#1
Posted: 3/9/08 at 7:12pm
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.)
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.)