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Category: Topics

Definition: Numbers staging show business, live entertainment or cinema. Evocations of Broadway; “show must go on” theme… Includes a scene based only on a casting rivalry for example

Example: “That’s Entertainment” (The Band Wagon); “Stereophonic Sound” (Silk Stockings), “There’s No Business” (There’s No Business), “Cabaret” (Cabaret); “Please Don’t Monkey With Broadway” (Broadway Melody Of 1940)