Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#0Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:14pm
Hey! I have always enjoyed coming up with new titles for popular Broadway musicals. So, I thought it would be fun if you could try too!
Example: OKLAHOMA!
Alternate Titles: Out of My Dreams
Territory Folks
What a Beautiful Mornin'
Try it! It will be interesting!
#1re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:20pm
What the hell...
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:
Joseph and His Magical Multicolored Coat of Dreams?
Is that sort of what you mean? I dunno.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#2re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:22pmSomething like that. Like I just think that some musicals have odd titles, and I enjoy thinking about other titles that could work too.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:24pmLa Cage Aux Folles: The Girls with Something Extra
#4re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:24pm
Funny Girl:
American Beauty Nose
And um yeah, that's all I got lol.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#6re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:40pm
Wicked: "Oz", "Witches", "The Wonderful Wizard", or "Post-Dorothy Depression"
Hairspray: "Fat Girls CAN Dance!", "Welcome To The 60's", "Fat Feet"
Spamalot: "Monty Python: The Musical" (I actually hate the title of "Spamalot", because it's just... ehh, I hate it.)
#7re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:43pm
This one is real:
Follies was Originally going to be called: Waiting For The Girls Upstairs.
It was changed to Follies, which I think I like better.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#8re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:44pm
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS: "Filty Shameless Scoundrels","Lying Cheating Scoundrels" ,"Scoundrelacious Guys"
SWEENEY TODD: "RedHeads" (get it, like blood red, and hair on heads? haha...im stupid"
umm...
THE WEDDING SINGER: "The Best Show On Broadway"... 
i suck at this
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#9re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:55pm
Phantom of the Opera: The Opera Ghost / The Haunting of the Opera Populaire / The Ingenue and I
Les Miserables: Redemption / Everybody Dies
Miss Saigon: Sun and Moon / The Setting Sun / East Meets West
Martin Guerre: Mistaken Identity / My Name Is
Once on this Island: Tales from the Gods / The Carribean Little Mermaid
Grease: Fast Times at Rydell High / Summer Loving
Little Shop of Horrors: Audrey II! / It Came From Outer Space / Maneater
Light in the Piazza: The Language of Love / Flames in Firenze
The King and I: Memoirs from Siam / Something Wonderful
#10re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:57pmTHE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: THE SLAVE OF DUTY
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#11re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:58pm
SWEET CHARITY- I Dont Wanna Be a Whore No More
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#13re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 5:10pmDreamgirls: Sassy Bitches and the Men they Love
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
SweMozArt
Leading Actor Joined: 7/31/06
#14re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 5:20pm
The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Oklahoma! Oklahoma! Oklahoma!
(Steve Martin shouts that in the movie)
Grease: Pronounced in Swedish it sounds as the swedish word for "pig" so at least for the swedish version: PIG!
Jersey Boys: Sopranos, New York Boys (What is New Jersey?), the castrates, bodies without organs
The times they are a changing: A literal take on Bob Dylan (When you hear "like a rolling stone" you will se a rolling stone), Stoned!, somewhere between awake and asleep.
Sound of music: Sound of silence!
Wicked: Defying critics, Oops there goes gravity!, Gimmick!
Chess: It does matter if you are black or white (perhaps better for a song in the show).
Updated On: 9/30/06 at 05:20 PM
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#15re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 5:40pm
Wicked[ly Overrated]
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#16re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 5:46pm
CHICAGO: All That Jazz
Roxie and Velma
Razzle Dazzle
I'm a Star!
That's Showbiz
#17re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 5:51pm
Evita: Slutty First Lady
Don't Cry For Me, Argentina!
Surprisingly Good for You
A New Argentina
Argentina: The Musical
Aspects of Love (I know it's not really popular, but...): When You Screw an Actress
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#18re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 6:11pm
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: THE SLAVE OF DUTY
Isn't that...the actual title? I'm pretty sure the official title is "The Pirates of Penzance, or, The Slave of Duty".
Haha wildcard, I love "Les Miserables: Everybody Dies".
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#19re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 8:16pm
Avenue Q: Sesame Street Gone Wild or The Muppets Gone Wild.
Jersey Boys: Oh What A Night, Big Men In Town
I can't think of any more than that, but this is an interesting thing that they mention in the Jersey Boys program that the original title was going to be Oh What A Night.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#21re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 8:37pm
In My Life: SH*T
Lestat: Bad SH*T
Hot Feet: The Worst SH*T I've Ever Seen on a Broadway Stage
#22re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:09pm
Love the Les Mis: Everybody Dies
Aida- I like dthe original title "Elaboarte Lives", better.
jjoey076
Stand-by Joined: 8/13/06
#23re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:15pm
The Light in the Piazza: "Is She Retarded?"
Wicked: "Idina Superhour"
#24re: Alternate Titles for Popular Musicals
Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:17pmi know whenever i hear the title "All Shook Up" i think it's a musical about Katharine Hepburn. does that count?
