Weirdest Show Titles

[VonTussleGirl]

Weirdest Show Titles#1

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

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

Just wonderin'. =)

[Kasie]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#2

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

Hairspray.

If you think about it, it is kinda weird.

[broadwayman17]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#2

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

[LePetiteFromage]

#3

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

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

[CapnHook]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#4

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?

"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

[TooDarnHot]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#5

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

every single show title.

there! all set.

[Marianne2]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#6

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. Ignored Users: suestorm, N2N Nate., Owen22, master bates

[thatgirl712]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#7

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

I agree.

If I heard the bells and the banjos ring

[KrissySim]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#8

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]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#9

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

The Iceman Cometh

What great ones do the less will prattle of

[MrSweetNAwful]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#10

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

[KrissySim]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#11

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]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#12

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

The 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

[DMsquared2]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#13

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

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

[StickToPriest]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#14

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.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[commasplice]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#15

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]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#16

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

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[DidYouReallyHearMe]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#17

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

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.

[Eastwickian]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#18

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

Shopping and F*CKing (London)

[Yankeefan007]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#19

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

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

[ErinDillyFan]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#20

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

Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
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[JRybka]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#21

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

Honk! (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."

[allofmylife]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#22

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....")

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[madbrian]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#23

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

The 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

[puppetman2]

re: Weirdest Show Titles#24

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

Flahooley

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