Musical with Longest Title

[myshikobit]

Musical with Longest Title#1

Posted: 1/31/10 at 5:58pm

My friend was just trying to remember the name of a musical with a really long title, so I thought it might be interesting to start a thread to find out the longest titled musical of all time, hahaha.

I'll start with:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?

"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art." -Sunday In The Park With George

[BwayTday]

Musical with Longest Title#2

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:02pm

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

[CapnHook]

Musical with Longest Title#2

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:07pm

Why does it have to be a musical?

Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures [14]

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [8]
Stop The World I Want To Get Off [8]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [10]
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris [10]

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

Updated On: 1/31/10 at 06:07 PM

[I'mNOTthatGIRL72]

Musical with Longest Title#3

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:19pm

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee? :)

"There's a fine, fine line between love...and a waste of your time" (L). Seth Rudetsky is AMAAAHHHZING! A Very Potter Musical FTW!

[Jordan Catalano]

Musical with Longest Title#4

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:29pm

Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don't You Ever Forget It!) (9)

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Musical with Longest Title#5

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:31pm

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death

[Jon]

Musical with Longest Title#6

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:46pm

Well, Capn Hook, if you want a non-musical, how about:

"The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylam at Charenton, Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade."

a.k.a. "Marat/Sade"

[[tos]fan999]

Musical with Longest Title#7

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:48pm

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

<-----Bernadette Peters and Alexander Hanson in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Send in the clowns...Send in the crowds!

"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."-Stephen Sondheim

[AwesomeDanny]

Musical with Longest Title#8

Posted: 1/31/10 at 6:54pm

Why Torture is Wrong and the People who Love Them (or whatever the heck that long title is)

[myshikobit]

Musical with Longest Title#9

Posted: 1/31/10 at 7:35pm

Ok, so apparently the show we're looking for has a title something along the lines of things parents say or don't say

i.e.

"Father says...., but ____ says"

I'm dumbfounded

"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art." -Sunday In The Park With George

[Jon]

Musical with Longest Title#10

Posted: 1/31/10 at 7:42pm

Oh Dad, Poor Dad - Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

[StageManager2]

Musical with Longest Title#11

Posted: 1/31/10 at 8:22pm

THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT: THE MUSICAL

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[tazber]

Musical with Longest Title#12

Posted: 1/31/10 at 10:10pm

I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road

....but the world goes 'round

[IdinaBellFoster]

Musical with Longest Title#13

Posted: 1/31/10 at 10:56pm

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

[Inigomontoya]

Musical with Longest Title#14

Posted: 2/1/10 at 9:34am

The roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the crowd
I love you, your perfect, now change!

[ErinDillyFan]

Musical with Longest Title#15

Posted: 2/1/10 at 10:30am

I guess you have to decide the most words or the most letters or characters. I haven't kept track of the entries, but here are some long ones...

Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a place Like This?

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

The Decline And Fall Of The Entire World As Seen Through The Eyes Of Cole Porter

If You Sit Real Still and Hold My Hand, You Will Hear Absolutely Nothing

The Ladies of the Hood River Horticultural Society and the Flower That Nearly Destroyed Them

And some I just like the title of:
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This?

And to your next question, I belive '13' is the shortest.

[best12bars]

Musical with Longest Title#16

Posted: 2/1/10 at 10:55am

Shortest? Nah.

What about Nine?
Gigi?
Cats?

EDIT: I guess it depends on whether you mean shortest/longest in letters or syllables.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22

Updated On: 2/1/10 at 10:55 AM

[onedaymore]

Musical with Longest Title#17

Posted: 2/1/10 at 1:19pm

You also have to remember, 13's full name is "13: The Musical"

Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek

[HerrStiefel]

Musical with Longest Title#18

Posted: 2/1/10 at 1:34pm

"How to save the world and find true love in 90 minutes" - A musical comedy

[JRybka]

Musical with Longest Title#19

Posted: 2/1/10 at 1:50pm

Da is the shortest I know of....

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

[Mister Matt]

Musical with Longest Title#20

Posted: 2/1/10 at 2:36pm

Actually, there was a major musical production in Spain that premiered in Madrid in 2008 called "A". My partner saw the show. He said it was pretty awful.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[darquegk]

Musical with Longest Title#21

Posted: 2/1/10 at 5:56pm

"Strangelove!- The 'Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb' Cold War Musical Spectacular"

[Biff AKA Levi]

Musical with Longest Title#22

Posted: 2/2/10 at 2:02am

The Musical Comedy Murders of the Nineteen Thirties.

(Okay, so I know it's supposed to be 1930s, but we can cheat a little, right?)

"I want a lap dance from an octopus."

-JG2