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I agree.4 c C /} /|/ A 6 <r ROUGH DRAFT - M.G.M. GRAND HOTEL OPENING GALA OPENING IN FOUR PARTS PART ONE; (Visual Overture) THIS IS - JAZZ - Nude; on stage singing "Get Happy" (l> ^,^t Men with- A Modern "Strike Up the Band" utilizing overhead disks, side stage, revolving stages; two side contours opening irtnuiliMn nriflr'-roTrtrTrrr" n^nrTTTg into center contours which open into complete brail of house curtains. PART TWO: "HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD" Presentation of the title "Hollywood" in electrics with nude girls O^tc^t^ PART THREE: COCKTAIL PART TIME IN AN ELEGANT PENTHOUSE SALON - this will feature: 8 girls, 8 boys, singers, 3 or 4 principal dancers, musical pot pourri. A musical salute to all the composers ?╟÷ a musical pot pourri of the following composers: George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Rogers and Hammerstein, Dietz and Schwartz, etc. NOTE: Fanfare - greats of the past - ghosts on screen - Fred Astaire, Ann Miller etc. MUSIC: "LADY BE GOOD" "EASY TO LOVE" "LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" "YOU ARE MY LUCKY STAR" ""DANCING IN THE DARK" "WHERE OR WHEN" "LADY IS A TRAMP" "I GET NO KICK FROM CHAMPAIGN" THIS WILL BE TODAY'S "CAT-PACK" but is done in way out elegant sophisticated clothes| PART FOUR: SUMMATION OF THE OPENING NUMBER This is to be a full stage number. Mirrors and electrics with complete use of elevators, revolves and all tricks imaginable and unimaginable. MUSIC: "FASCINATING RHYTHM" "I'VE GOT RHYTHM" This is done on count and counterpoint which is to be our 1980 version of a Busby Berkley number. AFTER OPENING SCENE TWO: tC Gzt~f^ LIVING CURTAIN AIMING AT FOUR HIGH BASED ON: SHOW BUSINESS" AND "THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT" "THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE Cont'd,