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La La Land
La La Land, released in 2016 and directed by Damien Chazelle, revived the classic Hollywood movie musical format for a contemporary audience, telling an original, non-adapted love story between an aspiring actress and a jazz musician set against modern Los Angeles. The film's extended single-take opening number, filmed on a closed Los Angeles freeway on-ramp, required extensive rehearsal with a large ensemble cast of dancers and represented one of the most technically ambitious dance sequences filmed for a mainstream studio movie in decades. La La Land's 2017 Academy Awards ceremony became infamous for a major presentation error, in which the film was mistakenly announced as the Best Picture winner before producers realized the award actually belonged to Moonlight, a mix-up that unfolded live on stage and became one of the most widely discussed moments in Oscars broadcast history. The film's combination of an original, non-adapted musical narrative with genuine homage to classic Hollywood musical filmmaking techniques helped revive mainstream interest in the movie musical format, which had become a considerably less common major studio genre in the decades before its release.
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Grease
Grease, released in 1978 and based on the 1971 stage musical, became the highest-grossing movie musical in history at the time of its release, and its soundtrack, featuring songs performed by stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, produced multiple chart-topping singles that extended the film's cultural reach well beyond typical movie musical audiences. The film's 1950s nostalgic setting, depicting American high school greaser and preppy subcultures, tapped into a broader wave of 1950s nostalgia across American popular culture during the late 1970s, and Grease's success significantly contributed to that broader cultural moment's mainstream momentum. Its blend of relatively catchy, radio-friendly pop songwriting with traditional musical theater structure gave Grease crossover appeal beyond typical musical theater fans, helping the soundtrack achieve mainstream pop chart success independent of the film's own box-office performance. The film's continued popularity through regular television broadcasts, sing-along theatrical re-releases, and a long-running stage touring production has made Grease one of the most continuously culturally present movie musicals of its era, decades after its original 1978 release.
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