It is time for the second annual Genre-ary DailyView. It started last January 2023 with a DailyView of Science Fiction movies that I had never seen before. It went so well, I decided that this would be a regular event every January with different types of genres.
This year’s genre will be musicals.
I generally consider musicals to be those films that have people break into song at times during the story and not a film that uses music as the backdrop of the story. So This is Spinal Tap is not a musical despite there being a bunch of songs. It is a movie about music. Yet, I will probably not hold to that definition during this DailyView.
The DailyView for this Genre-ary will begin on January 1st. I have a list of musicals that could work for the month, but I have not yet determined which one will kick us off.
This will be the running list of the movies watched during January.
Genre-ary 2024
January 1: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
January 2: Kinky Boots: The Musical (2019)
January 3: Top Hat (1935)
January 4: Tommy (1975)
January 5: Dicks: The Musical (2023)
January 6: My Fair Lady (1964)
January 7: Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
January 8: Eric Idle’s What About Dick? (2012)
January 9: Oliver! (1968)
January 10: Brigadoon (1954)
January 11: High School Musical (2006)
January 12: Hair (1979)
January 13: Man of La Mancha (1972)
January 14: Damn Yankees (1958)
January 15: The First Nudie Musical (1976)
January 16: Viva Las Vegas (1964)
January 17: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
January 18: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
January 19: Cry-Baby (1990)
January 20: Yentl (1983)
January 21: Ray (2004)
Taylor Swift-All Too Well: The Short Film (2021)
Incest! The Musical (2011)
Zombie Musical (2011)
January 22: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
January 23: Shrek: The Musical (2013)
January 24: Earth Girls are Easy (1989)
January 25: Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
January 26: Once (2007)
January 27: Fame (1980)
January 28: South Pacific (1958)
January 29: 42nd Street (1933)
January 30: Topsy Turvy (1999)
January 31: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
