Weird and/or Random Broadway References

I was recently watching the movie "Labyrinth," and in the bedroom, there is a poster of Patti LuPone in Evita and a poster of Cats.

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LABYRINTH is a great example. The Archie comic- man, I'd love to have just that panel

In the Tom Hanks movie THE DA VINCI CODE- IMO one of the most fabulous movies ever- in the scene where they are driving backwards in the street, right before they start, there is a LES MIZ billboard you can see...

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Updated On: 6/25/06 at 12:49 PM

I was watching Full House today (I know...) and Joey was talking about how his mother used to sing him South Pacific before he went to bed. It was kind of weird...

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Oh, on Malcolm in the Middle when Craig lives with them in the morning he shaves while singing along to a cast recording of A Chorus Line; it shows him singing along to "I Hope I Get It."

Let's also not forget the classic moment in the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob sings the complete score to HMS Pinafore.

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Well, I tend to focus on Les Mis references in particular, but here are a couple.
-My favorite was in the first season of The West Wing, when Sam refers to investigations as to whether White House staffers were using drugs as "Inspector Javert's drug search".
-In the book Kite Runner when the main character is talking to someone at the American Embassy, I believe, he says that the guy has a Les Mis poster behind his desk, and sitting in front of him he feels like Valjean sitting in front of Javert.
-The people in our mock trial cases tand to have odd names. A couple years ago there was one named Pat LaPoint. I messed it up so many times on the stand it's not even funny.
-There was another brief one in the West Wing...fourth season I think. It wasn't as good though. The president refered to some country as being Jean Valjean.
-One last West Wing one, I think at one point when Sam was freaking out about something, CJ broke out in a verse of the song "Cool" from West Side Story.
-There's an episode of Sports Night where Dana goes on the whole time about going to see The Lion King
-On the Colbert Report a couple weeks ago there was a former theatre critic turned political reporter who said "The republicans are Annie, the sun will come out tommorrow. Today may not be so great, but wait for tommorrow. The Democrats are Sweeney Todd, slit your throat and take all your money." They mentioned a bunch more plays and musicals too. I could track down the clip if anyone cares.
-Jon Stewart mentioned someone having a "Sondheimian gift" at one point. I don't remember the context though, it came sort of out of the blue.

This is a really long post, so I'm going to stop now.

There is a Les Miz reference on an old episode of South Park. I believe it's the one where Cartman is trying out for the Cheesy Poofs commercial - and one of the other kids at the audtion looks the cartooney Cosette/Les Miz icon.

I know there has to be others from South Park - Trey Parker and Matt Stone are huge fans of musicals.

Oh - another one that sticks out in my mind.....on Chicago Hope, Mandy Patinkin's character, Jeffrey Geiger, is invited to his ex-wife's wedding to a fellow psychiatric patient (she is hospitalized after killing their son). The officiant at the wedding is another psych patient who thinks that he is Eva Peron, and often breaks into "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." Before the ceremony, the officiant approaches Geiger, looks at him closely, and says, "I know who you are...don't worry, I won't tell."

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Weez, that is my favorite TV show. I loved the Producers reference (though I wonder how many people understood it).

Another Random one: On the Drew Carey show everyone started singing "Tomorrow" in Drew's office.

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Oh, on Malcolm in the Middle when Craig lives with them in the morning he shaves while singing along to a cast recording of A Chorus Line; it shows him singing along to "I Hope I Get It."


Also in Malcolm, Malcolm and his family went to see Mamma Mia and came back to the house singing the songs.

Stole this from a Will & Grace quotes thread, when I was asking a question about a Rent reference. (thejcm posted this)

Actually, the RENT quote is said by Will, pretending to be Bobbie Adler. It's the first episode she's in and Will is acting like her in order to get Grace ready to stand up to her. It's something like:

Will: Oh, did I tell you the Schenectady Times LOVED my performance in RENT!
Grace: That's right mom, because you were born to play an adolescent struggling with homelessness and heroin addiction.

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People have heard of Broadway outside of this board. Why is that so surprising?

And almost every time Bobbi Adler was on W&G, there was a reference to a show she was in or had just been in. That was a major character point.

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The dreadful movie "Jersey Girl" has a whole Sweeney Todd bit. Also "Pinky and the Brain" did a Sweeney spoof. I forget the name of the episode...

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In "American Psycho" Christain Bale's character has a poster of Les Mis in his bathroom and talks about taking someone to see the show.