Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows

[non-stop26]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#1

Posted: 3/4/18 at 5:28pm

Mine has gotta be the Ethel Merman cameo in Airplane! where she sings “Everything’s Comin Up Roses”. God I love that movie

[Call_me_jorge]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#2

Posted: 3/4/18 at 5:30pm

Hahaha! Love that movie and that part!
I love the Rent parody in Team America, Lease!

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[BrodyFosse123]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#4

Posted: 3/4/18 at 5:49pm

ALL the Broadway references peppered in dialogue on NBC TV’s WILL & GRACE, including all the Broadway talent who appeared on episodes: Chita Rivera & Michelle Lee playing a lesbian couple; Bernadette Peters playing Karen Walker’s sister with a stunted leg; Patti LuPone as herself; Victor Garber as a popular actor-turned-hotel clerk; Ben Platt as a young millennial with “daddy issues”, etc.

[C.Jack]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#5

Posted: 3/4/18 at 5:51pm

Cats of Phantom Boulevard, written, produced, and directed by Andrew Lloyd Webby!

[SeanD2]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#6

Posted: 3/4/18 at 5:52pm

The episode of Growing Pains when they go see La Cage Aux Folles and Kirk Cameron's character Mike talks about all the attractive female dancers and then has a gay panic moment when he finds out they're men. At the time I thought he was acting, but clearly Kirk needed no acting skills to come across as a homophobic nincompoop.

Also shout out to the entirety of The Newsroom which had theater references in almost every episode.

[ggersten]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#7

Posted: 3/4/18 at 6:53pm

 

[adam.peterson44]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#8

Posted: 3/4/18 at 7:55pm

"Mine has gotta be the Ethel Merman cameo in Airplane! where she sings “Everything’s Comin Up Roses”. God I love that movie"

War is hell.  I love that reference too.  Lately i've been loving the references in Crazy Ex-girlfriend, like the parodies of "Ya Got Trouble" and "Do You Hear The People Sing", as well as Patty LuPone's performance as the rabbi in "Remember That We Suffered". 

 

[youwillbefound2]

Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows#9

Posted: 3/4/18 at 7:57pm

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, specifically the Patti LuPone cameo