Quote Source / Theatre

Listed below are pages with quotes taken from theatre.

Quotes taken from the works of William Shakespeare are listed in their own page.

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• William Shakespeare

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• 110 in the Shade
  • Old Maid

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• 1776
  • John Adams
  • Shouting Free-for-All

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• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  • Hair Flip

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• 35MM: A Musical Exhibition
  • Wheelchair Woobie

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• The Addams Family
  • One Normal Night

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• Alcestis
  • Wicked Stepmother

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• Allegro
  • Death Is a Sad Thing
  • Hospital Paradiso

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• Animal Crackers
  • Fake Nationality
  • Mysterious Middle Initial

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• Annie Get Your Gun
  • Hollywood Hype Machine
  • Sexy Sweater Girl

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• Antigone
  • Humans Are Special

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• Anyone Can Whistle
  • Rock of Limitless Water

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• Anything Goes
  • Old-Timey Ankle Taboo

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• Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Boris Karloff
  • Celebrity Resemblance
  • It Runs in the Family

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• Assassins
  • William McKinley

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• Avenue Q
  • Bad Girl Song
  • Girlfriend in Canada
  • Going Commando
  • Mixtape of Love
  • Roommate Drama

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• Bacchae
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy

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• The Bat
  • Everybody Smokes

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• Batman: The Musical
  • Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?

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• Bells Are Ringing
  • Blithe Spirit

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• Be More Chill
  • Celebrity Casualty

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• Beetlejuice
  • Adaptation Deviation

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• The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)
  • Peter Gabriel

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• Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
  • Death by Despair

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• The Book of Mormon
  • Egocentrically Religious
  • Knocking on Heathens' Door

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• The Boys in the Band
  • Gayngst-Induced Suicide

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• Brigadoon
  • Death by Falling Over
  • Witch with a Capital "B"

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• Bye Bye Birdie
  • Incessant Chorus

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• Cabaret
  • Welcoming Song

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• La Cage aux folles
  • Vaudeville Hook

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• Camelot
  • "I Am Great!" Song
  • Virtue Is Weakness

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• Candide
  • Public Execution

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• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • The Modest Orgasm

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• Cats
  • Odd Name, Normal Nickname

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• Chess
  • Bangkok
  • Confusion Fu

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• Chicago
  • Gun Struggle
  • Invisibility Cloak
  • Revenge Ballad
  • Sinister Tango Music

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• A Chorus Line
  • Height Angst

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• Come from Away
  • Setting Introduction Song

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• CompanySondheim
  • Amicable Exes

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• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
  • My Biological Clock Is Ticking

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• Comus
  • Evil Sorcerer
  • Virgin Power

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• The Crucible
  • I Won't Say I'm Guilty

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• Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Loves My Alter Ego

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• Damn Yankees
  • Sports Widow

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• A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine
  • Jungle Princess

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• Death Note: The Musical
  • Moral Disambiguation

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• Death of a Salesman
  • Tragic Dream

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• The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Rousseau Was Right

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• Dido and Aeneas
  • TearJerker.Theatre

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• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: The Musical
  • Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath

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• Doctor Faustus
  • Time Stands Still
  • World's Most Beautiful Woman

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• The Doughgirls
  • Kill the Creditor

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• Drood
  • Two-Headed Coin

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• Evita
  • Balcony Speech
  • Day of the Jackboot
  • Excessive Mourning

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• The Fantasticks
  • Anywhere but Their Lips

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• Faust: First Part of the Tragedy
  • God-Karting with Beelzebub

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• Fiddler on the Roof
  • Appeal to Tradition
  • Blind and the Beast
  • Both Sides Have a Point
  • Conspicuous Consumption
  • Old Man Marrying a Child
  • Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
  • Tsarist Russia

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• Finian's Rainbow
  • Leprechaun

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• Fiorello!
  • Smoky Gentlemen's Club

• Flower Drum Song
  • Girly Girl

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• Follies
  • Torch Song

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• Forbidden Broadway
  • Hotter and Sexier
  • Incredibly Long Note
  • Limey Goes to Hollywood
  • Summer Blockbuster

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• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • …But He Sounds Handsome
  • French Maid
  • Funny Moments

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• The Glass Menagerie
  • Kitsch Collection

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• Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Mamet Speak
  • Second Prize

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• Golden Boy
  • Hated Hometown

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• Götz von Berlichingen
  • Light/Darkness Juxtaposition

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• The Grand Duke
  • Quarreling Song

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• Grease
  • Does He Have a Brother?

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• Guys and Dolls
  • "London, England" Syndrome

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• Hadestown
  • Afterlife Express

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• Hair
  • Hair Tropes
  • When the Planets Align

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• Hamilton
  • The Diss Track
  • From Zero to Hero
  • His Own Worst Enemy
  • Long List
  • Plausible Deniability
  • Politics Tropes
  • Ten Paces and Turn
  • Won the War, Lost the Peace
  • You Taught Me That

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• Harvey
  • Comically Missing the Point

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• Heathers: The Musical
  • Dumb Jock

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• Hello, Dolly!
  • Grand Staircase Entrance

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• H.M.S. Pinafore
  • Desk Jockey

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• Holy Musical B@man!
  • Appeal to Obscurity
  • Water Source Tampering

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• If/Then
  • Milestone Birthday Angst
  • Split Timelines Plot
  • What If?

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• The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Accidental Truth
  • Invented Invalid
  • No Such Thing as Bad Publicity

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• In the Heights
  • Latino-American Media

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• Iolanthe
  • Absurdly Youthful Mother
  • Hurricane of Aphorisms

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• Into the Woods
  • Baby as Payment
  • Blame Game
  • Cute Clumsy Girl
  • Fairy Tale Free-for-All
  • Little Brother Is Watching
  • Our Giants Are Bigger
  • Prince Charmless
  • "Setting Off" Song
  • Too Important to Walk

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• Jasper in Deadland
  • Amnesiac Lover

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• Jekyll & Hyde
  • Good Is Impotent
  • Professor Guinea Pig

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• Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Save Your Deity

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• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Colorful Song

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• Jungle Juice
  • Styrofoam Rocks

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• Keating! The Musical
  • The Bogan
  • Piss-Take Rap

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• King Lear
  • Lady Luck

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• Kiss Me, Kate
  • Opening Chorus
  • William Shakespeare

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• Lady in the Dark
  • List Song
  • Lohengrin and Mendelssohn

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• Legally Blonde
  • ArsonMurderAndJaywalking.Theatre
  • Gender Nonconforming Equals Gay

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• Leopoldstadt
  • Trauma-Induced Amnesia

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• A Little Night Music
  • True Art Is Angsty
  • Unrequited Love Switcheroo

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• Little Shop of Horrors
  • Depraved Dentist
  • MagnificentBastard.Theatre

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• The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • Annoying Patient

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• Man of La Mancha
  • Peerless Love Interest

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• Matilda
  • Naughty Is Good

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• McQueen
  • Dressing to Die

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• Medea
  • Fallen Princess

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• The Mikado
  • Horny Sailors
  • Losing Your Head
  • Wandering Minstrel

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• Les Misérables
  • The Artful Dodger
  • Color Motif
  • Future Badass
  • Happy Place
  • My God, What Have I Done?
  • Pilfering Proprietor
  • Red Light District
  • The Song Before the Storm
  • Survivor Guilt

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• Miss Saigon
  • Night and Day Duo
  • Screw the War, We're Partying

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• The Most Happy Fella
  • Spaghetti and Gondolas

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The Mourning Bride

• Woman Scorned

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• The Music Man
  • Bad Guys Play Pool
  • Everyone Is Satan in Hell
  • Gossipy Hens
  • Let No Crisis Go to Waste

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• My Fair Lady
  • Abilene Paradox
  • Adaptational Alternate Ending
  • Ban on Politics
  • Stag Party

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• Next to Normal
  • Fond Memories That Could Have Been
  • Give Him a Normal Life
  • Grief Song

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• Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Location Song
  • Loved by All

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• Nine (Musical)
  • Solo Duet

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• Of Thee I Sing
  • Southern Belle
  • Sweet Home Alabama
• Let Em Eat Cake
  • Blue Tropes

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• Oklahoma!
  • Shotgun Wedding
  • Sweetie Graffiti

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• Oliver!
  • Five-Finger Discount

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• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • Fake Brit

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• On Your Toes
  • Progressive Instrumentation

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• Peter Pan Goes Wrong
  • Earpiece Conversation

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• The Phantom of the Opera
  • Masquerade Ball

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• Pippin
  • Mother Makes You King

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• The Pirates of Penzance
  • Blue Blood
  • Expert In Underwater Basketweaving
  • Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
  • Modern Major General
  • Pirate
  • Talk About the Weather
  • Villains Out Shopping

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• Princess Ida
  • Compassionate Critic
  • Hatedom
  • Helmets Are Hardly Heroic

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• Proof
  • Mask of Sanity

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• Red: The Red Riding Hood Musical
  • Little Dead Riding Hood

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• RENT
  • You Remind Me of X

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• The Rock
  • Rich Boredom

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• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
  • "Everybody Dies" Ending
  • World Limited to the Plot

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• The Rose Tattoo
  • Mess of Woe

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• Ruddigore
  • Chastity Dagger
  • Damsel out of Distress
  • Evil Makes You Ugly
  • Patter Song
  • Silly Spook

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• The Schemes of Scapin
  • Beautiful Tears

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• The Secret Garden
  • Caring Gardener

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• Seussical
  • Narrator

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• Shirley Valentine
  • Sex Tourism

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• A Shoggoth on the Roof
  • Lovecraft Country

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• Show Boat
  • Lazy Bum
  • Mean Character, Nice Actor

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• Shrek: The Musical
  • Repeated Cue, Tardy Response

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• Some Like It Hot
  • Royalties Heir

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• The Sound of Music
  • Think Happy Thoughts

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• South Pacific
  • Taught to Hate

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• Spamalot
  • Awesome.Theatre
  • Final Love Duet
  • Myth.King Arthur
  • Myth.The Lady Of The Lake
  • Small Start, Big Finish
  • Vocal Range Exceeded

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• Spring Awakening
  • Ghost Song

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• Starlight Express
  • Steam Never Dies

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• A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Stellar Name

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• The Sunshine Boys
  • Inherently Funny Words

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• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • I'm a Humanitarian
  • No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me

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• The Threepenny Opera
  • Suspicious Spending
  • Too Hungry to Be Polite

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• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
  • Brother–Sister Incest

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• Titanic
  • Social Climber

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• [title of show]
  • Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
  • Sidekick Song

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• Tosca
  • Scarpia Ultimatum

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• Trouble In Tahiti
  • Born Winner
  • Chekhov's Volcano
  • Stepford Suburbia

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• Urinetown
  • Heart Trauma

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• Utopia, Limited
  • Tenor Boy

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• A Very Potter Musical
  • Duet of Differences
  • Foreshadowing

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• Waiting for Godot
  • Absurdism

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• West Side Story
  • A Saint Named Mary

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• Wicked
  • ArchEnemy.Other Media
  • Driven to Villainy
  • Green Tropes
  • Hate at First Sight
  • Hopeless Suitor
  • Wicked Witch

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• The Women
  • Chatty Hairdresser

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• Wonderful Town
  • The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
  • Everybody Knows That

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• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
  • Little Known Facts

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