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January 9, 2013  Great Movie Musicals  by Rachel Devitt  | 
January 9, 2013  Forget baseball. Broadway is the great American
pastime -- or at least it should be. The songs, the dances, the
spectacle and the jazz hands of the Great White Way have
entranced America since we pretty much invented the musical way
back in the 19th century (with a little help from burlesque,
opera, European extravaganzas and a few other predecessors). And
what makes that most American of mediums even more apple-pie-
ish? Turning it into a glitzy, glammy, spectacular, jazz-
handsical movie, of course. It's worth noting that the first
full-length "talkie," 1927's The Jazz Singer, was itself a
musical.  Fast-forward through the classic era of Rodgers and
Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly;
cutting-edge '60s and '70s movies like Cabaret and Rocky Horror;
Disney's animated contributions to the oeuvre; coming-of-age
faves like Grease and Rent; contempor