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Everyone involved was high on Cocaine.
Or older entertainment traditionalists firmly stuck in the era of variety hours and then importance of "big music numbers to give the audience the ol' razzle-dazzle!" Hell, some of them probably never got out of a nostalgia for vaudeville.
Or both that decrepit mindset plus cocaine.
This cannot be overstated. Just reading the summary would invoke serious head-shaking, the casting would result in an explosion. Which tells you the snow blew over everyone.
A white Christmas, indeed.
It's like after the 1970's LSD comedown featuring Sid & Marty Kroft et. al. cocaine really took hold, but around 1983 was a nice mix of LSD, weed, and cocaine's honeymoon period.