Misleading Titles

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 7:46pm

...Let us Share...

I must admit, when I first heard "August: Osage County", I thought it was a western.

The first time I heard Gypsy, I thought it was literally about Gypsies.

Updated On: 1/6/09 at 07:46 PM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 7:48pm

Parade, but I think that's the point.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 7:55pm

CATS






but seriously folks,
Speed the Plow
The Boy from Oz, I thought it was another show about The Wizard of Oz

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 7:56pm

^ HAHAHAHAHAHA

I can see how cats could be misleading

One more I thought all my sons was based off the soap opera

[rwlevin]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 7:58pm

Coast of Utopia with the subtitles Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage made me positive it was going to be a long epic about a bunch of people on a ship.

And yet I bought tickets anyway.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:01pm

rwelvin, I thought the same too.

It seems plays are finding their way into this thread a lot more than musicals

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:04pm

I used to think "Guys and Dolls" was about a bunch of guys who played with dolls-- like, Barbie dolls.

This isn't exactly 'misleading,' but I didn't get into Les Miserables until I was in tenth grade because I assumed until then that the entire musical was in French.

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:10pm

The Drowsy Chaperone

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:12pm

Urinetown.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:13pm

The Full Monty. You never really saw it unless the lights malfunctioned.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:18pm

^ Ha, I found The Full Monty misleading as well, only it was because I've always associated 'Monty' with 'Python.' Turns out it's not quite Spamalot...

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 8:18pm

Simple: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE. That title alone helped kill any interest in it, including that unwelcoming and unappealing artwork.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 10:15pm

I thought gypsy had Cher's song, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves.

Lights in the Piazza , as i was skimming a website and saw the title i thought it said pizza

[ifuweregay93]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 10:19pm

I thought this thread would be about BWW misleading thread titles. So, because you misled me, this thread falls under that
cattagory.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 10:26pm

Mmm. I love Caroline, or Change. The title works for me and I thought the poster was servicable. I suppose it could have been more exciting, but that would have been misleading.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 10:51pm

Oh, that's not what Coast of Utopia was about?...then I guess put that on the list.

I almost forgot, when I first heard of the play All My Sons I thought that 60's sitcom My Three Sons was a TV show based off of it (like The Odd Couple) and that the show must be a comedy.

I don't think Caroline, or Change isn't misleading as much as it's confusing, but once you hear the synopsis it becomes clear. Same thing with Urinetown.

[heo1128]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 11:15pm

Sweeny Todd sans subtitle...when I was little I thought it was about some flapper girl in the 20's. Not really sure why.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 11:20pm

Zombie Prom. You know, you go in thinking it's going to be some deep, introspective psychodrama about the human condition, but... nope. It's about a zombie prom. What gives?

[broadwayboy101]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 11:28pm

Spring Awakening...no flowers were involved at all...I was utterly shocked...

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/6/09 at 11:52pm

Well, it seems the creative team of CAROLINE, OR CHANGE agreed with me and changed the show's logo for the post-Broadway run in Los Angeles. Its amazing how much more appealing the show's title becomes by simply making Caroline smile.

Los Angeles:

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 1/7/09 at 12:06am

Speed the Plow- I thought it was some boring farm set show.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/7/09 at 12:08am

EVERYONE I know who hasn't sene the show reads my Light in the Piazza t-shirt as "the light in the pizza." It's almost universal.

[rjjn]

Posted: 1/7/09 at 12:15am

Shrek. :)

But actually, being regretfully unfamiliar with ABBA when I was younger, I thought Mamma Mia! had something to do with Italy...

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 1/7/09 at 12:18am

Company.

I thought it was about a theatre company putting on a show.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 1/7/09 at 2:24am

i thought company was about an actual company ala how to succeed or the pajama game