Genre-ary 2024: Musicals

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Doc

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)