Yeah... I'm a moron.
'Heart Of Gold'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Yeah, but Matewan and Norma Rae aren't musicals.
Oh, I missed that musical was a requirement. Oops?
Speaking of musicals, I am sad. I opened my front door to discover a letter on my doorstep. (I guess it ended up in the wrong mailbox and one of my neighbors left it for me.) It was one of those screening invites. To Sweeney Freaking Todd.
I could've seen Sweeney Todd today.
Bastards.
Sweeney Todd would've been sweet.
How many more musicals about the labour movement can you dig up Jesse?
Oooh, is there a filmed version of Rags?
I think it's going to be the first movie that gets me into a theater in...well, a very long time. I'm now trying to remember the last time I went to the movies.
ETA: God help me, I think it might've been Brokeback Mountain.
I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU
Don't forget The Pajama Game.
Plot synopsis from IMDB:
"Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions! "
Plus Fosse choreography.
May I also suggest Brassed Off which is a non-traditional brass-band-based musical?
I think the reason that people were upset with Leno was that he had promised his workers that they would be taken care of, then this happened. Apparently he thought they would go back to work with either guest hosts or without scripts (no opening monologue/skits, more musician acts) but that didn't pan out.