Coinky Dinks
Coinky Dinks
#0Coinky Dinks
Posted: 1/23/05 at 3:20am
I've stumbled across some Broadway coinky dinks, and was wondering if anyone had any to share.
RENT: "Mark it's the Wicked Witch of the West, Your mother"
Mark's ex-girlfriend played the Wicked Witch of the West nine years later.
CHICAGO: Bebe Newirth played two Chita parts in the Revivals of Sweet Charity and Chicago. She also reprised a role originated by Gwen Verdon in Damn Yankees, and ANN Reinking played Charity, a role in which Verdon originated, which Ann also revived Verdon's original Roxie.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
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Posted: 1/23/05 at 3:29am
To add to that...
RENT: "Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow...to blow off Auntie Em" - yet another Wizard of Oz reference.
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Posted: 1/23/05 at 3:45amMy favorite one has to be the fact that Madonna was cast as Evita Peron, when there was a lyric in EVITA that said "She's a new world Madonna with a golden touch," a phrase that nicely summed up Madonna's career at that point in time. (They changed the lyric for the film, as there was no way they could let it stand without people gasping in inappropriate recognition.) Updated On: 1/23/05 at 03:45 AM
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