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Post by partytentdown on Feb 16, 2023 13:26:58 GMT
Noises Off has "Nothing On".
One Woman Show was based around a show called "Wildfowl".
Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway was performed on the set of "Hurt Locker the musical"
What other fictional meta shows can you think of?
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Post by jgblunners on Feb 16, 2023 13:44:42 GMT
There is of course the infamous 'Springtime for Hitler' in The Producers.
Also 'Pretty Lady' in 42nd Street.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 16, 2023 14:08:56 GMT
The Murder At Haversham Manor in The Play That Goes Wrong. Not exactly a fictional show because it's based on a real play but a musical version of The Taming Of The Shrew in Kiss Me Kate.
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Post by n1david on Feb 16, 2023 14:15:12 GMT
Hamlet has The Mousetrap, if that counts...
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 14:21:39 GMT
Phantom of the Opera has the opera where Carlotta starts croaking like a frog
Both Frederick and Ann go and see a show in A Little Night Music.
There is a show within a show in Newsies
There is the whole Honeybun sequence in South Pacific
The Small House of Uncle Thomas in The King and I
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Post by Nelly on Feb 16, 2023 14:46:58 GMT
Wizomania in Wicked?
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Post by Mark on Feb 16, 2023 14:50:27 GMT
The Drowsy Chaperone, of course lovingly narrated by the Man in Chair in what we know as the real “The Drowsy Chaperone”. And also features a snippet of “The Enchanted Nightingale”.
You’ve also got Caliban’s Day, the play that they are rehearsing within The Habit of Art
Then looking to Smash, so I guess shows within a tv show, you have Bombshell, Hitlist, Heaven on Earth, Liaisons, and a Bruno Mars jukebox musical.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 16, 2023 16:09:18 GMT
Phantom of the Opera has the opera where Carlotta starts croaking like a frog Il Muto. Actually thinking about it Phantom might win the award for most fictional operas within a show as there's also both Hannibal and Don Juan Triumphant. |
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 16:23:24 GMT
Gypsy- the Let Me Entertain You sequence
Rose Tint My World- The Floorshow in the Rocky Horror Show
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Post by ruthieh on Feb 16, 2023 16:34:02 GMT
Too obvious to say Romeo & Juliet in & Juliet?!
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Feb 16, 2023 16:40:39 GMT
Musical Husbands in Merrily We Roll Along.
Do The Weissman Follies count?
Man of La Mancha is a show within a show thanks to the framing device.
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Post by emsworthian on Feb 16, 2023 16:44:14 GMT
The Kander and Ebb musical "Curtains" is about a production of "Robbin' Hood of the Old West."
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 16, 2023 16:47:42 GMT
Most Kander and Ebb uses the show metaphor
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 16, 2023 17:03:38 GMT
The Habit of Art
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Post by bwayboy22 on Feb 16, 2023 17:03:55 GMT
In the play "See How They Run" they do a scene from "Private Lives".
Does "Kiss Me Kate" count?
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Post by profquatermass on Feb 16, 2023 18:48:45 GMT
The Taming of the Shrew *is* a show within a show though the framing device is often cut
Look Look by Michael Frayn is about the audience watching a play. Isn't The Real Inspector Hound about the critics watching a rubbish murder mystery?
The Uncle Tom's Cabin performance in The King and I
Pyramus and Thisbe in Midsummer Night's Dream
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Post by firefingers on Feb 16, 2023 21:37:22 GMT
Hamlet is an obvious one, with "The Murder of Gonzago".
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Post by crabtree on Feb 16, 2023 22:36:09 GMT
anyone mention Pyramus and Thisbe, or the masque of the seven virtues (is that right?) in LLL.
I'd love to revisit Look Look. I remember it being clever, but not enough.
and then Ayckbourn's A chorus of disapproval, being based around The Beggar's Opera which is sort of a play with in a play, as is the Taming of the Shrew itself if we are being technical.
Yep hurrah for kander and ebb and Cabaret.
I've just been in History of art - like Nothing On in Noises off the play is short. Nothing On is only a one act, isn't it?
and chorus Line?
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Post by crabtree on Feb 16, 2023 22:38:20 GMT
forgive me for duplicating a few suggestions from others - I like topics like these.
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Post by crabtree on Feb 16, 2023 22:40:38 GMT
The Red Shoes.
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Post by bimse on Feb 16, 2023 23:31:21 GMT
Follies has pieces from other fictional shows in it, if that counts.
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Post by Peter on Feb 17, 2023 0:00:35 GMT
Two versions (dystopian + ‘regular’) of Acorn Antiques in Acorn Antiques The Musical - though I think the original Act One has been cut in all productions following the London run?
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Post by crabtree on Feb 18, 2023 9:15:08 GMT
I was wracking my brain for the technical term for a play within a play and I think it's 'mise en abyme', and I can add to our list with Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Critic, The seagull we've mentioned I think, The Spanish Tragedy and women Beware Women. The Real thing is a film within a play isn't it - may have got that wrong.
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Post by Matt on Feb 18, 2023 10:13:35 GMT
In only fools and horses Rodney and Cassandra go to see The Phantom Of The Opera.
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Post by crabtree on Feb 19, 2023 10:22:35 GMT
ah, I think I got the LLL play wrong - it's not the nine virtues, but the nine worthies.
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Post by bwayboy22 on Feb 19, 2023 18:57:13 GMT
In Something Rotten there is Omelet the Musical.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Feb 20, 2023 17:44:16 GMT
The Royal Rascal and The Duelling/Dancing Cavelier in Singing in the Rain, plus then Beautiful Girl sequence.
Showboat has portions of a show as well.
Actually loads do if it's just "numbers" rather than a full play — White Christmas, Easter Parade, Holiday Inn..
State Fair has the entertainment on the midway.
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Post by crabtree on Feb 26, 2023 10:57:11 GMT
The Band wagon ( and what does that exactly mean in the context of the film?) was on TV yesterday and certainly features a show within a show, but having ditched a moderately coherent plot about Faustus, after its' failure they go and write, well I'm not sure what really. A revue I guess - various songs and then an incoherent murder mystery. But then can someone tell me the plot of 42nd street's Pretty Lady?
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