song and dance (n.)

• act
• afterpiece
• ballet
• befooling
• bit
• chaser
• circumvention
• curtain
• deception
• deceptiveness
• delusion
• divertimento
• dupery
• entanglement
• entrapment
• epilogue
• exode
• exodus
• fallaciousness
• fallacy
• falseness
• finale
• flimflam
• fooling
• hallucination
• illusion
• interlude
• intermezzo
• intermission
• introduction
• minstrel
• mirage
• musical
• number
• opera
• operetta
• phantasm
• pitch
• prologue
• routine
• scene
• self-deception
• shtick
• sketch
• skit
• striptease
• subterfuge
• trickiness
• turn
• victimization
• vision