Favorite Theatre References in Movies/TV Shows

[non-stop26]

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]

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

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

[BrodyFosse123]

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]

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

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

[SeanD2]

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]

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

 

[adam.peterson44]

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]

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

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, specifically the Patti LuPone cameo