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Lucy + Ethel Go To The Imperial Theatre To See MOST HAPPY FELLA; Will & Grace Go To The Richard Rogers To See SEUSSICAL...

Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:29am

Any other television characters visit a Broadway show during an episode?

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:31am

There was an episode of the Nanny where Fran and her date, an Italian mobster, went to see Beauty and the Beast. I remember seeing the playbills in the restaurant scene.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:31am

Wills reaction to grace seeing susicall was priceless

"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:31am

Will, his mom, and Jack all went to see "Mamma Mia" on Will and Grace.

"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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Updated On: 5/14/06 at 01:31 AM

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:32am

Oh, and in an episode of Sister, Sister, Tia and Tamara and various other characters attend a performance of Ragtime. It wasn't the Broadway production - I'm assuming a national tour.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:36am

On Caroline in the City, Caroline's friend was a dancer in Cats. I believe they talk about going to see the show.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:37am

In a War at home they went to see wicked

"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 1:43am

Lucy sees BRIGADOON

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 2:07am

No! lucy does NOT see BRIGADOON. They do a musical dream fantasty where she goes to Scotland but it is all original music. Nothing from BRIGADOON at all.

Watch the scene with Lucy in the box at the Imperial "watching" THE MOST HAPPY FELLA. (Actually just excerpts from the cast album) Watch the others in the balcony (audience members) and you will see several HAPPY FELLA cast members.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 2:10am

In the season three finale of The West Wing President Bartlet goes to the Booth Theatre to see "The War of the Roses". Its funny because it you watch the season 3 dvd extra's they show the actual playbill and how they had to create a broadway show, just for tv.

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 2:58am

OK, here's a really obscure one, and I have no idea why I remember it.

There was a short-lived series called Pearl, starring Rhea Perlman as a middle-aged woman who decided to go back to college.

In one episode -- the only one I ever saw, I think -- her snotty professor (Malcolm McDowell) had two tickets to Rent (this was about the time it had first opened) but wasn't able to drive for some reason and asked Rhea Perlman if she could make the drive to New York. She did, but she didn't realize until they arrived at the theatre that he was asking her only to drive him there, not to actually attend the show with him.

Sound like a laugh riot? No? Well, see, that's why the show didn't last more than a season.

Also, do all those dinner theatre shows that the Golden Girls went to count? The Iceman Cometh starring Father Mulcahy from M*A*S*H!

#12

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 3:18am

In EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS, Rochelle gets an anniversary gift to see DREAMGIRLS (show is set in 1980s).

#13

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 3:58am

FRIENDS - Chandler takes Monica to see THE MUSIC MAN. (He also has 2 copies of teh ANNIE cast recording (red cover) which Monica calls teh ANNIE soundtrack. (The soundtrack has a white cover!)

MAD ABOUT YOU - Paul tries to take Jamie to see TOMMY (and it appears some scebes were shot outside the St. James)

#14

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 6:34am

I believe that Jack goes to see 'The Boy From Oz' in Will and Grace - he says that Hugh Jackman stole one of his moves.

Mary P x

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 7:05am

I can think of a couple of film examples:

In "The Apartment" they go to see the Music Man, and are seen standing outside the theatre.

In "Down With Love," Ewan McGreggor takes his various women to see "Camelot."

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#16

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 9:21am

In Seinfeld, there are a few episodes. In one, Elaine's boyfriend takes her and Jerry's parents to see My Fair Lady.

Then, there are two episodes with Broadway themes, but the shows are fictional. One episode has Bette Midler doing a musical called Rochelle, Rochelle and she is sidelined at a Broadway softball game. Jerry is dating the understudy, so the theory is that his crew was behind it.

The other included Raquel Welch starring in a show called Scarsdale Surprise. It also includes the Tony Awards, where Kramer gets caught up with a group accepting an award. He ends up having to fire Raquel Welch because she does not swing her arms when she tap dances.

#17

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 9:23am

Well,
Lucy must have seen BRIGADOON or she wouldn't have had that Dream.

#18

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 10:01am

Notice on Will and Grace they have big, generic programs. I wonder why Playbill wouldn't let them use theirs?

#19

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 10:03am

Friends went to the Circle in the Square theatre in one episode. I don't the show they were seeing was a real show though.

#20

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 10:29am

One of my favorite quotes from friends:

Rachel: You know what we should all do? Go see a musical.
Chandler: (confused) Sure...
Rachel: And you know which one we should see? The 1996 Tony award winner. Do you happen to know the name of that one?
Chandler: I don't know... um, Grease?
Rachel: No....
Chandler: Rent?
Rachel: Yes! Rent!
Chandler: Okay, so when do you want to go?
Rachel: What? Oh, I'm sorry, I can't, I'm busy.

They never go though.

Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05

#21

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 10:36am

Will wanted to take his mother to LES MIS but she demurred because she didn't like to see poor people singing.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#22

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 10:39am

Also on Mad About You:

Jamie takes her mother to see "Bring in 'da Noise..." and theres a long debate about "'da vs. the"

Paul's father screams "Hello Regis!" at a performance of the fake musical Moby

On The Sopranos:
Meadow's boyfriend takes her to see Aida, which Tony refers to as "I eat her."

#23

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 11:08am

On The Gilmore Girls, Lorelai and her date go see Levittown (spelling?). I had never heard of it and I don't know if it was a real or fictional show. I think Sookie and Jackson go with them.

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#24

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 11:13am

Adding to Gilmore Girls: in one episode Rory tells Logan about how she and her mother went to see Caroline or Change.

#25

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Posted: 5/14/06 at 11:22am

On an episode of Law and Order SVU, two characters are talking about what they were supposed to do that night and the main girl was supposed to go to Spamalot. I dont know any of the names, i just remember that comment being made.

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