The MGM Studio Chorus
Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor
The MGM Studio Orchestra
The MGM Studio Orchestra
The MGM Studio Orchestra
Debbie Reynolds & The MGM Studio Chorus
The MGM Studio Orchestra
Gene Kelly
Donald O’Connor
Jimmie Thompson
The MGM Studio Orchestra
The MGM Studio Orchestra
Gene Kelly
Debbie Reynolds
Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor
Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor & Gene Kelly
The MGM Studio Orchestra
Gene Kelly
The MGM Studio Orchestra
Betty Noyes
Gene Kelly & The MGM Studio Chorus
Gene Kelly & Betty Noyes
Debbie Reynolds
The MGM Studio Orchestra
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly & Lennie Hayton and His Orchestra
This extended sequence is presented as a musical number to be inserted into The Dueling Cavalier to turn it into a musical film. The dance has Don (Gene Kelly) playing a hopeful Broadway dancer who finds success in New York, and with it an ill-fated entanglement with a gangster’s moll (Cyd Charisse)...
[DON]
Don't bring a frown to old Broadway
Ah, you got a clown on Broadway
Your troubles there, they're out of style
'Cause Broadway always wears a smile
A million lights, they flicker there
A million hearts beat quicker there
No skies are gray on that great white way
That's the Broadway Melody!
[Instrumental break]
[DON as Hoofer]
Gotta dance!
Gotta dance!
Gotta dance!
[AGENT]
Gotta dance!
[COMPANY]
Gotta dance!
[DON as Hoofer]
Gotta dance!
Gotta dance!
Broadway rhythm; it's got me, ev'rybody dance
Broadway rhythm; it's got me, ev'rybody dance
Out on the gay white way and each merry café
Orchestras play taking your breath away
Broadway rhythm; it's got me, ev'rybody sing and dance
Oh, that Broadway rhythm
Oh, that Broadway rhythm
When I hear that happy beat
I feel like dancin' down the street
In that Broadway rhythm, writhing, beating rhythm
[COMPANY]
Gotta dance
[DON as Hoofer]
Gotta dance
[COMPANY]
Gotta dance
[DON as Hoofer]
Gotta dance
[Instrumental dance break]
[DON]
Gotta dance
Gotta dance
Gotta dance
[Instrumental dance break]
[DON & COMPANY]
That's the Broadway Melody
Broadway Melody Ballet (Extended Version) was written by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed.