As it happens, the over-all shape does recall a Busby Berkeley musical — snappy story, lavish number, snappy story, lavish number — but without the snap or fun.
But she devoted more time to a lavish production number -- with a rapper, a disc jockey, dancers, giant feathers and a motorcycle -- for her remake of "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life".
He then moved into a lavish musical number celebrating the films with dazzling special effects that placed him in such films as "Star Wars" and "Risky Business".
More alarmingly still is the hint that the cast of the award-winning Chicago may be reunited for a lavish song-and-dance number.
Yet in his head it becomes a lavish, Vegas sort of number, the sort Peter Allen would perfect in decades to come.
Musiq doesn't have quite the command of sprawling jams of, say, Raphael Saadiq, but such tracks as the jazz-flecked "Time" are carried by distinctive, almost out-of-phase percussion, while "Onenight" blossoms from folky starkness into a lavish, gospel-esque seduction number.
Freberg later promoted such varied products as Sunsweet pitted prunes ("Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles; Sunsweet marches on!") and Heinz's Great American Soups, for which he created a lavish Busby Berkeley-style production number with a tap-dancing Ann Miller atop a giant can of chicken gumbo soup.
Sitting behind a piano in a lavish penthouse, Arlo Barth (played by Eric Petersen) sings a sweet number about his recent reunion with his long-lost biological mother, Broadway star Maddie.
Earlier this year, the Folio Society published a lavish, leather-bound facsimile of it, limited to 980 numbered copies.
Key idea to steal, number one: complicated brocades in offbeat colour combinations that look a bit like upholstery fabrics from a lavish Venetian palazzo.
