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MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF OPENING NUMBER I. OPENING: PARIS A. Prologue: Eight Male dancers in classic French evening attire (Black tails and top hats, white gloves, canes, silk scarves, etc.) Present "Ultimate Showgirls" in orange tights and yellow feathers. Glamorous and stylish with strong dancing and exciting music it will set the style and pace of the show. Transition: Audience is told our show is a tribute to Entertainment - Lets begin by going back in time to the city that inspired the rest of the world with its theatrical traditions: The year is 1890 and the city is Paris. B. A white "Cut out" art style portal flies in front of Diamond Drop in strobe light a group of white "Commedia Delle Arte" clowns come tumbling out. When strobe stops they are posed in a group of black mandolis. Female singer enters in orange tights, bloomers, corset and parasol (like a period "Pin-up). She sings a funny Risque french song with lots of "stix with Clowns"; it ends with the clowns doing patterns and crosses with 15' orange silk banners - followed by a silk curtain that unfurls down with "Le Can Can" painted on it in art nouveau letters. A clown on a giant unicycle rides across stage in front of silk curtain, grabs the edge and pulls it down and off stage with him as he exits. C. Can Can # 1: Entering on stage are a group of can can girls in orange and black costumes. Behind them is a curtain with faces of men in top hats, bow ties, and monocles over eye - the same face is repeated in rows to fill the stage as the girls dance the uncovered eye moves back and forth in rhythm watching them. At the end, girls do a big unison "split" which causes all the monocles to fall off. D. Can Can #2: The "Curtain of Faces" flies out revealing a vibrant red-orange are nouveau can can set with sconces and tourchieres of white globes. An exciting can can develops with male dancers in black and one group of females in orange and black, and another group in deep yellow dresses with black hose and gloves and robin-egg blue feathers. E. Reprise and transition: Pink chiffon curtain comes in as female dancers do cross patterns in front and male dancers bring on female singers in lavish gown who does reprise of song from "Section B". Transition: Audience is told we are leaving the turn of the century going to the French music hall of the 1990's. Pink Chiffon flies to Reveal Adagio female descending "Star Burst" - She is met by Adagio male. They do a "Tour de France" number to lush, exciting music. As they exit the drop flies to reveal -