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* ''Theatre/AStrangeLoop'': The Thoughts (the GreekChorus) tell Usher (the aspiring playwright) that white theater critics aren't going to like his show, and sing, "Watch them write you off as lazy/Not to mention navel-gazey/Lacking both in craft and rigor/'Cause you're just a fucking nig—", and then the song goes back to the chorus with "Big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show!"
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* In ''Theatre/SixTheMusical'', during the opening number "Ex-Wives" we have:
-->'''Anne of Cleves''': Ich bin Anne of Cleves (Ja!)\\
When he saw my portrait he was like (Ja!)\\
But I didn't look as good as I did in my pic.\\
Funny how they all discuss that but never Henry's little...\\
'''Catherine Howard''': PRICK up your ears I'm the Catherine who lost her head!
-->'''Anne of Cleves''': Ich bin Anne of Cleves (Ja!)\\
When he saw my portrait he was like (Ja!)\\
But I didn't look as good as I did in my pic.\\
Funny how they all discuss that but never Henry's little...\\
'''Catherine Howard''': PRICK up your ears I'm the Catherine who lost her head!
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In another example, in the song, Epiphany, Mark sings a pride song about Catholicism, after making the audience believe that he is gay
-->But you won't truly be you until you can say...I...am...a Catholic.
-->But you won't truly be you until you can say...I...am...a Catholic.
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* In ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'', Major-General Stanley will often be called on to do a high-speed encore of the final verse of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General". Having had to do a PainfulRhyme the first time around, this time the Major-General goes with this:
-->When I have learned what progress has been made in modern gunnery,\\
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery,\\
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,\\
You'll say a better Major-General has never ''rode a horse!''
-->When I have learned what progress has been made in modern gunnery,\\
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery,\\
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,\\
You'll say a better Major-General has never ''rode a horse!''
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'''Robbie:''' NOOOOOOOO.
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{{Subverted Rhyme|EveryOccasion}}s in theatre.
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!!!'''Creators:'''
* A Stanley Holloway monologue has this line:
-->And was George afraid? Yes, he was and he run,\\
And he hid there in one of the ditches,\\
While the Dragon, the pig, ate his ferrets and pup,\\
Aye, best of his prize-winning er - she dogs.
* Daniel Rabinovitch, from Music/LesLuthiers, does this in "Vote A Ortega".
-->¡Ortega, amigo, el pueblo está con usted![[note]]Ortega, friend, the people are with you. [[DontExplainTheJoke The joke here is that in Spanish there are two ways to say "With you": "Contigo" and "Con usted" (more formal).]][[/note]]
!!!'''Works:'''
* Variation from the musical ''Theatre/AltarBoyz'': The song is about waiting until marriage to have sex. The line rhymes, but it's still not the word that the audience might be expecting:
--> So 'till then, I'll have to master...my own fate.
* In a reversal of this trope's conventional use, "Feelings", from the Bock and Harnick musical ''Theatre/TheAppleTree'': after Eve sings at some length about how nervous and dreamy she gets around Adam, she concludes with:
--> Is there a source for this congestion\\
That I must learn to rise above?\\
Is there a name for this condition?\\
Yes, there's a name, and it is hell!
* ''Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged'' has this rhyme:
-->I'm Salomé, that is my name\\
I am an evil lass\\
Boys love the way I dance all night\\
They always grab my mule.
* It's not ''exactly'' a rhyme, since it's just the same word over and over again, but from ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'':
-->"Here's the butcher! He has AIDS! Here's the teacher! She has AIDS! Here's the doctor! He has AIDS! Here's my daughter! She has Aaaaaaaa wonderful disposition..."
* "Fie on Goodness" in the musical ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' contains the following lines:
-->Ah, my heart is still in Scotland\\
Where the lasses woo the best\\
On some bonny hill in Scotland\\
Stroking someone's bonny...\\\
Fie on Scotland, fie!\\
Fie on Scotland, fie!
* Although it's not used for comedic effect, ''Theatre/{{Company}}'' features one in ''Poor Baby'':
-->There's no one\\
In his life,\\
Robert ought to have a woman...
** There's another one that ''is'' used for comic effect at the end of "Barcelona", the morning after Bobby and [[SexyStewardess April]] have slept together and she is getting ready to leave to be on a flight to Barcelona. Bobby makes the usual false pleas that she stay, clearly wanting nothing more than to go back to sleep, leading to this exchange:
--->'''April:''' That's not to say\\
That if I had my way...\\
Oh, well...I guess...okay!\\
'''Bobby:''' What?\\
'''April:''' I'll stay!\\
'''Bobby:''' But...oh ''God!''
* Used in the "Othello Rap" from ''Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged'':
-->Now Othello loved Desi like Adonis loved Venus.\\
And Desi loved Othello\\
'Cuz he had a big...SWORD!
** Even before that, they've already pulled a similar trick:
-->Their fate pursues them, they can't seem to duck it,\\
(pause) And then in Act 5, they both kick the bucket.
* ''Theatre/{{Curtains}}''
** Near the end of the song "It's a Business", after using several inappropriate words without qualms:
--->'''Carmen''': Yes, green's my favorite color,\\
And I don't mean on the grass\\
It's a business.\\
And the shows I do do business,\\
And I'm good at doin' business,\\
And if you don't like my business, sweetie,\\
Blow it out your...\\
'''Guys''': Business!
** Played with in the song "Thataway". The script offers this line to alternate with the original or be used in its place for younger productions.
--->'''Cowboys''': What's that music?\\
What's that dance?\\
What's that stirring?\\
It's romance!
*** The original line?
---->'''Cowboys:''' What's that stirring?\\
In my pants?
* "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich" from ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'':
-->And when all your neighbors are upper class\\
You won't know your Joneses from your ''As''tors.\\
...\\
When we're in the dough and off of the nut,\\
You won't know your banker from your ''but''ler.
* In ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'', "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" has Fanny Brice sing as "Private Schvartz from Rockaway" (whose vocabulary has just been shown to include "bagels" and "tzimmis"):
-->I'm through and through\\
Red, white and bluish--\\
I talk this way\\
Because I'm British! ''(Cue 4 bars of "Rule Britannia")''
* From a sanitized version of "Beauty School Dropout" in a junior high production of ''Film/{{Grease}}'':
-->Well, they couldn't teach you anything; you think you're such a looker,\\
But no customer would go to you unless she was a...fool!
* Used by [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Shakespeare]] [[OlderThanSteam himself]] in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'':
-->''Hamlet:''' (singing) For thou dost know, O Damon dear,\\
This realm dismantled was\\
Of Jove himself; and now reigns here\\
A very, very--pajock.
** "Pajock" was a synonym for "peacock", and "was" [[GetTheeToANunnery would have been pronounced]] to approximately rhyme with "ass". Immediately {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Horatio[=:=]
--->'''Horatio:''' You might have rhymed.
** Also note that Shakespeare wasn't GettingCrapPastTheRadar here: "ass" only ever meant donkey back then.
* The song "Random Black Girl" from ''Homemade Fusion'' by Kooman and Dimond:
-->The designers can't light me\\
Director don't know my name\\
And the makeup artists think\\
We all wear the same shade\\
And Mr. Stage Manager thinks I got too much sass\\
And the costumer don't know what to do with my big old...black...head, oh!
* In another bit of Sondheim's cleverness, in "Maybe They're Magic" from ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'' the word "bean" is telegraphed:
-->'''Baker's Wife:''' There are rights and wrongs and in-betweens,\\
No one waits when fortune intervenes.\\
And maybe they're really magic,\\
Who knows?
** Until it becomes the last line of the song:
--->'''Baker's Wife:''' Only three more tries,\\
And we'll have our prize,\\
When the end's in sight you'll realize,\\
If the end is right,\\
It justifies the beans!
* In ''Theatre/TheMikado'' by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, Katisha is trying to reveal to the chorus that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado, but she keeps getting interrupted: "No minstrel he, despite bravado! He is the son of..."; "I'll spoil your gay gambado! He is the son of..."; and so on. Fortunately for Nanki-Poo, the chorus is {{Genre Blind|ness}} enough that they don't realize that the word that keeps getting cut off must be "Mikado".
* In the musical ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', Eliza causes pandemonium at the Ascot races by shouting, "Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin' arse!" Shortly afterwards, Freddie is about to rhyme "farce" by repeating her words when Mrs. Pearce interrupts him.
** Later, Eliza sings in "Without You":
--->You, dear friend, who talk so well,\\
You can go to\\
Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire.
** Higgins' "Why Can't the English" has a very subtle one:
--->In France, every Frenchman\\
Knows his language from A to Zed\\
(The French don't care what they do actually\\
As long as they [[strike:do it in bed]] pronounce it properly.)
* "They Couldn't Compare To You" from ''Theatre/OutOfThisWorld'':
-->'''Mercury''': There was Mélisande,\\
A platinum blonde\\
(How I loved to ruffle her locks).\\
There was bright Aurora,\\
Then Pandora,\\
Who let me open her--\\
'''ChorusGirls''' (not half a beat too late): ''They'' couldn't compare to us!
* From the play ''Saturday's Children'' by Maxwell Anderson:
-->'''Florrie''': It's vain of its face \\
It's vain of its figger \\
It's just fat enough \\
But it mustn't get - larger \\
'''Willy''': Rhyme it you dancing fool, rhyme it! \\
'''Florrie''': Um - it never uses bad words.
* The subversion still rhymes (of course it rhymes, it's Sondheim) but ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' teeters over the edge of profanity in Mrs. Lovett's song "The Worst Pies In London":
-->'''Mrs. Lovett:''' Is that just revolting,\\
All greasy and gritty?\\
It looks like it's moulting,\\
And tastes like...\\
Well, pity\\
A woman alone...
** At the very end of the show, Todd and Mrs. Lovett are singing a reprise of "A Little Priest": "Life is for the alive, my dear, / So let's keep living it, really living it—" and then Todd flings her into the oven, making the implied, but never sung, last line "in here!"
* In ''Theatre/TheUnsinkableMollyBrown'', the last rhyming word in every chorus of "Belly Up To The Bar, Boys" except the last is conveniently interrupted in "Miss Susie" fashion, e.g.
-->Belly up,\\
Belly up to the bar, boys,\\
Better have a few more.\\
Never whirl with a three-toed girl\\
Or a discontented wh--\\
''Hor''rible example, like the girl whose name was Carrie...
* A clean example is used in the musical of ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'':
-->'''Julia:''' So you're back where you started,\\
On your way to success.\\
So\\
Will you sing at my wedding?\\
''A beat''.\\
'''Robbie:''' NOOOOOOOO.
*** Actually, this is a DoubleSubversion, because it does rhyme, just not where you think it will.
* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'':
** During Elphaba's birth in "No One Mourns the Wicked":
--->I see a nose!\\
I see a curl!\\
It's a healthy, perfect, lovely little - ''(her father and the midwife realize she's green and start screaming)''
** Also, earlier in the song...
--->'''Galinda''': Let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue / The wicked workings of you-know-who / Isn't it nice to know? / That good will conquer evil? / The truth we all believe'll by and by / Outlive a lie / For you and...\\
'''Villager 1''': No one mourns the Wicked!\\
'''Villager 2''': No one cries: "They won't return!"
* In the Lippa version of ''Literature/TheWildParty'', Burrs sings in "Make Me Happy" (while waving a loaded pistol):
-->We've got a situation:\\
Shit or get off the pot!\\
Whaddaya say? You wanna give her away\\
Or do you wanna get--\\
On your knees?
----
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{{Subverted Rhyme|EveryOccasion}}s in theatre.
----
!!!'''Creators:'''
* A Stanley Holloway monologue has this line:
-->And was George afraid? Yes, he was and he run,\\
And he hid there in one of the ditches,\\
While the Dragon, the pig, ate his ferrets and pup,\\
Aye, best of his prize-winning er - she dogs.
* Daniel Rabinovitch, from Music/LesLuthiers, does this in "Vote A Ortega".
-->¡Ortega, amigo, el pueblo está con usted![[note]]Ortega, friend, the people are with you. [[DontExplainTheJoke The joke here is that in Spanish there are two ways to say "With you": "Contigo" and "Con usted" (more formal).]][[/note]]
!!!'''Works:'''
* Variation from the musical ''Theatre/AltarBoyz'': The song is about waiting until marriage to have sex. The line rhymes, but it's still not the word that the audience might be expecting:
--> So 'till then, I'll have to master...my own fate.
* In a reversal of this trope's conventional use, "Feelings", from the Bock and Harnick musical ''Theatre/TheAppleTree'': after Eve sings at some length about how nervous and dreamy she gets around Adam, she concludes with:
--> Is there a source for this congestion\\
That I must learn to rise above?\\
Is there a name for this condition?\\
Yes, there's a name, and it is hell!
* ''Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged'' has this rhyme:
-->I'm Salomé, that is my name\\
I am an evil lass\\
Boys love the way I dance all night\\
They always grab my mule.
* It's not ''exactly'' a rhyme, since it's just the same word over and over again, but from ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'':
-->"Here's the butcher! He has AIDS! Here's the teacher! She has AIDS! Here's the doctor! He has AIDS! Here's my daughter! She has Aaaaaaaa wonderful disposition..."
* "Fie on Goodness" in the musical ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' contains the following lines:
-->Ah, my heart is still in Scotland\\
Where the lasses woo the best\\
On some bonny hill in Scotland\\
Stroking someone's bonny...\\\
Fie on Scotland, fie!\\
Fie on Scotland, fie!
* Although it's not used for comedic effect, ''Theatre/{{Company}}'' features one in ''Poor Baby'':
-->There's no one\\
In his life,\\
Robert ought to have a woman...
** There's another one that ''is'' used for comic effect at the end of "Barcelona", the morning after Bobby and [[SexyStewardess April]] have slept together and she is getting ready to leave to be on a flight to Barcelona. Bobby makes the usual false pleas that she stay, clearly wanting nothing more than to go back to sleep, leading to this exchange:
--->'''April:''' That's not to say\\
That if I had my way...\\
Oh, well...I guess...okay!\\
'''Bobby:''' What?\\
'''April:''' I'll stay!\\
'''Bobby:''' But...oh ''God!''
* Used in the "Othello Rap" from ''Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged'':
-->Now Othello loved Desi like Adonis loved Venus.\\
And Desi loved Othello\\
'Cuz he had a big...SWORD!
** Even before that, they've already pulled a similar trick:
-->Their fate pursues them, they can't seem to duck it,\\
(pause) And then in Act 5, they both kick the bucket.
* ''Theatre/{{Curtains}}''
** Near the end of the song "It's a Business", after using several inappropriate words without qualms:
--->'''Carmen''': Yes, green's my favorite color,\\
And I don't mean on the grass\\
It's a business.\\
And the shows I do do business,\\
And I'm good at doin' business,\\
And if you don't like my business, sweetie,\\
Blow it out your...\\
'''Guys''': Business!
** Played with in the song "Thataway". The script offers this line to alternate with the original or be used in its place for younger productions.
--->'''Cowboys''': What's that music?\\
What's that dance?\\
What's that stirring?\\
It's romance!
*** The original line?
---->'''Cowboys:''' What's that stirring?\\
In my pants?
* "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich" from ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'':
-->And when all your neighbors are upper class\\
You won't know your Joneses from your ''As''tors.\\
...\\
When we're in the dough and off of the nut,\\
You won't know your banker from your ''but''ler.
* In ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'', "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" has Fanny Brice sing as "Private Schvartz from Rockaway" (whose vocabulary has just been shown to include "bagels" and "tzimmis"):
-->I'm through and through\\
Red, white and bluish--\\
I talk this way\\
Because I'm British! ''(Cue 4 bars of "Rule Britannia")''
* From a sanitized version of "Beauty School Dropout" in a junior high production of ''Film/{{Grease}}'':
-->Well, they couldn't teach you anything; you think you're such a looker,\\
But no customer would go to you unless she was a...fool!
* Used by [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Shakespeare]] [[OlderThanSteam himself]] in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'':
-->''Hamlet:''' (singing) For thou dost know, O Damon dear,\\
This realm dismantled was\\
Of Jove himself; and now reigns here\\
A very, very--pajock.
** "Pajock" was a synonym for "peacock", and "was" [[GetTheeToANunnery would have been pronounced]] to approximately rhyme with "ass". Immediately {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Horatio[=:=]
--->'''Horatio:''' You might have rhymed.
** Also note that Shakespeare wasn't GettingCrapPastTheRadar here: "ass" only ever meant donkey back then.
* The song "Random Black Girl" from ''Homemade Fusion'' by Kooman and Dimond:
-->The designers can't light me\\
Director don't know my name\\
And the makeup artists think\\
We all wear the same shade\\
And Mr. Stage Manager thinks I got too much sass\\
And the costumer don't know what to do with my big old...black...head, oh!
* In another bit of Sondheim's cleverness, in "Maybe They're Magic" from ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'' the word "bean" is telegraphed:
-->'''Baker's Wife:''' There are rights and wrongs and in-betweens,\\
No one waits when fortune intervenes.\\
And maybe they're really magic,\\
Who knows?
** Until it becomes the last line of the song:
--->'''Baker's Wife:''' Only three more tries,\\
And we'll have our prize,\\
When the end's in sight you'll realize,\\
If the end is right,\\
It justifies the beans!
* In ''Theatre/TheMikado'' by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, Katisha is trying to reveal to the chorus that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado, but she keeps getting interrupted: "No minstrel he, despite bravado! He is the son of..."; "I'll spoil your gay gambado! He is the son of..."; and so on. Fortunately for Nanki-Poo, the chorus is {{Genre Blind|ness}} enough that they don't realize that the word that keeps getting cut off must be "Mikado".
* In the musical ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', Eliza causes pandemonium at the Ascot races by shouting, "Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin' arse!" Shortly afterwards, Freddie is about to rhyme "farce" by repeating her words when Mrs. Pearce interrupts him.
** Later, Eliza sings in "Without You":
--->You, dear friend, who talk so well,\\
You can go to\\
Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire.
** Higgins' "Why Can't the English" has a very subtle one:
--->In France, every Frenchman\\
Knows his language from A to Zed\\
(The French don't care what they do actually\\
As long as they [[strike:do it in bed]] pronounce it properly.)
* "They Couldn't Compare To You" from ''Theatre/OutOfThisWorld'':
-->'''Mercury''': There was Mélisande,\\
A platinum blonde\\
(How I loved to ruffle her locks).\\
There was bright Aurora,\\
Then Pandora,\\
Who let me open her--\\
'''ChorusGirls''' (not half a beat too late): ''They'' couldn't compare to us!
* From the play ''Saturday's Children'' by Maxwell Anderson:
-->'''Florrie''': It's vain of its face \\
It's vain of its figger \\
It's just fat enough \\
But it mustn't get - larger \\
'''Willy''': Rhyme it you dancing fool, rhyme it! \\
'''Florrie''': Um - it never uses bad words.
* The subversion still rhymes (of course it rhymes, it's Sondheim) but ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' teeters over the edge of profanity in Mrs. Lovett's song "The Worst Pies In London":
-->'''Mrs. Lovett:''' Is that just revolting,\\
All greasy and gritty?\\
It looks like it's moulting,\\
And tastes like...\\
Well, pity\\
A woman alone...
** At the very end of the show, Todd and Mrs. Lovett are singing a reprise of "A Little Priest": "Life is for the alive, my dear, / So let's keep living it, really living it—" and then Todd flings her into the oven, making the implied, but never sung, last line "in here!"
* In ''Theatre/TheUnsinkableMollyBrown'', the last rhyming word in every chorus of "Belly Up To The Bar, Boys" except the last is conveniently interrupted in "Miss Susie" fashion, e.g.
-->Belly up,\\
Belly up to the bar, boys,\\
Better have a few more.\\
Never whirl with a three-toed girl\\
Or a discontented wh--\\
''Hor''rible example, like the girl whose name was Carrie...
* A clean example is used in the musical of ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'':
-->'''Julia:''' So you're back where you started,\\
On your way to success.\\
So\\
Will you sing at my wedding?\\
''A beat''.\\
'''Robbie:''' NOOOOOOOO.
*** Actually, this is a DoubleSubversion, because it does rhyme, just not where you think it will.
* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'':
** During Elphaba's birth in "No One Mourns the Wicked":
--->I see a nose!\\
I see a curl!\\
It's a healthy, perfect, lovely little - ''(her father and the midwife realize she's green and start screaming)''
** Also, earlier in the song...
--->'''Galinda''': Let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue / The wicked workings of you-know-who / Isn't it nice to know? / That good will conquer evil? / The truth we all believe'll by and by / Outlive a lie / For you and...\\
'''Villager 1''': No one mourns the Wicked!\\
'''Villager 2''': No one cries: "They won't return!"
* In the Lippa version of ''Literature/TheWildParty'', Burrs sings in "Make Me Happy" (while waving a loaded pistol):
-->We've got a situation:\\
Shit or get off the pot!\\
Whaddaya say? You wanna give her away\\
Or do you wanna get--\\
On your knees?
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