No Musical Numbers in Some Playbills

So people aren't constantly looking in the Playbill for the name of the next song and can follow the story.

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I don't know about Toxic Avenger, but I'm fairly sure it wa a conscious decision on the part of the next to normal team because the titles could give too much away.

Personally I don't even bother looking at the song list. Unless I'm bored out of my skull and am trying to figure out how much longer I'll have to sit there.

Rock of Ages doesn't do it either, but I think it's because they want it to be suprising when each song starts.

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Mamma Mia does have a list. It's alphabetical & not chronological though.

It makes sense for some shows, I could see why Sondheim didn't have a song list for Passion, or why certain LaChiusa shows wouldn't--a song list wouldn't really help an audience anyway with the way the music is constructed (though they had to give titles for the CD).

It's funny but song lists can do a lot for audience expectations--Bennett talks about how in previews Val's song in Chorus Line wasn't getting the huge laugh they expected. Then they realized why--the joke was given away in the program by calling it Tits and Ass--so they retitled it Dance 10 Looks 3. (well Dance 10 Looks 1 at first...)

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