Big White Elephants

30. West Side Story (1961)

Welcome to the first episode of our Big Gold Elephants series, celebrating movie musicals that have won Academy Awards! Grace and Scott kick things off by snapping their fingers, dance fighting under the highway, and sleeping with someone who just murdered their brothers while discussing Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins's West Side Story (1961). The film won ten Oscars, including Best Picture at the 34th Academy Awards.
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29. John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) with Austin Danger Podcast

For Episode 29, Grace and Scott are joined by Kev and McKenzie of Austin Danger Podcast to talk about their greatest fears and the songs and sketches in John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019). 
You can follow Austin Danger Podcast on instagram @austindangerpod and Kev and McKenzie on letterboxd @kev and @mckenziewilkes
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28. The Legend Of The Stardust Brothers (1985)

On episode 28, Grace and Scott travel to 80s Japan to witness the rise and fall of two singers who aren't brothers (but actually maybe they are?) in Makota Tezuka's cult classic The Legend Of The Stardust Brothers (1985)
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27. Teen Spirit (2018)

On Episode 27, Grace and Scott travel to the Isle Of Wight, douse themselves in pink and blue lighting, and join a singing competition to discuss the Elle Fanning vehicle Teen Spirit (2018)
Plus, we catch up on the Golden Globes and highlight the wins in the Best Musial categories!
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26. The Testament Of Ann Lee (2026) w Alejandra Martinez

On Episode 26, Grace and Scott are joined by Austin-based film critic Alejandra Martinez to practice abstinence, defy religious persecution, and shake with the ecstasy of devotion while discussing Mona Fastvold's The Testament Of Ann Lee (2025)
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25. High School Musical (2006) with Katie

What Team? WILD CATS! What Team? WILD CATS! What Team? WILD CATS! WILD CATS, GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME
We're celebrating the new year with the start of something new. Bopping to the top with our conversation on Kenny Ortega's cultural phenomenon of a Disney Channel Original Movie, High School Musical. Grace and Scott are joined by Katie to get their heads in the game and stick to the status quo. Or wait, no. We're breaking free!
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24. White Christmas (1955)

Merry Christmas from your Big White Elephant friends! To celebrate, we went back to 1955 with some of our old army buddies to fall in love, put on a show, and reminisce about the good old days of Minstrel Shows. Wait...that's not right! Anyway, we get into all that and more while discussing Michael Curtiz's White Christmas (1955)
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23. Spirited (2022)

Who haunts the haunters? Can we ever really be redeemed for our sins? Does a movie musical work if the main characters are bad at singing? These questions and more are raised by Sean Anders's Spirited (2022) and on episode 23, Grace and Scott dig into all of it, including suggesting some new casting!
Plus, we talk about the hit new film Ella McCay, in theaters now
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22. 42nd Street

Put your tap shoes on and make sure you've got a sugar daddy because for Episode 22 Grace and Scott and shuffling off to Buffalo to talk about 1933's 42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers staged and directed by Busby Berkeley.
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21. Moulin Rouge! (2001)

One woman dares to speak her mind and the pitchforks come out! After Grace's brave 1-star first time log of Moulin Rouge! on November 17th, her friends and community turned on her. Big White Elephants decided it was time get to the bottom of it. Is Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie musical a brilliant post-modernist piece of maximalist romanticism with incredible production design and a love story for the ages or is it an insufferable over-edited slog of nonsense with cheap musical interpolations and singing voices of questionable quality? Maybe it's both! 
Where do you stand?
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