I agree with gbennet5, those types of movies don't have to show the rehearsals to be the same as the final productions to be good, plus just because we don't see everything doesn't mean it doesn't happen. They were escapism films, the backyard musicals, Broadway musicals, etc. A lot of the 1930s Busby Berkeley films were that way too. Like for example, "Footlight parade", the "By a waterfall" number at the end with the pools, fountains, and waterslides. We didn't see any of that during the rest of the film while they were rehearsing, just the directors, a piano player, and the girls dancing on the stage. All the Busby Berkeley films in the early-mid 1930s (Dames, 42nd street, Gold diggers 33 and 35), the Judy/Mickey films in the late 1930s/early 1940s (Strike up the band, Babes in arms, Babes on Broadway, Girl crazy), The Broadway Melody films (29,36,38, and 40), The great Ziegfeld, Ziegfeld girl, and more. I loved every one of them, and so did most 1930s and 1940s audiences because almost all of them grossed very high.
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