Remember back to when I was posting that instead of a musical number Lapti Nek/Jedi Rocks should be replaced and the scene become more of a burlesque dance?
It would make the scene more like the debauched dance routines in old historical epics.
I've been playing around with the idea.
This could be achieved by filming more dancers and manipulating them to look alien (I know these look rather like Orion slave girls but that's not such a bad thing, at least they aren't bad puppets or CGI). Just as with using the 501st to swell the Stormtrooper numbers in the film, I'm sure there must be some dancing ladies on the convention circuit who would love to be in a Star Wars film. The piece of music playing in my head is Salome's Dance from the Blade Runner soundtrack:
