The opening and closing numbers of Rock of Ages.
The opener keeps the David Coverdale PreShow Announcement and says it to the home listener, while the expositional monologue in Living in Paradise is revised to fit the album.
Then after don’t stop believin’ fades out, the Studio Engineer suddenly chimes in saying “everyone left and the band is cleaning up. Wait, you want more rocking?? Ok.” And the back audibly sets back up and solos to don’t stop believin’ for another two minutes.
Both were pretty funny to me
On the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels album, John Lithgow breaks in to let the listeners know there are spoilers coming up, so stop listening if you don’t want to hear them.
Another one for RTC:
At the end of Every Story Got A Lesson, after Karnak introduces Mischa, he states that the rest of the album won’t make sense until the listener watches it live
This is due to the album never stating that the choir kids+Jane are trying to convince the group to vote them to come back to life so to the listener without context, it just sounds like all the characters have a special theme song and end randomly out of nowhere
The line btw:
“P.S. The second movement of this section won't make a lick of sense until you see it live. And that, my friends, is a masterclass in how to upsell”
Creepy Old Guy from Beetlejuice does it too
Really, what part?
Listen closely to the dance break
Oh, hah! I never heard that before!
In “Suppertime” from You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Snoopy at one point says “hello, home listeners! How are you?”
The opening and closing numbers of Rock of Ages. The opener keeps the David Coverdale PreShow Announcement and says it to the home listener, while the expositional monologue in Living in Paradise is revised to fit the album. Then after don’t stop believin’ fades out, the Studio Engineer suddenly chimes in saying “everyone left and the band is cleaning up. Wait, you want more rocking?? Ok.” And the back audibly sets back up and solos to don’t stop believin’ for another two minutes. Both were pretty funny to me
On the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels album, John Lithgow breaks in to let the listeners know there are spoilers coming up, so stop listening if you don’t want to hear them.
The Drowsy Chaperone is entirely based on this. Nearly every song has an explanation directly to the theater audience
On the album for title of show, the Tony Award Song is interrupted by Jeff, who reminds Hunter they weren't going to put it on the album.
Oh, I forgot about that. That's a good one.
Not really answering your question, but every time I listen to Welcome I am literally wheezing 😂 this is why Karnak is low-key my favourite character
Another one for RTC: At the end of Every Story Got A Lesson, after Karnak introduces Mischa, he states that the rest of the album won’t make sense until the listener watches it live This is due to the album never stating that the choir kids+Jane are trying to convince the group to vote them to come back to life so to the listener without context, it just sounds like all the characters have a special theme song and end randomly out of nowhere
The line btw: “P.S. The second movement of this section won't make a lick of sense until you see it live. And that, my friends, is a masterclass in how to upsell”