Thanks to my days from being a part of my High School drama club, I have a soft spot for musicals. I played rolls in West Side Story, Guys and Dolls and our own medly that our director came up, piecing together a lot of classic bits.

Allthough, I wouldn’t really call this a musical, it’s more of a movie about a bunch of people doing a Broadway musical. Two sisters try to make their big break, and end up in a big “love triangle,” that really ends up as more of a “love square” with a lot of diagonal lines in the middle. It becomes a little show in the middle, as we are pretty light on action, and the humor might not translate well being almost 80 years old, but there’s plenty of character development, and a great deal of personal conflict between all the characters.

All in all it’s worth a watch, but I don’t feel like I was missing anything not having seen it before. This would be a great canidate for a remake, and I might try to talk some of my local film making buddies into giving it a shot. I even have a few folks in mind for casting.