney Opera House*
3/28 – Something’s Afoot [World Premiere Cast Recording]*
3/29 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Australian Cast Recording]
3/30 – The Boys from Syracuse [Encores! Cast Recording]
4/3 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
4/13 – South Pacific [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
4/14 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/17 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
4/18 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/19 – Carousel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/20 – The Wedding Singer [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/21 – Pal Joey [Encores! Cast Recording]
4/24 – Barbra Streisand: The Second Barbra Streisand Album
4/26 – Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/29 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]
5/2 – Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/5 – John Raitt: Highlights of Broadway
5/7 – No, No, Nanette [1971 Broadway Cast Recording]
5/14 – The Last Five Years [Original Cast Recording]
5/15 – Rags [Original London Cast Recording]*
5/18 – The Good Companions [Original London Cast Recording]
5/19 – The Girl Who Came to Supper [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/21 – Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/23 – Annie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/24 – Legally Blonde [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/27 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
6/13 – Geraldine Fitzgerald: Streetsongs*
6/20 – Raisin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/27 – Phantom [Original Cast Recording]
6/28 – Flower Drum Song [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/29 – Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Complete Overtures
6/29 – Flower Drum Song [Original London Cast Recording]
7/2 – Ann Veronica [Original London Cast Recording]*
7/2 – James Shigeta: Scene One*
7/3 – The Phantom of the Opera [Original London Cast Recording]
7/6 – The Sound of Music [Original London Cast Recording]
7/7 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/7 – Robert and Elizabeth [Original London Cast Recording]
7/8 – Ain’t Misbehavin’ [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/8 – James Shigeta: We Speak the Same Language*
7/18 – Hello, Dolly! [Original French Cast Recording]*
7/20 – Zip Goes a Million [Original London Cast Recording]*
7/21 – Happy Holiday [Original London Cast Recording]*
8/3 – Here’s Love [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/9 – The Merry Widow [1962 Studio Cast Recording]
8/13 – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Original London Cast Recording]
8/15 – Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/15 – A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/16 – The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – Destry Rides Again [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen*
8/20 – Beautiful [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/21 – Kiss Me, Kate [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
8/21 – Sail Away [Original London Cast Recording]
8/22 – Passion Flower Hotel [Original London Cast Recording]
8/24 – Dolores Gray: Heat Wave, The Decca Singles 1953-1955*
8/24 – Mr. & Mrs. [Original London Cast Recording]*
8/25 – Anne of Green Gables [Canadian Studio Cast Recording]
8/26 – Mary Poppins [1966 London Studio Cast Recording]*
8/26 – Hallelujah, Baby! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/27 – James Joyce’s The Dead [PICT Cast Recording]
8/27 – Anything Goes [2003 London Revival Cast Recording]
8/29 – The Desert Song [1967 London Studio Cast Recording]*
8/30 – Pippin [New Broadway Cast Recording]
8/31 – Rachel Bay Jones: ShowFolk*
9/2 – Carousel [1994 Broadway Cast Recording]
9/2 – Oklahoma! [1966 London Studio Cast Recording]*
9/6 – Kiss Me, Kate [1967 London Studio Cast Recording]
9/9 – On the Town [1959 London Studio Cast Recording]*
9/11 – South Pacific [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
9/12 – Grease 2 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
9/15 – Blitz! [Original London Cast Recording]
9/15 – Salad Days [Original London Cast Recording]*
9/15 – Free As Air [Original London Cast Recording]*
9/17 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]
9/17 – My Fair Lady [Original London Cast Recording]
9/17 – The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/17 – The Pajama Game [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
9/17 – Nick Cordero: Live Your Life [Live at 54 Below]*
9/20 – Nine [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/3 – Rex [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/5 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
10/5 – Evita [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/6 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/7 – The King and I [1966 London Studio Cast Recording]*
10/16 – Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/16 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/16 – Dear World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/16 – Gypsy [Original London Cast Recording]
10/16 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/20 – Oliver! [1962 London Studio Cast Recording]*
10/20 – The Bridges of Madison County [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/22 – Grease 2 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
10/23 – Laura Benanti*
10/25 – Seesaw [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/28 – High Spirits [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/30 – The Scottsboro Boys [Original Cast Recording]
11/3 – The Unsinkable Molly Brown [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/6 – Mary Poppins [The Definitive 2020 Cast Recording]*
11/6 – Porgy and Bess [Houston Grand Opera Cast Recording]
11/16 – The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/4 – Anyone Can Whistle [First Complete Recording]*
12/17 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/23 – Strike Up the Band [1990 Studio Cast Recording]
12/23 – Brigadoon [1991 Studio Cast Recording]
12/23 – The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/23 – Show Boat [1993 World Premiere Cast Recording]
12/23 – Rebecca Luker: Anything Goes – The Songs of Cole Porter
12/23 – The Boys from Syracuse [Encores! Cast Recording]
12/23 – The Sound of Music [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – The Music Man [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/25 – Rebecca Luker & Sally Wilfert: All the Girls*
12/25 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]

The Year of Living Cinematically

As usual: each film was watched in its entirety. All films that I’d never seen before have been marked with an asterisk.

East of Eden (1955) 1/5
*Blossoms in the Dust (1941) 1/6
*It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) 1/7
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) 1/16
The Apartment (1960) 1/17
S.O.B. (1981) 1/20
All About Eve (1950) 1/21
Swing Time (1936) 1/25
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 2/26
*I Know Where I’m Going (1945) 4/11
*Our Betters (1933) 5/3
*Carefree (1938) 5/6
*There Goes My Heart (1938) 5/11
*Wine Country (2019) 5/11
*Keeper of the Flame (1943) 5/16
*The Bank Dick (1940) 5/17
The Pajama Game (1957) 5/18
*Summer Holiday (1948) 5/21
*Room Service (1938) 5/25
*Hobson’s Choice (1954) 5/26
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 5/28
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 5/29
*The Old Maid (1939) 5/30
*Enchanted April (1991) 5/30
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 5/30
*Sylvia Scarlett (1935) 5/31
*The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) 6/1
*Coquette (1929) 6/1
That Night in Rio (1941) 6/3
*Quality Street (1937) 6/4
*Portrait of Jennie (1948) 6/5
*The Most Dangerous Game (1932) 6/5
*You Can’t Have Everything (1937) 6/5
*Kismet (1944) 6/12
*Johnny Eager (1941) 6/12
*Three Daring Daughters (1948) 6/12
*Luxury Liner (1948) 6/13
*Holiday in Mexico (1946) 6/13
Summertime (1955) 6/14
Pillow Talk (1959) 6/16
On Moonlight Bay (1951) 6/16
Clue (1985) 6/18
*Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) 6/20
Steel Magnolias (1989) 6/21
*The Reluctant Debutante (1958) 6/21
Stage Door (1937) 6/22
*Pickup on South Street (1953) 6/22
*Let’s Make Love (1960) 6/25
Cactus Flower (1969) 6/26
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 6/27
*I Dream Too Much (1935) 7/9
Camille (1936) 7/20
*Two-Faced Woman (1941) 7/21
The Gay Divorcee (1934) 7/21
*Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) 7/23
Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968) 7/25
*Dangerous (1935) 7/27
*Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018) 7/27
The Women (1939) 7/28
*The Favourite (2018) 8/5
The Heiress (1949) 8/7
*Klute (1971) 8/12
*Die Trapp Familie (1956) 8/13
I Confess (1953) 8/14
*The World According to Garp (1982) 8/14
*Joy of Living (1938) 8/16
*The Barefoot Contessa (1954) 8/20
*Sweet Adeline (1934) 8/20
High Noon (1952) 8/26
*Christopher Strong (1933) 8/27
The Sound of Music (1965) 8/29
*The Great Lie (1941) 9/2
*The Westerner (1940) 9/2
*Late Night (2019) 9/7
*The Happiest Millionaire (1967) 9/10
*Dodsworth (1936) 9/11
*Too Many Girls (1940) 9/11
*The Subject Was Roses (1968) 9/12
*Quo Vadis (1951) 9/13
*Gaslight (1940) 9/17
*Porgy and Bess (1959) 9/19
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 9/28
*Johnny Belinda (1948) 9/28
*Notting Hill (1999) 10/1
*Star! (1968) 10/21
The Uninvited (1944) 10/22
Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 10/26
*The Gang’s All Here (1943) 11/2
*Leonard Soloway’s Broadway (2019) 11/6
The Addams Family (1991) 11/15
Addams Family Values (1993) 11/15
*The Letter (1940) 12/6
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) 12/14
*Lady on a Train (1945) 12/15
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 12/16
*The Holly and the Ivy (1952) 12/16
Remember the Night (1940) 12/17
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/20
A Christmas Carol (1938) 12/22
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/24
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 12/26
*Booksmart (2019) 12/30
The Thin Man (1934) 12/31

My Year in Show Music

A few years ago, I decided to keep a log of the musical theatre-related albums I listened to in their entirety throughout the calendar year. Every recording is linked to its own page on castalbums.org (a site I highly recommend for serious collectors of theatre music). An asterisk indicates a recording I listened to for the first time.

1/1 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/1 – Woman of the Year [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/2 – Bajour [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/4 – The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
1/5 – Wildcat [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/9 – Kean [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/11 – Pacific Overtures [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/12 – A Little Night Music [National Theatre Cast Recording]
1/15 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/15 – Hello, Dolly! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/15 – Hello, Dolly! [The New 1994 Cast Recording]
1/15 – Jerry’s Girls [Original Cast Recording]*
1/18 – Follies [National Theatre Cast Recording]*
1/18 – Follies [Original London Cast Recording]
1/23 – Songs for a New World [Encores! Cast Recording]*
1/24 – First Impressions [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/25 – Songs for a New World [Encores! Cast Recording]
1/27 – Rent [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/29 – Giant [Original Cast Recording]
1/29 – Gigi [New Broadway Cast Recording]
2/1 – Company [2018 London Cast Recording]*
2/2 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]*
2/3 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/3 – Hadestown [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
2/3 – Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy: Marriage Type Love*
2/4 – The Scarlet Pimpernel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/10 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/27 – Follies [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/28 – Coco [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/28 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/1 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/1 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/4 – Wonderful Town [1999 London Studio Cast Recording]
3/7 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/7 – The Boy Friend [1984 London Cast Recording]*
3/11 – Cyrille Aimée: Move On, A Sondheim Adventure*
3/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/16 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/16 – 1776 [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/22 – Anne of Green Gables [Original London Cast Recording]
3/22 – Pacific Overtures [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/25 – The Music Man [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/27 – Blood Brothers [1988 London Revival Cast Recording]*
3/28 – Bloomer Girl [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/28 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – Pippin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – Nine [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – Two Gentlemen of Verona [Original London Cast Recording]*
4/1 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
4/1 – The Bridges of Madison County [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/3 – A Time for Singing [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/5 – Tina [Original London Cast Recording]*
4/7 – The Band’s Visit [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
4/16 – Alfred Drake: Lucky to Be Me*
4/18 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/19 – The Cher Show [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
4/20 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Australian Cast Recording]
4/29 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/30 – The Streets of New York [Original Cast Recording]*
5/1 – Ben Bagley’s Kurt Weill Revisited*
5/3 – The Threepenny Opera [1930 German Studio Cast Recording]*
5/5 – The Most Happy Fella [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
5/10 – Sweet Charity [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
5/12 – High Button Shoes [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/15 – Gypsy [The 2008 Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
5/16 – Goodtime Charley [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/21 – Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/28 – On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/31 – Walking Happy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/1 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
6/3 – Laura Benanti: Songs from My Fair Lady*
6/7 – Kiss Me, Kate [2019 Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/29 – Oklahoma! [2019 Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/30 – Crazy for You [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/4 – Regina [1958 NYCO Cast Recording]
7/7 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
7/9 – Laura Benanti: Songs from My Fair Lady
7/15 – Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/25 – Bravo Giovanni [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/9 – Fiddler on the Roof [2018 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
8/12 – The Dancing Years [1968 London Cast Recording]*
8/12 – South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/17 – State Fair [1945 Motion Picture Soundtrack]
8/24 – She Loves Me [Original London Cast Recording]
8/28 – Irma La Douce [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/29 – Jan Clayton Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel*
8/29 – Ella Logan Sings Finian’s Rainbow*
8/31 – Kean [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
9/2 – Guys and Dolls [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/5 – Moulin Rouge [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
9/6 – Grey Gardens [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/12 – The Boy Friend [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/13 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
9/15 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/20 – Porgy and Bess [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
9/20 – Cabaret [Original London Cast Recording]
10/3 – The Dancing Years [First Complete Cast Recording]*
10/4 – No Strings [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/6 – House of Flowers [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/8 – Porgy and Bess [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/9 – Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley: Broadway and Beyond [Live at 54 Below]*
10/19 – Julie Andrews: An Evening with Julie Andrews*
10/25 – Ambassador [Original London Cast Recording]
10/28 – Elaine Stritch At Liberty
10/31 – Aimie Atkinson: Step Inside Love*
11/9 – On the Town [1960 Studio Cast Recording]
11/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
11/16 – The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/18 – Ernest in Love [Original Cast Recording]
12/3 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
12/6 – The New Yorkers [Encores! Cast Recording]*
12/9 – The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording – 60 Anniversary Edition]
12/9 – Man of Magic [Original London Cast Recording]*
12/10 – The Importance [Studio Cast Recording]*
12/21 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/26 – Little Shop of Horrors [The New Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
12/27 – Parade [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Milk and Honey [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Hello, Dolly! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Hello, Dolly! [1967 Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Dear World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Mack & Mabel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – The Grand Tour [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/28 – The Prom [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*

The Year of Living Cinematically

Same as every other year: each film was watched in its entirety. All films that I’d never seen before have been marked with an asterisk.

*Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) 1/1
*Shirley Valentine (1989) 1/3
*Maurice (1987) 1/5
*Lady Bird (2017) 1/9
*Call Me By Your Name (2017) 1/9
*Paddington (2014) 1/11
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) 1/22
*The Great Dictator (1940) 1/30
Ben-Hur (1959) 1/31
Hello, Dolly! (1969) 1/31
Laura (1944) 2/1
West Side Story (1961) 2/2
*Night Train to Munich (1940) 2/3
The Harvey Girls (1946) 2/4
An Affair to Remember (1957) 2/5
Wall-E (2008) 2/5
A Song Is Born (1948) 2/6
*Lucky Night (1939) 2/7
*The Matchmaker (1958) 2/8
The Birds (1963) 2/8
You Can’t Take It With You (1938) 2/9
*Easy Living (1937) 2/10
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 2/10
*Without Love (1945) 2/12
On Golden Pond (1981) 2/12
Desk Set (1957) 2/14
*Bigger Than Life (1956) 2/15
Vertigo (1958) 2/15
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 2/16
Harold and Maude (1971) 2/16
An American in Paris (1951) 2/17
Babette’s Feast (1987) 2/18
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) 2/18
*Design for Scandal (1941) 2/19
Rebecca (1940) 2/19
The World of Henry Orient (1964) 2/20
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) 2/20
The Departed (2006) 2/21
The Breakfast Club (1985) 2/21
*Theodora Goes Wild (1936) 2/22
The Children’s Hour (1961) 2/22
Kismet (1955) 2/23
Carmen Jones (1954) 2/23
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 2/24
Rear Window (1954) 2/24
*Min and Bill (1930) 2/25
*The Americanization of Emily (1964) 2/26
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) 2/26
*Emma (1932) 2/27
*The Way We Were (1973) 2/27
*The Great Waltz (1938) 2/28
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) 2/28
Foreign Correspondent (1940) 3/1
*A Date with Judy (1948) 3/2
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 3/11
Tom Jones (1963) 3/13
The Lion in Winter (1968) 3/17
*The Age of Innocence (1993) 3/18
*Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) 3/19
Election (1999) 3/20
*Girls Trip (2017) 4/5
Bells Are Ringing (1960) 5/9
*The Divorcee (1930) 5/17
State Fair (1945) 5/19
*The Opera House (2017) 6/1
*Finding Dory (2016) 6/23
Lady Bird (2017) 7/14
The Awful Truth (1937) 8/1
*Valley of the Dolls (1967) 8/15
*A Star Is Born (1976) 8/16
Blazing Saddles (1974) 8/16
The Tree of Life (2011) 9/12
*Wait for Your Laugh (2017) 9/28
*Tea with the Dames (2017) 9/28
*River’s Edge (1984) 10/12
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 10/21
*Shampoo (1975) 10/22
*Halloween (2018) 10/22
My Man Godfrey (1936) 10/29
Halloween (1978) 10/31
The Princess Bride (1987) 11/15
*The Rose (1979) 11/17
*The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) 11/29
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 12/3
*Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 12/4
From Here to Eternity (1953) 12/7
*Merrily We Live (1938) 12/11
*The Christmas Chronicles (2018) 12/12
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/18
Scrooged (1988) 12/18
Elf (2003) 12/20
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/23
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 12/23
*Paddington 2 (2017) 12/25
*Evita (1996) 12/26
Mary Poppins (1964) 12/27
Mary Poppins Returns (2018) 12/28