Short Names for Shows

[PalJoey]

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

[A Director]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:07pm

Is there a musical comedy law about this? You're showing your age. Are you afraid of being cut out of the loop?

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:11pm

I like this.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:13pm

My head still hurts from MMJLWW or whatever the eff it was.

[PalJoey]

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

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:22pm

Did anyone see Lily Tomlin in TSFSOILITU?

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

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

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:27pm

I really liked FCGWHCSWTRIE on stage but I'm not really looking forward to the movie.

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 3:29pm

Yeah, they're going to cut half the words in the title.

[Scott Briefer]

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.

[James885]

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.

[Mister Matt]

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.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:04pm

PJ
(if that's proper)

What do we call Shagundala?

Curtain
(I don't like CPD)

[Marianne2]

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.

[morosco]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:16pm

I heard Daniel Radcliffe is going to be in a workshop of HTSIBWRT.

H2$

[binau]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:17pm

AFTTHOTWTTF

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:20pm

I'm guilty of some of those, but I much prefer "Sunday..." to SITPWG. It always looks like "sit pig" to me.

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:28pm

My favorite shows are SITPWG, TTFAPCSB and STTDBOFS? Which of these do you like best?

[Mister Matt]

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.

[roseaddams]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:09pm

It's like a game! TTFAPCSB is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee... or the much cleaner and simpler "Spelling Bee".

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:11pm

But then shouldn't it be T25APCSB? I mean, the official title is 25th, not Twenty-Fifth.

[Producer2]

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

[orangeskittles]

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".

[trombonist]

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.

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:39pm

And the translation for that would be "....Charlie Brown" - simple.

God, what has this world come to. It's going to hell even BEFORE 2012 hits.