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He that knows better how to [[The Taming of the Shrew|tame a shrew]],<br />
Now let him speak; 'tis charity to show. }}
* When the curtain opens on the prologue of ''[[Fiddler
* The opening scene of the musical ''[[Damn Yankees]]'' has one {{smallcaps| [[Title Drop]]}} in dialogue (what Joe says when Meg asks him if the Washington Senators won the game he was watching) and another in the song "Six Months" ("Those damn Yankees! Why can't we beat 'em?")
* ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' is both the title of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s play, and what one of the main characters announces that he has learned in the very last line of that play.
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* Given that the word "Wicked" is spoken often in the 2nd act of [[Wicked (theatre)|the eponymous show]], there is one conversation where Elphaba emphasises to Glinda that she is now "the WICKED witch of the west," which is important.
** More whimsically: "For the first time, I feel...wicked."
** And of course, the very first song of the show is 'No One Mourns the Wicked', which ends with the ensemble shouting the title in unison.
* ''[[Inherit the Wind]]'' has Matthew Harrison Brady [[As the Good Book Says...|quote scripture]]. It becomes considered for his {{spoiler|epitaph}}.
* "Don't forget that a few years ago we came through the depression by [[The Skin of Our Teeth]]. One more tight squeeze like that and where would we be?"
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* "When he died--- and by the way he died the '''[[Death of a Salesman]]''', in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston---when he died, hundreds of salesman and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months after that."
* Subverted in ''Ah, Wilderness!'' by Eugene O'Neill: the character is interrupted just before getting to that line in a poem.
* Arthur Miller's ''All My Sons'': Joe says at the end, "Sure, he was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were."
* "You're a good man, [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]]." Not only the first song, but the last line of the play (said by Lucy, of all people).
* The [[Cole Porter]] musical ''Out Of This World'' drops its title in the song "No Lover."
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{{quote|'''Stella''': But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark--that sort of making everything else seem--unimportant.
'''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:
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* [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''You Never Can Tell'' has no less than five [[Title Drop|Title Drops]], all by the same character, who considers it philosophy.
* Several characters in ''Dog Sees God'' title drop the scene titles, and Beethoven mentions in The Vipers Nest that it's said "a dog sees god in his master." Interestingly, the play also drops the title of another Charlie-Brown themed work in the final monologue, as CB reads a letter from his mysterious pen pal CS (Charles Shultz) who tells him that despite his struggles, he is [[Peanuts|a good man]].
* "The sight is dismal, and our affairs from England come too late. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, to tell him his commandment is fulfilled, that ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''."
* Not a title song, but the last lyric in the musical [[Ordinary Days]]: "... the color of an ordinary day."
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