Broadway musical Singspiel act afterpiece ballad opera ballet ballet divertissement bamboozlement befooling bit bluffing calculated deception chaser chorus show circumvention comedy ballet comic opera conning curtain curtain call curtain raiser dance drama deceiving deception deceptiveness defrauding delusion delusiveness divertimento divertissement dupery enmeshment ensnarement entanglement entrapment epilogue exode exodus expository scene fallaciousness fallacy falseness finale flimflam flimflammery fond illusion fooling grand opera hallucination hoke act hoodwinking illusion interlude intermezzo intermission introduction kidding light opera lyric drama minstrel minstrel show mirage music drama musical musical comedy musical stage musical theater number opera opera ballet opera bouffe opera buffa operetta outwitting overreaching phantasm pitch prologue putting on routine scene self-deception shtick sketch skit snow job song-and-dance act song-play spoofery spoofing stand-up comedy act striptease subterfuge swindling trickiness tricking turn victimization vision willful misconception wishful thinking