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Movies Like Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

If you liked Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best (2023), a movie directed by David Horn, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

    Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010)

    ★ 7.3/10

    "Wishful Drinking" is based on Fisher's memoirs of the same title. The stage adaptation had its world premiere in 2006 at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. It later played at Berkeley Repertory before opening on Broadway in…

  2. 2The Great Ziegfeld

    The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

    ★ 6.3/10

    At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld…

  3. 3Better Nate Than Ever

    Better Nate Than Ever (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10

    13-year-old Nate Foster has big Broadway dreams but there’s only one problem — he can’t even land a part in the school play. When his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend Libby sneak off to the Big Apple for a…

  4. 4Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

    Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert (2010)

    ★ 8.3/10

    This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original production at the Queen's Theatre, the 1985 original production by the…

  5. 5A Chorus Line

    A Chorus Line (1985)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a…

  6. 6Come from Away

    Come from Away (2021)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Filmed live on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning musical tells the remarkable true story of 38 flights grounded in a small Canadian town on September 11, 2001. As the locals host these “come from aways,” they come…

  7. 7There's No Business Like Show Business

    There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

  8. 8Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl

    Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (2022)

    ★ 7/10

    Step into Casa Madrigal for a special concert spectacular as the original voice cast of Disney Animation's Oscar®-winning "Encanto," Stephanie Beatriz, Adassa, Carolina Gaitán, Jessica Darrow, Diane Guerrero, Mauro…

  9. 9Dames

    Dames (1934)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

  10. 10Let's Make Love

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10

    When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

  11. 11Car Wash

    Car Wash (1976)

    ★ 6/10

    This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky…

  12. 12Feel the Beat

    Feel the Beat (2020)

    ★ 7.5/10

    After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.

  13. 13Ziegfeld Follies

    Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

    ★ 6/10

    The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

  14. 14Love Happy

    Love Happy (1949)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

  15. 15Staying Alive

    Staying Alive (1983)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Five years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever still burns. Now he's struts toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

  16. 16The Sunshine Boys

    The Sunshine Boys (1975)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the…

  17. 17Hellzapoppin'

    Hellzapoppin' (1941)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.

  18. 18Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

    Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her…

  19. 19The Band Wagon

    The Band Wagon (1953)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

  20. 20You'll Never Get Rich

    You'll Never Get Rich (1941)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

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