New Year's musicals with stars. The best domestic New Year's musicals

The musical is a specific genre: some viewers like films in which the main characters sing for the entire 80-120 (or even more) minutes, while other cinema fans, on the contrary, would agree to watch some “stupid” comedy or “snotty” melodrama, just to get rid of the heavy burden of watching “singing” films. It seems that since you opened this article, it means that you were initially determined to view musical films. That’s why we have prepared a list of must-see musicals for the New Year 2017 just for you. They will definitely brighten up any winter evening and they will give you a lot Have a good mood on the eve of the holiday.

Year of manufacture: 1956

Country: USSR

Genre: musical, melodrama, comedy

Director: Eldar Ryazanov

Script: Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov

Cinematographer: Arkady Kaltsaty

Composer: Anatoly Lepin

Cast: Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov, Georgy Kulikov, Sergey Filippov, Olga Vlasova, Andrey Tutyshkin, Tamara Nosova, Gennady Yudin, Vladimir Zeldin and others.

Let's start, perhaps, with a domestic masterpiece in the musical genre - the film of the year according to the magazine "Soviet Screen" and the leader of the Soviet film distribution. We believe we are not being too deceitful if we call “ Carnival night"full-fledged debut of the author" Office romance" and "Ironies of Fate" in full film. This film is often rewatched New Year, so take note of what was said, if you haven’t seen it, and make it a good tradition. And if you've seen it, watch it again and enjoy it again. Five minutes, five minutes - is it a lot or a little?..

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Year of manufacture: 1993

Country: USA

Genre: cartoon, musical, fantasy, family

Director: Henry Selick

Screenplay: Caroline Thompson, Tim Burton, Michael McDowell

Cinematographer: Pete Kozachik

Composer: Danny Elfman

Actors: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Paul Reubens, Ken Page, Ed Ivory, Susan McBride, Debi Durst and others.

It is a mistake to believe that this cartoon in the musical film genre was directed by Tim Burton. He acted here as a producer, for which he received recognition in the title: in the original, the title of the film sounds like “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.” The director of this amazing cartoon, which later became a cult film, was Henry Selick, who is also the author of the no less original “Coraline in the Land of Nightmares”, based on the children's story of the same name by Neil Gaiman. The following is worth saying about Nightmare, and this will be enough, believe me: while watching you will get everything you expect from Tim Burton and New Year's film: a good portion of obscurantism and positivity, respectively. And also enjoy listening to excellent music created by composer Danny Elfman, as well as the magnificent voices of the actors, by choosing to watch the original audio track.

Frozen

Year of manufacture: 2013

Country: USA

Genre: cartoon, musical, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family

Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Screenplay: Jennifer Lee, Hans Christian Andersen, Chris Buck, Shane Morris

Composer: Christophe Beck

Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk, Ciaran Hinds, Chris Williams, Stephen J. Anderson, Maia Wilson and others.

Following The Nightmare Before Christmas, we will put another cartoon on our list. "Frozen" is a free interpretation of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen " The Snow Queen" One could say one thing about the film itself: let it go and forget it, but in case we are being read by those who are not yet familiar with this masterpiece of Disney animation, we will not limit ourselves to this. Two Oscars (for " Best song"- the composition Let It Go and "Best Animated Film"), together with box office receipts of more than $1.2 billion - these are, of course, important indicators in the context of choosing a movie for the evening. But still, “Frozen” attracts simply good and good story about family, friendship and love. This will be enough to make you cry and laugh on New Year's Eve.

A Very Murray Christmas

Year of manufacture: 2015

Country: USA

Genre: musical, comedy, music

Director: Sofia Coppola

Screenplay: Sofia Coppola, Mitch Glaser, Bill Murray

Cinematographer: John Tanzer

Actors: Bill Murray, Paul Shaffer, Michael Cera, George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, Dmitry Dmitrov, David Johansen, Rashida Jones, Jenny Lewis, Amy Poehler and others.

Let it be yours own list Among the must-see New Year's musicals for 2017, there is a film like A Very Murray Christmas. It seems that if the expression “Bill Murray” is not an empty phrase for you, you will be happy to include this movie on your list. Everything you want from watching a movie like this is already included in the film. Well, the name of Sofia Coppola, the daughter of the director of the trilogy " Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now", she is also the author of "Lost in Translation" with the same Bill Murray and "The Virgin Suicides", speaks for itself. On our own behalf, we recommend this film for viewing during the New Year holidays.

8 women / 8 femmes

Year of manufacture: 2001

Country: France, Italy

Genre: musical, crime, detective, drama, comedy

Director: Francois Ozon

Screenplay: François Ozon, Marina de Van, Robert Thomas

Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie

Composer: Krishna Levy

Cast: Daniel Darrieu, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmin Richard, Dominique Lamur

Musical films for 2017, for the celebration of everyone's favorite holiday - the New Year, which we recommend to you in this article, will not do without a musical staged by Francois Ozon. The author of many remarkable films, for example “In the House” and “Raindrops on Hot Rocks”, gathered in his project the stars of the first magnitude of French cinema. Just look at the name of Catherine Deneuve or Isabelle Huppert, one and the other “swallow” of France and her face in their faces already long years. In “8 Women” they are good, as always, as are all the other participants cast, for which, in fact, the picture received the corresponding award at Berlin Film Festival. A great reason to laugh and play detective on New Year's Eve.

More musicals

From big list finished products, we can highlight several projects that are worthy of your attention in the first place and are directly related to the theme of the New Year holiday: “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”, “The Snow Queen” and “Chasing two hares”. Choose any of them based on the title, or specifically the one in which your favorite artist plays (or your favorite artist - this does not change the essence of the matter), and watch for your own pleasure.

Two more Soviet New Year musicals: “Sorcerers” and “New Year’s Adventures of Masha and Vitya”

The musical “Sorcerers” was directed by Konstantin Bromberg based on the script by the Strugatsky brothers. In the foreground, it featured such actors and actresses as Alexandra Yakovleva, Alexander Abdulov, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Valentin Gaft, Semyon Farada, Valery Zolotukhin and Emmanuil Vitorgan. It has long been considered a classic and is reviewed by many viewers on New Year's Eve, mostly adults.

Here's the musical New Year's adventures Masha and Vitya” is offered for viewing exclusively by the whole family. While watching what is happening on the TV screen, you can find the faces of the still young Mikhail Boyarsky and Boris Smolkin.

Prepare for the holiday properly, and celebrate it at the highest level, accompanied by the good mood you get from watching musical films.

In preparation for the most beloved winter holiday– For the New Year, the most important thing is to create a real festive atmosphere. Moreover, a decorated Christmas tree, decorations on windows and in houses, all kinds of garlands, gifts - all this is just the beginning.

The most important ingredient for a good holiday holiday is to create a cultural program, and they will help you with this New Year's musicals, which everyone can watch together during the winter holidays.

It is best to spend New Year's and Christmas days with family, loved ones, loved ones and friends - those people who give sincere smiles and joy. And if we add here delicious snacks, hot chocolate and entertaining musicals with a New Year's theme - successful holidays are guaranteed!

Foreign films

"8 women" (8 femmes)

• Year of issue: 2001
• A country: Italy, France
• Genre: musical, detective, crime, comedy, drama
• Director: Francois Ozon
• Composer: Krishna Levy
• Scenario: Francois Ozon, Robert Thomas, Marina de Van
• Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Darrier, Emmanuelle Beart, Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Ledoyen, Firmin Richard, Fanny Ardant, Ludivine Sagnier

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas on an estate lost in the snowy French countryside. However, the holiday is not destined to take place - the owner of the house dies under suspicious circumstances. Eight women begin their investigation. At the same time, each of them is under suspicion, because each has a motive for murder...

"White Christmas"

• Year of issue: 1954
• A country: USA
• Genre: musical, comedy, melodrama
• Director: Michael Curtiz
• Composers: Van Cleave, Joseph. J. Lilley, Gus Levene
• Scenario: Norman Panama, Norman Krasna, Melvin Frank
• Cast: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen, In Jagger, Mary Weeks

After the end of World War II, Phil Davis and Bob Wallace, two former conscripts, decided to combine their talents and become the best dancing and singing duo in all of America. And they succeed! Concerts follow each other, the guys become more and more popular... It is not known how they would have continued concert life, if chance had not brought them together with a duet of charming sisters - Judy and Betty.

And this acquaintance leads to the creation of a quartet and a concert on Christmas Eve in support of a holiday home for skiers. And the house is run by retired General Woverlay, a former commander of talented young people.

"The Muppet Christmas Carol"

• Year of issue: 1992
• A country: USA
• Genre: musical, comedy, drama, fantasy, family
• Director: Brian Henson
• Composer: Michael Goodman
• Scenario: Charles Dickens, Jerry Juhl
• Cast: Dave Goeltz, Michael Caine, Frank Oz, Steve Whitmire, David Rudman, Donald Austin

The famous story of Charles Dickens about an incredibly stingy and completely callous man, Ebenezer Scrooge. However, in this musical Almost all the roles are played by characters from the Muppet Show that are well known to all of us. One Christmas night, the Spirit of Past Years, the Spirit of Present Christmastide and the Spirit of Future Christmastide appeared to Uncle Scrooge in order to make Ebenezer look at his life from a different perspective.

Holiday Inn

• Year of issue: 1942
• A country: USA
• Genre: musical, melodrama, drama, comedy
• Director: Mark Sandrich
• Composer: Robert Emmett Dolan
• Scenario: Ben Holmes, Claude Binion, Bert Lawrence
• Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds, Louise Beavers, Walter Abel

An entertaining musical that tells the story of dancer Jim Hardy, who decides to leave show business and become a gentleman farmer in New England. However old times not so easy to weather and Hardy turns his farm into an entertainment club, which becomes a kind of prototype of the future " Blue light" in USSR.

"A Very Murray Christmas"

• Year of issue: 2015
• A country: USA
• Genre: musical, comedy
• Director: Sofia Coppola
• Scenario: Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray, Mitch Glaser
• Cast: Bill Murray, Michael Cera, Paul Shaffer, Miley Cyrus, George Clooney, David Johansen, Dmitry Dmitrov, Rachilda Jones, Jenny Lewis

While famous actor Bill Murray is throwing a huge Christmas party on his TV show and there's a blizzard in New York City! The arrival of guests is a big question, but miracles happen on Christmas Eve...

Domestic films

"Carnival Night"

• Year of issue: 1956
• A country: USSR
• Genre: musical, comedy, melodrama
• Director: Eldar Ryazanov
• Composer: Anatoly Lepin
• Scenario: Vladimir Polyakov, Boris Laskin
• Cast: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Igor Ilyinsky, Georgy Kulikov, Yuri Belov, Olga Vlasova, Sergey Filippov, Andrey Tutyshkin, Gennady Yudin, Tamara Nosova

The club's young employees are getting ready for the New Year. The team plans to hold a fun and exciting holiday, but, unfortunately, the director of the club, Ogurtsov, a bureaucrat, a bureaucrat and a bookworm, undertakes to control the initiative guys. He has his own vision of how to usefully and correctly conduct New Year's Eve. The organizers come to understand that Ogurtsov intends to present the guests instead of a holiday - a kind of cocktail from a party meeting and an amateur art show. It's time to take things into your own hands...

"Sorcerers"

• Year of issue: 1982
• A country: USSR
• Genre: musical, comedy, fantasy, melodrama
• Director: Konstantin Bromberg
• Composer: Evgeny Krylatov
• Scenario: Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
• Cast: Alexander Abdulov, Alexandra Yakovleva, Valentin Gaft, Valery Zolotukhin, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Semyon Farada, Emmanuil Vitorgan

A New Year's musical that will make you believe that love can create real miracles. At the Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services “NUINU”, work is in full swing on the production of not just anything, but a magic wand. The presentation of the finished invention is scheduled for New Year's Eve - the evening of December 31st. But opponents of the director of NUINU, who are pursuing their own goals, enter into a secret battle.

"New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti"

• Year of issue: 1957
• A country: USSR
• Genre: musical, family, fantasy
• Directors: Gennady Kazansky, Igor Usov
• Composer: Gennady Gladkov
• Scenario: Pavel Finn
• Cast: Mikhail Boyarsky, Irina Borisova, Nikolay Boyarsky, Valentina Kosobutskaya, Georgy Shtil, Yuri Nakhratov, Natalya Simonova, Vera Titova, Natalya Simonova

Vitya and Masha are completely ordinary junior high school students who lived the simple life of Soviet schoolchildren. But once good wizard Grandfather Frost entrusted them with an important mission... All the children need is to go with Grandfather Frost to a fairy tale to help the Snow Maiden in trouble.

"Cinderella"

• Year of issue: 2003
• A country: Russia Ukraine
• Genre: musical, comedy, melodrama
• Director: Semyon Gorov
• Composer: Konstantin Meladze
• Scenario: Anton Fridland
• Cast: Nikolay Baskov, Yulia Mavrina, Andrey Danilko, Valery Leontyev, Valery Meladze, Larisa Dolina, Lolita Milyavskaya, Taisiya Povaliy, Oleg Skripka, Vladimir Goryansky

A fascinating story about charming Cinderella and her difficult life under the close supervision of an evil stepmother and equally unkind and stupid stepsisters. The most exciting and reverent moment in the film is the meeting of a simple girl with a prince on royal ball. And Cinderella’s life after this fateful moment began to resemble a real fairy tale…

"Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"

• Year of issue: 2001
• A country: Russia Ukraine
• Genre: musical, comedy, fantasy
• Director: Semyon Gorov
• Composer: Konstantin Meladze
• Scenario: Nikolai Gogol, Anton Frindlyand
• Cast: Philip Kirkorov, Andrey Danilko, Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Anatoly Dyachenko, Vladimir Goryansky, Georgy Drozd, Ani Lorak, Vitaly Linetsky, Lolita Milyavskaya, Yuri Mazhuga, Nadezhda Granovskaya

The old story about the great love of the blacksmith Vakula and the girl Oksana comes to life again, performed by the stars of domestic show business. Tame the raging evil spirits, get the treasured gift and woo your beloved - and do it all in one night! Christmas Eve…

If you like music, dancing, theatrical performances, vocal numbers, then all this is united in one genre of art - in the musical. This trend has become popular all over the world after the success of Broadway productions. The musical genre has already had its own classics - these are such performances as “Chicago”, “Cats”, “Hair” and many others. In Russia, the musical genre is also gaining increasing popularity. This is largely due to the fact that musicals are quite simple to understand, dynamic, and everyone will find something attractive in them. are sold on our website online.

Musical productions are regularly held in Moscow. These are both foreign musicals, with which famous troupes come on tour, and their own productions from Russian directors and producers. There are musicals for every taste: adventure, love, humorous, tragic, based on rock music, created based on world literary and film masterpieces. For musical tickets, the price depends on the event you choose.

If you're looking for the best musicals in Moscow this season, then below you'll find our list of top events worth attending.