Its In The Title

...or not!

Shows that don't have their title number performed in the show.....

Three starters:
The Rocky Horror Show
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Follies

Updated On: 6/6/09 at 07:44 AM

the lion king
mary poppins
tarzan
little mermaid
the drowsy chaperone
evita
south pacific
the king and i
my fair lady

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Jersey Boys

The Producers

Wizard of Oz
Young Frankenstein
110 in the Shade
The Wiz

All R&H shows (except for their first and last) did not use their title for a number.

Aida
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Little Women
LOTR
Songs For A New World
Spamalot
Boy From Oz
The Wedding Singer
Catch me if you can (Thanks again for that Mama!)
Young Frankenstein
Honk
Rock of Ages
Shrek
The Story of my Life

And thats to name a few!

Wicked has the title as a lyric in what feels like every song!

I don't like it when plays have their title within the dialogue. There's always the moment when the audience collective goes ahhh so she's the cat on the hot tin roof...

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"All R&H shows (except for their first and last) did not use their title for a number."

Not strictly accurate, I'm afraid. "Allegro" had a title song. So did "State Fair" (which began as a movie but later became a stage show). Interestingly, the R and H show, "Pipe Dream" did not have a title song but did have a song "Sweet Thursday", which was the title of the Steinbeck story the show was based upon.

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A fine example d.t as I'm sure the first time I saw DOTS my admittledly then youthful brain was going ahh there's the title of the play rather noticing the subtle reconception of the phrase.

I'm racking my brain to think of a play that has the title as it's final line of dialogue; there must be some creaky old pot-boilers or some 30's American social poetic-realism dramas that fit the bill?

I now just have a mental image of Kevin Spacey standing on the stage of the Old Vic saying, 'Truly this man will inherit the wind' curtain.

Which shows how little I know of the original source material or the biblical source of the original quote.

(I also think my mental image was blatantly just ripping off Barton Fink anyway)

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Updated On: 6/6/09 at 11:34 AM

The Woman In White
I always found this interesting as there is a song The Woman in White, but it isn't in the actual show, it was just on a promo CD (not sure if it was used anywhere else).

"It'll probably appear in Love Never Dies."

ROTFLMAO ! This is so funny coz it's probably true.

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