5678: A Movie Musical Podcast

Welcome to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your burgundy top hat and get swindled by The Greatest Showman (2017)! Starring Huge Jacked Man, Zefron, and a Swedish diva who cannot manage rejection. Strap in for dynamic choreography, heart tugging songs, and almost no facts. You've never seen a child's dance recital quite like this! So commit fraud to get a bank loan, bamboo...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Head on down to Skid Row and come in to the Little Shop of Horrors (1986)! Starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Green, and a surprise Bill Murray. Buckle up for crazy puppetry, incredibly catchy songs, and a whole town of horticulture fans. You've never seen a dentist quite like this! So feed a plant your blood, top up your nitrous oxide, and expl...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Join us for a very special bracket episode as we pit all the movies from 2023 against each other. Who will come out on top as our favorite movie of the year? Let us know what your favorite movie was and we'll see you in a few weeks for the first full episode of 2024! Follow us on Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter for more movie musical co...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Gather in the square and dance along to Christmas on the Square (2020)! Starring Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, and a white boy in his first musical ever. Join us for over written dialogue, surprise angels, and more religion than we were expecting. You've never seen a town meeting quite like this! So evict an entire town, find your fami...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Head to the travelling circus and trick your children to watch the 1995 (or 2000?) The Fantasticks! Starring Joel Gray, Brad Sullivan, and a Zorro swindler. Be prepared for a lot of vibes, jarring cuts, and a very alarming gondola ride. You've never seen a kidnapping quite like this! So fake a feud, give away your mother's necklace, a...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Pop the champagne and jump in the pool for the 1975 At Long Last Love! Starring Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Cybill Shepherd, and an actual Italian playing an Italian. Buckle up for the worst menaces to society you have ever seen, unnecessary live singing, and an uncompelling plot. You've never seen a opening number quite like this! So be...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get on a train going west and meet the 1946 The Harvey Girls! Starring Judy Garland, Angela Lansbury, and a really wide smiled love interest. Get ready for a conniving judge,  unnecessary B-plots, and more steaks than you can shake a stick at. You've never seen a saloon brawl quite like this! So get engaged by letter, hold up a saloon, and...

Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of body horror, gore, and mutilation. Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab a new face and join us for the 2008 Repo! The Genetic Opera! Starring Alexa Vega, Anthony Stewart Head, and Paris Hilton (of all people). Strap in for His-and-Hers secret passageways, too many angsty teenage songs, and a lot of unrealistic gore. You&a...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your go-to-hell hat and meet us in Leadville for the 1964 The Unsinkable Molly Brown! Starring Debbie Reynolds, Charles Walters, and the Titanic, with the Colorado River. Buckle up for feral reactions to conflict, a lot of gold and red decorating, and more correlations to The Prince of Egypt than you would think. You've never seen a p...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your white tie and tails for the 1935 Top Hat! Starring literally everyone who was in The Gay Divorcee. Get ready for sweeping dance numbers, stupid miscommunications, and a wild amount of feathers. You've never seen a gondola ride quite like this! So pretend to be a priest, don't swim in the Venice canals, and fuck in public i...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Strap on your cowboy boots and get ready to defend the 1982 Best Little Whorehouse in Texas! Starring Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, and a Despicable Me villain. Strap in for breaking and entering, inconsistent pacing, and absolute dumbest waiter. You've never seen a wig snatch quite like this! So have an affair with the Sherriff, threaten t...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab a rose and meet us at the boxing ring for the 1954 Carmen Jones! Starring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and the shittiest CO. Buckle up for toxic behavior, stellar acting, and not a single redeemable character. You've never seen a finale quite this fast! So abandon your fiancée, flee to Chicago, and don't draw the nine of s...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Pour yourself a shot of Absinthe and join us at the 2001 Moulin Rouge! Starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, and an easily bamboozled Duke. Brace yourself for an overwhelming amount of extravagance, the most fun dance numbers, and a very swindling waiter. You've never seen a Gothic Tower quite like this! So move to Paris, write the Sound...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Don your best hat and run to the sea for the 1948 The Pirate! Starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and the villain from Pocahontas. Strap in for Gene Kelly doing the most, the shortest shorts, and the sexiest pirate ballet. You've never seen a fainting spell quite like this! So flirt with every girl in sight, pretend to be a famous pirate, a...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your leather jacket and drag race your way to the 1990 Cry-Baby! Starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, and Iggy Pop and Willem Dafoe what are you doing here? Get ready for supportive family dynamics, crazy courtroom shenanigans, and the wildest amusement park opening. You've never heard backstories quite like this! So head down to Turke...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab Toto and click your heels for the 1978 The Wiz! Starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and the most terrifying munchkins you've ever seen. Strap in for dystopian city scapes, overwhelming wide shots, and some lackluster dances. You've never seen a subway station quite like this! So get lost in a snow storm, ease on down to the Eme...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Make a cup of cocoa and arm yourself for the 2017 Anna and the Apocolypse! Starring Ella Hunt, Malcom Cummings, and Draco Malfoy. Strap in for poor horror movie decisions, a handful of really fun songs, and more zombies than you can shake a candy cane at. You've never seen a Chekhov's Star of Bethlehem quite like this! So meet at the...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your eye patches and set sail for the 1983 Pirates of Penzance! Starring Dame Angela Lansbury, Linda Rondstadt, and Kevin Kline's thighs. Buckle up for fantastic physical comedy, unintelligible lyrics , and several gumby policemen. You've never seen a paradox quite like this! So lie about being a orphan, park your ship next to...

Welcome to 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your papes and your strike signs and join us for Disney's 1992 Newsies! Starring Christian Bale, Robert Duvall, and America's favorite president. Prepare yourself for a good male chorus, some acrobatic (but questionable) dance solos, and the most aggressive accents you have ever heard. You've never seen so many children smoking! So stea...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get on your horse and gallop towards the 1967 Camelot! Starring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and Doug Dimmadome (Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome). Get ready for the Rex Harrison School of Singing, miraculous healings, and a very Italian Frenchman. You've never seen a May-Day quite like this! So fall out of a tree in front of your bet...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Jump in your golf cart and meet us at Lava Springs for the 2007 High School Musical 2! Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and our forever waiter Fulton. Settle in for over the top songs, a plot with no stakes, and an atrociously choreographed final number. You've never seen a talent show quite like this! So have a picnic on a golf course...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Lose that long face and settle in for the 1954 A Star Is Born! Starring Judy Garland, James Mason, and a pianist who deserves more. Buckle up for pointless songs, heartfelt ballads, and a whole section that doesn't have video. You've never seen an awards speech quite like this! So miss the bus to Fresno, swindle a studio head, and mak...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get on a train to Buenos Aires and join us for the 1996 Evita! Starring Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and a delightfully good Johnathan Pryce. Settle in for political machinations, questionable lyrics, and not a single goon in sight. You've never seen a funeral quite like this! So overthrow the oligarchy, waltz your way through your grief, an...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Pack your bags and ride side-saddle for the 1974 Mame! Starring Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, and a criminally underused Robert Preston. Prepare for a woman just living her best life, average singing voices, and all the plot in the last 30 minutes. You've never seen a hunt quite like this! So loose all your money in the Great Depression, open...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your engraved cigarette case and settle in for the 1946 Night and Day! Starring Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, and a lot of people just playing themselves.  Buckle up for sweeping golden age music, less plot than you might think, and so many altos. You've never seen an outdoor rehearsal quite like this! So get on your grandfather's ho...