50 Greatest Musical Numbers In Film History

48. Barn Raising Dance - Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TygmMPbwfjA If anyone ever tries to tell you that dancing and gymnastics are just for girls, you show them this dance sequence from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. In this film, the oldest brother in a backwoods family has found a wife, and now he's trying to marry off his six younger brothers. They're all attending a barn raising party, and these rough and tumble young men have to compete for the attentions of all the young ladies in town the only way they know how: through the power of dance. The choreography of this number is insane, combining quasi-authentic, old-timey dance steps with ridiculous acrobatic tricks. The six men who play the brothers are unbelievably talented dancers, and it's impossible not to be impressed by their strength and grace shown here.

47. Puttin' On The Ritz - Young Frankenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FLZPFI3jc This has to win an award for the silliest attempt at doing a straight musical number. So, Frankenstein decides that he needs to prove to the world that his creation is not a monster, that it is capable of logic and grace. Obviously, the best way to do that is to choreograph a routine to Irving Berlin's Puttin' on the Ritz. There's only one thing: although the Creature is impressively able to accomplish some soft shoe dancing, he isn't totally capable of vocalization. So it sort of ends up where Gene Wilder sings most of the song, and then Peter Boyle just screeches something only vaguely intelligible. It's such an absurd moment in the film, and takes the trope of shoehorning a random musical number into a film and makes it something ridiculous. Unfortunately, it's cut short by the Creature's crippling fear of fire, but it was fun while it lasted.