Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unwisely, too, Welles's extravaganza from time to time pauses for identification as a musical comedy. But the love interest, the exotic dances and Cole Porter's tired tunes merely check the pace without livening the party...
Drama is not the word for "Around the World," Neither, surprisingly enough, is comedy--or musical, nor farce, nor phantasy. Orson Welles' first Mercury Theatre production in over five years is a peculiar extravaganza, conglomerated of elements from "Hellzapoppin," Barnum and Bailey's and the Ballet Russe...
...seems to be a feature of Hollywood contracts now that at least once a year every actor on the lot pitch in for a huge all-inclusive party, which is then passed on to an eager public as a star-studded extravaganza...
Compared with this film, Journey's End, its closest counterpart in World War I, was a sentimental, sugarcoated, flag-waving extravaganza. G.I. Joe deliberately sets out to show that war is hell. It succeeds so well that it may well be Ernie Pyle's most enduring memorial...
Memphis Bound (lyrics & music by Don Walker & Clay Warnick; book by Albert Barker & Sally Benson; produced by John Wildberg) was first conceived as a swing H.M.S. Pinafore, later converted into an extravaganza about a Negro troupe who put on Pinafore to get their grounded showboat (the Calliboga Queen) off the Mississippi mudflats. But their version proves too much for their lady producer, and she bangs down the curtain...