Title Drop/Theatre: Difference between revisions

* Frequently done with title songs in musicals (too many to list).

* [[Shakespeare]] does this occasionally:

Like doth quit like, and [[Measure for Measure|measure still for measure]].<br />

...<br />

* In ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'', the [[Title Drop]] occurs as a bit of drunken singing (parodying "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf," of course).

* ''[[Paint Your Wagon (theatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]'' does it in its theme song "I'm On My Way," which is technically not a title song:

'''Paint your wagon''' and come along! }}

** And in the [[The Simpsons|Simpsons]] parody, its

'''Choir:''' Ponderosa pine! Wooo-ooh! }}

* In ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'', Maggie uses the phrase to describe her life.

* The [[Cole Porter]] musical ''Out Of This World'' drops its title in the song "No Lover."

* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' has a literal [[Title Drop]] in its first scene, where Blanche tells how she came to the house on Elysian Fields. Later, there is a less literal but more meaningful reference:

'''Blanche''': What you are talking about is brutal desire--just--Desire!--the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another... }}

* A double title drop is done in [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''Tell Me on a Sunday''. There's the title song of course, but it also contains the lyrics "let me down easy, no big song and dance". ''Tell Me on a Sunday'' was combined with ''Variations'' to form the reworked show ''Song and Dance'', consisting of one "song" act (Tell Me on a Sunday) and one "dance" act (Variations), so this one is a retroactive title drop as well.

* [[Sweet Gay Baby Jesus!]]: Used as an exclamation during the course of the play, rather than a character name, as some had hoped.

* In ''[[The Cat and the Canary]]'', no cats or canaries are brought up until the second act, when Annabelle starts flipping through a random book and finds herself reading about fear and how to overcome it through understanding:

* In the last line of the Brandon Thomas comedy "Charley's Aunt", Jack(who had been [[Disguised in Drag|impersonating Charley's aunt]] so Charley could tell his sweetheart's father that he had a chaperone) gratefully tells Dona Lucia(Charley's real aunt) that from now on, "I will gladly cede to you the title of ''Charley's Aunt''."

* ''Phone rings, door chimes, in comes [[Company]]''