Most of the best musicals of all time have multiple iterations: movie versions, animated takes, spin-offs—you get the idea. That's because their stories are both rich and simple. Universal and specific. They're ripe for revisiting and reanalyzing, which, after all, is the point of musical theater. You can see the same Broadway show two times in one week and have radically different experiences. There's something about the art that's more alive and electric than TV shows and movies.
That being said, sometimes the movie version of a musical is the best version. (I'm looking at you, Chicago.) When the Glamour team decided to put together a list of the best musicals of all time—in honor of Hamilton hitting Disney+ on July 3—we kept this in mind. The reviews you see, below, touch on 29 different musicals of all kinds. Some focus on the film version of a musical. Others are musicals that have only seen the stage, while others have only seen the screen. Regardless, they're 29 stories that stand the test of time. Read on to see whether your favorites made the cut.
