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* The song "The Wizard and I" from the musical ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has several examples of foreshadowing. In this song we see starry-eyed teenage Elphaba, who we already know is going to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, fantasizing about being the Wizard's right-hand girl one day. She dreams about "a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with me" after we've just seen the townspeople [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing rejoice at her presumed death]]. She also says "I'd be so happy I could melt" and "when people see me they will scream." This could also be considered an interesting example of a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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* The song "The Wizard and I" from the musical ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has several examples of foreshadowing. In this song we see starry-eyed teenage Elphaba, who we already know is going to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, fantasizing about being the Wizard's right-hand girl one day. She dreams about "a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with me" after we've just seen the townspeople [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing rejoice at her presumed death]]. She also says "I'd be so happy I could melt" and "when people see me they will scream." This could also be considered an interesting example of a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: In ''[[https://vimeo.com/201477887 Base Instruments]]'', Mrs. Hawking briefly mentions that she was "nursemaided by cleverer than myself." We see exactly what she means in ''[[https://vimeo.com/265916463 Gilded Cages]]'' and ''Mrs. Frost.''
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* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: series:
** In part III: ''[[https://vimeo.com/201477887 Base Instruments]]'', Mrs. Hawking briefly mentions that she was "nursemaided bycleverer those cleverer" than myself." herself. We see exactly what she means in part IV: ''[[https://vimeo.com/265916463 Gilded Cages]]'' and ''Mrs. Frost.''part V: ''[[https://vimeo.com/321115275 Mrs. Frost]]''.
** In part V: ''[[https://vimeo.com/321115275 Mrs. Frost]]'', Nathaniel jokes to Clara about [[spoiler: how her friendship with alienist Dr. Terrence Enfield would be useful if she wanted someone committed. She teases back with “Don’t tempt me.” But she uses this very connection when the team realizes the only way to neutralize a villain like Mrs. Frost is to put her away in a mental institution.]]
** In part VI: ''Fallen Women'', Mrs. Hawking expresses her reluctance to work with Mrs. Frost because of what Frost did to her nephew. Frost responds with, [[spoiler: “And I should want you dead. After what you did to me.” By the end we see that everything Frost does over the course of the story has actually been to achieving that very desire.]]
** In part III: ''[[https://vimeo.com/201477887 Base Instruments]]'', Mrs. Hawking briefly mentions that she was "nursemaided by
** In part V: ''[[https://vimeo.com/321115275 Mrs. Frost]]'', Nathaniel jokes to Clara about [[spoiler: how her friendship with alienist Dr. Terrence Enfield would be useful if she wanted someone committed. She teases back with “Don’t tempt me.” But she uses this very connection when the team realizes the only way to neutralize a villain like Mrs. Frost is to put her away in a mental institution.]]
** In part VI: ''Fallen Women'', Mrs. Hawking expresses her reluctance to work with Mrs. Frost because of what Frost did to her nephew. Frost responds with, [[spoiler: “And I should want you dead. After what you did to me.” By the end we see that everything Frost does over the course of the story has actually been to achieving that very desire.]]
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* ''Theatre/IAndYou'': There are several hints long before the reveal at the end of the play that [[spoiler: the characters aren't actually in Caroline's room and that Anthony is dead]].
** The fire alarm that goes off at several points makes the sounds of [[spoiler: a hospital monitor]] rather than an actual fire alarm.
** Caroline's usually-attentive mother never responds to her texts, despite giving Anthony cookies on his way in and directing him to Caroline's room.
** Anthony's extreme distress when Caroline wants to go check social media about what happened at the basketball court at first seems like a response to the trauma of seeing it happen, [[spoiler: though the fact that it was a video of his own death was also probably a factor.]]
** The fire alarm that goes off at several points makes the sounds of [[spoiler: a hospital monitor]] rather than an actual fire alarm.
** Caroline's usually-attentive mother never responds to her texts, despite giving Anthony cookies on his way in and directing him to Caroline's room.
** Anthony's extreme distress when Caroline wants to go check social media about what happened at the basketball court at first seems like a response to the trauma of seeing it happen, [[spoiler: though the fact that it was a video of his own death was also probably a factor.]]
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* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: In ''[[https://vimeo.com/201477887 Base Instruments]]'', Mrs. Hawking briefly mentions that she was "nursemaided by cleverer than myself." We see exactly what she means in ''[[https://vimeo.com/265916463 Gilded Cages]]'' and ''Mrs. Frost.''
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* Theatre/{{Cats}}: In the 1998 stage film, Mistoffelees possessing magical powers is foreshadowed before Rum Tum Tugger reveals it. The opening songs state mystical cats exist; when Mukustrap asks Mistoffelees to open the car boot hiding the Gumbie Cat, he does so with magic; Macavity possesses powers of levitation and hypnosis, and vanishes by using electricity as if teleporting; and whenever there's a change in atmosphere symbolising something mystical (such as the approach of Old Deuteronomy), Mistoffelees is always the first to sense it. Mistoffelees ends up showing that he can teleport cats, control light, produce electricity, vanish in a burst of magic as if teleporting, and cats watching his Conjuring Turn get similar shakes to Munkustrap's hypnosis shakes during the Macavity fight.
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* Theatre/{{Cats}}: ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'': In the 1998 stage film, Mistoffelees possessing magical powers is foreshadowed before Rum Tum Tugger reveals it. The opening songs state mystical cats exist; when Mukustrap asks Mistoffelees to open the car boot hiding the Gumbie Cat, he does so with magic; Macavity possesses powers of levitation and hypnosis, and vanishes by using electricity as if teleporting; and whenever there's a change in atmosphere symbolising something mystical (such as the approach of Old Deuteronomy), Mistoffelees is always the first to sense it. Mistoffelees ends up showing that he can teleport cats, control light, produce electricity, vanish in a burst of magic as if teleporting, and cats watching his Conjuring Turn get similar shakes to Munkustrap's hypnosis shakes during the Macavity fight.
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* Theatre/{{Cats}}: In the 1998 stage film, Mistoffelees possessing magical powers is foreshadowed before Rum Tum Tugger reveals it. The opening songs state mystical cats exist; when Mukustrap asks Mistoffelees to open the car boot hiding the Gumbie Cat, he does so with magic; Macavity possesses powers of levitation and hypnosis, and vanishes by using electricity as if teleporting; and whenever there's a change in atmosphere symbolising something mystical (such as the approach of Old Deuteronomy), Mistoffelees is always the first to sense it. Mistoffelees ends up showing that he can teleport cats, control light, produce electricity, vanish in a burst of magic as if teleporting, and cats watching his Conjuring Turn get similar shakes to Munkustrap's hypnosis shakes during the Macavity fight.
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* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Martha sings to Mary about what she can do now that she lives out in the middle of nowhere and talks about all kinds of fantastical things to explore out there, including pirate caves and fairies. Tucked into all this fantasy, she sings ''If you chance to see a garden guarded by a tree and meet a bird who speaks to thee...'' which of course turns out to be real.
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* In ''Theatre/StreetScene'', the GossipyHens' talk about Mrs. Maurrant's CheatingWithTheMilkman includes this ominous prediction:
-->'''Olsen''': Some day, her hoosban' is killing him.\\
'''Mrs. Fiorentino''': Dot would be terrible!\\
'''Jones''': He's li'ble to, at that. You know, he's got a wicked look in his eye, dat baby has.\\
'''Mrs. Jones''': Well, it's no more than he deserves, the little rabbit--goin' around and breakin' up people's homes.
* In a ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'' Nora has a causal conservation with her children's nurse asking her "if anything ever happens, will you...".
* The song "The Wizard and I" from the musical ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has several examples of foreshadowing. In this song we see starry-eyed teenage Elphaba, who we already know is going to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, fantasizing about being the Wizard's right-hand girl one day. She dreams about "a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with me" after we've just seen the townspeople [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing rejoice at her presumed death]]. She also says "I'd be so happy I could melt" and "when people see me they will scream." This could also be considered an interesting example of a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
** There is foreshadowing with Fiero in the song "Dancing Through Life" whe he sings ''Life's more painless, for the brainless'', hinting at his transformation into the scarecrow with no brain later in the show.
* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Martha sings to Mary about what she can do now that she lives out in the middle of nowhere and talks about all kinds of fantastical things to explore out there, including pirate caves and fairies. Tucked into all this fantasy, she sings ''If you chance to see a garden guarded by a tree and meet a bird who speaks to thee...'' which of course turns out to be real.
* In ''Vanities: The Musical'', Mary warns Kathy in the song "Let Life Happen" that her obsession with organizing will "drive her mad", foreshadowing her later [[HeroicBSOD nervous breakdown]]. Kathy [[CallBack recalls this]] in "Setting Your Sights (What You Wanted)" and "[[BSODSong An Organized Life (1974)]]".
* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'':
** In the first act, Christian lampshades that he really would prefer his personal life to (stay with Roxane and defy De Valvert) to save his friend Ligniere’s life, but he chooses to do the right thing. He will chose the same at Act IV when [[spoiler: he discovers that Roxane really does love him for his soul (meaning that she really loves Cyrano)]].
** The first act show us Montfleury, a fat, [[GiftedlyBad deluded man who thinks of himself as a tragic actor still capable of romancing the ladies]]. [[JerkAss Cyrano utterly and implacably destroys his delusions of love and glory]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma Guess what happens]] [[spoiler: to Cyrano]] in the final act.
** At Act IV, Scene VIII, Roxane says that if [[TheHero Ulises]] have sent [[IWillWaitForYou Penelope]] the [[LoveLetterLunacy letters]] Roxane had received, she also would have risk everything for his love sake like [[GuileHero Helena]] did. At Act V, we see that Roxane, who at Act IV acted as real Guile Heroine like Helena, has settled to be a tragic IWillWaitForYou heroine like Penelope, because she has got into a nunnery to devote all her life to Christian’s memory.
---> '''Roxane:''' Oh! wise Penelope
---> [[IWillWaitForYou Would ne'er have stayed to broider on her hearthstone,]]
---> If her Ulysses could have writ such letters!
---> But would have cast away her silken bobbins,
---> [[GuileHeroine And fled to join him, mad for love as Helen!]]
* ''Floyd Collins'' is [[RewatchBonus chock full of this]]. Such as right before Floyd breaks into his first song:
--> '''Floyd Collins''': [[TearJerker They'll be tearin' up the mountain. They'll be campin' in the snow!]]
* Abundant throughout the [[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Ring Cycle]] due to {{Leitmotif}}s:
** At the end of ''Die Walküre'', Wotan calls: "He who fears my spear-tip shall never cross the fire!", the Siegfried leitmotif is played, indicating that it'll be Siegfried who'll cross it.
** The first act of ''Götterdämmerung'' has an extremely unsubtle example: Hagen's greeting of Siegfried is accompanied ''fortissimo'' by the "Curse" motif.
** In the third act of ''Götterdämmerung'', Siegfried offers his drinking-horn to his blood-brother Gunther, who takes a look inside, shudders, and gloomily pronounces it a "flat and pale" brew with "thy blood alone within!" Even more grim than Gunther's tone of voice is the accompanying {{Leitmotif}}, associated with the soon-to-be-consummated plot to kill Siegfried. Siegfried then eagerly mixes it with Gunther's horn, foreshadowing Gunther's death as well.
* ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'': The Captain's revelation that he can "hand, reef and steer" (i.e. possesses the skills necessary to qualify as an Able Seaman), is a first hint that his family tree isn't all it seems, since ''Pinafore'' runs heavily on InTheBlood.
* ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' (the 2013 West End musical) has quite a bit of this, of varying levels of obviousness. Among other things, the grounds of Veruca Salt's house have little squirrel topiaries, foreshadowing her interest in the real critters; a grouchy sweet stall owner sarcastically asks Charlie "You've finally come into your inheritance?" when he buys the Wonka Bar that turns out to contain the last Golden Ticket; and the {{Flashback}} about an Indian prince who commissioned a chocolate palace from Mr. Wonka is tweaked to end with him drowning when it melted in the hot sun, presaging several of the bratty kids getting subjected to possible DeathByAdaptation for similarly foolish actions later.
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* In ''Theatre/StreetScene'', the GossipyHens' talk about Mrs. Maurrant's CheatingWithTheMilkman includes this ominous prediction:
-->'''Olsen''': Some day, her hoosban' is killing him.\\
'''Mrs. Fiorentino''': Dot would be terrible!\\
'''Jones''': He's li'ble to, at that. You know, he's got a wicked look in his eye, dat baby has.\\
'''Mrs. Jones''': Well, it's no more than he deserves, the little rabbit--goin' around and breakin' up people's homes.
* In a ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'' Nora has a causal conservation with her children's nurse asking her "if anything ever happens, will you...".
* The song "The Wizard and I" from the musical ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has several examples of foreshadowing. In this song we see starry-eyed teenage Elphaba, who we already know is going to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, fantasizing about being the Wizard's right-hand girl one day. She dreams about "a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with me" after we've just seen the townspeople [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing rejoice at her presumed death]]. She also says "I'd be so happy I could melt" and "when people see me they will scream." This could also be considered an interesting example of a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
** There is foreshadowing with Fiero in the song "Dancing Through Life" whe he sings ''Life's more painless, for the brainless'', hinting at his transformation into the scarecrow with no brain later in the show.
* ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Martha sings to Mary about what she can do now that she lives out in the middle of nowhere and talks about all kinds of fantastical things to explore out there, including pirate caves and fairies. Tucked into all this fantasy, she sings ''If you chance to see a garden guarded by a tree and meet a bird who speaks to thee...'' which of course turns out to be real.
* In ''Vanities: The Musical'', Mary warns Kathy in the song "Let Life Happen" that her obsession with organizing will "drive her mad", foreshadowing her later [[HeroicBSOD nervous breakdown]]. Kathy [[CallBack recalls this]] in "Setting Your Sights (What You Wanted)" and "[[BSODSong An Organized Life (1974)]]".
* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'':
** In the first act, Christian lampshades that he really would prefer his personal life to (stay with Roxane and defy De Valvert) to save his friend Ligniere’s life, but he chooses to do the right thing. He will chose the same at Act IV when [[spoiler: he discovers that Roxane really does love him for his soul (meaning that she really loves Cyrano)]].
** The first act show us Montfleury, a fat, [[GiftedlyBad deluded man who thinks of himself as a tragic actor still capable of romancing the ladies]]. [[JerkAss Cyrano utterly and implacably destroys his delusions of love and glory]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma Guess what happens]] [[spoiler: to Cyrano]] in the final act.
** At Act IV, Scene VIII, Roxane says that if [[TheHero Ulises]] have sent [[IWillWaitForYou Penelope]] the [[LoveLetterLunacy letters]] Roxane had received, she also would have risk everything for his love sake like [[GuileHero Helena]] did. At Act V, we see that Roxane, who at Act IV acted as real Guile Heroine like Helena, has settled to be a tragic IWillWaitForYou heroine like Penelope, because she has got into a nunnery to devote all her life to Christian’s memory.
---> '''Roxane:''' Oh! wise Penelope
---> [[IWillWaitForYou Would ne'er have stayed to broider on her hearthstone,]]
---> If her Ulysses could have writ such letters!
---> But would have cast away her silken bobbins,
---> [[GuileHeroine And fled to join him, mad for love as Helen!]]
* ''Floyd Collins'' is [[RewatchBonus chock full of this]]. Such as right before Floyd breaks into his first song:
--> '''Floyd Collins''': [[TearJerker They'll be tearin' up the mountain. They'll be campin' in the snow!]]
* Abundant throughout the [[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Ring Cycle]] due to {{Leitmotif}}s:
** At the end of ''Die Walküre'', Wotan calls: "He who fears my spear-tip shall never cross the fire!", the Siegfried leitmotif is played, indicating that it'll be Siegfried who'll cross it.
** The first act of ''Götterdämmerung'' has an extremely unsubtle example: Hagen's greeting of Siegfried is accompanied ''fortissimo'' by the "Curse" motif.
** In the third act of ''Götterdämmerung'', Siegfried offers his drinking-horn to his blood-brother Gunther, who takes a look inside, shudders, and gloomily pronounces it a "flat and pale" brew with "thy blood alone within!" Even more grim than Gunther's tone of voice is the accompanying {{Leitmotif}}, associated with the soon-to-be-consummated plot to kill Siegfried. Siegfried then eagerly mixes it with Gunther's horn, foreshadowing Gunther's death as well.
* ''Theatre/HMSPinafore'': The Captain's revelation that he can "hand, reef and steer" (i.e. possesses the skills necessary to qualify as an Able Seaman), is a first hint that his family tree isn't all it seems, since ''Pinafore'' runs heavily on InTheBlood.
* ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' (the 2013 West End musical) has quite a bit of this, of varying levels of obviousness. Among other things, the grounds of Veruca Salt's house have little squirrel topiaries, foreshadowing her interest in the real critters; a grouchy sweet stall owner sarcastically asks Charlie "You've finally come into your inheritance?" when he buys the Wonka Bar that turns out to contain the last Golden Ticket; and the {{Flashback}} about an Indian prince who commissioned a chocolate palace from Mr. Wonka is tweaked to end with him drowning when it melted in the hot sun, presaging several of the bratty kids getting subjected to possible DeathByAdaptation for similarly foolish actions later.
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