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What (who) is song and dance - definition
1982 MUSICAL
Song & Dance; Song and dance
song and dance
1.
A song and dance act is a performance in which a person or group of people sing and dance.
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2.
If you say that someone is making a song and dance about something, you mean they are making an unnecessary fuss about it. (BRIT INFORMAL)
He used his money to help others-but he never made a song and dance about it.
= fuss
PHRASE [disapproval]
Song and Dance
Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a unifying love story.
Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe
![The Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe, with [[Wang Renmei]] in the front](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wang Renmei and Bright Moon Troupe.jpg?width=200 "The Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe, with [[Wang Renmei]] in the front")
SHANGHAI MUSIC AND DANCE GROUP ACTIVE IN THE 1920S AND 1930S
Bright moon song and dance troupe; Bright moonlight song and dance troupe; Bright Moonlight Song and Dance Troupe; Bright Moonlight; China Song and Dance Troupe
The Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe (Chinese: 明月歌舞团; pinyin: Míngyuè Gēwǔtuán) was a group founded by Li Jinhui from the late 1920s through the 1930s. It is also translated as Bright Moonlight Song and Dance Troupe.
Wikipedia
Song and Dance
Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a unifying love story.
The "Song" act is Tell Me on a Sunday, with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York City and Hollywood. The "Dance" act is a ballet choreographed to Variations, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber for his cellist brother Julian, which is based on the A Minor Caprice No. 24 by Paganini.
Examples of use of song and dance
1. "People like me form the crowd in reality TV shows, like song–and–dance talent hunts.
2. I’m sure you’ll have a lot of song and dance sequences in the film.
3. With eight song and dance numbers The Rising is just under 150 minutes long – not very long by Bollywood standards where over three–hour–long song and dance extravaganzas are routine.
4. Characteristically, he didn‘t make a song and dance about it at the time.
5. The celebrations took place with song and dance performances by Cambodian students studying in Vietnam.