Even though Francis Coppola loved musicals and performed in them in college with fellow students, he was unable to direct and formulate a musical. It was a terrible experience to Astaire and Hermes Pan (I knew them both)....and the movie is totally unsatisfying. His love of musicals was why Francis' first film at his own Zoetrope Studios was "One from the Heart," a Rashomon sort of tale about four lovers in Vegas, told in song and dance. Musicals remain his love but it didn't work out. He was so entranced with his own projects and studio that he spent recklessly like a kid in a candy store