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Broadway Typos

Dollypop
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Broadway Typos#1
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:50pm
Many years ago, I remember that the A-B-C Directory of Broadway Plays had a typo in its listing of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. It showed up as BAREFOOT IN THE DARK, which isn't a bad title for another play.

I was wondering how many titles could be changed by one or two typographical errors?

For starters:

ARSENIC AND OLD LICE

JERSEY GOYS

LEGALLY BLIND

SALE OF TWO TITTIES

THE OLD COUPLE

LIFE WITH FEATHER

THE POUND OF MUSIC

Okay, now what can you come up with?


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Updated On: 8/19/08 at 11:50 PM
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re: Broadway Typos#2
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:51pm
Sale of Two Titties!!!!!! That made me lol out loud!! re: Broadway Typos
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
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re: Broadway Typos#2
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:53pm
OMG, those are Hilarious!

Jersey Goys! Oye vey!
LePetiteFromage
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#3
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:53pm
Updated On: 5/2/09 at 11:53 PM
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Kad
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re: Broadway Typos#4
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:55pm
Wacked.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Dollypop
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re: Broadway Typos#5
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:55pm
Typos corrected. Thank you.

How about FANNY GIRL?
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Dollypop
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re: Broadway Typos#6
Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:59pm
THE THING AND I

HALLELUJAH BOOBY

STALKING HAPPY

THE SAPPY TIME

22nd STREET

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHUTZPAH

MY FAIR LADDIE

PAINT YOUR DRAGON

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#7
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:00am
Updated On: 5/2/09 at 12:00 AM
Dollypop
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re: Broadway Typos#8
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:02am
IRMA LA DEUCE

MAIMED

HELLO MOLLY

ANYTHING SHOWS

THE SCARLET PIMPLE

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Dollypop
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re: Broadway Typos#9
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:07am
FIDDLER ON THE POOF

THE SUNSHINE GOYS

PISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
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re: Broadway Typos#11
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:09am
"SPAYALOT."

I'd see it.
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#12
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:10am
Updated On: 5/2/09 at 12:10 AM
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re: Broadway Typos#13
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:10am
"A CHORUS GINE."
Dollypop
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re: Broadway Typos#14
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:11am
JEW FOR THE SEESAW

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re: Broadway Typos#15
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:12am
DRY-BABY
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re: Broadway Typos#16
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:12am
OKLAHOMO
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re: Broadway Typos#17
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:13am
BEAUTY AND THE YEAST

THE MILD PARTY

BI-RIVER

And I suppose ANNIE would be quite a different show if the title character's name was, say, ARNIE or ANGIE or something...
Updated On: 8/19/08 at 12:13 AM
Dollypop
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re: Broadway Typos#18
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:14am
INTO THE GOODS

GENTLEMEN DEFER BLONDES

HIGH BUTTON JEWS
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Updated On: 8/19/08 at 12:14 AM
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re: Broadway Typos#19
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:15am
Long ago I read about a marquee where the "p" had fallen off of the word "presents". Result:

DAVID MERRICK
RESENTS
CAROL CHANNING
IN
HELLO, DOLLY!

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re: Broadway Typos#20
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:19am
KISS ME KITE
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re: Broadway Typos#21
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:22am
AUGUST: ORANGE COUNTY
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Dollypop
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re: Broadway Typos#22
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:23am
WEST SIDE STORAGE
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re: Broadway Typos#23
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:33am
POOF
RABBIT HOPE
HEDDA GABBER
A DOLL'S HOSE
SPECTS OF LOVE
THE WILD PARTS
LADDY IN THE PARK
MONDAY IN THE LARK WITH GORGE
THE CARDNAL WILL ROCK
How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
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re: Broadway Typos#24
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:33am
ANGLES IN AMERICA
FOLKIES
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad
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re: Broadway Typos#25
Posted: 8/19/08 at 12:37am
AUGUST: ORANGE COUNTY

That is totally what I thought the title of the play was when I first heard about it.
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