I'm having a really hard time choosing my musical. I've got one from the 30s, one from the 40s, one from the 60s, and one modern one. In the end, I'm going with the modern one. Six Degrees of Troy McClure selects, in the musical category, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The musical numbers are fantastic and there's some very witty dialogue.
Hedwig, an East-German post-op (and an unsuccessful one at that) transsexual rock entertainer, spends much of the film performing in Bildgewaters (a chain sort of reminiscent of Red Lobster) on a tour that shadows that of Tommy Gnosis, a christian boy that she deflowered before he stole her songs and became a superstar. Wholesome fun.
"One day in the late mid-eighties, I was in my early late-twenties. I had just been dismissed from University after delivering a brilliant lecture on the aggressive influence of German philosophy on rock'n'roll entitled 'You, Kant, Always Get What You Want.' At 26, my academic career was over, I had never kissed a boy, and I was still sleeping with mom. Such were the thoughts flooding my tiny head on the day that I was sunning myself... in an old bomb crater I had discovered near the Wall. I am naked. Facedown, on a broken piece of church, inhaling a fragrant westerly breeze. The new McDonald's has just gone up on the other side... my God I deserve a break today. All I ever get is the unhappy meal. "
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