Broadway Typos
Broadway Typos
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:50pm
Many years ago, I remember that the A-B-C Directory of Broadway Plays had a typo in its listing of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. It showed up as BAREFOOT IN THE DARK, which isn't a bad title for another play.
I was wondering how many titles could be changed by one or two typographical errors?
For starters:
ARSENIC AND OLD LICE
JERSEY GOYS
LEGALLY BLIND
SALE OF TWO TITTIES
THE OLD COUPLE
LIFE WITH FEATHER
THE POUND OF MUSIC
Okay, now what can you come up with?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 8/19/08 at 11:50 PM
#2re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:51pm
Sale of Two Titties!!!!!! That made me lol out loud!! 
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
fvalle24
Stand-by Joined: 7/11/08
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#4re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:55pmWacked.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:55pm
Typos corrected. Thank you.
How about FANNY GIRL?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:59pm
THE THING AND I
HALLELUJAH BOOBY
STALKING HAPPY
THE SAPPY TIME
22nd STREET
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHUTZPAH
MY FAIR LADDIE
PAINT YOUR DRAGON
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:02am
IRMA LA DEUCE
MAIMED
HELLO MOLLY
ANYTHING SHOWS
THE SCARLET PIMPLE
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:07am
FIDDLER ON THE POOF
THE SUNSHINE GOYS
PISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
walkedthroughmany
Leading Actor Joined: 3/25/07
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#17re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:13am
BEAUTY AND THE YEAST
THE MILD PARTY
BI-RIVER
And I suppose ANNIE would be quite a different show if the title character's name was, say, ARNIE or ANGIE or something...
Updated On: 8/19/08 at 12:13 AM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:14am
INTO THE GOODS
GENTLEMEN DEFER BLONDES
HIGH BUTTON JEWS
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 8/19/08 at 12:14 AM
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#19re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:15am
Long ago I read about a marquee where the "p" had fallen off of the word "presents". Result:
DAVID MERRICK
RESENTS
CAROL CHANNING
IN
HELLO, DOLLY!
Dollypop
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ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#23re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:33am
POOF
RABBIT HOPE
HEDDA GABBER
A DOLL'S HOSE
SPECTS OF LOVE
THE WILD PARTS
LADDY IN THE PARK
MONDAY IN THE LARK WITH GORGE
THE CARDNAL WILL ROCK
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
#24re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:33am
ANGLES IN AMERICA
FOLKIES
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#25re: Broadway Typos
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:37am
AUGUST: ORANGE COUNTY
That is totally what I thought the title of the play was when I first heard about it.
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