They're normally over the top renditions of last year's biggest hits, played out in front of the super-rich and less-than-interested, while any section of actually interested members of the general public are usually kept screaming in a pen somewhere off to one side.
Angela Maria was sometimes chided for her over-the-top rendition of songs and her flashy dresses.
The fine comedic team of Blakeley White-McGuire and Maurizio Nardi served it well, as did Ms. Crockett's over-the-top rendition of a Graham dancer, but it festers in a place of frivolity — everything the radical choreographer was not.
When she finished, simply to make her parents laugh, she randomly kicked into something else — a goofy, over-the-top rendition of a song from "The Little Mermaid": "I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty!
Elsewhere in town, patrons jostled for tables at Prime One Twelve on Ocean Drive, where diners in pale linen suits and abbreviated cocktail frocks ordered the chilled crab or the $88 porterhouse, or nibbled fried Oreos, the restaurant's over-the-top rendition of comfort food.
The modern half-time show – with its epic scale – can be traced back to a performance by Michael Jackson in 1993, a ratings smash at the time, in which a militarily attired Jacko belted out a bevy of hits culminating in a wildly over-the-top rendition of Heal the World and We Are the World as a giant globe appeared on the 50-yard line.
In a funny, over-the-top rendition of "I Believe," gospel singers parody the pride and self-indulgence of the city.
With seriously intricate costumes and an elevated stage, they sang a perfectly over-the-top rendition of the "Moulin Rouge" hit.
You also had to marvel at Brooks' typically over-the-top rendition of a new ballad called "Stronger Than Me," which he said he was playing for the first time anywhere and which he addressed to his wife, fellow country star Trisha Yearwood.
A big-mouthed alligator puppet appeared on Mr. Heron's hand to sing along with an appropriately over-the-top taped rendition of "I Am What I Am".
It poured, 155 gallons a minute, from 10 pulsating jets and showered him from three oversize Roman heads in a treatment room at Rodolfo Valentin, a granite and Corinthian column-filled salon and day spa in Cedarhurst that looks like an over-the-top Las Vegas rendition of a Roman piazza.
