A striking musical, satirizing the staging of a Broadway play. It’s a technically superior work, making up for a thin plot with plenty of lively musical scores and dance numbers and a constant barrage of witty dialogue. Many critics consider it to be the best musical of all time. – Dennis Schwartz

The Band Wagon has a note of melancholy along with its smiles, a sadness always present among Broadway veterans, who have seen more failure than success, who know the show always closes and that the backstage family breaks up and returns to the limbo of auditions and out-of-town tryouts […] Part of the film’s appeal comes from our sense that what we see is not far removed from the actual process of making the movie. It’s entertainment, all right, but it’s also hard work. – Roger Ebert

How I love a glass of beer
(More beer)
Beer goes very good with beer
(More beer)
When I’m drinking beer I’m thinking,
Ach life is beer
But there’s someone I love even more than beer
I love Louisa, Louisa loves me
When we rode on the merry-go-round
I kissed Louisa and then Louisa,
Louisa kissed me