Weirdest Show Titles
Weirdest Show Titles
#1Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:01am
What are some of the strangest titles of plays/musicals that have played Broadway?
Just wonderin'. =)
#2re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:04am
Hairspray.
If you think about it, it is kinda weird.
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#2re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:09am
Passing Strange
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Spring Awakening
August: Osage County
Boeing-Boeing
Yes, but sometimes people have a third deeper layer thats the same as the first. Like pie. Dr. Horrible
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#4re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:12amDefine "weird." As in the title on its own or the title relating to the play's content?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
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#6re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:26am
The Drowsy Chaperone-Sorry, I don't know what this is about, so the title makes me think of a person chaperoning an event, and being really really tired. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And this isn't on Broadway, but it is a monthly show at the Zipper Factory. It's titled Don't Quit Your Night Job.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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#7re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:26amI agree.
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
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#8re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:37am
The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd
The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis (Off-B'way actually)
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
#9re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:49amThe Iceman Cometh
What great ones do the less will prattle of
#10re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 1:16am
Thank you BigFatBlonde for being possibly my last laugh of the day before I fall asleep.
[title of show]
Urinetown (I mean they say it's a bad title in the show itself)
tick, tick...BOOM!
The Rocky Horror Show
Passing Strange (I'm guessing it's something discussed in the show that isn't mentioned in publicity notes)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Drowsy Chaperone
Flora, The Red Menace
The Musical of Musicals...the musical!
and
The Vagina Monologues
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
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#11re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:08amOh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling so Sad
#12re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:19amThe Puppetry of the Penis (off-Bway)
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
#13re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:41amI thought Passing Strange was a Shakespeare reference... Yes? No?
#14re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:57amWell, I know nothing about the show itself, but "passing strange" definitely comes from Shakespeare. It is from a soliloquy of Othello's when he is talking about Desdemona.
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The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
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#15re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 3:25am
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
It's not *the* weirdest, but at the very least, you have to give it points for being so damn long.
#16re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 4:06ama new brain
Bring Disney's "Der Glockner Von Notre Dame" To Broadway!
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#20re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 8:30am
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
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#21re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:40amHonk! (cute but strange)
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#22re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:45am
Texas, L'il Darlin'
Sounds like what JR Ewing would whisper in your ear while porking you ("Don't worry, it's just Texas, L'il Darlin....")
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#23re: Weirdest Show Titles
Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:53amThe Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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