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* In the musical version of ''Merrily We Roll Along'', the protagonist is a musical theatre songwriter who in one scene says, "I saw ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' -- I sort of enjoyed it."
* The musical ''[[1776]]'' features an extended [[Take That]] against New York's government: the delegate from New York spends the entire musical having to "abstain--courteously," because, as he finally explains, the members of the legislature "speak very fast and very loud and nobody pays any attention to anybody else with the result that nothing ever gets done."
** Like much of the rest of the play... [[Truth
* Occurred during the 2008 Tony Awards broadcast, when the winner for Best Play, in his acceptance speech, thanked the producers for funding "an ''American'' show with ''theater'' actors!" This would have been much less remarkable had his award not [[Biting the Hand Humor|been presented to him by]] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341743/ Richard Griffiths] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705356/ Daniel Radcliffe.]
* The lyrics to "You're The Top", a song by Cole Porter from the musical ''Anything Goes'', contains the following jab at the Republican party of the 1930s:
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