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== Theatre ==
* This trope taken to the extreme can be found in the theatrical adaptation of the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]].'' The show has over 100 roles. There are four actors.
{{quote|'''[[Big Bad]]:''' *is shot, with Hannay, a police officer and the girl looking on* There was only supposed to be a cast of ''four!''}}
** The lead man plays one role, the lead woman plays four, and the remaining two actors play ''all of the other roles'' between the two of them. [[Hilarity Ensues]], as does much switching of hats, when four or five of these characters are in the same scene. It prides itself in [[Lampshading]] everything about this trope.
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* All minor characters in [[Little Shop of Horrors]] are played by the same actor, according to the official script.
* In ''First Date'', the four ensemble actors, as well as the waiter, play all of the [[Flash Back]] characters, with on-stage costume changes.
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