Weirdest Show Titles

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:01am

What are some of the strangest titles of plays/musicals that have played Broadway?

Just wonderin'. =)

[Kasie]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:04am

Hairspray.

If you think about it, it is kinda weird.

[broadwayman17]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:09am

Passing Strange
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Spring Awakening
August: Osage County
Boeing-Boeing

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:10am

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 12:10 AM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:12am

Define "weird." As in the title on its own or the title relating to the play's content?

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:21am

every single show title.

there! all set.

[Marianne2]

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.

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:26am

I agree.

[KrissySim]

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

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:49am

The Iceman Cometh

[MrSweetNAwful]

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

[KrissySim]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:08am

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling so Sad

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:19am

The Puppetry of the Penis (off-Bway)

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:41am

I thought Passing Strange was a Shakespeare reference... Yes? No?

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:57am

Well, 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.

[commasplice]

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.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 4:06am

a new brain

[DidYouReallyHearMe]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 5:35am

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 6:15am

Shopping and F*CKing (London)

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 6:56am

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 8:30am

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[JRybka]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:40am

Honk! (cute but strange)

[allofmylife]

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....")

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:53am

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

[puppetman2]

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:19am

Flahooley