After the first premiere of "The Bandwagon" everyone at the theate walks out, why does the cast go to different cities around the country...i don't get it.
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I think 'the tour' is a emblematic journey of Tony's leading whole group back to their home ground. (Time is retrenched in the process of this journey, so was Tony and Gaby's distance.) The train images seems only to match the music's height just like the animated-like opening scene of Kelly and Donon's "ON THE TOWN." This adds the energy that the entertaining show is all about. Like Faust, Tony is back to life in the middle of the film. The train symbolizes the crisis of Tony's damaged career at first. In the end it symbolize the crisis will end as long as the show is reaching New York. This of course is foreseen in the "Dancing In The Dark" sequences.
The film starts at Tony's arrival in New York by train, he is a typical auslander. He was a big ham in New Amsterdam Theater twenty years ago, so was Astaire himself. But he is aging and compared with the young seems sexless. The old Tony Hunter facing a chanllenge. He doesn't get married because career is more important to him, so are Cordova and Byrd. In words, they are all Oedipus. Wanting to revert the loses, he finally realize it was Gabrielle Gerard who give him a push. It was on the train that his affection for Gaby was noticed by Lester. He realizes this need to prove the show's success is abandon the song-and-dance man identity.
The tour around the cities in the country is probly Astaire's personal experiences in his early days at Broadway. One of his biographical elements.
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Before a new show opens on Broadway, it often goes into "tryouts" in smaller cities. The show might be re-tooled along the way. If the problems are worked out, and the show gets good reviews, it opens on Broadway. Otherwise, the show closes out-of-town.
In "The Band Wagon", the first tryout was in New Haven, Connecticut, where it laid an egg. Rather than close the show, they secured further financial backing, and took the show on tour for more previews.