Rocky Horror
In the original stage version, the opening number was sung by this character, traditionally played by the same actor who plays Magenta.
The Usherette
Poetic meter featuring four trochees, found in Macbeth's Double Double toil and trouble...
Trochaic tetrameter
T.S. Eliot deemed this verse too sad for children, so it was cut from the 1939 book, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Grizabella: The Glamour Cat
The island setting of Once on This Island is inspired by this real-world Caribbean nation.
Haiti
Tearjerker is reimagined as a buddy comedy about two women restoring park seating.
Beaches to Benches
Composer Richard Hartley said this song evolved on the fly during rehearsals. "We had to pad it out: the show was only about 40 minutes," he told The Guardian.
The Time Warp
Sondheim plays with rhythm and meter in this wink and a waggle song that oscillates between 3/4, 2/4, and 3/8 time signatures.
The Miller's Son
In 2007, Otto, a Turkish Van kitten, climbed into the frame of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Clavinova and delete this "new" musical's score, which set the production back.
Love Never Dies (Phantom in Manhattan)
Piazza della Signoria, the Uffizi Gallery, and the Arno River area are just a few of the sites Clara and her mother Margaret visit in this musical.
Light in the Piazza
Change a letter in this psychological thriller to get something you’d bring to rehearsal.
Bug to Bag
Though this Brad ballad appears in the original stage musical, and revival, the scene was excised from the final cut of the film.
"Once in a While"
Sacred dance rhythm from Zimbabwe. It has its own distinct meter which is counted in a 1-2, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3 pattern.
Mhande
1950 play about witchcraft, included a black cat named Pyewacket.
Bell, Book and Candle
The musical South Pacific is set on fictional islands inspired by this real-world South Pacific archipelago where WWII battles occurred.
What are the Solomon Islands?
Change a letter and James Graham’s searing new play to get a small squeeze of the skin.
Punch to Pinch
Richard O' Brien thought Rocky Horror would be a three-week fringe theatre event when it opened at this upstairs venue in 1973.
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Juliet tells Romeo that he is not invited to her wedding to François Du Bois. His immediate response is, "Banished? Do not say banished," which is an example of this rhythmic blank verse.
Iambic Pentameter
Hamlet VIII retired as a lobby cat last year, following years of greeting guests at this famed New York institution.
The Algonquin
Location of Victorian Fun Home in Beech Creek, PA.
Maple Avenue
Change one letter in this musical about a high-stakes board game to get a peppery leafy green.
Chess to Cress
Writer and actor Richard O'Brien voiced the title characters' father in this Disney cartoon series.
Phineas and Ferb
Troubled and skittish female Jellicle cat or grain Goddess of the harvest.
Demeter
Before she made us all cry in Light in the Piazza, she understudied the rol of Jellylorum and Jennyanydots in the first national tour of Cats.
Victoria Clark
This musical's storyline focuses on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, with key events occurring in St. Petersburg and Paris.
Anastasia
Swap one letter in this Stephen Schwartz musical to get what an ice cream cone was, moments ago.
Wicked to Licked