Since I already did a thread about musical scenes in non-musical scenes, let's turn it around: What are your favorite non-musical moments in musical films? Here are some of mine:
Tevye rejecting daughter Chava after learning that she has married outside the Jewish faith in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Mary's initial job interview at the Banks home while Mr. Banks tries to figure out how she got the children's letter in MARY POPPINS
The initial war conference between the Jets and the Sharks at Doc's Candy Store in WEST SIDE STORY
The Von Trapp family hiding from the Nazi's in the Abbey in THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Jules Munshin miming the preparation of an imaginary salad for Judy Garland and Peter Lawford in EASTER PARADE
Eddie Murphy pulling out his "works" to do heroine after Jamie Foxx rejects his new song in DREAMGIRLS
Diana Ross coming home to find drug dealers have beaten up Piano Man Richard Pryor in LADY SINGS THE BLUES.
Judy Garland saying goodbye to her friends before returning to Kansas in THE WIZARD OF OZ
The producer of NY TO LA explaining to the cast about Joe Gideon having a heart attack in ALL THAT JAZZ
Liza Minnelli confessing to Michael York that she sold her fur coat to get an abortion in CABARET
Shirley Jones pretending to come on to the anvil salesman out to expose Harold Hill in THE MUSIC MAN
Shirley MacLaine begging John McMartin to marry her at the license bureau in SWEET CHARITY
The fight in the cab between Liza Minnelli and Robert DeNiro that causes her to go into labor prematurely in NEW YORK NEW YORK.
Every move that Jean Hagen makes in SINGIN IN THE RAIN
Tevye rejecting daughter Chava after learning that she has married outside the Jewish faith in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Mary's initial job interview at the Banks home while Mr. Banks tries to figure out how she got the children's letter in MARY POPPINS
The initial war conference between the Jets and the Sharks at Doc's Candy Store in WEST SIDE STORY
The Von Trapp family hiding from the Nazi's in the Abbey in THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Jules Munshin miming the preparation of an imaginary salad for Judy Garland and Peter Lawford in EASTER PARADE
Eddie Murphy pulling out his "works" to do heroine after Jamie Foxx rejects his new song in DREAMGIRLS
Diana Ross coming home to find drug dealers have beaten up Piano Man Richard Pryor in LADY SINGS THE BLUES.
Judy Garland saying goodbye to her friends before returning to Kansas in THE WIZARD OF OZ
The producer of NY TO LA explaining to the cast about Joe Gideon having a heart attack in ALL THAT JAZZ
Liza Minnelli confessing to Michael York that she sold her fur coat to get an abortion in CABARET
Shirley Jones pretending to come on to the anvil salesman out to expose Harold Hill in THE MUSIC MAN
Shirley MacLaine begging John McMartin to marry her at the license bureau in SWEET CHARITY
The fight in the cab between Liza Minnelli and Robert DeNiro that causes her to go into labor prematurely in NEW YORK NEW YORK.
Every move that Jean Hagen makes in SINGIN IN THE RAIN