Weird and/or Random Broadway References- Page 2

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 6/25/06 at 10:12pm

I forgot about Jersey Girl! Such a disappointment. They also did Cats in that movie. That was dreadful.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/25/06 at 11:04pm

SUPERMAN II has once scene where the three villains are destroying New York and they pick up a city bus advertising EVITA (the huge logo is on the sides) and fling it at Superman.

Updated On: 6/25/06 at 11:04 PM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 12:28am

I used to laugh my ass off whenever Caroline would go visit her next door neighbour backstage at the Wintergarden during performances of "Cats" on CAROLINE IN THE CITY. They never showed any stagework, just actors dressed in cat costumes (which looked stupid). When they had to go onstage, they would but their hands up under their chins, revealing the claws and PRANE onstage like cats. It was SO stupid I could never take the show seriously again.

And how the heck did Caroline get to stand in the wings?

The other great one for me was SECOND CITY TV (SCTV) when they did the spot-on perfect imitation of the commercial for the tour of EVITA, except it was all Indian people (India, not Sioux) chanting "Indura, Indura, Indur" and Andrea Martin, on the balcony as Indura Gandi singing "Don't Cry For Me Rawlpudni" And featuring Slim Whitman as Che "You were suh-huhPOS-OOOOOsted to have be-HEEN imortal."

[gumbo2]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:13am

To site a specific Seinfeld episode, there is one where George sees Les Mis and throughout the whole episode is just singing little tidbits of "Master of the House," because he says it gets stuck in his head so easily. And that whole day after seeing the show it was stuck in my head. Plus it was funny because Jason Alexander is a Broadway guy himself.

And there was a whole episode centered around Bette Midler, I think.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:30am

Hey Arnold! had one where Helga saw RATS which was a take on CATS.

And every Will and Grace episode, do those even count?

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:37am

I thought the scene in "The Stepford Wives" where Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler find a "Hairspray"-Playbill that belongs to the charakter played by Roger Bart in the trashcan was very funny...

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:40am

O I forgot about The Stepford Wives. Now that was a bad movie.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:47am

It had its moments...

[ruthiefan_felix]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:26am

In FRIENDS, Rachel was doing a cross puzzle and haven't got a clue of the answer of one of them, so went to ask Chandler
Rachel 'we should really go and watch a musical sometime'
Chandler 'yeah! we sure do'
Rachel ' we should go and watch the 97 Tony award Best Musical'
Chandler 'RENT?'
Rachel 'Rent... YES!'
Chandler 'so when?'
Rachel '... what? Oh I am not free, you can watch it yourself'

It was something like that, can't remember the details!

[Phantomerik15]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:33am

I was watching Law & Order:CI. A girl is listening to her IPod in an elevator and gets murdered. The detectives hear what's she was listening to....turns out to be a few songs from WICKED. (don't remember the title of the songs she was listening to b/c it was so long ago but I know it included Popular)

Updated On: 6/27/06 at 08:33 AM

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 9:01am

haha, that's funny!
my favorite reference i've seen was on THE SIMPSONS where the whole family is frozen into ice because its so cold outside, and they have a mini TV. suddenly, the TV switches to the Tony Awards, and they're like "NOOO! We can't switch the channel!" :P
at the end of that episode they do a version of "One" from A CHORUS LINE

yeah

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 9:21am

I have another one. Two, actually. In the movie SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (which was based on the play) Will Smith pretends to be Sidney Poitier's son and convinces some rich people that he can get them cast in his "father's" film adaptation of the musical CATS. My first reaction was: "How would they film that?" My second reaction was: "And who'd want to?" The whole CATS thing was so outrageous that I couldn't take the story seriously. I mean, who'd watch that movie? Moving on. In the movie LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! (also based on a play) the Jason Alexander character packs a few musical CDs to take with him on his long bus trip. I remember EVITA being one of them.

Updated On: 6/27/06 at 09:21 AM

[ashley0139]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 12:24pm

In FRIENDS, Rachel was doing a cross puzzle and haven't got a clue of the answer of one of them, so went to ask Chandler
Rachel 'we should really go and watch a musical sometime'
Chandler 'yeah! we sure do'
Rachel ' we should go and watch the 97 Tony award Best Musical'
Chandler 'RENT?'
Rachel 'Rent... YES!'
Chandler 'so when?'
Rachel '... what? Oh I am not free, you can watch it yourself'

I was just going to post that one! I love it!

[TheMecca]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 12:31pm

Another South Park one:
In the episode "It Hits The Fan" (the one with the S-word 160 times), there's huge hype over the word being used on Cop Drama, the hit NYPD Blue-esque show. Kyle hates the idea, so he got tickets to "The Lion King... ON STAGE!"
Kyle ends up going by himself.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 12:48pm

The exact Friends one is:

Rachel: You know what we should all do? Go see a musical.
Chandler: (confused) Sure...
Rachel: And you know which one we should see? The 1996 Tony award
winner. Do you happen to know the name of that one?
Chandler: I don't know... um, Grease?
Rachel: No....
Chandler: Rent?
Rachel: Yes! Rent!
Chandler: Okay, so when do you want to go?
Rachel: What? Oh, I'm sorry, I can't, I'm busy.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 4:20pm

There was an old episode of Sister, Sister in which somebody wins tickets to the opening night of Ragtime.

[WhenURScrap]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 4:38pm

I like the Family Guy Shipoopi song and also the one episode I liek when Stewie starts singing a Lollipop song in an airport to hide his weapons ... and then says something like, "Better hope Osama Bin Laden doesn't know showtunes..." and then in comes Bin Laden singing "I hope I get it..."

[fairygodmother]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 4:41pm

watched re-runs of The Practice every now and then, and there was a funeral of one of the supporting characters.
the gospel choir sang Til We Reach That Day from Ragtime.

and no-one in my house cared.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 4:50pm

In the Jon Stewart book "America The Book" they refer to Jebediah Sondheim, a young lyricist.

Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:06pm

I remember on Animaniacs! they did an all-pigeon parody of Fiddler on the Roof. The girls sang "Egghatcher" to the tune of "Matchmaker". At the end the statue they always pooped on got replaced by a statue of Regis Philbin and they sang "Regis Philbin" to the tune of "Anatevka"

Also, on Full House Joey and Jesse were talking about finding a cat costume. Joey said, "My friend has one! She was in a Broadway musical!... Omigod... what was it called?" And Jesse says, "...Cats?" and Joey replies with, "No, that couldn't have been it."

[another sloe eyed vamp]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 6:51pm

There's a very funny scene in Boston Legal where the character played by Tom Selleck is marrying a woman much younger than himself and clearly - for many reasons - totally inappropriate. During the wedding, or maybe the rehearsal, they break into "Something Good" from Sound of Music. You have to see it to see why it's so funny, but it really is.

Sports Night and The West Wing had tons of musicals references. I think Aaron Sorkin majored in Musical Theater in college. I'm very much looking forward to his new show in the fall.

[JHartnow]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 6:57pm

Although not a reference, SOUTH PARK:BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT, is an ode to Broadway and Disney musicals. And on that note, they spoof RENT in TEAM AMERICA:WORLD POLICE.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 7:05pm

and no-one in my house cared.

The story of my life.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 9:16pm

other family guy references;
-they put on the king and i, and make a rent joke
-the old pedophile sings (with shot for shot recreation) somewhere thats green

drew carey
-the time warp
- brotherhood of man

[justagirl2]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 9:24pm

Anger Management...

There's the "I Feel Pretty" sing-along, obviously, but there's also the part where Adam's character goes to court, and the judge mentions that her son is in Fiddler on the Roof...and Adam says "I'm sure (name) will make a wonderful Tevye." The judge is black, if I remember correctly, which makes it funny.
Updated On: 6/26/06 at 09:24 PM