'The musicals of 2021, however, offer something more... They’re a potent reminder of the power of a good musical to unite us,' writes Nadine Zylberberg.
“I’ll walk down the laneSo hums a suit-clad Gene Kelly amid a veritable downpour in the 1952 film. His umbrella, proving useless to fend off water, becomes a prop to his tap dancing and puddle jumping. It’s one of the most life-affirming movie scenes in memory. As a kid, it made me want to tap dance, which I did for years before I realized I was no Kelly. Despite its exuberance,premiered against the gloomy backdrop of the Red Scare and the Korean War.
At their best, movie musicals evoke pure emotion, heart, or an undeniable energy. They’re the perfect antidote for a cruel and unusual world event. Like, say, a pandemic. This summer and fall, a slew of new releases promises to use song and dance to transport us somewhere else—far away from this world of social distancing and face masks and political polarization.
Technological advances during the early decades of cinema made it so that the movie musical could thrive when it was needed most. In the 1920s and ’30s, sound was introduced to film in the form of talkies, Technicolor created dazzling displays, and the studio system became the way movies were made. Production values went up, stars were born, and in just a few decades, Hollywood had wholly reinvented what movies could do by pairing song and dance onscreen in the most spectacular ways.
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