Did they fix it?

How was the second version of the play-within-the-movie any less pretentious than Cordova's version? At least his effort seemed to have a coherent story behind it. Hunter's just seemed like a grab bag of random, over-produced dance numbers.

If the theme of the show is that dark brooding drama is bad and goofy, barely connected musical numbers are true "entertainment," that sentiment doesn't resonate with me in the least.

I love Minelli's Meet Me in St. Louis, as well as Singin' in the Rain, which The Bandwagon seemed to be coattailling, but even in their "revue" numbers there seems to be some kind of progressive narrative push. The Bandwagon seemed utterly purposeless, except as a kind of dance porn.