(In the entertainment industry, any variation on "Who do you know?" starts most verbal exchanges).
The song, called "Stop the Show," goes on ruthlessly to dissect an overexploited entertainment stereotype, a variation of which is found frequently, amid increasing controversy, on television commercials.
But Mr. Boublil and Ms. Alvarez envisioned the store less as a partner of an Internet site and more as a variation on so-called reality entertainment.
Nowadays, venues like the Can Can Kitchen and Cabaret, Club Noc Noc and The Pink Door all host variations on this classic form of entertainment.
Although show has been a fixture on the local holiday entertainment circuit for generations, it hasn't been without variation.
Michael Slezak from Entertainment Weekly wrote that the song is "a slower, less addictive variation" of "We Belong Together".
It concludes, inevitably, with Vivaldi's variations for two violins, the ultimate showpiece, and wonderful entertainment in the hands of Manfredo Kraemer and Mauro Lopes.
The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience.
"The overall theme for the day was variations on the mother-child relationship," said Dawn Tarnofsky-Ostroff, executive vice president of entertainment.
4K/HDR entertainment is still in its infancy, with lots of elements still being developed and huge variations in performance from televisions.
