I was looking at musicals of the sixties, and one thing I noticed is that the titles were full of exclamation points. Just in that decade, you had:
Hello, Dolly!
Hallelujah, Baby!
Oliver!
George M!
Carnival!
Wait a Minim!
Plus at least two that, not satisfied with one, went to two exclamation points:
I Do! I Do!
Oh! Calcutta!
...and that's just drawn from the most famous and/or most successful ones. I'm sure there are many more. It's like Broadway spent the entire decade shouting at its audience.
I suspect the first example of this was Oklahoma!, but this is based on no research whatsoever.
Anyhow, what other shows can you name with unusual punctuation in their titles? Question marks, slashes, hyphens, quotation marks, parentheses, brackets (though I suspect that [title of show] may be the sole example there), ampersands (rather than using the word "and"), semicolons, ellipses, dollar signs, mathematical symbols, or anything you can think of. The more unusual the better.
Don't bother with: colons (too common), commas (ditto), apostrophes (which I consider spelling, rather than punctuation).
And if this has been covered in a previous thread, my apologies. (Though I did do a search.)
Carnival used an exclamation point? Really? Seems odd.
But right now, I'm drawing a blank. But this will plague me.
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And the World Goes 'Round
Do I Hear a Waltz?
Li'l Abner
Summer of '42
Swing!
apostrophes (which I consider spelling, rather than punctuation).
It's still punctuation.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mamma Mia!
And the World Goes 'Round
Can anyone explain the punctuation there? It's always bothered me. And the World Goes Around?
What exactly do you mean, morosco?
The apostrophe takes the place of the A.
Is And the World Goes Around grammatically correct?
Fiorello! is another one.
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE was the first one that came to mind, love the comma in the title.
There's also I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE.
do the brackets in [title of show] count?
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tick, tick...BOOM!
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!
Uptown...It's Hot!
If you ever leave me...I'm going with you!
(I am apparently all about the ellipses and exclamation points today.)
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Zanna, DON'T!
Suddenly, Last Summer
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Oklahoma!
Grease!
Oh, Brother!
Oh, Boy
Oh, Captain!
Oh, Look!
Oh, Please
Oh Coward!
Oh, My Dear!
Oh, Kay!
(Oh, KayohKayOoooHKay...)
See the monkey Sail Away on his speedboat...
One of the thing that annoys me about I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is all of the punctuations! But I just saw the show for the first time last Sunday and LOVED IT!
Do accents count?
Les Misérables
The Big Voice:God or Merman? Bye Bye, Birdie
Stop the World, I Wanna Get Off!
Edited thanks to Ourtime992, who pointed out my mistake...
No Child...
Actually, I don't believe Bye Bye Birdie has a comma, though grammatically it should.
Boeing-Boeing
Is He Dead?
Naked Boys Singing!
Rock 'n' Roll
Tony n' Tina's Wedding
Cry-Baby
cry-baby
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