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** Also, when {{spoiler|the angel crashes through his ceiling}}, Prior describes it as "Very [[Steven Spielberg]]."

** Prior and Belize's 'girltalk' is full of 'em. Such as "Stella!" "Stella for star." (from ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.

What do you think this is -- [[Gilbert and Sullivan|Gilbert and Sellivant]]? }}

* Also done in ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', where Major General Stanley sings that he can "whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense ''Pinafore''," referring, of course, to [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s previous hit, ''H.M.S. Pinafore''. The finale originally included a direct paraphrase of ''H.M.S. Pinafore'':

'''King''': Well, nearly all! }}

* The opening/title number of ''In the Heights'' gives a shout out to Cole Porter, mentioning "Too Darn Hot" from ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]''.

* ''[[Rent]]'' gives a specific shout out to ''[[La Boheme]]'', the opera it's based on, in "La Vie Boheme" when Mark remarks Roger's song sounds like "Musetta's Waltz". Roger's guitar motif ''is'' the opening phrase to "Musetta's Waltz." A more subtle reference to the same aria occurs in "Take Me or Leave Me," where Maureen's first verse (where she describes people admiring and flirting with her as she walks down the street) has the same basic theme as "Quando me n'vo." The opening number contains another riff taken directly from ''La Boheme''.

** Ironically enough, the same riff is used in Lloyd Webber's "Make Up My Heart" from ''Starlight Express''.

* ''Tick Tick Boom!'', another [[Rent|Jonathan Larson]] musical, is filled with shout outs to [[Stephen Sondheim]]. The biggest of these is the song "Sunday", which is an update of a song by the same name in ''Sunday in the Park With George''.

* A ''very'' subtle one from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''The Pirates of Penzance'': "Poor Wandering One" is really, really similar to "Sempre libera" from Verdi's ''La traviata''. Most likely intentionally, consideirng that "la traviata" means "she who has strayed," which is the subject of G&S's song....

* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'' is full of Shot Outs:

** In Act I Scene VII: [[Historical Domain Character|Theophrast Reunadet]] [[The Cameo|shows up briefly only to be dismissed by Cyrano]] (''"Who cares?"''). Renaudet was homely and this affected him throughout his life (the real Cyrano seemed not so affected by this), an incident at his youth drove him to help the poor and the outcasts, highly idealistic and talented, was named the royal doctor and create La Gazzete, the first official paper of the world, and at 1632 was recognized by the King as one of finest Frenchmen. He (like Cyrano in the play) died in obscurity and poverty in 1653. The parallelism between his life and Cyrano’s character in this play were not highlighted by the English wiki article, but they were in the Spanish article: [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophraste_Renaudot here].

'' Et qui, lorsque Zephire a souffle sur les bois. . ."'' }}

** To Tito and Berenice and Cesar and Cleopatra, two of the most famous romances in history at Act I Scene V.

'''CYRANO:''' I have! }}

 

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