Classic Broadway's 10 Totally Exuberant Moments!

Exuberance?
It's something ebullient, buoyant and breezy.
An exuberant Broadway moment make your heart beat a bit faster and leaves you feeling renewed and ready to click up your heels.
Here, we dig into classic Broadway and relive ten exuberant moments from a wide range of composers and lyricists -- moments that pump things up and tempt you to believe anything is possible. This list is meant to be representative -- not definitive.
So, here goes:

Hello Dolly!

From the musical of the same name, can anything top Dolly's walk down  that staircase and into the Harmonia Gardens? Anything?

I'm Flying

From Peter Pan, a youthful, magical Broadway moment when spirits really do soar.

Shall We Dance?

From The King and I, it's more than lushly romantic; it's a blissful polka that eliminates the boundaries between worlds and cultures.  [Photo shows Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence in the original production.]

Beautiful Girls

From Follies, it builds to a crescendo that defies time and glamorizes nostalgia via a bittersweet pastiche that is quintessential Sondheim.

Seventy-Six Trombones

From The Music Man; how did the good "professor" ever pull this River City miracle off? Your guess is as good as ours!

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

Was Mama Rose really manic-depressive? Compulsive? Abusive? Oh, who cares? With one song in Gypsy she conjures up a vision that soars into the stratosphere.

I Can Do That

And that, and that, and that . . . in A Chorus Line. The number is full of childlike wonder and the sort of demonstrative self-confidence that makes you want to yell: Hire that guy!"

Razzle Dazzle ‘Em

From Chicago, this number captures the pretense of the popular culture with such rat-a-tat giddiness that it makes you believe in smoke 'n mirrors all over again.

Be Our Guest

Yeah, it's Disney and it was originally written for a movie but so what? This Beauty and the Beast show-stopper is Broadway magic through and through.

Anything Goes

In its own time, it's every bit as relevant as Razzle Dazzle 'Em and just as incisive. But it still leaves you with an adrenaline rush that makes you want to plunge into a veritable sea of modernity. 

Others we could mention: It's Not Where You Start, It's Where You Finish from Seesaw, Walking Happy from the show of the same name, I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady, We'll Take A Glass Together from Grand Hotel, She Loves Me from the musical of the same name, I'm A Brass Band from Sweet Charity, (I'm In Love With) A Wonderful Guy from South Pacific, Hey Look Me Over from Wildcat, It's Today from Mame, She Likes Basketball from Promises, Promises, As If We Never Said Goodbye from Sunset Boulevard. But we urge you to suggest your own!