Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year's extravaganza boasted wrestling, trio singing, Ed Sullivan as M.C., blonde Yvette's singing, and provocative remarks on topics of general interest by a Miss Sally Rand. An abortive attempt at a riot after the show was dismally squelched...
...show itself is no extravaganza with bevies of beauties pouring out of cornucopias. It is an intimate musical comedy strung on an adequately comic story of U.S. Army rookies, and glittering at intervals with the shining beads of Astaire's exhilarating, airy acrobatics accompanied by Rita Hayworth's lambent looks and legs...
...Revival of the extravaganza that ran 2,238 performances in London during World...
...Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...emerge from the loudspeakers of their radios tonight at 8:45 should not think they've hit a revival meeting in full force. They are the voices of eight young Negroes from the Crispus Attucks Associates of the Cambridge Community House, singing spiritual songs chosen from their coming musical extravaganza...