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Movie musicals

Order by year of release. You place all 49 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the movie musicals timeline game

These cards are movie musicals, the films where characters break into song, and each one shows its director under the title. Sort them by the year each film was released. You start with one musical already placed, its year showing. Pick a gap for every new card. A good guess reveals the year; a bad one costs one of your three lives, and the film still settles into its correct spot on the line.

The range covers the first talking pictures, the lavish studio era, the big Broadway adaptations and the modern revival of the genre. Many of these began life on stage, so the year a show opened on Broadway can mislead you about when its film arrived. The director helps place a card, since several directors made more than one musical. Remakes are here too, so think about which version you are holding.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 49 cards you might be dealt, with 21 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The Jazz Singer Alan Crosland
  • 42nd Street Lloyd Bacon
  • The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming
  • An American in Paris Vincente Minnelli
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Stanley Donen
  • A Star Is Born (Judy Garland) George Cukor
  • The King and I Walter Lang
  • West Side Story Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
  • My Fair Lady George Cukor
  • Mary Poppins Robert Stevenson
  • Oliver! Carol Reed
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Ken Hughes
  • Fiddler on the Roof Norman Jewison
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Mel Stuart
  • Jesus Christ Superstar Norman Jewison
  • Grease Randal Kleiser
  • Annie John Huston
  • Little Shop of Horrors Frank Oz
  • Moulin Rouge! Baz Luhrmann
  • The Phantom of the Opera Joel Schumacher
  • Hairspray Adam Shankman
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tim Burton
  • Les Misérables Tom Hooper
  • La La Land Damien Chazelle
  • A Star Is Born (Lady Gaga) Bradley Cooper
  • Mary Poppins Returns Rob Marshall
  • In the Heights Jon M. Chu
  • Wicked Jon M. Chu

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