production number

noun

, Theater.

1. a specialty number or routine, usually performed by the entire cast consisting of musicians, singers, dancers, stars, etc., of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, or the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of production number¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

One episode begins with a seller of broadsides, the musical Twitter of its day — the series was originally titled “The Ballad of Renegade Nell” — that blossoms into a production number, tossed from singer to singer in a London street scene.

From Los Angeles Times

Whatever “I’m Just Ken” lacks in terms of movie-music gravitas, though, Gosling more than made up for with rock-star exuberance in a lavish production number that found him starting the song from his seat in the audience — pink suit, pink gloves, black shades to match his black cowboy hat — before joining an army of several dozen Kens preening and twirling on the Oscars stage.

From Los Angeles Times

Taylor Swift’s new television special Sunday, aka Super Bowl LVIII, carried live from Las Vegas on CBS and Paramount+, came with a football game attached, a musical production number and a host of comedy sketches masquerading as commercials — and they said variety was dead!

From Los Angeles Times

However, the lawsuit notes that USC’s film school had approved a “student certification” for the film and assigned it a production number.

From Los Angeles Times

The size of each country’s production cut depends on the baseline production number it is using, so the cut might not be 1.15 million.

From Seattle Times