production number

American  

noun

Theater.

1. a specialty number or routine, usually performed by the entire cast consisting of musicians, singers, dancers, stars, etc., of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, or the like.

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Etymology

Origin of production number

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

The finale of “Wicked” was the most spectacular musical production number put on film this century.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then he performed a production number, “I Won’t Waste Time,” which featured a chorus of dancing Conans and the “sandworm from ‘Dune 2’ ” playing “Chopsticks” on the piano.

From Los Angeles Times

Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet, film editor Juliette Welfling and, of course, performers Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez were crucial to making each production number pop.

From Los Angeles Times

One episode begins with a seller of broadsides, the musical Twitter of its day — the series was originally titled “The Ballad of Renegade Nell” — that blossoms into a production number, tossed from singer to singer in a London street scene.

From Los Angeles Times

Whatever “I’m Just Ken” lacks in terms of movie-music gravitas, though, Gosling more than made up for with rock-star exuberance in a lavish production number that found him starting the song from his seat in the audience — pink suit, pink gloves, black shades to match his black cowboy hat — before joining an army of several dozen Kens preening and twirling on the Oscars stage.

From Los Angeles Times