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I would say my favourites include The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
which I first saw when it came out at the movies. Mum and dad didn't know what to expect, and so I saw it when I was about 6 or 7. Then Mum played the LP most every day for several years. It...was...is...AWESOME!
I'd add in recent times Hedwig and the Angry Inch:
and, perhaps less a musical, John Cameron Mitchell's next movie, Short Bus, which is one of the most beautiful films (though, for those so disinclined, extraordinarily sexually explicit), with the loveliest music/soundtrack, that I have ever seen, reminding me that "we all get it in the end". I feel like John Cameron Mitchell grew up the same way with the same cultural awareness (eg. Rocky Horror Picture Show) that I did, and gave it all the grace and meaning beyond simple "pop" that I wanted to see in it.
Cheers,
Marc
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