Short Names for Shows
Short Names for Shows
#1Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 2:59pm
Bye Bye Birdie is "Birdie" not "BBB"
West Side Story is "West Side" not WSS
A Little Night Music is "Night Music" not ALNM
Next to Normal can be N2N, if you insist.
TIA!
PJ
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#2re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:07pmIs there a musical comedy law about this? You're showing your age. Are you afraid of being cut out of the loop?
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#2re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:11pmI like this.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#3re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:13pmMy head still hurts from MMJLWW or whatever the eff it was.
#4re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:21pm
I'm proud to show my age!
Our American Cousin is "Cousin" not OAC
The Black Crook is "Crook" not TBC
Floradora is "Flora" not F
#6re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:26pm
"Is there a musical comedy law about this? You're showing your age. Are you afraid of being cut out of the loop?"
STFU
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#7re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:27pmI really liked FCGWHCSWTRIE on stage but I'm not really looking forward to the movie.
#8re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:29pmYeah, they're going to cut half the words in the title.
Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#9re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:39pm
I am amused by this thread. For the longest time, I've struggled trying to figure out a lot of the "codes" used on this - and other - message boards.
I'm okay with my age.
#10re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:55pm
I heard Daniel Radcliffe is going to be in a workshop of HTSIBWRT.
Actually, I don't use abbreviations that often. I don't see what's so hard about typing a few extra letters.
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#11re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:04pm
Thank you, PalJoey! It takes longer for people to decipher whatever acronym is being used (especially for shows no one else is discussing) than it does to type an actual word or two.
Just type the stupid word! By the time I figure out how to type the acronym TPAAOJPMAPBTIOTAOCUTDOTMDS, or even actually type it, I could have just typed Marat/Sade. The use of acronyms does not make anyone smarter, younger, more special, an industry insider, a more devoted fan, or more popular. Just lazier.
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#12re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:04pm
PJ
(if that's proper)
What do we call Shagundala?
Curtain
(I don't like CPD)
#13re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:13pm
I agree. I'm only 25, but I can't even follow what some of these stand for.
When I see BBB, I assume it would be for the Better Business Bureau because that's what their website is. But then, talking about that on this board would be plain silly.
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#14re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:16pm
I heard Daniel Radcliffe is going to be in a workshop of HTSIBWRT.
H2$
#15re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:17pmAFTTHOTWTTF
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#16re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:20pmI'm guilty of some of those, but I much prefer "Sunday..." to SITPWG. It always looks like "sit pig" to me.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
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#17re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:28pmMy favorite shows are SITPWG, TTFAPCSB and STTDBOFS? Which of these do you like best?
#18re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:03pm
AFTTHOTWTTF
Or how about the shorter..."Forum"?
My favorite shows are SITPWG, TTFAPCSB and STTDBOFS? Which of these do you like best?
Sunday. Because I don't know what the hell the other things are.
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#19re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:09pmIt's like a game! TTFAPCSB is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee... or the much cleaner and simpler "Spelling Bee".
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#20re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:11pmBut then shouldn't it be T25APCSB? I mean, the official title is 25th, not Twenty-Fifth.
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#21re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:14pm
Drood
Phantom
Les Miz
Chorus Line
Fiddler
Dolly
Smokey Joe's
La Cage
Whorehouse
Millie
Spider Woman
Little Shop
#22re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:32pm
I'm 24 and I was the first person to complain about BBB.
If you want to bring ageism into it, younger people were raised on computers and have spry fingers, so they should be able to type out the full titles in the same time it takes the older posters to hunt and peck out "WSS".
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#23re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:37pm
See, H2$ has always confused me. I am always like "Something-that-starts-with-H to Dollars/Money".
The one (I know) that I always struggle over is YAGMCB. Some in here I've never heard of.
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#24re: Short Names for Shows
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:39pm
And the translation for that would be "....Charlie Brown" - simple.
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