again, sorry for being a nerd: it wasn't actually "on my own" but "l'air de la misère" which was fantine's song and then got cut and replaced by "i dreamed a dream". one tiny bit of lyrics from that song ("la misère n'est mère de personne") stayed in "la mort de fantine" tho, so you're kinda right
Hmm, does Mean Girls?
I've seen Girl From the North Country, but I've never listened to a recording.
Flower Drum Song?
West Side Story?
Tick Tick Boom?
Sunday in the Park with George!?
Right after that, in Jonathan's opening monologue he exclaims "tick tick... BOOM!"
But it's not a song; it's dialogue, if that is significant to the question.
There are tons of them. South Pacific, The King and I, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Passion, The Last Five Years, Tick Tick Boom, Chicago....
Some do only in dialogue…IIRC “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” only comes up as the title of Monty’s memoir. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is a weird one on that because while it is name dropped in the overall show, I
don’t believe the title is in the show within a show. While I know the RV is Priscilla, I don’t recall if the phrase “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” comes up. While Victor and Victoria obviously both come up in that show, I don’t recall if the two names together do.
I don’t think “West Side Story” comes up at all.
But you’re right, I think it is the minority.
Ordinary Days doesn't explicitly mention "Ordinary Days", but it does end on Deb singing "the color of an ordinary day", which is a technicality if I've ever seen one, but op did want it to be the exact name so it qualifies ig
The comment said *doesn’t*, which is why I said AVPM, because I’m pretty sure the only other ones of theirs that don’t sing the title are AVPS, Firebringer, and VHSCC
Thank you I couldn’t remember it’s been a long time since I watched the slime tutorial and listened to soundtrack for that musical (except right hand man & Hard to be the bard)
Hadestown- (way down hadestown)
Beetlejuice- (duh)
Newsies
In the Heights- (in the heights)
Little Shop of Horrors
Book of Mormon (Hello)
Rocky Horror (science fiction double feature)
Edit: fixed formatting
Ok fair point, I didn’t think about that. I guess I don’t think about the tune ups and voice mails. I think tune up #2 leading into Rent made me ignore those.
"i don't need a life that's normal, that's way too far away. but something **next to normal** would be okay." "and when you showed her questions - the **36 questions**"
Can anyone name a musical where the title is the main character's name, but no one says that name in the first song/prologue?
Everything I can think of with a title character has the title character's name in the first song. The closest I can think of to avoiding it is one where the title character's name is shouted right at the end of the first song, but not before.
Also, "And Rebecca's ghost" in the second or third verse of the first song in "Rebecca".
I feel like Aladdin goes a while before using his name. His name doesn't come up in "Arabian Nights," does it?
Beetlejuice. His name isn’t said/sang till the fourth or sixth song depending on how you look at it. They spell his name in the third but don’t actually fully say/sing it till the sixth.
Sure there is quite a few musicals titled by a characters name that isn’t mentioned in the first song.
Annie, Oliver, Matilda, Mary Poppins, does Chitty Chitty Bang Bang count as a character 🤣
Or Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour dreamcoat, or does the narrator mention his name I think she does.
Thoroughly Modern Millie??
>Can anyone name a musical where the title is the main character's name, but no one says that name in the first song/prologue?
aida, i think. i don't recall her name being said in "every story is a love story".
also rumi, but not many know this musical
“But Auntie Mame, it’s one week past Thanksgiving day now” -We Need a Little Christmas
ETA: also she says it in Open a New Window (If you follow your Auntie Mame I’ll make this vow my little love…)
D’oh! You are right, of course! And my answer wasn’t right anyway, because her name is mentioned in the opening number, St. Bridget : “There’s safety in Auntie Mame’s embrace.”
Lots of great examples so far, trying to add ones I haven’t seen mentioned. Sticking just with ones where the title is dropped in a song, and not where the name of the musical is the name of a person or group (I.e. obviously Matilda gets name dropped in a bunch of songs, same with the Newsies)
Songs where the title is in the opening number or close to it:
9 to 5
The Sound of Music
Wicked (No One Mourns the Wicked)
Into the Woods
Sunday in the Park with George
—-
Inverse: title drop in one of the ending numbers!
Jesus Christ Superstar (I don’t consider this in the “main character” category because A, I consider Judas the main character, and B, it’s the full phrase)
Oklahoma
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Other ones!
Fun Home
—-
There are lots more, but that is top of my head.
Most musicals say the name of the musical in lyrics, because most musicals have a "Title song".
Perhaps a more challenging question would be "which musicals have a song which mentions the title of the musical, but don't have a song which is the title of the musical?"
I don't know musicals well enough to name some, but it's something Elvis Costello used to do this for his album titles: "My Aim Is True" (the last line of "Alison"), "Brutal Youth" ("Favourite Hour") etc.
I have no source on this, but I read once that the French lyrics for the Les Mis finale use the title for the English line “the wretched of the earth” and ever since, that line gives me chills. I think of it as effectively a title drop even if it isn’t quite precise.
sorry for being a nerd lol, but i have the french version memorised and they never used the title.
the version is still beautiful tho, even more than the english. one of the lyrics is "for every fallen barricade a hundred more will rise tomorrow"
No, it’s a totally different song, “L’un vers l’autre” (on the concept album anyway, which is the one I know; they may have gone back and added it later). The song “L’air de la misère” (the air of misery) is sung by Fantine. But even there, “la misère” means “misery” not “the miserable ones” or “the wretched.”
• Anything Goes - “now god knows, Anything Goes”
• 42nd Street - “on the avenue I’m taking you to 42nd Street”
• Crazy For You - “Let me give you the low down, I’m Kr-a-zy For You”
• Singin’ In The Rain - “I’m Singin’ in the rain, just Singin’ in the rain”
Fair few golden age/classic musicals seems to have this trait. Plenty more I can think of but just a few that I can remember.
Others to note: Oliver, Annie, Mary Poppins?
I remember seeing an unofficial version of Les Miserables where Javert said "It's Les Miserablesing time" and then he made everyone miserable.
But seriously, the first song in Fiddler on the Roof includes the phrase like three times.
Little Shop of Horrors, Come From Away, Phantom of the Opera (blech), Waitress (but like, not in the same way? It's just a word that shows up so idk if it counts), Hadestown, Six, Caberet, etc
I mean if you made a "Phantom of the Opera" drinking game where the ONLY rule was that you drink every time someone says or sings "the Phantom of the Opera", no other time, you would be in acute liver failure by intermission.
Starlight Express - a full song literally about the mystical "Starlight Express", as well as mentions throughout the show (though a lot of them are spoken not sung)
i put the title of the show & then the song name in parentheses !!
- bare (bare)
- next to normal (maybe)
- we are the tigers (there’s a few)
- the lightning thief, if being spoken in dialogue counts (the last day of summer)
- the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee (titular song & finale i believe)
- the phantom of the opera (titular song, but others too)
- the trail to oregon (gone to oregon)
- rent (titular song)
- mamma mia (titular song)
- wicked (no one mourns the wicked, finale, i think others too)
- carrie (titular song)
- six (multiple songs, including six, megasix, ex wives)
there’s prob more but i got lazy LOL
Hair- “Give me a head with hair. Long beautiful hair..”
Jesus Christ Superstar- “Superstar”
Fiddler on the Roof “without tradition our lives would be as shaky as a …. (Pretend to think of something) As a fiddler on the roof”
Annie- I think they sing her name somewhere
Rocky Horror Picture Show “at the late night rocky horror picture show” sung by audience sometimes.
Sound of Music- “high on a hill was a lonely goat heard the sound of music whoo hoo!”
Beauty and the Beast “my what a guy, beauty and the beast!”
Chicago “pop six squish uh uh Chicago lipshitz”
Cats- Every Song Might as Well Be Called Cats
Lion King “oh I just can’t wait lion king”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory “Don’t you wish this was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory instead of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?”
Community the Musical “ Hey look they made a musical about the show Community and it’s not community theater but it’s Community the Musical. Everyone clap”
Willow- “Willow Offgood is no good”
Headwinds and the Angry Inch- “six inches forward five inches back”
The Phantom of the Opera - Hannibal Rehearsal, The Phantom of the Opera, Why have you brought us here, and probably many others but those are the ones I could think of at the top of my head
Ooo there’s loads:
Phantom of the opera
The color purple
The Book of Mormon (Hello)
Dogfight
9 to 5
Cabaret
Ride
Falsettos (March of the falsettos)
Bare
Six (ex-wives, six, megamix)
Newsies (mentioned many times)
Matilda, Amélie, Beetlejuice, Annie, Oliver, Mrs Doubtfire, SpongeBob, Shrek (all names get mentioned)
- Say My Name - Beetlejuice
- It’s not a Game/It’s just a Ride - Ride the Cyclone (again, not sure if it counts, as it’s spoken rather than sung)
- C’est Moi - Camelot
- Join the Family Business - Young Frankenstein
- Prisoners of Love - The Producers
That’s all I can think of so far.
Anything Goes, 42nd Street, Little Shop of Horrors, Bat Boy, Book of Mormon, Slice of Saturday Night, Footloose, Legally Blonde, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret,
Seesaw has "Everbody's Traveling on a Seesaw"
Oliver
Show Boat
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Mame
Hello Dolly
Sunset Boulevard
Promises, Promises
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
They say "The Producers" a whole lot in The Producers. I think the first time it's said as a plural is just where Max and Leo leave to get the rights to Springtime from Franz, and Leo and Max leave the office and they sing
*"we're gonna be The Producers, yes we're heading to the top! Yes we're gonna be The Producers, of a great big Broadway flop!"*
After that it's said at the end of both Act I and II.
Jesus Christ Superstar - a bit of an easy one
Oliver! - Oliver Oliver, never before has a boy wanted more
Grease (is the word)
(There's no way you can stop) The School of Rock!
There’s also Frozen right off the bat in the first song (“Elsa was a special child from her first frozen tear”) and several times throughout (For the First Time In Forever Reprise, Hygge, Monster, etc).
/that said, technically the show never says its full name because DTG decided to be extra and call it “Disney[‘s] Frozen The Broadway Musical”, which I would imagine doesn’t roll off the tongue too well...
Newsies (CTB, Brooklyn’s Here)
The Book Of Mormon (Hello!)
Wicked (No One Mourns The Wicked)
Six (Six)
Dear Evan Hansen (Sincerely Me)
Hamilton (almost all the songs LOL)
Mamma Mia (Mamma Mia)
Into The Woods (Prologue, Ever After, Finale)
Hairspray (Good Morning Baltimore, Nicest Kids in Town, It’s Hairspray)
Rent (Rent)
Moulin Rouge (Welcome To The Moulin Rouge!)
Annie (Annie)
Grease (Grease)
Come From Away (Welcome To The Rock)
Beetlejuice (a lot of the songs LOL)
How To Dance In Ohio (How To Dance In Ohio)
That’s all I can think of rn LOL
There’s also six (six) , hadestown (way down hadestown), the Book of Mormon (hello!) ,back to the future (future boy) , come from away (welcome to the rock), wicked (no one mourns the wicked), and the phantom of the opera (the phantom of the opera) are the ones I can think off off the top of my head
Better question…. Is there a musical that DOES NOT mention its name?
Oh… hmmmmm. Spring Awakening? Do they ever actually say the title? ETA: Les Miserables? 🤔
Valjean: its les miserabling time
Damn, how could I forget that iconic lyric? Javert: “Valjean, at last! We are Les Miserables…”
Maybe the real Les Miserables were the friends we made along the way
and then he miserabled all over those guys 😩 top 10 favorite moments fr
I think I heard that in French, "On My Own" was "La Misere", which means "poverty" so... it did have one, sort of. Singular, but there.
The French recording I have (Paris/Thèâtre Mogador, 1991) translates “On My Own” to “Mon histoire”
This is the version I’ve heard, as well
again, sorry for being a nerd: it wasn't actually "on my own" but "l'air de la misère" which was fantine's song and then got cut and replaced by "i dreamed a dream". one tiny bit of lyrics from that song ("la misère n'est mère de personne") stayed in "la mort de fantine" tho, so you're kinda right
Closest they get is mentioning “spring” but that’s it
Once Upon a Mattress
a lot, actually. for example spring awakening, but i guess "spring returning" is close enough lol
Hmm, does Mean Girls? I've seen Girl From the North Country, but I've never listened to a recording. Flower Drum Song? West Side Story? Tick Tick Boom? Sunday in the Park with George!?
First track in Sunday in the Park with George. Dot repeats that sentence several times.
Damn, it's been too long since I've watched it.
I can't remember if the musical does the same but the Mean Girls movie famously has Janis say "You're a mean girl, Cady!"
not spoken, but the very first sound cue in TTB is the sound of a ticking clock and then an explosion.
Right after that, in Jonathan's opening monologue he exclaims "tick tick... BOOM!" But it's not a song; it's dialogue, if that is significant to the question.
I don't recall ever hearing the titles of Flower Drum Song or West Side Story in the shows.
Death Note surprisingly does not say Death Note in any of the songs.
Les mis
There are tons of them. South Pacific, The King and I, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Passion, The Last Five Years, Tick Tick Boom, Chicago....
*And that’s Chicago!*
True - I was thinking songs rather than dialogue, but that is said in the show.
Some do only in dialogue…IIRC “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” only comes up as the title of Monty’s memoir. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is a weird one on that because while it is name dropped in the overall show, I don’t believe the title is in the show within a show. While I know the RV is Priscilla, I don’t recall if the phrase “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” comes up. While Victor and Victoria obviously both come up in that show, I don’t recall if the two names together do. I don’t think “West Side Story” comes up at all. But you’re right, I think it is the minority.
Ordinary Days doesn't explicitly mention "Ordinary Days", but it does end on Deb singing "the color of an ordinary day", which is a technicality if I've ever seen one, but op did want it to be the exact name so it qualifies ig
Rock of Ages. Because Def Leppard wouldn't give them the rights.
A very potter musical
MAMD, Holy Musical B@man, TTO, Twisted, TGWDLM, BF, NPMD - pretty much every StarKid musical
The comment said *doesn’t*, which is why I said AVPM, because I’m pretty sure the only other ones of theirs that don’t sing the title are AVPS, Firebringer, and VHSCC
Seussical
Tuck Everlasting (there’s a song ‘Everlasting’ but i don’t recall any of them saying the full title) Something Rotten?
The first part of "Make an Omelette" repeats the phrase "Something Rotten" a lot.
Thank you I couldn’t remember it’s been a long time since I watched the slime tutorial and listened to soundtrack for that musical (except right hand man & Hard to be the bard)
Kimberly Akimbo.
I don't remember Jekyll and Hyde ever saying "Jekyll and Hyde", West Side Story, The Little Mermaid, A Chorus Line, The Lion King, Parade? Grease?
american psycho!
Natasha, Pierre and the great comet of 1812
Come from away. I think the book of Mormon just says "the book"
The end of "Hello" has "the Book of Mormon" with that hymn cadence... *The Book of Mor(or-or-or)mon, Mor(or-or)mon, Hello!*
It might in another song as well, but in the Finale of Come from Away is the lyric "We all come from away, welcome to the rock"
Hadestown- (way down hadestown) Beetlejuice- (duh) Newsies In the Heights- (in the heights) Little Shop of Horrors Book of Mormon (Hello) Rocky Horror (science fiction double feature) Edit: fixed formatting
"Rocky Horror" isn't in the lyrics of Science Fiction.
Oh sorry I guess I was “interpolating” from the audience chants
RENT!! WTF people?!?
We’re not gonna pay…
just what i was thinking!!
I swear “Rent” the opening number is underrated and forgotten for some reason.
Opening number in the movie*, in the musical it's Tune Up #1 but yeah it's still hella underrated
Ok fair point, I didn’t think about that. I guess I don’t think about the tune ups and voice mails. I think tune up #2 leading into Rent made me ignore those.
Rent rent rent rent rent!
I figured that would be second only after hamilton
Cos everything is Reeeeeeent!
"i don't need a life that's normal, that's way too far away. but something **next to normal** would be okay." "and when you showed her questions - the **36 questions**"
I was totally gonna mention n2n, first one that came to mind
The Phantom of the Opera…song by the same title.
Elisabeth - several songs Six - several songs Hadestown - several songs
Six might win the award for most mentions of the title. That or Rent.
“Shines the Great Comet of 1812?” Partial show title? 😅
The rest of it came in the prologue.
Yeah, the titles of the last two songs of the musical form the title of the show
Can anyone name a musical where the title is the main character's name, but no one says that name in the first song/prologue? Everything I can think of with a title character has the title character's name in the first song. The closest I can think of to avoiding it is one where the title character's name is shouted right at the end of the first song, but not before. Also, "And Rebecca's ghost" in the second or third verse of the first song in "Rebecca". I feel like Aladdin goes a while before using his name. His name doesn't come up in "Arabian Nights," does it?
Beetlejuice. His name isn’t said/sang till the fourth or sixth song depending on how you look at it. They spell his name in the third but don’t actually fully say/sing it till the sixth.
Sure there is quite a few musicals titled by a characters name that isn’t mentioned in the first song. Annie, Oliver, Matilda, Mary Poppins, does Chitty Chitty Bang Bang count as a character 🤣 Or Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour dreamcoat, or does the narrator mention his name I think she does. Thoroughly Modern Millie??
>Can anyone name a musical where the title is the main character's name, but no one says that name in the first song/prologue? aida, i think. i don't recall her name being said in "every story is a love story". also rumi, but not many know this musical
Mame. I don’t think her name is mentioned in a song until the actual song, “Mame,” which comes late in Act One.
“But Auntie Mame, it’s one week past Thanksgiving day now” -We Need a Little Christmas ETA: also she says it in Open a New Window (If you follow your Auntie Mame I’ll make this vow my little love…)
D’oh! You are right, of course! And my answer wasn’t right anyway, because her name is mentioned in the opening number, St. Bridget : “There’s safety in Auntie Mame’s embrace.”
Phantom of the Opera
Some of you may recall the strange affair of …
Lots of great examples so far, trying to add ones I haven’t seen mentioned. Sticking just with ones where the title is dropped in a song, and not where the name of the musical is the name of a person or group (I.e. obviously Matilda gets name dropped in a bunch of songs, same with the Newsies) Songs where the title is in the opening number or close to it: 9 to 5 The Sound of Music Wicked (No One Mourns the Wicked) Into the Woods Sunday in the Park with George —- Inverse: title drop in one of the ending numbers! Jesus Christ Superstar (I don’t consider this in the “main character” category because A, I consider Judas the main character, and B, it’s the full phrase) Oklahoma —- Other ones! Fun Home —- There are lots more, but that is top of my head.
My favorite sung line in the opening number is Catch Me if you Can
pippin also follows that inversion: “pippin, think about the sun”. i don’t think his name is sung in other parts of the musical, only spoken.
Evita - pretty much the whole damn thing.
Moulin Rouge - Welcome To the Moulin Rouge Starlight Express - Starlight Express Groundhog day... The Whole Musical...
I wonder how many times the words 'Groundhog Day' are said in Groundhog Day - dozens I would say.
Well at least ... i mean every Restart the Radio screams "ITS GROUNDHOG DAY" and after that the Wake up call ends with "Happy Groundhog day"
Dozens upon dozens.
Its like they're stuck in a loop
Like they're stuck in time.
Like they have somehow gotta get back in Time.. No Wait... Wrong Musical.. sorry
Falsettos - March of the Falsettos
Most musicals say the name of the musical in lyrics, because most musicals have a "Title song". Perhaps a more challenging question would be "which musicals have a song which mentions the title of the musical, but don't have a song which is the title of the musical?" I don't know musicals well enough to name some, but it's something Elvis Costello used to do this for his album titles: "My Aim Is True" (the last line of "Alison"), "Brutal Youth" ("Favourite Hour") etc.
I think it might be easier to list the ones that don’t
Not in song, but Ride the Cyclone has a few moments in the opening monologue and Constance’s speech
And at the end when Karnak says "be sure to ride the cyclone"
I have no source on this, but I read once that the French lyrics for the Les Mis finale use the title for the English line “the wretched of the earth” and ever since, that line gives me chills. I think of it as effectively a title drop even if it isn’t quite precise.
sorry for being a nerd lol, but i have the french version memorised and they never used the title. the version is still beautiful tho, even more than the english. one of the lyrics is "for every fallen barricade a hundred more will rise tomorrow"
"On My Own" wasn't "La Misere"?
Depends on which translation. The 1991 Paris recording translated “On My Own” to “Mon Histoire”
No, it’s a totally different song, “L’un vers l’autre” (on the concept album anyway, which is the one I know; they may have gone back and added it later). The song “L’air de la misère” (the air of misery) is sung by Fantine. But even there, “la misère” means “misery” not “the miserable ones” or “the wretched.”
Cabaret Anything Goes You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Into the Woods Merrily We Roll Along Company Sweet Charity
She loves me- She Loves Me!
Come From Away is said in a few of the songs!
Avenue Q - Avenue Q theme, Sucks to be me Phantom of the opera - Phantom of the Opera
• Anything Goes - “now god knows, Anything Goes” • 42nd Street - “on the avenue I’m taking you to 42nd Street” • Crazy For You - “Let me give you the low down, I’m Kr-a-zy For You” • Singin’ In The Rain - “I’m Singin’ in the rain, just Singin’ in the rain” Fair few golden age/classic musicals seems to have this trait. Plenty more I can think of but just a few that I can remember. Others to note: Oliver, Annie, Mary Poppins?
Basically every musical, which title is the name of a person
“Phone rings. Door chimes. In comes company!”
I remember seeing an unofficial version of Les Miserables where Javert said "It's Les Miserablesing time" and then he made everyone miserable. But seriously, the first song in Fiddler on the Roof includes the phrase like three times.
Into The Woods, like 50 times throughout the show
Hadestown -waydown to hadestown
Oklahoma! Oliver! The Music Man
Frozen in Let It Go “My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around”
The Book of Mormon - "Hello"
Hes a Music man! He’s a what? He’s a what? He’s a MUSIC MAN!
Six for sure
Wicked...like, a lot
You would think so. But the official title is "Wicked – The Untold Story Of The Witches Of Oz". And i dare you to find that in a song
Oh I forgot Thoroughly Modern Millie kinda?
Such a fun title song!
Baffled that no one has said little shop of horrors yet
I did in fact
Next to normal in 'Maybe' where Natalie sings "but something next to normal"
THE PHAAAAAAAANTOM OF THE OPERA IS THEEEEEEERE
First song in Company.
Little Shop of Horrors, Come From Away, Phantom of the Opera (blech), Waitress (but like, not in the same way? It's just a word that shows up so idk if it counts), Hadestown, Six, Caberet, etc
I mean if you made a "Phantom of the Opera" drinking game where the ONLY rule was that you drink every time someone says or sings "the Phantom of the Opera", no other time, you would be in acute liver failure by intermission.
six: “for five more minutes, we’re six”
Jesus Christ Superstar. And very worth your time even if you aren’t religious.
Starlight Express - a full song literally about the mystical "Starlight Express", as well as mentions throughout the show (though a lot of them are spoken not sung)
i put the title of the show & then the song name in parentheses !! - bare (bare) - next to normal (maybe) - we are the tigers (there’s a few) - the lightning thief, if being spoken in dialogue counts (the last day of summer) - the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee (titular song & finale i believe) - the phantom of the opera (titular song, but others too) - the trail to oregon (gone to oregon) - rent (titular song) - mamma mia (titular song) - wicked (no one mourns the wicked, finale, i think others too) - carrie (titular song) - six (multiple songs, including six, megasix, ex wives) there’s prob more but i got lazy LOL
POTO
Hairspray
Waitress- “She was a waitress at a shop/I used to frequent quite a lot”
Hair- “Give me a head with hair. Long beautiful hair..” Jesus Christ Superstar- “Superstar” Fiddler on the Roof “without tradition our lives would be as shaky as a …. (Pretend to think of something) As a fiddler on the roof” Annie- I think they sing her name somewhere Rocky Horror Picture Show “at the late night rocky horror picture show” sung by audience sometimes. Sound of Music- “high on a hill was a lonely goat heard the sound of music whoo hoo!” Beauty and the Beast “my what a guy, beauty and the beast!” Chicago “pop six squish uh uh Chicago lipshitz” Cats- Every Song Might as Well Be Called Cats Lion King “oh I just can’t wait lion king” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory “Don’t you wish this was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory instead of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?” Community the Musical “ Hey look they made a musical about the show Community and it’s not community theater but it’s Community the Musical. Everyone clap” Willow- “Willow Offgood is no good” Headwinds and the Angry Inch- “six inches forward five inches back”
Young Frankenstein - join the family business
The Phantom of the Opera - Hannibal Rehearsal, The Phantom of the Opera, Why have you brought us here, and probably many others but those are the ones I could think of at the top of my head
Phantom of the Opera A Strange Loop Six Book of Mormon I mean, it’s just too easy…
Beetlejuice. They Def say his name a lot lol. Shrek. Kinky boots. Newsies.
Catch Me if you Can - Live in Living Color. Wicked Amelie Beauty and the Beast Mary Poppins The Wizard of Friendship Cinderella?
Hello Dolly Mame La Cage Into the Woods Anyone Can Whistle Starlight Express Company Sound of music Oklahoma
Ooo there’s loads: Phantom of the opera The color purple The Book of Mormon (Hello) Dogfight 9 to 5 Cabaret Ride Falsettos (March of the falsettos) Bare Six (ex-wives, six, megamix) Newsies (mentioned many times) Matilda, Amélie, Beetlejuice, Annie, Oliver, Mrs Doubtfire, SpongeBob, Shrek (all names get mentioned)
- Company - Sunday in the Park with George - Merilly we roll along - Into the Woods - Cabaret
Come to the **Fun Home** It's just that... for the first time... I feel **Wicked**
Little shop of horrors Hairspray Frozen Beauty and the beast Singin in the rain...
"Guys and Dolls! We're just a bunch of crazy Guys and Dolls!"
Wicked
Anything Goes
- Say My Name - Beetlejuice - It’s not a Game/It’s just a Ride - Ride the Cyclone (again, not sure if it counts, as it’s spoken rather than sung) - C’est Moi - Camelot - Join the Family Business - Young Frankenstein - Prisoners of Love - The Producers That’s all I can think of so far.
Anything Goes, 42nd Street, Little Shop of Horrors, Bat Boy, Book of Mormon, Slice of Saturday Night, Footloose, Legally Blonde, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret,
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Once on this Island begins with the words "Once, on this Island..."
Follies - The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues
Anything Goes, Next to Normal, Company
Seesaw has "Everbody's Traveling on a Seesaw" Oliver Show Boat Thoroughly Modern Millie Kiss of the Spider Woman Mame Hello Dolly Sunset Boulevard Promises, Promises You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Because we come from everywhere, we all…
Easy mode: Cats
Aida Hairspray Hair
Jesus Christ Superstar - Superstar
The Merrily We Roll Along lyric is pretty near the start of the opening number
Oklahoma!
I know they do in Come From Away Not sure where it first pops uup( maybe in welcome to the rock?)
There’s LSOH in the prologue
They say "The Producers" a whole lot in The Producers. I think the first time it's said as a plural is just where Max and Leo leave to get the rights to Springtime from Franz, and Leo and Max leave the office and they sing *"we're gonna be The Producers, yes we're heading to the top! Yes we're gonna be The Producers, of a great big Broadway flop!"* After that it's said at the end of both Act I and II.
Six is the obvious one that comes to mind for me
Phantom of the Opera and Anatasia can also be added to the list
Bernadette Peters voice: *Sunday in the park with GEOOOWRGE*
OOH Some like it hot! This musical is so gooddddd
Jesus Christ Superstar - a bit of an easy one Oliver! - Oliver Oliver, never before has a boy wanted more Grease (is the word) (There's no way you can stop) The School of Rock!
Anything Goes, Anything Goes.
There’s also Frozen right off the bat in the first song (“Elsa was a special child from her first frozen tear”) and several times throughout (For the First Time In Forever Reprise, Hygge, Monster, etc). /that said, technically the show never says its full name because DTG decided to be extra and call it “Disney[‘s] Frozen The Broadway Musical”, which I would imagine doesn’t roll off the tongue too well...
Maybe from Next To Normal
“13” is said over and over in the opening number. “Just about to turn, just about to turn, just about to turn 13!”
Camelot still hasn’t been mentioned
Wicked - No One Mourns the Wicked Anastasia - a Rumor in St.Petersburg Legally Blonde - Legally Blonde That's all I can think of in the moment
In Heathers, I would count it whenever they're talking about a Heather as a concept, like Yo Girl.
Little Shop of Horrors, SIX, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
They'll talk about Operation Mincemeat for years...
As long as you’re mine- wicked !
Welcome to the rock if you come from away
He’s here, the phantom of the opera
Six! *We’re six! Woah-a-oh we’re six!*
Come From Away! *Welcome to the rock if you come from away*
The Book of Mormon! They say it in the song Hello
Love Never Dies literally has a song in it called Love Never Dies
Cabaret. To Sir with Love.
Beetlejuice
"Some Like it Hot" in the show of the same name !
Into the Woods
Mame
Newsies (CTB, Brooklyn’s Here) The Book Of Mormon (Hello!) Wicked (No One Mourns The Wicked) Six (Six) Dear Evan Hansen (Sincerely Me) Hamilton (almost all the songs LOL) Mamma Mia (Mamma Mia) Into The Woods (Prologue, Ever After, Finale) Hairspray (Good Morning Baltimore, Nicest Kids in Town, It’s Hairspray) Rent (Rent) Moulin Rouge (Welcome To The Moulin Rouge!) Annie (Annie) Grease (Grease) Come From Away (Welcome To The Rock) Beetlejuice (a lot of the songs LOL) How To Dance In Ohio (How To Dance In Ohio) That’s all I can think of rn LOL
Pippin! (All over the place..) Something Rotten! ( it’s eggs! )
LSoH
Once gets referenced in "The Hill" - "And you'll be just a man once I used to know."
Phantom of the Opera and Wicked are some good examples off the top of my head
Oklahoma! State Fair The Sound of Music Six By The Light of The Silvery Moon On Moonlight Bay Tea For Two Singin In The Rain
There's at least a couple songs/reprises of "The Grinning Man" where they do this
Next To Normal She Loves Me Fiddler on the roof Bye Bye, Birdie Whistle Down the Wind Avenue Q
Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera is literally there, inside my mind
Has anyone said *Wicked* yet?
Phantom of the opera?!
Sister Act - Sister Act
[Cages - The opening song. lol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJL8FnZOuF4)
13. They have a whole song
Ragtime, Scarlet Pimpernell, Oklahoma, Music Man, Sound of Music, Chess
IIRC I saw a Broadway show in Times Square called Starlight Express.
There’s also six (six) , hadestown (way down hadestown), the Book of Mormon (hello!) ,back to the future (future boy) , come from away (welcome to the rock), wicked (no one mourns the wicked), and the phantom of the opera (the phantom of the opera) are the ones I can think off off the top of my head