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Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:04pm

How often would you say that flashbacks are done in a Broadway show? Can you think of any examples. I only know Wicked, which is told as one giant flashback.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:05pm

Evita

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:06pm

Oh yes! Thank you! I totally forgot about that one.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:17pm

Off broadway- Bingo

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:37pm

99% of Phantom is told in flashback.

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:41pm

Passion has a lengthy piece called "Flashback", and much of Violet is flashbacks to young Violet and her father.

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:42pm

Off-Broadway (and closed), but Dessa Rose is a flashback.

Part of Little Women is a flashback. Same for the first act of See What I Wanna See (Off-Broadway).
In the original production of Sweeney Todd, when Mrs. Lovett is telling Sweeney about what happened to Lucy and the scene is acted out, would that be considered a flashback?

Updated On: 1/15/06 at 03:15 PM

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 3:17pm

A few ALW show:

SUNSET BLVD
EVITA
ASPECTS OF LOVE
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

#10

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 4:55pm

The MISS SAIGON helicopter sequence is done as a flashback.

#11

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 5:20pm

hmm- interesting about the Sweeney flashback- yea, I'd consider that a flashback.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

#12

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 5:50pm

Parade (in a way).

What's pink and green and flies all over?

#13

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 6:10pm

there are a few in Spelling Bee which I saw Friday and loved it!

#14

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 6:12pm

Follies, anyone?

#15

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 6:18pm

MARIE CHRISTINE has flashbacks WITHIN flashbacks WITHIN flashbacks (like Phantom, it is told as a flashback...then MC flashes back a few times).

SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE is mainly flashbacks in Act One...even act two has some.

HELLO AGAIN moves back and forth through time.

I think someone likes flashbacks...

#16

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 6:22pm

I'm pretty sure that the original version or any subsequent production of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN were not told in Flashback, but pretty sure Buffalo Bill introduced the newest revival in a sort of flashback fashion.

Updated On: 3/1/06 at 06:22 PM

#17

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 6:37pm

If it's like the movie, Funny Girl is also told as a flashback.

#18

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 6:41pm

Passion has a lengthy sequence called "Flashback" about Fosca and her husband. It is an amazing flashback sequence.
You could argue that Company is entirely a flashback but many critics think it's a dream.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#19

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 6:59pm

Urinetown had a few hysterical flashbacks.

"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored

#20

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 7:07pm

Aida
Yes, Annie Get Your Gun could be considered one...

Even Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ("Way way back, many centuries ago"), but that might be stretching it.

#21

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 7:13pm

yeah i was gonna say passion, very good one.

Austria... Count Ludovic of Austria...

#22

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 8:47pm

Thank you everyone for the great posts! I had no idea there were so many..

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

#23

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Posted: 1/15/06 at 10:26pm

About 3/4 of a play I am writing, titled "Over the Years," is a flashback.

#24

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Posted: 1/16/06 at 8:03am

'The Boy From Oz' is mostly told in Flashback and The Last 5 Years as well.

#25

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Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:58am

I'm surprised no one has said "Wicked."

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