Others believed the trips were not the best way to reach people in a world saturated with electronic stimuli and entertainment extravaganzas.

Once an often fiercely competitive contest, the All-Star Game has evolved into an event that is the hub attraction of an entertainment extravaganza.

Other members of MTES are already planning an entertainment extravaganza for the wedding reception in honour of the couple.

It was also something of an entertainment extravaganza, with casts, choruses and stars of television and Broadway playing major roles.

Celebration in the Oaks - a popular holiday light and entertainment extravaganza that generates 13 percent of the park's annual operating budget.

The N.B.A.'s genius in recent years has been marketing, merchandising and turning games into entertainment extravaganzas.

Still, as a major prime-time entertainment, the All-Star Game's 42 percent ratings slide since 1991 is greater than those for comparable entertainment extravaganzas.

Stand-up humour later had mixed fortunes on the small screen, often shunted away to the small hours or as part of a larger entertainment extravaganza.

The first event was also billed as an "offbeat entertainment extravaganza" since it featured musical acts and DJs, and continues to today.

The entertainment extravaganza at this opera house was started by American magician Raymond followed by several premiers of the famous Bollywood movies.