With more cold and wet weather forecast for the bank holiday weekend, the National Media Museum is starting a season of musicals under the title of Gotta Dance! Gotta Dance!
That’s the cry of a Gene Kelly character in the dream sequence in An American In Paris. That masterpiece isn’t being shown, but another one is – Singin’ In The Rain.
Starring Debbie Reynolds, Cyd Charisse, Jean Hagen, a manic Donald O’Connor and Gene Kelly, the comedy romance about the transition of Hollywood from silent pictures to talkies is the precursor of this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner The Artist.
Singin’ In The Rain and The Artist are being shown in a double bill on May 26.
Six musicals in all can be seen on the big screen, starting this Sunday with the 1945 Ziegfeld Follies, featuring a galaxy of MGM stars including Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland and Lena Horne.
The other films are The Pirate, a combination of Cole Porter songs, directed by Vincente Minnelli, the director of Ziegfeld Follies, Singin’ In The Rain and Brigadoon, which is also being shown; On the Town, starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Ann Miller; and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.
For tickets, call 0844 8563797. For dates and times, go to nationalmediamuseum.org.uk.
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