production vs song and dance

production

noun
  • An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary. 

  • The presentation of a theatrical work. 

  • The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. 

  • The act of producing, making or creating something. 

  • A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.) 

  • The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development. 

  • Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision. 

  • The act of being produced. 

  • Written documents produced in support of the action or defence. 

  • An extension or protrusion. 

  • The act of lengthening out or prolonging. 

  • That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model). 

  • The total amount produced. 

song and dance

noun
  • An excessively elaborate story or excuse used to justify something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see song, and, dance. 

  • An excessively complex set of instructions. 

  • A display of unnecessary excitement or activity. 

How often have the words production and song and dance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )