5678: A Movie Musical Podcast

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on a masquerade mask and come to see the 2004 Phantom of the Opera! Starring Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, and a perfectly cast Minnie Driver.  Brace yourself for tragic back stories, a banger overture, and the worst fight or flight response. You've never seen an auction quite like this! So blackmail some producers, buy some candles, and...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Jump into a strangers car and head to the premiere of the classic 1952 Singin' in the Rain! Starring Gene Kelley, Donald O'Connor, and a 19 year old Debbie Reynolds. Get ready for chaotic movie making, several songs that have absolutely no point, and dance that is so amazing it's hard to describe. You've never heard a leadin...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your tights and join the Merry Men for the 1993 Mel Brooks comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights! Starring Cary Elwys, Richard Lewis, and a baby Dave Chapelle. Brace for spectacular physical comedy, a few jokes that don't land, and the best King Richard cameo of all time. You've never seen an archery contest quite like this! So swim...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Buy a broken down car and join us at the drive-in for the classic 1978 Grease! Starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, and a lot of grown ass adults pretending to be teenagers. Prepare for inappropriate behavior, wildly fun music numbers, and a very supportive auto shop teacher. You've never seen a guardian angel quite like this! So wi...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get on a train and make your way up to Vermont for 1954's White Christmas! Starring Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and everyone's favorite housekeeper. Get ready for a shocking amount of pointless dance numbers, a fake engagement, and a genuinely heartwarming finale. You've never seen a touring production quite like this! So mani...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your garters and get ready for the iconic 2002 Chicago! Starring Catherine Zeta Jones, Renée Zellweger, and Richard Gere (who is better than he has any right to be). Prepare for incredible mirror choreo, a truly spectacular Act of Desperation l, and the biggest Swindler of them all. You've never seen a three-ring circus quite like t...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Make a gown and get ready for the ball in the 2007 Enchanted! Starring Amy Adams, peak Patrick Dempsey, and James Marsden in tights. Brace yourself for joyous dance numbers, mid 2000's CGI, and an Oscar worthy performance from a chipmunk. You've never seen a date quite like this! So call all the vermin in New York City, fall off a bil...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast!  Get in your horse drawn carriage and prepare for the 1938 In Old Chicago! Starring Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, and a very kicky cow. Brace for political backstabbing, inconsequential songs, and the most expensive fire on film. You've never seen an ending monologue quite like this! So start your own laundry business, manipulate your brother...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Crash your spaceship and go to the beach to see the intergalactic 1988 Earth Girls are Easy! Starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and a shockingly hot Jim Carrey. Prepare for spectacular physical comedy, huge continuity errors, and a nurse who deserves better. You've never seen a dance battle quite like this! So shave an alien, destroy you...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Write a hit song and sneak your way on to the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1963 Bye, Bye, Birdie! Starring Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Ann Margaret, and an over the hill Elvis impersonator. Strap in for boggling floor plans, strange animations, and a genuinely fun dance number. You've never seen a Russian ballet quite like this! So drug a tort...

We had some unexpected personal business that made it impossible to record our next episode. Please enjoy this throw back and we will see you in two weeks!   Welcome to 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get your basketballs and nostalgia and join us for the 2006 classic High School Musical! Starring Vanessa Hudgens, Corbin Bleu, Ashley Tisdale, and a baby Zefron. Get ready for frog singing, incompreh...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your leg warmers and dance on a car for the 1980 sensation Fame! Starring actual teenagers in a high school movie (shocking). Prepare yourself for a LOT of dark plot lines, less songs than you would think, and a truly excellent 80s power ballad. You've never seen a lunchroom quite like this! So lie about your father, embarrass your...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get on the trolley and head to the World Fair to watch the 1944 Meet Me In St. Louis! Starring Judy Garland, Tom Drake, and the worst behaved child you've ever seen. Get ready for classic Halloween pranks like arson and attempted murder, a wonderfully supportive family, and more basketball than you might expect. You've never seen a ma...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Buy some chocolate and settle in for the 1971 spectacular Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory! Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, and so many children. Prepare for OSHA violations, heartwarming songs, and a shocking amount of child endangerment. You've never seen a boat ride quite like this! So steal some Fizzy Lifting drinks, make...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get hungry and set out for Colorado in the 1993 cult musical Cannibal! The Musical! Starring Trey Parker, Matt Young, and literally everyone they went to school with. Brace yourself for low budget gore, historically accurate settings, and a lot of dick jokes. You've never seen a fur hat quite like this! So lose your horse, build a snowman,...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on a hoop skirt and polka for the 1956 The King and I! Starring Yul Brenner, Deborah Kerr, and shockingly also Rita Moreno. Prepare for large sets, inappropriate casting, and A LOT of children. You've never seen collar bones quite like this! So ride in on a palanquin, write a play, and send some elephants to America! Follow us on Faceb...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Embrace your emotions and forget about needing a  plot in: The Last Five Years (2014)! Starring Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, and So. Many. Cameos! Settle in for confusing timelines, an egotistical writer, and a non-communicative actress. You've never seen a couple like this afford a brownstone! So sit on a pier in Ohio, get drunk at a boo...

Welcome to 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Due to life happening sadly we could not bring you a new episode this week, so please enjoy this throwback: Oh boy! Get your cheesecake statistics ready and join us for the 1955 masterpiece Guys and Dolls! Starring Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, and exactly one gangster. Be prepared for cigarette choreography, a gambler ballet, and an incredibly niche Holes...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Inherit 77 million dollars and set sail for Egypt in the 1934 Kid Millions! Starring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Mermen, and Colonel Grandpa. Brace yourself goonish gangsters, witty one liners, and so many attempted murders. You've never seen a magic trick quite like this! So open a free ice cream factory, hide in a sarcophagus, and SIGN THE PAPER...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your roller skates and legwarmers for the 1980 Xanadu! Starring Olivia Newton John, Gene Kelly, and B-level Heath Ledger. Prepare for insane scene transitions, chaotic dance numbers, and a plot that has never heard of logic. You've never seen a recording studio quite like this! So play clarinet like a trumpet, do crime on your first...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your dancing shoes and hop in your Prius for the 2016 La La Land! Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, and not enough J.K. Simmons. Brace yourself for jewel-tone dresses, ominous jazz, and several stunning long shots. You've never seen an 80's cover band quite like this! So interrupt an audition, don't put on boar...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your cowboy boots and leave the farm for the 1962 State Fair! Starring Pat Boone, Ann-Margaret, and a very large mechanical cowboy named Tex. Get ready for boozy mincemeat, several large pigs, and the best perfume name ever. You've never seen a racecar race quite like this! So sneak your way on to a teacup ride, paint Emily on the b...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Pack your bags and run out West for the 1935 The Little Colonel! Starring Shirley Temple, Bill Robinson, and Colonel Sanders. Brace your self for fabulous tap dancing, swindlers, and the fastest business deal you've ever seen. You've never seen a 'cottage' quite like this (because it's actually a two story house)! So pi...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Try on your gowns and practice your waltz for the 1997 Cinderella! Starring Brandy, Our Queen and Savoir Whitney Houston, and our first triple threat (goon, gangster, and waiter). Prepare for some WILD interior design, fantastic 1990's CGI, and a very  charming himbo prince. You've never been to a ball like this! So make a wish, turn...

Welcome to Season 2 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your swim caps and dive into the 1959 Million Dollar Mermaid! Starring Esther Williams, Victor Mature, and a very violent kangaroo. Get ready for over the top aquatic sequences, over inflated egos, and a very aggravating court case. You've never seen a musical quite like this (because it isn't one)! So grab your one-piece, buil...