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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, Let's Put On A Show! Time to fix up that old barn and put up a stage!
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
This trope causes ''no end'' of frustration for those who work in theater. Especially those who have to explain just how long it takes and how much it costs to "put on a show!"
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Ciel and crew from ''[[Black Butler]]'' hire some actors to put on a play for a bunch of orphans (for publicity rather than money, they already have plenty of that). When the actors get delayed, guess who has to fill in the cast...
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* In ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'', two video store clerks make short parody movies, first to cover up for their destruction of the store's tapes, but then in an effort to save the store from demolition. Eventually the whole neighborhood joins in on making one final video.
* The main plot of the ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' movie.
* ''[[White Christmas]]'' was like this, but for
* This forms the basis for ''[[It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie]]'' and ''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]''. Sure, they had two TV shows about putting on a show, but in these films they're doing it to save the theater.
== [[Fan
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' fanfiction ''[[Decks Fall,
== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[Anne of Green Gables|Anne of Avonlea]]'' miniseries.
== [[Live
* Parodied in the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My Life in Four Cameras".
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' did this more than once, including the episode in which the family stages "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" in the backyard to raise money for a gift for a teacher.
** They basically did this in [[The Movie]] too.
* In ''[[One Day At a Time]]'' the cast saved their building with such a show 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?]]'' did this quite a few times, usually for Mr. Grace's birthday.
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* The [[Princeton Triangle Club]] essentially started this way back in 1891.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Babes In Arms]]''. Note that, although it shares this trope with the Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney movie it inspired, it's got a completely different score, plot and set of characters.
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* ''[[Futurama]]'' has an episode centered on this trope (trying to save Earth from the TV-addicted Omicronians); Fry even used the trope name directly.
* Done in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', but they weren't trying to save anything, Krabs just wanted to earn even more money.
* ''[[The Brak Show
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