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{{quote|"We've gotta have a great show, with a million laughs... and color... and a lot of lights to make it sparkle. And songs - wonderful songs. And after we get the people in that hall, we've gotta start em in laughing right away. Oh, can't you just see it... ?"|[[Judy Garland]], "Babes In Arms", 1939. }}
So [[Saving the Orphanage|the orphanage is in trouble]]. Big, costly trouble. How are those orphans going to raise all that money? It's simple. Hey,
Made popular by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the 1930s, but a surprisingly resilient format. A possible subtrope of this may be putting on a show with no orphanage to save. E.G. Taxi did a whole show, in which, the main cast performed song and dance numbers.
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' fanfiction ''[[Decks Fall Everyone Dies (Fanfic)|Decks Fall Everyone Dies]]'', the characters put on a show that is meant to convince people to start dueling again. This is because [[World Gone Mad|life has gone downhill]] after the fall of dueling and the rise of dice games.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[One Day At a Time]]'' the cast saved their building and in following seasons put on a show as a charitable gesture meant to entertain the people at the local Senior Citizens' center every New Year's Eve.
** This was a popular trope in the Land of Norman Lear. ''[[Good Times]]'' and ''[[Maude]]'' did similar charity amateur-hour episodes.
* ''[[Are You Being Served (TV)|Are You Being Served?]]'' did this quite a few times, usually for Mr. Grace's birthday.
** In later seasons they seemed to happen more often, seemingly as an excuse to get Mrs Slocombe and Mr Humphries into ridiculous outfits and flamboyant dresses, even if it made no sense in context of the show.
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' did an epsiode that parodied ''[[The Full Monty]]'' where the boys decide to put on a strip show in order to raise money to replace a pedigree dog they accidentally had neutered.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The "Battle for Barthis" story arc in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' is mostly about putting on a concert to raise money for the ruined town.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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