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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 [[Dream Ballet]] had its heyday in musical [[Theatre]] from the 1930s through 1950s, when it was a favorite of such choreographers as George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins and [[Bob Fosse]]. It appeared in other media as well, but has now fallen out of fashion. It doesn't necessarily have to be a dream, but it only takes place in a character's mind.
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* There's one in ''[[Bambi]]'' when the title character gets his [[First Kiss]] - the only overt fantasy moment in an otherwise realistic story.
* 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 ''[[Black Swan]]'' ... [[Mind Screw|probably]].
* [[Cannibal! The Musical]] features a random dream ballet as an homage to [[Oklahoma]].
* 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, [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|it's appearance is rather random]].
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* ''[[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]].
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