Most spectacular and or moving dance number in a musical....

[WCGreen]

The Ax dance scene in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

America from West Side Story.

Luck be a Lady Tonight Guys and Dolls.

I Enjoy Being a Girl the Flower Drum Song.

Let it Be Across the Universe.

Footloose from Footloose

Tonight from West Side Story

One from Chorus Line

Bali Hai from South Pacific

Paint your Wagon from Pain Your Wagon

Bob Fosse Dance with the Devil in the Little Price

Singing in the Rain with Gene Kelley

Seventy-Six Trombones from the Music Man

Bye Bye Birdie opening credits

Jail House Rock Elvis Presley

Old Man River from Showboat.

Who will Buy from Oliver.

Le's go Fly a Kite Mary Poppins

A Comedy Tonight from a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

To Dream the Impossible Deam Man of La Mancha

[Ptah]

1. Kansas City from Oklahoma

One of the gals was fat and pink and pretty,
As round above as she was round below.
I could swear that she was padded
From her shoulder to her heel,
But latter in the second act
When she began to peel
She proved that ev'rythin' she had was absolutely real!
She went about as fur as she could go,
Men:
Yes sir!
She went about as fur as she could go!

[Vidar]

Everything the Nicholas Brothers did. Too Darn Hot from Kiss Me Kate.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. You've got to be carefully taught, from South Pacific...

Sunrise, sunset from Fiddler on the Roof...

:hi:

[targetpractice]

3. In no particular order...

Toot Sweets from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Lady Marmalade from Moulin Rouge

Hindi Sad Diamonds from Moulin Rouge

Step in Time from Mary Poppins

various from Billy Elliot

[WCGreen]

4. Lady Marmalade was spectacular..

[charlie and algernon]

5. From the standard bearer of Musicals: Hello, Dolly!

Put on your Sunday Clothes

Before the Parade Passes By

It Only Takes a Moment

[Orrex]

6. That bit on the railroad flatcar in Dancer in the Dark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pLY5zFTtc

[Jade Fox]

7. Bob Fosse & Carol Haney in 'Kiss Me, Kate'....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw0FSREoaLQ&feature=PlayList&p=27B95E4E96D6BB90&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=16

[gratuitous]

8. No doubt: Singing in the Rain

From A Clockwork Orange.

[mockmonkey]

9. KITH Brain Candy

I'm Gay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdbs3lKEeBE

:hi:

[The empressof all]

10. Gene Kelly in Gershwins American in Paris

Then again I'd vote for anything with Gene Kelly....

[WCGreen]

11. What is so amazing about Gene Kelley is he did that whole sequence

in Singing in the Rain with only two Cameras and I believe just one cut...

Then there was Make 'em laugh with Donald O'Connor.

[Flaxbee]

12. I just had an epiphany

:D

I really don't like the singing in musicals very much (unless it's a choir; I don't like a solo performer crooning away, but a group of people is great) but I LOVE dancing in a movie.

Hmm. Nice to have that figured out. (Isn't there a head-scratching smilie somewhere?)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Is this it?

:freak:

[Flaxbee]

15. hey CaliforniaPeggy ... that might be it.

For some reason I picture in my mind's eye a smilie actually scratching its head. But that one (isn't it 'freak') works, too! :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Yup, that one is called freak!

:D

[debbierlus]

14. Cell Block Tango - Chicago

I have to confess. I sometimes put that on and sing the lead. And, do the dance moves as well.

:)

[NanceGreggs]

17. I wouldn't argue with a single pick on your list ...

But I would like to add something that some might find a bit too far-flung from such classics as Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain".

From "Bride & Prejudice", a beautifully choreographed number:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNFQioWM5c

BTW, I am very impressed that you included the opening credits from "Bye Bye Birdie" in your list.

[WCGreen]

20. It's the way she uses the camera that gives the whole movie

it's outlook.

It's like we are all in on an insider joke.

[PassingFair]

27. "I could have danced all night..."

[blogslut]

18. Can't pick. Love them all. Production numbers make me cry.

Adding:

The Bottle Dance from Fiddler on the Roof

&

Carl Anderson coming down from the sky on a disco cross in Jesus Christ Superstar

EDIT ADD: How could I forget? Bye Bye Life from All the Jazz

:)

[WCGreen]

32. Does she love me.....

Do I love him...

I love the whole musical.

I forget They all te Wind Maria...

I sang that as an audition for delivering singing telegraph ms.

[dysfunctional press]

19. "Jaan pehchaan ho..." from Gumnaam from the opening sequence of 'Ghost World'

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[csziggy]

21. Time Warp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarYjuN-m8I



Though I first thought of Hair - Let the Sunshine In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhNrqc6yvTU

Too many forget what this song was really about.

[Blue_Tires]

22. wow...no love for "Springtime for Hitler"??

either the original or the big-budget remake overflowing with excess?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCUfkMkVbwo

[Mad_Dem_X]

33. The original is fantastic!

That, and LSD's "Flower" song (in the original).

[bluesbassman]

23. The French Mistake - Blazing Saddles

:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o

[JCMach1]

24. The OP apparently doesn't do Bollywood...

You can't compare it to the suckage that is American musicals... :sarcasm:

[WCGreen]

31. I've seen the Bollywood and i't just as kitchi as the US stuff....

[av8rdave]

25. I would enjoy musicals a lot more only if...

There wasn't so much singing and dancing in them!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. It wasn't exactly spectacular or moving, but...

...a personal favorite is "I Enjoy Being a Girl" the Flower Drum Song.

I posted the clip here a week or two ago.

I also like "State Fair" (the Jeanne Crain version, NOT the Pat Boone / Ann Margaret one), but once again, when I think "spectacular" I think of the Esther Williams musicals. When I think of "moving," there was a pretty cool sequence with Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse in the Esther Williams flick "On An Island With You." In the film, Montalban is engaged to Williams, but slowly begins to discover that Charisse is closer to being his "soul mate." The reality hits both of them during that number.

:toast:

[GCP]

28. Not spectacular - but still great.....

"Everything Old Is New Again"" in "All That Jazz".

The great Ann Reinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147_ZF_jnjw

[Steerpike]

29. Well then...

"Brotherhood of Man" from "How to Succeed in Business..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_29IeEeZqo



"There's no Business like Show Business" with Ethel Merman and Company


"America" from "West Side Story"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QS7wWzwak4



"White Christmas" Bing (OK no dancing here...)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mjb4yLMeK8

[CBGLuthier]

30. Gene Kelly, Vera-Ellen Slaighter on 10th Avenue

from the really lame movie Words and Music comes a real gem. I watched the entire movie once just to get to this part. YouTube is so much easier. :-)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaAiKkmjp3c

[pscot]

34. Fred Astaire and the amazing, 23-year-old Ginger Rodgers

doing the Pick Yourself Up number in SWING TIME.