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--> '''I Love Liza Minelli'''
-->'''Ah She's a Cunt! But I love her!'''

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--> '''I Love Liza Minelli'''
-->'''Ah
Minelli'''\\
'''Ah
She's a Cunt! But I love her!'''



* In ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'', the word "fuck" is uttered for the first time after 60 minutes, after J.D. has killed [[JerkJock Kurt and Ram]] in "Our Love is God"

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* In ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'', ''Theatre/HeathersTheMusical'', the word "fuck" is uttered for the first time after 60 minutes, after J.D. has killed [[JerkJock Kurt and Ram]] in "Our Love is God"
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** "Sit down, John, you fat motherf-[[CensoredForComedy BLEEEEEEEEP]]"[[note]]This is the only instance of the word to be censored, even though it's used elsewhere. When asked why this was the only instance of censorship, Creator/LinManuelMiranda explained that [[WesternAnimation/WhoFramedRogerRabbit "It wouldn't have been funny then"]] [[/note]]

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** "Sit down, John, you fat motherf-[[CensoredForComedy BLEEEEEEEEP]]"[[note]]This is the only instance of the word to be censored, even though it's used elsewhere. When asked why this was the only instance of censorship, Creator/LinManuelMiranda explained that [[WesternAnimation/WhoFramedRogerRabbit [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit "It wouldn't have been funny then"]] [[/note]]
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** "Sit down, John, you fat motherfucker!"[[note]]Although Lin-Manuel Miranda claims to have only ever used "fuckstick", and it's bleeped on the cast album, but you can clearly tell it's fucker as opposed to fuckstick.[[/note]]

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** "Sit down, John, you fat motherfucker!"[[note]]Although Lin-Manuel Miranda claims to have motherf-[[CensoredForComedy BLEEEEEEEEP]]"[[note]]This is the only ever used "fuckstick", and instance of the word to be censored, even though it's bleeped on used elsewhere. When asked why this was the cast album, but you can clearly tell it's fucker as opposed to fuckstick.only instance of censorship, Creator/LinManuelMiranda explained that [[WesternAnimation/WhoFramedRogerRabbit "It wouldn't have been funny then"]] [[/note]]

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* Sadly {{bowdleri|se}}zed in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': Stephen Sondheim originally wrote the last line of "Gee, Officer Krupke" as "Gee, Office Krupke, FUCK YOU!" but was forced to change it to the very silly "Krup you!", much to his chagrin at the time.
** Sondheim later admitted that "Krup you" was more appropriate for the tone of the show; he just really wanted to be the first in musical theatre to have a character say "fuck" on Broadway.

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* Sadly {{bowdleri|se}}zed in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': Stephen Sondheim originally wrote the last line of "Gee, Officer Krupke" as "Gee, Office Krupke, FUCK YOU!" but was forced to change it to the very silly "Krup you!", much to his chagrin at the time.
**
time. Sondheim later admitted that "Krup you" was more appropriate for the tone of the show; he just really wanted to be the first in musical theatre to have a character say "fuck" on Broadway.Broadway, which, in 1957, was never likely to happen.
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* During ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' in the midst of the garishly posh and hoity-toity Ascot Day Race, Eliza, though somewhat precariously, has made her way quite graciously through Upper-Class Polite Conversation with Professor Higgins mother and her circle of friend, when the race begins her horse unfortunately is in last place causing her to have a quite a cockney outburst.
-->'''Eliza''': COME ON DOVER! MOVE YOUR BLOOMIN' ARSE!!!\\
''(Eliza looks mortified at her faux pas, the crowd reacts shocked, some women even fainting, but Professor Higgins merely laughs condescendingly)''
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* ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' makes it clear what the audience is in for in the midst of its first big number "It Sucks to Be Me!" when the cute little puppet Kate Monster drops this little line.
-->'''Kate Monster''': I'm kinda pretty, and pretty damn smart!\\
'''Brian''': You are!\\
'''Kate''': Thanks. I like romantic things like music and art,\\
And as you know I have a gigantic heart, so why don't I have a boyfriend?!?\\
'''FUCK!''' It sucks to be me!
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* In ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'' an enraged Cliff gives Sally an accurate but harsh wake up call about her ''career''.
-->'''Cliff''': The only reason people have ever let you get this far is because you're FUCKING them!!!
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* In the "The Gin Game" a man and a woman in a nursing home are playing gin against each other. He constantly uses the F word on her because she keeps winning. At one point he is so nasty to her she says, but unable to find a strong enough word to adequately describe him, "You are a horrible person, you... you... You FUCK!" She then is shocked, admitting it's the only time she ever used the word.

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* In the "The Gin Game" "Theatre/TheGinGame" a man and a woman in a nursing home are playing gin against each other. He constantly uses the F word on her because she keeps winning. At one point he is so nasty to her she says, but unable to find a strong enough word to adequately describe him, "You are a horrible person, you... you... You FUCK!" She then is shocked, admitting it's the only time she ever used the word.
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* ''Theatre/AndJuliet'' ends act 1 with a huge one, as a newly engaged Juliet is surprised too run into a BackFromTheDead Romeo.
-->'''Romeo''': It's Romeo, Here-for art thou Romeo!\\
'''Juliet''': Romeo! You're alive?!?\\
'''Romeo''': Yes! And I've come back for my wife!\\
'''Juliet''': ''(to the audience)'' Oh Shit!
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* ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' has a scene where the titular character calls ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' boring, ending his rant with "Fuck ''Brigadoon''!"
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** He later admitted it was actually quite clever, he just really wanted to be the first in musical theatre to have a character say "fuck" on Broadway.

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** He Sondheim later admitted it that "Krup you" was actually quite clever, more appropriate for the tone of the show; he just really wanted to be the first in musical theatre to have a character say "fuck" on Broadway.
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* ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'': "Let's Have Lunch" has one use of the word "fuck", and about a few uses of the word "shit". Other songs have the words "bitch", "ass", and "hell" on some occasions.
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--->'''Hamilton:''' "PAY YOUR ''FUCKING TAXES!''" [[note]] Of course Hamilton would be annoyed, as the current Secretary of the Treasury at the time [[/note]]

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--->'''Hamilton:''' "PAY YOUR ''FUCKING TAXES!''" [[note]] Of course Hamilton would be annoyed, as the current he was Secretary of the Treasury at the time [[/note]]
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--->'''Hamilton:''' "PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES!"

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--->'''Hamilton:''' "PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES!"''FUCKING TAXES!''" [[note]] Of course Hamilton would be annoyed, as the current Secretary of the Treasury at the time [[/note]]
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** "Sit down, John, you fat motherfucker!"[[note]]Although Lin Manuel Miranda claims to have only ever used "fuckstick", and it's bleeped on the cast album, but you can clearly tell it's fucker as opposed to fuckstick.[[/note]]

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** "Sit down, John, you fat motherfucker!"[[note]]Although Lin Manuel Lin-Manuel Miranda claims to have only ever used "fuckstick", and it's bleeped on the cast album, but you can clearly tell it's fucker as opposed to fuckstick.[[/note]]
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* ''Theatre/IfThen'' includes Creator/IdinaMenzel's "Always Starting Over." Lyrics:
--> Thank you for finding me and thank you for the care
--> And fuck you for making me think that this life might be fair
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* In ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' the Ugandans drop F-bombs without a second thought but the Mormons are quite clean with their language, with Elder Cunningham actually having trouble spitting out the word "clitoris". [[spoiler:This makes Elder Price's comment about the Mormon mission leader all the more surprising:]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Price:''' "You know what, guys? '''Fuck''' him!"]]
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* In Roger Waters' TheWall Live tour, the lyric "Mother, should I trust the government?" is accompanied by the phrase "NO FUCKING WAY" appearing in bright red graffiti on the eponymous Wall.

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* In Roger Waters' TheWall Music/TheWall Live tour, the lyric "Mother, should I trust the government?" is accompanied by the phrase "NO FUCKING WAY" appearing in bright red graffiti on the eponymous Wall.
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* In the 1966 film version of ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'', starring Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/RichardBurton, Martha's line "Screw you!" is changed to "Goddamn you!" Other expressions, such as "hump the hostess", "Up yours", and "monkey nipples" are kept. In the 2005 revival with Bill Irwin and Creator/KathleenTurner, the expression "Screw you" is replaced by the stronger "Fuck you!"
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* In ''Theatre/TheProducers'', during "The King of Broadway", when Max Bialystock translates, poorly, some Yiddish given to him by Yiddish theatre veteran Boris Thomashefsky, he claims that he said, "When you're down and out and everyone thinks you're finished, that's the time you gotta stand up on your two feet and shout, 'Who do ya hafta '''fuck''' to get a break in this town?!'"
** Fun fact: That line originates from an ad-lib by the original portrayer of Max, Creator/NathanLane.
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* At the end of the play Oleanna by David Mamet, you can hear what is quite possibly the best line uttered by any character anywhere. The teacher, John, holds a chair above his head, aiming it at his former student Carol and utters the line, "I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole, you little cunt!".

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* At the end of the play Oleanna by David Mamet, you can hear what is quite possibly the best line uttered by any character anywhere. The teacher, John, holds a chair above his head, aiming it at his former student Carol and utters the line, "I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole, you little cunt!".
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-->'''Arthur''': I'm all alone...
-->'''Patsy''': Oh no you're not!
-->'''Arthur''': So all alone...
-->'''Patsy''': I'm HERE, you twat!
* Sadly [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerized]] in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': Stephen Sondheim originally wrote the last line of "Gee, Officer Krupke" as "Gee, Office Krupke, FUCK YOU!" but was forced to change it to the very silly "Krup you!", much to his chagrin at the time.

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-->'''Arthur''': I'm all alone...
-->'''Patsy''':
alone...\\
'''Patsy''':
Oh no you're not!
-->'''Arthur''':
not!\\
'''Arthur''':
So all alone...
-->'''Patsy''':
alone...\\
'''Patsy''':
I'm HERE, you twat!
* Sadly [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerized]] {{bowdleri|se}}zed in ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': Stephen Sondheim originally wrote the last line of "Gee, Officer Krupke" as "Gee, Office Krupke, FUCK YOU!" but was forced to change it to the very silly "Krup you!", much to his chagrin at the time.



* The last act of ''NixonInChina'' has perhaps the first such example in the history of opera: "We'll teach these motherfuckers how to dance!" The fact that said line is sung by a coloratura soprano makes it all the better.
* Cathy uses this at least twice during ''TheLastFiveYears'', specifically in the songs "See I'm Smiling" and "Climbing Uphill":

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* The last act of ''NixonInChina'' ''Theatre/NixonInChina'' has perhaps the first such example in the history of opera: "We'll teach these motherfuckers how to dance!" The fact that said line is sung by a coloratura soprano makes it all the better.
* Cathy uses this at least twice during ''TheLastFiveYears'', ''Theatre/TheLastFiveYears'', specifically in the songs "See I'm Smiling" and "Climbing Uphill":



* The cast of ILoveYouBecause manages to keep a show revolving around sex pretty clean for the first act, but soon into the second, as Austin is beginning to discover his feelings for Marcy:

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* The cast of ILoveYouBecause Theatre/ILoveYouBecause manages to keep a show revolving around sex pretty clean for the first act, but soon into the second, as Austin is beginning to discover his feelings for Marcy:



-->'''Anatoly:''' What about Florence's father? My wife and my children?
-->'''Freddie:''' Oh fuck you. You let them all down already. Win or betray yourself too.

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-->'''Anatoly:''' What about Florence's father? My wife and my children?
-->'''Freddie:'''
children?\\
'''Freddie:'''
Oh fuck you. You let them all down already. Win or betray yourself too.



-->'''Freddie:''' …tell the Secretary of State that I am ''very'' busy, and that he can FUCK HIMSELF.
-->'''Walter:''' Okay, I’ll do that. Maybe not in those exact words.

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-->'''Freddie:''' …tell the Secretary of State that I am ''very'' busy, and that he can FUCK HIMSELF.
-->'''Walter:'''
HIMSELF.\\
'''Walter:'''
Okay, I’ll do that. Maybe not in those exact words.
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** "[[spoiler:Hercules Mulligan]], I need no introduction, =when you knock me down I get the FUCK back up again!"

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** "[[spoiler:Hercules Mulligan]], I need no introduction, =when when you knock me down I get the FUCK back up again!"
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** And in the workshop version of "One Last Time", entitled "One Last Ride":
--->'''Washington:''' "You are outgunned!"
--->'''Hamilton:''' "What!"
--->'''Washington:''' "Outmanned!"
--->'''Hamilton:''' "What!"
--->'''Washington (nervously):''' "Outnumbered, outplanned-"
--->'''Hamilton:''' "PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES!"
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