It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966) – Musical #829

Studio:
NBC

Director:
Alan Handley

Starring:
Ricardo Montalban, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Palance, Jimmy Durante, Nanette Fabray, Robert Coote, Tom Smothers, Dick Smothers, Judi Rolin, Richard Denning, Roy Castle, Iris Adrian, Chanin Hale, Jackie Joseph, Donna Walsh

Plot:
Based on the Lewis Carroll story, while her father (Denning) is hosting a dinner party, Alice (Rolin) is bored. Her father tells her to go set up the chess board for them to play together later. Suddenly, Alice is invited through the mirror in the room to a backwards room, where the chess pieces come to life, including The Red King (Coote), The Red Queen (Moorehead), The White King (Montalban), and The White Queen (Fabray). Alice also meets other strange characters, like the villainous Jabberwock (Palance) and Humpty Dumpty (Durante).

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