The phrase "a production number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to theater, film, or manufacturing to refer to a specific identifier for a production or performance.
Example: "The director assigned a production number to each scene to keep track of the filming schedule."
Alternatives: "a show number" or "a performance identifier."
To add to the general mystery, Volkswagen actually published three sets of data yesterday: A delivery number (rounded, and slightly different than the 5,155,600 units published a week ago) a production number, and a "sales" number of 5,270,000 that was 114,000 units higher than what Volkswagen said was delivered to customers.
And even if it doesn't wind up in the winner's circle, "Monty" will be represented by a production number on the Tony telecast on CBS.
She made her last public appearance four weeks ago at the Academy Awards ceremonies, when she and Bob Hope introduced a production number.
Those harmonies are present from the start -- and how! -- in the Apollo's Fire version, which turns the piece into something of a production number, though an entertaining one.
But you get the impression that most of the people onstage are just pretending to live in a land of cornfed propriety and corny jokes, marking time until a production number comes along to let them show their stuff.
The climactic scene at the big dance-off is a production number for Mike and Malik Stephenn Boss), one of Rome's crew; it's a mirror dance that reveals the movie's — and Mike's — exuberant, heartwarming, ahistorical racial fantasies.
"Springtime for Hitler" is a production-number tune Broadway audiences of the 1930's might have hummed all the way home from the theater.
"Bol Bachchan" starts with a glittery production number, a riff, sort of, on Amitabh Bachchan's 1977 classic, "My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves".
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".
In the 1936 movie musical biography, The Great Ziegfeld, "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" became the foundation for a massive production number which, in retrospect, manages to be musically hilarious as well as a showcase of high camp.
A particularly cruel Herman Koto performs his bit in drag, and in a penultimate production number, beautiful, colorfully dressed women sway to a rendition of "Born Free".
