Musicals Represented in Non-Musical Movies- Page 2

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 3:20pm

The scene in "Anger Management" were Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler sing "I Feel Pretty".

[Adam Chris]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 3:53pm

My favorite Will and Grace Broadway reference is when Karen thought she lost Rosario in a bet to Beverly Leslie.

She starts to quote the ending of My Fair Lady:

KAREN: My Rosie is gone, and she's never coming back!

JACK: Oh, no! You loved her, didn't you?

KAREN: Oh, I don't know. It's more... I've grown accustomed to her face. She almost makes the day begin. I've grown accustomed to the tune she whistles night and noon. Her smiles, her frowns. Her ups... her downs.

[KAREN SIGHS AND SLUMPS INTO A CHAIR. SHE PULLS A BOTTLE OF WINDEX FROM THE CUSION, SPRAYS IT AND THEN SNIFFS THE MIST.]

ROSARIO: [ENTERING] Miss Karen...

KAREN: [GASPS] Rosie! Are you back?

ROSARIO: I'm back.

KAREN: [SMILING] Where the hell are my slippers?

ROSARIO: Have you looked up your ass, you drunken fool?



Updated On: 6/28/05 at 03:53 PM

[Forester]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:05pm

I believe South Park use a lot of Les Miserables references. I forgot which episode though. I think it was the one about Hellen Keller the musical.

[hyperchet]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:06pm

YES you need to get the soundtrack to Team America : World Police

They have a thing called "Lease" that makes fun of Rent. It's called "We All Have Aids". It is a little harsh, but you can kind of laugh at if if your mean...

[hyperchet]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:09pm

Loralei (character from Gilmore Girls) tries to get on someone's nerves (i forget who) and mocks Louie Armstrong singing "hello dolly". It sounded hilarious!!

And one day on Gilmore Girls (my favorite show) Suki and Loralei were walking down the street, and Suki was like ok I'll be Liza and you can Joel Grey, which is from Cabaret...

So Gilmore Girls is a great bway name dropper...

oh and Once on two and a half men, this woman was singing "I Am What I Am" while pouring people's drinks and Charlie Sheen was playing the piano...haha very cool

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:11pm

Yes in that episode they had the actor who was definitely a parody of Colm Wilkinson.

In the South Park movie they had several Les Mis references. Like the "One Day More" parody...I think it was called "Tomorrow Night".

[arykahmarye]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:16pm

In one of the Thanksgiving South Park episodes, they were putting on 'The Miracle Worker', and hired some guy who'd just played Jean Valjean at the local community theatre to help out, and everytime he had lines, it was sung in one of the various melodies from 'Les Miserables'.

That was one of my first episodes of South Park, so i almost peed laughing.

[jasobres]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:19pm

In "The Simpsons" episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken," all the citizens of Springfield sing a spoof of the song "Kids" from Bye, Bye Birdie, renaming it as "Kids! Adults!" What's funny is that usually, when spoofing a Broadway show, they would take the structure of the song and make a completely new melody. Here they used the same melody of the original.

Also, The Cradle Will Rock was featured in the film Cradle Will Rock.

And let's not forget "Marge vs. the Monorail," with the late Phil Hartman as Lyle Laneley, who was a spoof on Harold Hill.

Basically, "The Simpsons" did a lot of musical spoofs.

By the way, on that episode, "The President Wore Pearls," there was a message claiming that they were not making fun of, nor have they ever heard of, a musical based on the life of Eva Peron!! lol

Updated On: 6/28/05 at 05:19 PM

[BroadwayNick]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:29pm

Will and Grace make musical refrences all the time, refering to going to Mamma Mia multiple times...haha...even refering to it as "gay group therepy"

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:32pm

Every episode of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES has a title taken from a showtune, the majority written by Sondheim.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:51pm

A movie that came out around 1995 with Al Pacino (or is it Robert DeNiro) features a scene where a couple go to the revival of CAROUSEL. They show a number from the show, but its not from the Lincoln Center production.

And the tv show SAVED BY THE BELL had episodes revolving around the school musicals -- HAIR and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Both episodes showed clips of lots of musical numbers from the actual shows.



Updated On: 6/28/05 at 05:51 PM

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:00pm

That reminds me, they did HAIR on the TV show HEAD OF THE CLASS. Anyone remember that one? LOL

[BwayBoy25]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:38pm

in an episode of Will and Grace Karen said verbatim to Jack "you aint getting 88 cents from me Rose"

i busted into laughter and my family gave me a confused look....gotta love those B'way jokes!!!!

[hyperchet]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:58pm

Haha...
and all that I need is 88 bucks, papa...only eighty eight bucks...

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:58pm

In "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," Carmen and her mom are in the kitchen singing "Nothing" from "A Chorus Line."

And there are referances to musicals ALL the time in Gilmore Girls... "sing out louise" "Officer Krupke" "Oh we got trouble, right here in River City" "You're a Sadie!" etc... all the time... seriously.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 7:02pm

The Birdcage features Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Diane Wiest, Gene Hackman, and Hank Azaria singing "I Could Have Danced all Night" from My Fair Lady. Also, at some point when Albert (Nathan Lane) is performing, he starts to sing "Can That Boy Foxtrot," from Follies.

In addition to the titles, in the episode of Desperate Housewives where Carlos beats up the gay cable guy, he realizes the guy has a poster for Gypsy in his room.

A few references from The Simpsons:
"I saw him in Rent, or Stomp, or Clomp, or SOME piece of crap."
"You must have really liked the musical CATS." "God no, I thought it sucked!"
"What's next? I suppose a musical about cats, or the king of Siam."
Krusty singing his own version of "Send in the Clowns"
Bart and Milhouse leading "Springfield, Springfield"
Mr. Burns singing a parody of "Be Our Guest"

Some from Will and Grace that I don't think have been mentioned:
Jack singing "Not While I'm Around"
"I took my mother to see Les Mis. When we got out, she said to me "oh, honey, in real life the poor people never sing that much."

On an episode of The King of Queens, Carrie said to somebody something along the lines of: "So, you like going to see Broadway shows? Did you see Les Mis? Wasn't it SO sad?"

A few from The Nanny:
Niles singing "The Impossible Dream" to try to audition for a show (in the living room), and Fran runs up to him shouting "sing out, Louise!"
All of the references to Andrew Lloyd Webber and CATS
There was an episode that involved a child actor doing "Oliver!"

In Golden Girls, there was an episode in which Blanche and Rose were cast in The Sound of Music... and there was another(?) where they were cast in CATS. I also distinctly remember Dorothy singing "Sunrise, Sunset" in an episode.

I have way too much time on my hands.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:47pm

There's tons of musical stuff in American Beauty, which is fitting considering the director of the movie is Sam Mendes :0)

(my fav. thing on will and grace is the yentl "papa can you hear meeee" references..hehe)

[Georgeanne]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:52pm

I believe South Park use a lot of Les Miserables references. I forgot which episode though. I think it was the one about Hellen Keller the musical.


The South Park movie (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut) has a parody of Les Miserables, what with the "La Resistance" thing and all. It's absolutely hilarious, as well as the "Tomorrow Night" song.

I recommend the movie if you like to laugh, if you can get past the vulgarity (but that's half the fun)!

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:59pm

Does "Streetcar! The Musical" count? (Also Simpsons. But it doesn't, um, exist.) "Can't you hear me yell-a? You're putting me through hell-a! Stella! Stella!"

The protagonist of Dancer in the Dark is in a community theater production of The Sound of Music. The film is a musical in itself, but not a stage show. Also in the Lars von Trier vein, Dogville follows the Threepenny Opera song "Pirate Jenny" more or less exactly (and quotes it at one point). Don't watch either unless you can put up with a whole lot of on-screen misery.

The Sound of Music must be one of the most popular shows to parody. I believe it was referenced in The Meaning of Life (Monty Python) and that pile of $#*%, Shrek 2. Though it's a musical itself, the South Park movie (thank you, Marc Shaiman!) referenced a ton of musicals, including SOM.

[London Boy]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:26pm

ok, this may be pushing the point a little but how about 'Les Mis' the movie. I understand that it was probably based on the book rather than the musical, but i'd imagine the popularity of the musical was a large factor when deciding to make the film (which was awful, by the way). Further, the TV references. In Family Guy the line is "if you wanted to do a bad show, we should have done RENT" (Kudos Peter Griffin for speaking the truth!). Also in the South Park movie the song 'La Resistance' is a parody of 'One day more' from Les mis - with the red flag and everything!

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:33pm

Adam Chris - I'm not a huge Will and Grace fan, but I saw that episode and I laughed my ass off at those lines -- my guess is most people had no idea what they were talking about. I'm almost sure Family Guy (which I LOVE) did almost the exact same thing - right down to the slippers line

[Adam Chris]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 10:15pm

Jason - hahahaha. I'm glad you thought that was funny. It was on season 3 (which I own) and saw it about a week ago, which why it was fresh in my memory.

Later

Adam

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 10:49pm

Let's preface this with an "I am ashamed that I am able to contribute this item to the list"
Movie: The Perfect Man
Who: Carson Kressely's character
Show: West Side Story
What: something to the effect of--

Big construction crew men at bar (to Carson): So are you a Jets fan?

Carson: Oh-my-god, hell-O! I live for West Side Story.

yeah...

[bwayballerina]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:21pm

More musical references in Gilmore Girls...
-In one of the earlier episodes, one of the characters (Jackson, for those of you that know) is given a kilt by his dad to wear on his wedding day. Loreli says something to the effect of "how many Brigadoon references can I come up with?"
-This season, the community musical was Fiddler on the Roof.
Also, the kid that said he was on Broadway in Into The Woods was really in the 2002 (or 2001?) revival...

In terms of movies... the last movie I saw was Delovely, and before that it was Evita, so yeah...

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 6/29/05 at 12:27am

i just saw the scene in Will and Grace where Karen tells Jack

"you aint gettin 88cents from me Rose"