5678: A Movie Musical Podcast

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Hide in the laundry and run away to the 1982 Annie! Starring Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett, and Mr. Clean as Daddy Warbucks. Strap in for 50 million children, more set up than plot, and the two worst disguises you've ever seen. You've never heard a radio show quite like this! So temporarily adopt an orphan, buy bomb proof windows, and sing for your President!

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Trigger Warning: Alcoholism, drug use, and mentions of suicide.

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get your bell bottoms and hop on stage for the 1976 A Star is Born! Starring Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, and is that Gary Busey? Brace yourself for questionable pacing, full length single shot songs, and a very personal wardrobe. You've absolutely seen a plot just like this! So fall off a motorbik...

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your dancing shoes and grab your golf clubs for Carefree (1938)! Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and a cardboard cutout of a man. Strap in for medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and very bad time management skills. You've never seen hypnotism quite like this! So take over a shooting competition, turn into the Terminator, and fall in love with your doc...

Trigger Warning: Gore, murder, cannibalism, and one mention of SA. 

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your razors and your rolling pins and join us for Sweeney Todd(2007)! Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and music by Paul Giamatti? Buckle up for over-the-top blood, no choral numbers, and the grimiest version of London you've ever seen. You've never seen a street barber competition ...

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Go on shore leave and explore the city in On the Town (1949)! Starring Gene Kelley, Frank Sinatra, and that other guy (sorry Jules!). Brace yourself for long unnecessary dance sequences, very aggressive flirting, and unrealistic travel times. You've never seen a car chase quite like this! So knock over a dinosaur, run from the cops, and meet us at the top of the Empire...

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Tease your hair and put on your assless chaps for Rock of Ages (2012)! Starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, and a consistently shirtless Tome Cruise. Strap in for incredible mash-ups, a shaky plot, and more leather than you can shake a stick at. You've never seen a green room quite like this! So protest against your one night stand from college, sing your heart out, ...

Trigger Warning: Kidnapping and trafficking 

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Put on your best quilt dress and ride into town to see Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)! Starring Jane Powell, Howard Keel, and an absurd amount of gingers. Buckle up for beautiful singing voices, problematic behavior, and Grace yelling so loud she blows out Anna's ears. You've never seen a barn raising quite like ...

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your top hat and meet us at the stage door to meet The Producers (2005)! Starring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, and almost the entire OBC. Strap in for walker choreography, massive sets, and the hardest working chorus girls. You've never seen an opening night quite like this! So find the worst script, hire the worst director, and win a Tony!

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Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your leather jacket and slick down your hair for Grease 2 (1982)! Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield, and THE SAME BULLIES FROM LAST TIME. Get ready for sub par dancing, a drive-by Sparta kick, and so much teenage drama. You've never seen a talent show outfit quite like this! So bowl for your honor, learn to ride a motorcycle, and fall in love with some...

Welcome back to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Don your golden gown and hop on the train from Yonkers for Hello Dolly (1969)! Starring Barbra Streisand, so many waiters, and a whole ass parade. Buckle up for crazy matchmaking schemes, silly milliners, and so much dancing in the street. You've never seen a dinner service quite like this! So act out the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, shoot a duck with a shotgun...

Welcome to Season 4 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your burgundy top hat and get swindled by The Greatest Showman (2017)! Starring Huge Jacked Man, Zefron, and a Swedish diva who cannot manage rejection. Strap in for dynamic choreography, heart tugging songs, and almost no facts. You've never seen a child's dance recital quite like this! So commit fraud to get a bank loan, bamboozle your business partner, and SPRI...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Head on down to Skid Row and come in to the Little Shop of Horrors (1986)! Starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Green, and a surprise Bill Murray. Buckle up for crazy puppetry, incredibly catchy songs, and a whole town of horticulture fans. You've never seen a dentist quite like this! So feed a plant your blood, top up your nitrous oxide, and explode an alien with electricity!
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Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Gather in the square and dance along to Christmas on the Square (2020)! Starring Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, and a white boy in his first musical ever. Join us for over written dialogue, surprise angels, and more religion than we were expecting. You've never seen a town meeting quite like this! So evict an entire town, find your family bible(journal?), and use angel m...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Head to the travelling circus and trick your children to watch the 1995 (or 2000?) The Fantasticks! Starring Joel Gray, Brad Sullivan, and a Zorro swindler. Be prepared for a lot of vibes, jarring cuts, and a very alarming gondola ride. You've never seen a kidnapping quite like this! So fake a feud, give away your mother's necklace, and use magic to undermine your poin...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Pop the champagne and jump in the pool for the 1975 At Long Last Love! Starring Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Cybill Shepherd, and an actual Italian playing an Italian. Buckle up for the worst menaces to society you have ever seen, unnecessary live singing, and an uncompelling plot. You've never seen a opening number quite like this! So bet your last $300, head to the Racqu...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Get on a train going west and meet the 1946 The Harvey Girls! Starring Judy Garland, Angela Lansbury, and a really wide smiled love interest. Get ready for a conniving judge,  unnecessary B-plots, and more steaks than you can shake a stick at. You've never seen a saloon brawl quite like this! So get engaged by letter, hold up a saloon, and face-plant in front of your true l...

Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of body horror, gore, and mutilation.

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab a new face and join us for the 2008 Repo! The Genetic Opera! Starring Alexa Vega, Anthony Stewart Head, and Paris Hilton (of all people). Strap in for His-and-Hers secret passageways, too many angsty teenage songs, and a lot of unrealistic gore. You've never seen a murder...

Welcome to Season 3 of 5678: A Movie Musical Podcast! Grab your go-to-hell hat and meet us in Leadville for the 1964 The Unsinkable Molly Brown! Starring Debbie Reynolds, Charles Walters, and the Titanic, with the Colorado River. Buckle up for feral reactions to conflict, a lot of gold and red decorating, and more correlations to The Prince of Egypt than you would think. You've never seen a prostitute dance battle quite like t...