The studios ’ efficient, top-down control over all stages of their product enabled a new and ever-growing level of lavish production and technical sophistication.

The lavish, big-budget production failed to find an audience and was canceled after 13 weeks.

Similarly lavish but less successful was Margaret Mather's production in New York in 1897.

Its storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind-the-rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible.

Thus, the Ziegfeld Follies is born, a lavish production filled with beautiful women.

The multi-million dollar TV song & dance extravaganza was filmed around the world and included production numbers of classic songs from the era, lavish costumes and guest performances from Jones, John Wayne and Bob Hope.

She acted late into life, latterly for American television films, including a lavish production of A Tale of Two Cities ( in which she played Miss Pross ).

* New York American: " A well-balanced supporting cast, a lavish production and marked finesse in treatment combines to make ' Hell's Hinges ' an unusual offering.

Some of their most noted songs have been without choruses and have featured dramatically atmospheric dynamics, conveyed through either distorted guitar crescendos, lavish orchestral arrangements or prominent, looped / shifting basslines, underpinned by high and exacting production values, involving sometimes copious digital editing and mixing.

It opens with a lavish production of the title song, " Springtime For Hitler ", which celebrates Nazi Germany crushing Europe (" Springtime for Hitler and Germany / Winter for Poland and France ").

The show featured lavish production numbers of classic songs from the era, extravagant costumes, and notable guest performances, including John Wayne and Bob Hope in the Wild West.

Following a silent B-western called Stairs of Sand ( 1929 ), she received some positive notices when she played the female lead in the lavish production of The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu ( 1929 ).

His early home-grown solo output, which often featured simpler songs and less lavish production than the Beatles received from George Martin, often was dismissed by critics as " lightweight " next to the more serious nature of his former bandmates ' solo output.

The 1961 film adaptation was a lavish, but much criticized, Ross Hunter production released by Universal Studios.

But Metro's lavish and attractive production numbers make up for this basic superficiality.

The theatre opened as the " Royal English Opera House " in January 1891 with a lavish production of Arthur Sullivan's opera Ivanhoe.

John Chapman of the Daily News declared that the production had " good lyrics and tunes by Irving Berlin ... the razzle-dazzle atmosphere of a big-time show " but pronounced Merman the best part of the show, stating " She is a better comedienne than she ever was before ", stating that " Annie is a good, standard, lavish, big musical and I'm sure it will be a huge success -- but it isn't the greatest show in the world ".

They produced and co-wrote " There Goes My Baby ", a hit for The Drifters in 1959, which introduced the use of strings for saxophone-like riffs, a tympani for the Brazilian baion rhythm they incorporated, and lavish production values into the established black R & B sound, laying the groundwork for the soul music that would follow.

Shot on location in Morocco and New York City by Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, the production drew media attention before its release for substantial cost overruns on top of a lavish budget, and reports of clashes between director, producer, and cinematographer.

" Though successful with critics, the revue failed to attract an audience ; at least not enough of one to pay for the lavish production.

Mandarin movies sometimes had much higher budgets and more lavish production.

It was a lavish production, featuring 50 singers and dancers, among them New York-based calypsonian, the Duke of Iron, Trinidadian dancer, Pearl Primus, and Manning himself.

In April 1957, the opera was revived at La Scala for Maria Callas ( who also recorded the whole opera ) in a lavish production directed by Luchino Visconti, and it proved to be one of her greatest triumphs.

Much like The Andrews Sisters, the McGuires moved when they sang, often executing dance routines during lavish production numbers on countless television specials ( something The Andrews Sisters had originated in films during the 1940s, really becoming the first female vocal group to move when they sang, rather than just standing at a microphone ).

Due to the threat of war, plans for a lavish museum were never implemented, but once the war was over it was possible to construct the relatively understated but well-lit modern exhibition extension, opened in 1977, that now houses much of the collection.

Still later, a lease on the Adelphi Theatre on 54th Street and the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street gave the network a site for variety shows, and in 1954, the lavish DuMont Tele-Centre opened in the former Jacob Ruppert's Central Opera House at 205 East 67th Street.

The Music Hall opened to the public on December 27, 1932 with a lavish stage show featuring Ray Bolger, Doc Rockwell and Martha Graham.

In 1895, after a devastating fire, a new ultra-modern building opened, with lavish electrical lighting, hydraulic lifts and air conditioning.

The estate contained an art gallery, conservatories, bowling alley, lavish gardens, aviary, lake and a zoo ( which was then subsequently opened to the public ).

The most lavish revue in the Cotton Club ’ s thirteen-year history opened on Broadway on September 24, 1936.

Potemkin opened up a lavish court at Jassy, the capital of Moldavia, to " winter like a sultan, revel in his mistresses, build his towns, create his regiments — and negotiate peace with Turks ... he was emperor of all he surveyed ".

The current Town Hall officially opened on 9 August 1870 with a lavish ball, which was personally funded by the Lord Mayor Samuel Amess.

In January, 1884, Warner opened his new Rochester headquarters in a lavish multi-story building on St. Paul Street.

He opened the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields ( 1714 ) and then the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden ( 1732 ) and began putting on ever more lavish productions.

These include the Wintergarden ( opened in 1982 ), The Myer Centre ( opened in 1988 ), Broadway on the Mall ( opened in 1989 ) and the lavish Queens Plaza, situated at the northern end of the mall, which was opened in two stages, the first in 2005,

After a try-out in Boston, a nationwide tour for almost a year, and 51 previews, a lavish production opened on Broadway on December 23, 1974 at the St. James Theatre where, having failed to charm the critics as its predecessor had, it ran for only 16 regular performances.

Following an inaugural passenger journey for VIPs and lavish opening ceremony on 11 June 1846, the line opened for public passenger traffic on 15 June 1846 from an end-on junction with the ECR at its Colchester station to a terminus at Ipswich.

The opera with its dark overture, lavish choral writing, many ballet scenes, and electrifying finale depicting a glimpse of hellish torture kept the opera on the stage in Paris for over forty years.

Having lived a lavish lifestyle in California, Wills moved back to Oklahoma City in 1949, then went back on the road to maintain his payroll and Wills Point.

He rebuilt all of Babylonia's major cities on a lavish scale.

He helped those who had been harmed by the Imperial tax system, banished certain sexual deviants, and put on lavish spectacles for the public, such as gladiator battles.

Ten stories in his next book, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ), were based less on lavish fantasy than The Map of Love and more on real life romances featuring himself in Wales.

The financial burden within the peninsula was on the backs of the peasant class while the nobility enjoyed an increasingly lavish lifestyle.

A lavish temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill to house Elagabal, who was represented by a black conical meteorite from Emesa.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Gaunt's architectural style emphasised rectangular design, the separation of ground floor service areas from the upper stories and a contrast of austere exteriors with lavish interiors, especially on the 1st floor of the inner bailey buildings.

In a great sermon ( during Easter week ) on 10 April 1588, he stoutly vindicated the Reformed character of the Church of England against the claims of Roman Catholicism and adduced John Calvin as a new writer, with lavish praise and affection.

In 2000, the BBC and WGBH Boston co-produced a lavish miniseries, titled Gormenghast, based on the first two books of the series.

The lavish wedding took place on in the Imperial Chapel of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

Between 1899 and 1905, she spent $ 3 million on a grand construction scheme building lavish memorials to the Stanford family, while university faculty and self-supporting students were living in poverty.

When altruists lavish their resources on non-altruists at the expense of their own kind, the altruists tend to die out and the others tend to grow.

The Easter court was a lavish event, and a large amount of money was spent on the event itself, clothes and gifts.

He lavished time and money on the tea ceremony, collecting implements, sponsoring lavish social events, and patronizing acclaimed masters.

Another such story revolved around a man who won an inconsequential amount of money on the pools, and began living an inordinately lavish lifestyle (" I bought the wife a new cover for her ironing board " being one such example of his largesse ), which collapsed when the money inevitably ran out, much to his chagrin (" I wish I'd never set eyes on the money ").

Wayne proposed in January 1988, and they were married on July 17, 1988 in a lavish ceremony the Canadian press dubbed " The Royal Wedding ".

* January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront.

The sum had been amassed despite lavish support for various causes and his personal ethic which made him reluctant to sell on a falling market when if too many did it could deepen a slump.

They are expensive and lavish to produce, because they require elaborate and panoramic settings, on-location filming, authentic period costumes, inflated action on a massive scale and large casts of characters.

Nevertheless, though the senatorial order came to hate and fear him, the evidence suggests that he remained popular with the army and the common people for much of his reign, not least because of his lavish shows of largesse ( recorded on his coinage ) and because he staged and took part in spectacular gladiatorial combats.