All singing, all dancing

So ubiquitous was the phrase used to describe the Broadway musical itself that it became the title of theatrical agent John Springer's 256-page, hardcover opus on the genre, All Talking All Singing All Dancing.

Do we need it now," which emphasized the psychological need for escapism that watching nothing but singing and dancing affords, instead of worrying about stagflation, the Vietnam War, and other social problems.

That was true from 1929, when the phrase came into popular consciousness: the front page of an article promising an early "all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing film" covered the horrific carnage of the Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929.

[9] By 1930, this genre of films and musicals was described as a bad fad, derided as "meaningless melanges of technicolored chorus girls and mechanical oop-a-dooping with such appalling frequency since the 'Broadway Medody' … a protracted orgy of all-singing, all-dancing, all-colored monstrosities.

[15] Even when a gay bar is not seen as a safe space, due to racism and harassment, paradoxically disco music and "dancing became the byword for resilience.

"[19] Starting in the mid-1990s, and continuing for the next three decades, the idiom also has come to be used to describe high tech gadgetry such as smartphones, indicating that the product is very advanced, ambitious, or has an abundance of features.

"The phrase also appears in the 1996 novel Fight Club, and the 1999 film based on it, in which the character Tyler Durden excoriates his disciples: "You're the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

[25] By 1999, the phrase was called "hackneyed" and "clichéd", and even extended by meaning to many machines, such as cars,[26] in 2007, "Used jokingly to describe any piece of equipment or technology that is the latest model," but for neurodivergent readers, not to be taken literally,[27] and by 2010 to "an advanced computer or other gadget.

The industry churns out a dizzying number of films, hoping that one will become the blockbuster that makes up for the rest.This really is an almost century of tradition, since Mumbai-based cinema industry has been from the very beginning in 1931 a center of musical dance number movies: the lost film, Alam Ara, directed by Ardeshir Irani, "was advertised as ‘All talking, all singing, all dancing’.