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* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:The detective is the one who killed Mrs. Pickwick so he could take their children without her interference, then volunteers himself as the murderer.]]
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* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:The detective is the one who killed Mrs. Pickwick so he could take their children without her interference, then volunteers himself as to investigate the murderer.murder.]]
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: The Constable goes to confront the detective with new incriminating evidence, only to be murdered once he's alone with the Detective.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: The [[spoiler:The Constable goes to confront the detective Detective with new incriminating evidence, only to be murdered once by him. He has a wonderful ExplainExplainOhCrap moment when he pieces together who did it and realizes he's alone with the Detective.AloneWithThePsycho.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: The Nanny goes "Oh... fuck," "Oh. Fuck," when [[spoiler:the Detective admits he's the children's father]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Besides the obvious example of Ben Glenroy's premature death, Creator/MatthewBroderick was briefly considered for the part of the Constable as the play was being rewritten as a musical.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Besides the obvious example of Ben Glenroy's premature death, Creator/MatthewBroderick was briefly considered for the part of the Constable as the play was being rewritten as amusical.musical.
** Before Putnam was brought on, the production languished for a while under the direction of Jerry Blau.
** Besides the obvious example of Ben Glenroy's premature death, Creator/MatthewBroderick was briefly considered for the part of the Constable as the play was being rewritten as a
** Before Putnam was brought on, the production languished for a while under the direction of Jerry Blau.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Besides the obvious example of Ben Glenroy's premature death, Creator/MatthewBroderick was briefly considered for the part of the Constable as the play was being rewritten as a musical.
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* EvilGloating: [[spoiler:The Detective admitting to the Nanny that he killed Mrs. Pickwick.]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The Detective is the real father of the Pickwick triplets.]]
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* PunBasedTitle: Both the original title of ''Death Rattle'' (the term for someone's final breath) and ''Death Rattle Dazzle'' (a pun on "razzle-dazzle").
* PunBasedTitle: Both the original title of ''Death Rattle'' (the term for someone's final breath) and ''Death Rattle Dazzle'' (a pun on "razzle-dazzle").
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Set in 1930s Nova Scotia, lighthouse keeper and widowed mother Mrs. Pickwick is found dead, suffocated to death by a baby rattle jammed down her throat. The only witnesses: her three infant children Penelope, Patrick, and Paco. A private detective from Halifax (Jonathan Bridgecroft) appears on the scene unprompted, offering his services to the Constable ([[Creator/SteveMartin Charles-Haden Savage]]) to help solve the case. He regularly butts heads with the children's nanny([[Creator/MerylStreep Loretta Durkin]]), over what should be done in the babies' best interest. Tensions rise higher and higher throughout the night, and as fingers are pointed and truths are uncovered, things reach the boiling point...
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Set in 1930s Nova Scotia, lighthouse keeper and widowed mother Mrs. Pickwick is found dead, suffocated to death by a baby rattle jammed down her throat. The only witnesses: her three infant children Penelope, Patrick, and Paco. A private detective from Halifax (Jonathan Bridgecroft) appears on the scene unprompted, offering his services to the Constable ([[Creator/SteveMartin Charles-Haden Savage]]) to help solve the case. He regularly butts heads with the children's nanny([[Creator/MerylStreep Nanny ([[Creator/MerylStreep Loretta Durkin]]), over what should be done in the babies' best interest. Tensions rise higher and higher throughout the night, and as fingers are pointed and truths are uncovered, things reach the boiling point...
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* LockedRoomMystery: The case initially seems like this at first, with the only people even present
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* LockedRoomMystery: The case initially seems like this at first, with no signs of forced entry and the only people even presentwitnesses being the triplets. It later turns out that [[spoiler:there was more evidence, but the Detective covered his tracks during the investigation]].
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[[caption-width-right:1000:It's strange, but by god does it sing.]]
''Death Rattle Dazzle: The Musical'' is a 2023 musical directed by [[Creator/MartinShort Oliver Putnam]], marking his triumphant return to Broadway over a decade after ''[[CreatorKiller Splash]]'', and produced by [[Creator/LindaEmond Donna DeMeo]] and her son Cliff.
Set in 1930s Nova Scotia, lighthouse keeper and widowed mother Mrs. Pickwick is found dead, suffocated to death by a baby rattle jammed down her throat. The only witnesses: her three infant children Penelope, Patrick, and Paco. A private detective from Halifax (Jonathan Bridgecroft) appears on the scene unprompted, offering his services to the Constable ([[Creator/SteveMartin Charles-Haden Savage]]) to help solve the case. He regularly butts heads with the children's nanny([[Creator/MerylStreep Loretta Durkin]]), over what should be done in the babies' best interest. Tensions rise higher and higher throughout the night, and as fingers are pointed and truths are uncovered, things reach the boiling point...
To say the show was marked by a TroubledDevelopment is an understatement. People claimed it was jinxed from the start, since it opened at the Gooseberry Theater, a place haunted by both vengeful ghosts and the ill-fated production of ''Splash''. It was originally meant to be a dramatic, non-musical murder mystery titled ''Death Rattle'', starring [[Creator/PaulRudd Ben Glenroy]] as the Detective. However, his [[FatalMethodActing collapse on stage]] and death later that evening threw production into a tailspin. After several months of frantic rewriting by Putnam et al, the show was relaunched as a musical, with Glenroy's understudy Jonathan Bridgecroft taking the role of the Detective. Production was also delayed by the search for the murderer, and the fact that Putnam is also one of the hosts of podcast ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding'', which was also conducting an investigation on its own. On opening night, Bridgecroft was unavailable due to a medical emergency, so Putnam himself had to take the part of the lead, and the play was briefly interrupted by the arrest of Donna [=DeMeo=] and her son Cliff for Ben Glenroy's murder. In spite of all this, the show proved to be critically and financially successful.
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!!''Death Rattle Dazzle'' contains examples of:
* AlliterativeName: The '''P'''ickwick triplets, '''P'''enelope, '''P'''atrick, and '''P'''aco.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: It's never addressed why the opening ensemble in "Creatures of the Night" includes a bunch of anthropomorphic [[FishPeople crab-people]]. To make matters worse, WordOfGod says the bizarre interpretive dance they're doing is their [[BizarreAlienReproduction breeding cycle]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Mrs. Pickwick is choked to death with her own child's baby rattle, hardly a quick or pleasant way to go.
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:The detective is the one who killed Mrs. Pickwick so he could take their children without her interference, then volunteers himself as the murderer.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The Nanny pushes the Detective off the top of the lighthouse to his demise after he tries to kill her.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There seems to be a very phallic theme in the detective's words and actions, such as referring to himself as a "massive private dick" and [[spoiler:killing Mrs. Pickwick by shoving a baby rattle down her throat]].
* EnfantTerrible: The Constable believes that one of the triplets ''must'' be one, since he keeps accusing them of killing murder.
* EvilGloating: [[spoiler:The Detective admitting to the Nanny that he killed Mrs. Pickwick.]]
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: The Constable goes to confront the detective with new incriminating evidence, only to be murdered once he's alone with the Detective.
* LockedRoomMystery: The case initially seems like this at first, with the only people even present
* MamaBear: The Nanny is this way toward the children, doing everything she can to protect them and threatening anyone who'd dare do otherwise. Even namedropped in "For the Sake of a Child".
* NoNameGiven: The Constable, the Nanny, and the Detective never have their names revealed, and are only [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep referred to by their professions]].
* ParentalLoveSong: "Look for the Light," sung by the Nanny to the Pickwick children.
* ParentalSubstitute: The Nanny certainly views herself as this, what with the triplets being parentless.
* PatterSong: "Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It," sung by the Constable as he tries to narrow down the suspects.
* PoliceAreUseless: The Constable spends much of the play seriously convinced that a toddler could have murdered a grown adult woman. He makes only one useful forensic discovery in the entire play, and [[spoiler:he gets murdered for it shortly after]].
* ShownTheirWork: According to reviews, the Constable's physical motions are ''very'' accurate to how a Nova Scotian police officer of the time period would have behaved.
* ThreatBackfire: The nanny tells the detective that she'd let only him have the kids "Over my dead body." [[spoiler:He then immediately tries to make good on that.]]
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[[caption-width-right:1000:It's strange, but by god does it sing.]]
''Death Rattle Dazzle: The Musical'' is a 2023 musical directed by [[Creator/MartinShort Oliver Putnam]], marking his triumphant return to Broadway over a decade after ''[[CreatorKiller Splash]]'', and produced by [[Creator/LindaEmond Donna DeMeo]] and her son Cliff.
Set in 1930s Nova Scotia, lighthouse keeper and widowed mother Mrs. Pickwick is found dead, suffocated to death by a baby rattle jammed down her throat. The only witnesses: her three infant children Penelope, Patrick, and Paco. A private detective from Halifax (Jonathan Bridgecroft) appears on the scene unprompted, offering his services to the Constable ([[Creator/SteveMartin Charles-Haden Savage]]) to help solve the case. He regularly butts heads with the children's nanny([[Creator/MerylStreep Loretta Durkin]]), over what should be done in the babies' best interest. Tensions rise higher and higher throughout the night, and as fingers are pointed and truths are uncovered, things reach the boiling point...
To say the show was marked by a TroubledDevelopment is an understatement. People claimed it was jinxed from the start, since it opened at the Gooseberry Theater, a place haunted by both vengeful ghosts and the ill-fated production of ''Splash''. It was originally meant to be a dramatic, non-musical murder mystery titled ''Death Rattle'', starring [[Creator/PaulRudd Ben Glenroy]] as the Detective. However, his [[FatalMethodActing collapse on stage]] and death later that evening threw production into a tailspin. After several months of frantic rewriting by Putnam et al, the show was relaunched as a musical, with Glenroy's understudy Jonathan Bridgecroft taking the role of the Detective. Production was also delayed by the search for the murderer, and the fact that Putnam is also one of the hosts of podcast ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding'', which was also conducting an investigation on its own. On opening night, Bridgecroft was unavailable due to a medical emergency, so Putnam himself had to take the part of the lead, and the play was briefly interrupted by the arrest of Donna [=DeMeo=] and her son Cliff for Ben Glenroy's murder. In spite of all this, the show proved to be critically and financially successful.
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!!''Death Rattle Dazzle'' contains examples of:
* AlliterativeName: The '''P'''ickwick triplets, '''P'''enelope, '''P'''atrick, and '''P'''aco.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: It's never addressed why the opening ensemble in "Creatures of the Night" includes a bunch of anthropomorphic [[FishPeople crab-people]]. To make matters worse, WordOfGod says the bizarre interpretive dance they're doing is their [[BizarreAlienReproduction breeding cycle]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Mrs. Pickwick is choked to death with her own child's baby rattle, hardly a quick or pleasant way to go.
* DetectiveMole: [[spoiler:The detective is the one who killed Mrs. Pickwick so he could take their children without her interference, then volunteers himself as the murderer.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The Nanny pushes the Detective off the top of the lighthouse to his demise after he tries to kill her.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There seems to be a very phallic theme in the detective's words and actions, such as referring to himself as a "massive private dick" and [[spoiler:killing Mrs. Pickwick by shoving a baby rattle down her throat]].
* EnfantTerrible: The Constable believes that one of the triplets ''must'' be one, since he keeps accusing them of killing murder.
* EvilGloating: [[spoiler:The Detective admitting to the Nanny that he killed Mrs. Pickwick.]]
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: The Constable goes to confront the detective with new incriminating evidence, only to be murdered once he's alone with the Detective.
* LockedRoomMystery: The case initially seems like this at first, with the only people even present
* MamaBear: The Nanny is this way toward the children, doing everything she can to protect them and threatening anyone who'd dare do otherwise. Even namedropped in "For the Sake of a Child".
* NoNameGiven: The Constable, the Nanny, and the Detective never have their names revealed, and are only [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep referred to by their professions]].
* ParentalLoveSong: "Look for the Light," sung by the Nanny to the Pickwick children.
* ParentalSubstitute: The Nanny certainly views herself as this, what with the triplets being parentless.
* PatterSong: "Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It," sung by the Constable as he tries to narrow down the suspects.
* PoliceAreUseless: The Constable spends much of the play seriously convinced that a toddler could have murdered a grown adult woman. He makes only one useful forensic discovery in the entire play, and [[spoiler:he gets murdered for it shortly after]].
* ShownTheirWork: According to reviews, the Constable's physical motions are ''very'' accurate to how a Nova Scotian police officer of the time period would have behaved.
* ThreatBackfire: The nanny tells the detective that she'd let only him have the kids "Over my dead body." [[spoiler:He then immediately tries to make good on that.]]
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