Was it very challenging directing the wonderful Park scene, when Amy bursts into song?
It is delightful. A: I am glad it comes over that way because it was really hard. It was the hardest part of the movie to pull together because it has so many different moving parts. If you look at each section of it, it just goes to a new place with a whole new set of characters. I spent a lot of time at the very beginning of production working on the scene. I went out with my choreographer and we talked about everything the settings and people. It has 150 dancers, 300 extras there were screaming Patrick Dempsey fans (out of the shot) on the side the whole time we were filming. It was a really rainy month so we were in and out of the studio back and forth trying to get as much sunshine as we could. It took 7 days to shoot over a course of 17 days and it was tough. And the whole time I was being nagged by a worrying feeling, wondering whether or not it was going to work, to enchant real people in the real world, because it is really the only part of the movie where you completely step
