Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and
Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to
keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.
«And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going» —
Dreamgirls «Gold Digger» — Kanye West «Rehab» — Amy Winehouse «You Can't Always Get What You Want» — The Rolling Stones «Can't Fight This Feeling» — Reo Speedwagon «Don't Rain on my Parade» — Barbra Streisand «Hate on Me» — Jill Scott «
Keep Holding On» — Avril Lavigne «Lean on Me» — Bill Withers «True Colors» — Phil Collins