
One of the magical things about a well-done musical is its ability to make bursting into song and dance seem organic to the world of the film. Pulling that off is a tricky achievement even when the audience walks in expecting it, but it’s an almost unfathomable thing to accomplish as a left turn in an otherwise non-musical story. Unfathomable is not impossible, though—and succeeding at it is worth celebrating. Omitting any scene where the showstopper was performed in a character’s professional capacity (Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom’s “Anything Goes” opening or Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s puppet show, for example), here are 17 of the best musical moments from non-musical films.