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{{trope}}
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A character has a lot on his or her mind. They lie down, and all of a sudden, there's music. And guys in tights. What the...
Then they wake up, and the ballet was [[All Just a Dream]].
The
Compare [[All Just a Dream]] and [[Disney Acid Sequence]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* The ballet at the end of ''[[An American in Paris]]'', which is nearly 20 minutes long.
* ''[[Snow White and The Three Stooges]]'' has a Dream ''Ice'' Ballet, to show off the skills of lead Carol Heiss.
* ''[[
* The film of ''[[Chicago]]'' uses this for nearly all of its musical numbers, contrasting Roxie's lavish and expansive daydreams with the cramped and discolored 'real' world.
* The "Broadway Ballet" from ''[[Singin' in
* Miss Piggy's water ballet in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]''.
* There's one in ''[[
* The "Once Upon A December" number in ''[[Anastasia]]'', where the portraits in the imperial ballroom come to life and dance for Anya.
* The truly bizarre short film "Design for Dreaming," which features a dream ballet about an auto show(!) and was given the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v91GELINmKo&feature=PlayList&p=76F6D9C63EFE0813&index=0&playnext=1 Mystery Science Theater 3000]'' treatment with hilarious results.
* The bowling-pin dancers in [[The Big Lebowski|The Dude's]] dream.
* [[Osamu Tezuka|Tezuka Productions']] ''Broken Down Film'': When the nameless cowboy finally saves the damsel, the film suddenly shifts to Technicolor and the setting changes to a ballroom as the trope sets in. Then, when snapped out of it, the film suddenly reverts to its black-and-white western format.
* The 1956 movie version of ''[[Anything Goes]]'' included one.
* Messed around with in ''[[
* [[Cannibal!
* Charlie Chaplin's ''[[The Kid]]'' has one near the end, with everyone in angel costumes until the party gets crashed by devils. Being that the rest of the film is fairly realistic, [[
== Literature ==
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* Not necessarily ''ballets'', but there are a lot of musical numbers in ''Eli Stone'''s dream/hallucination sequences.
* Deleted scenes from ''[[
* A musical version happens in ''[[
* The ''[[
* In ''[[Smash]]'', Karen has a dream [[Bollywood]] dance number.
== Theatre ==
* In ''[[Oklahoma!]]!'', there is a
** Famous as the ''Oklahoma!''
** This scene is spoofed in Matt Stone and Trey Parker's early film ''[[Cannibal!
* "Somewhere" from ''[[West Side Story]]''.
* "Carpe Noctem" from ''[[Tanz
* ''[[The Nutcracker (
* ''Fiddler On The Roof'' has both a
* The [[Trope Maker]] ''might'' be the "Beggar's Waltz" from the 1931 revue ''The Band Wagon''.
* [[The Musical]] adaptation of ''A Tree Grows In Brooklyn''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]'' has a frequently-cut ballet in which Rose dreams of killing her spineless fiance over and over again.
* "The Imaginary Coney Island" in ''[[On the Town]]''. "A Day In New York" in the film version uses much of the same music.
* The stage version of ''[[Mamma Mia!]]!'' uses this as the Act Two opener, set to the ABBA song "Under Attack," complete with neon colors, blacklights, and scuba gear.
* Rod's dream ("Fantasies Come True") in Act One of ''[[Avenue Q]],'' and Princeton's moment of panic at the end of Act One.
* Not a "Dream" Ballet ''per se,'' but as Jo reads aloud her "operatic tragedy" at the beginning of both acts of the musical version of ''[[Little Women]],'' the rest of the cast acts out the roles, [[Large Ham|hamming it up]] as operatically as they can.
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* "Peter's Journey" from ''Babes in Arms''.
* "Joey Looks Into the Future" from ''Pal Joey''.
* The ballet ''Fall River Legend'' is almost entirely a flashback in the [[No Name Given|Accused's]] head as she is sentenced to death, but there's also a dream ballet ''within'' the flashback, in which she reunites with her dead mother after [[Ax Crazy|murdering her father and stepmother]].
== Web Original ==
* The above image is from [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510153321/http://www.wirepop.com/comic_index.php?id=14 Eversummer Eve].
* Evoked in ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'' when Vanessa pricks her finger and hallucinates that she is trick or treating as a literal ballerina.
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[[Category:Theater Tropes]]
[[Category:Dream Tropes]]
[[Category:Dream Ballet]]
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