Musicals : Movies & Dance Theatre Posters, “F...-”
for social studies, music and performance arts classrooms, home schoolers, home and office.

Fantasticks
Fiddler on the Roof
Finian's Rainbow
Flashdance

Flying Down to Rio
Follies
Footloose

The Fantasticks, Giclee Print

The Fantasticks (1960) is an allegorical story inspired by elements of the Roman myth of Pyramus and Thisbe through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gaetano Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and “The Romancers” by Edmond Rostand.

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof, a 1964 Broadway musical is based on Sholem Aleichem's stories about his character Tevye the Milkman and Eastern European Jewish life.

• Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

Finian's Rainbow, Masterprint, 1947 Broadway Show

Finian's Rainbow (Broadway, 1947) is about the Irishman Finian who moves to the Deep South with his daughter Sharon, to bury a stolen pot of gold near Fort Knox.

Flashdance, Poster

Flashdance, a romantic musical film was given bad reviews by professional critics but was a box office success, becoming the third highest grossing film of 1983 in the USA.

Hit songs from Flashdance include “Maniac” and “Flashdance...What a Feeling”.

Flying Down to Rio, 1933, Giclee Print

Flying Down to Rio (1933) was a film musical that introduced the dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in minor roles. The stars of the film were Delores del Rio and Gene Raymond.

Follies, Masterprint

Follies (1971), a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is the story of a reunion of members of the “Weismann's Follies” inspired by the Ziegfeld Follies.

Footloose, Poster

The 1984 Footloose musical movie, based loosely on events leading up to the first high school prom in the small, rural farming community of Elmore City, Oklahoma.

42nd Street, Masterprint

The musical 42nd Street was originally produced as a film musical in 1933 which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award (1932-33); it was produced on Broadway in 1980.

• #13 All Time Greatest Movie Musical, AFI

FYI - The movie Cavalcade, based on a play by Noel Coward, won Best Picture.

Funny Face, Mini Poster

Both the 1927 Broadway production and 1957 film of Funny Face starred Fred Astaire. He worked with his sister Adele in 1927 and with Audrey Hepburn in '57. George and Ira Gershwin provided the music and lyrics.

Funny Girl, Masterprint

Funny Girl (1968) is the semi-biographical musical based on the life of actress and entertainer Fanny Brice with her husband, entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.

• #16 All Time Greatest Movie Musical, AFI