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#1

Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals

Hey! I have always enjoyed coming up with new titles for popular Broadway musicals. So, I thought it would be fun if you could try too!

Example: OKLAHOMA!

Alternate Titles: Out of My Dreams
Territory Folks
What a Beautiful Mornin'

Try it! It will be interesting!


Updated On: 9/26/06 at 04:14 PM

#2

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What the hell...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:

Joseph and His Magical Multicolored Coat of Dreams?

Is that sort of what you mean? I dunno.
#3

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Something like that. Like I just think that some musicals have odd titles, and I enjoy thinking about other titles that could work too.
#7

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Wicked: "Oz", "Witches", "The Wonderful Wizard", or "Post-Dorothy Depression"

Hairspray: "Fat Girls CAN Dance!", "Welcome To The 60's", "Fat Feet"

Spamalot: "Monty Python: The Musical" (I actually hate the title of "Spamalot", because it's just... ehh, I hate it.)
#8

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This one is real:

Follies was Originally going to be called: Waiting For The Girls Upstairs.

It was changed to Follies, which I think I like better.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#9

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DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS: "Filty Shameless Scoundrels","Lying Cheating Scoundrels" ,"Scoundrelacious Guys"
SWEENEY TODD: "RedHeads" (get it, like blood red, and hair on heads? haha...im stupid"
umm...
THE WEDDING SINGER: "The Best Show On Broadway"... re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals

i suck at this
#10

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Phantom of the Opera: The Opera Ghost / The Haunting of the Opera Populaire / The Ingenue and I
Les Miserables: Redemption / Everybody Dies
Miss Saigon: Sun and Moon / The Setting Sun / East Meets West
Martin Guerre: Mistaken Identity / My Name Is
Once on this Island: Tales from the Gods / The Carribean Little Mermaid
Grease: Fast Times at Rydell High / Summer Loving
Little Shop of Horrors: Audrey II! / It Came From Outer Space / Maneater
Light in the Piazza: The Language of Love / Flames in Firenze
The King and I: Memoirs from Siam / Something Wonderful
#11

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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: THE SLAVE OF DUTY
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#14

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Dreamgirls: Sassy Bitches and the Men they Love
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
#15

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The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma!

(Steve Martin shouts that in the movie)

Grease: Pronounced in Swedish it sounds as the swedish word for "pig" so at least for the swedish version: PIG!


Jersey Boys: Sopranos, New York Boys (What is New Jersey?), the castrates, bodies without organs

The times they are a changing: A literal take on Bob Dylan (When you hear "like a rolling stone" you will se a rolling stone), Stoned!, somewhere between awake and asleep.

Sound of music: Sound of silence!

Wicked: Defying critics, Oops there goes gravity!, Gimmick!

Chess: It does matter if you are black or white (perhaps better for a song in the show).

















Updated On: 9/30/06 at 05:20 PM

#16

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Wicked[ly Overrated]


"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" -Family Guy
#18

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Evita: Slutty First Lady
Don't Cry For Me, Argentina!
Surprisingly Good for You
A New Argentina
Argentina: The Musical

Aspects of Love (I know it's not really popular, but...): When You Screw an Actress
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza

"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#19

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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: THE SLAVE OF DUTY

Isn't that...the actual title? I'm pretty sure the official title is "The Pirates of Penzance, or, The Slave of Duty".

Haha wildcard, I love "Les Miserables: Everybody Dies".
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit." (Emanuel Azenberg)
#20

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Avenue Q: Sesame Street Gone Wild or The Muppets Gone Wild.

Jersey Boys: Oh What A Night, Big Men In Town


I can't think of any more than that, but this is an interesting thing that they mention in the Jersey Boys program that the original title was going to be Oh What A Night.
#22

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In My Life: SH*T

Lestat: Bad SH*T

Hot Feet: The Worst SH*T I've Ever Seen on a Broadway Stage

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