That was the first musical I memorized x 15 -- both tv, stage, all parts, the improvised normie etc. etc. Also it was one of the only movies I could ask Mom to put on and she would without me having to like clean the whole house or something
Anyway contextually -- Talking about the Spanish civil war (ww2) and that's another (???) memory hole historian said the city face Babel-like conditions and I am just "... ?" Which I guess is just that everyone was unable to talk to each other because of literal "no discussion of politics" law etc.