Production Sunday?

Easter Sunday is an interesting day in the life of the Church. On one hand, there is the immeasurable joy that is celebrated in the fact that Jesus Christ, the one who fed the hungry, healed the blind, and spoke of peace is risen! On the other hand in American Christianity, Easter Sunday is one of two Sundays a year that pews are overflowing...

How do most local churches respond to this sudden influx of Creasters?

In my experience, churches spend significantly more time and energy preparing for the Easter Sunday worship gathering than the "regular" services. I have recently heard at least 8 or 9 church administrators/pastors/worship leaders say something like, "oh I will be so glad once were past Easter." Easter has become some laborious landmark along the way in the church calendar.

Why?

Is it so that we can glorify God through various ways on this exciting day in our faith?
Or is there frequently an underlying intention to impress all the visitors with our "production"?
Do we become self-glorifying and prideful when we try to compress all sorts of things into our worship gatherings that are not normally there? Skits, videos, special musics, choirs, special lighting/fog, dramatic backdrops, flowers, etc...
Where is that line between ordering a worship service so that it is smooth, flowing, and includes various elements and technologies, and simply putting on some "Jesus" production?
Are worship gatherings that are structured in the traditional way actually worship? or are they by nature an act of theater or show?
How do we continuously think about removing ourselves as distractions and allowing people to worship when it is practically in the job description to be a noticeable presence on a stage leading the body in worship?

There are countless questions, and I have just been wondering a lot lately if what we traditionally know as "church" and worship services are anything close to what God has called us to, and are what is actually edifying to the body.

And that's all I have to say about that...