Coming back to a previous post about people bursting into song being artificial - I can kind of see their point. Some films notably "Cabaret" get around this by setting nearly all the songs within a theatrical setting. The funny thing for me is however, that the most effective and affecting song in Cabaret was the one song set outside the Kit Kat Club, that song being "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". It still makes me shudder to think of that scene.