Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Busby Berkeley: You forgot they also sold Astaire's walking stick. Louie, I bet they'll put in red wallpaper and mirrors, and the show will be fabulous. It always worked for us, didn't it? Oh, boy, would I like to do this one. Chorus girls, feathers L.B.M.: Sure, but first we gotta get a gimmick, something to let them know the old lion is roaring again, something bigger than anybody ever did before. Like we put a huge stage in the world's biggest casino, and we lay out, say, a couple of football...
L.B.M.: Recreational vehicle. Trailer to you, and 292 hookups mean places to plug in the lights. But let's get back to the show. We want a real blockbuster, lots of chests and feathers and special effects. I'll get them to build a stage just like the old days -biggest damn thing anybody ever saw, big enough to land an airplane...
...That's it! We'll start the show with a jet. Turn up the sound real loud, like a real landing-we should be careful, though, this new Sensurround business has actually made the dice jump off the table-and drag the plane onstage with beautiful stewardesses in gold bikinis on the wings...
...Arden will haul the thing off after a couple of minutes. "Start the show with an exclamation point, get it over with and get it off" is what he always says, and I agree...
...L.B.M.: Listen, I've got a great idea. Let's show Fred and Ginger on a big screen, have the band play I've Got You Under My Skin and let everybody dance in G strings. What do you say to that...