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* MedleyOverture: Often considered one of the best overtures ever written, consisting of "Now You Know", "Good Thing Going", "Old Friends" and the title song.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Charlie, Mary, and Frank's legal and professional team advise him to leave New York for greener pastures after his divorce with Beth, wanting to keep him from wallowing in his grief and regret. Unfortunately, the audience has already seen how severely he's grown apart from his friends after following their advice.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Charlie, Charley, Mary, and Frank's legal and professional team advise him to leave New York for greener pastures after his divorce with Beth, wanting to keep him from wallowing in his grief and regret. Unfortunately, the audience has already seen how severely he's grown apart from his friends after following their advice.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Based on the Kaufman and Hart play of the same name. Playwright Richard Niles becomes composer[=/=]movie producer Franklin Shepard, painter Jonathan Crale becomes playwright[=/=]lyricist Charley Cringes, and novelist Julia Glenn becomes novelist[=/=]drama critic Mary Flynn.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Based on the Kaufman and Hart play of the same name. Playwright Richard Niles becomes composer[=/=]movie producer Franklin Shepard, painter Jonathan Crale becomes playwright[=/=]lyricist Charley Cringes, Kringas, and novelist Julia Glenn becomes novelist[=/=]drama critic Mary Flynn.
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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Based on the Kaufman and Hart play of the same name. Playwright Richard Niles becomes composer[=/=]movie producer Franklin Shepard, painter Jonathan Crale becomes playwright[=/=]lyricist Charley Cringes, and novelist Julia Glenn becomes novelist[=/=]drama critic Mary Flynn.
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* TheGhost: Throughout the show, Charley mentions his wife, Evelyn, but she never appears. This serves as a BrickJoke during "Our Time", when Mary joins Charley and Frank on the roof and says her roommate was supposed to join her to see Sputnik. When her roommate finally arrives, she is embarrassed when she sees Mary with men and she is in her nighty. When Mary calls after her, she says, "Evelyn!" Right after, as if speaking to the audience, she says, "''That's'' Evelyn."
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* PrecisionFStrike: Before Charley and Frank's TV interview, Charley says, "[Frank] only knows it's good if it makes a fucking fortune!"
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In 2023, the show was revived on Broadway for the first time to critical acclaim, starring Creator/JonathanGroff as Frank, Creator/DanielRadcliffe as Charley, and Tony Award winner Lindsay Mendez as Mary, and directed by Maria Friedman, who previously directed the show in London in 2013.
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* FramingDevice: The original Broadway production began with an older Frank (played by the only person in the cast over the age of thirty) coming back to his old high school to deliver a speech where he tells the graduating students to give up on their dreams and face life as it is. Rejecting his advice, the students sing the title song and proceed to act out his life in reverse to show how he went wrong. The show ends with a HopeSpot where adult Frank smiles at and reconnects with his younger self. When the creators rewrote the show after it closed on Broadway, they dropped the framing device and only a few productions since then have restored it.
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** The original Broadway production began with an older Frank (played by the only person in the cast over the age of thirty) coming back to his old high school to deliver a speech where he tells the graduating students to give up on their dreams and face life as it is. Rejecting his advice, the students sing the title song and proceed to act out his life in reverse to show how he went wrong. The show ends with a HopeSpot where adult Frank smiles at and reconnects with his younger self. When the creators rewrote the show after it closed on Broadway, they dropped the framing device and only a few productions since then have restoredit.it.
** Maria Friedman's conception of the show, originated in London in 2013 and brought to Broadway a decade later, frames the show as a {{Flashback}} Frank has after his premiere party goes off the rails: the entire show takes place within his house in California, with only minor set decorations being changed around to suggest different locations as he goes further back in his memory.
** The original Broadway production began with an older Frank (played by the only person in the cast over the age of thirty) coming back to his old high school to deliver a speech where he tells the graduating students to give up on their dreams and face life as it is. Rejecting his advice, the students sing the title song and proceed to act out his life in reverse to show how he went wrong. The show ends with a HopeSpot where adult Frank smiles at and reconnects with his younger self. When the creators rewrote the show after it closed on Broadway, they dropped the framing device and only a few productions since then have restored
** Maria Friedman's conception of the show, originated in London in 2013 and brought to Broadway a decade later, frames the show as a {{Flashback}} Frank has after his premiere party goes off the rails: the entire show takes place within his house in California, with only minor set decorations being changed around to suggest different locations as he goes further back in his memory.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: "That Frank" takes from both the optimistic "Our Time" and the cynical "The Blob" to show how Frank has gone against all his ideals.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: "Rich and Happy" / "That Frank" takes use a debased quotation from both the optimistic "Our Time" and the cynical "The Blob" ("It's my time, coming through") to show how Frank has gone against all his ideals.
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** "That Frank" uses a lot of "Our Time" (mixed in with "The Blob"), showing just how much Frank is lying to himself and fallen from those idealistic days of thinking he could do anything.
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** "Rich and Happy" and its post-Broadway replacement "That Frank" uses a lot of both use "Our Time" in the bridge (mixed in with "The Blob"), Blob" in the latter song), showing just how much Frank is lying to himself and fallen from those idealistic days of thinking he could do anything.
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* AllWritersAreWriters: A composer and a playwright wrote a story about…a composer and a playwright.
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-->'''Mary''': To Franklin Shepherd, the man who has everything. And fat, drunk, and finished, I'd rather be me any day.
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-->'''Julia''': To Richard Niles! Our most fashionable playwright! The man who has everything! And I'd rather be what I am — a drunken whore!
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* IAmWhatIAm: Mary's "toast" to Frank:
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** Julia (Mary's counterpart in the original play) has an even more bitter version of this toast:
-->'''Julia''': To Richard Niles! Our most fashionable playwright! The man who has everything! And I'd rather be what I am — a drunken whore!
-->'''Julia''': To Richard Niles! Our most fashionable playwright! The man who has everything! And I'd rather be what I am — a drunken whore!
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* LadyDrunk: Mary, by the end/beginning.
** Julia, her counterpart in the original play, even more so.
--->'''Julia''': To Richard Niles! Our most fashionable playwright! The man who has everything! And I'd rather be what I am — a drunken whore!
** Julia, her counterpart in the original play, even more so.
--->'''Julia''': To Richard Niles! Our most fashionable playwright! The man who has everything! And I'd rather be what I am — a drunken whore!
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* LadyDrunk: Mary, by the end/beginning.
**end/beginning. Julia, her counterpart in the original play, even more so.
--->'''Julia''': To Richard Niles! Our most fashionable playwright! The man who has everything! And I'd rather be what I am — a drunken whore!so.
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--->'''Julia''': To Richard Niles! Our most fashionable playwright! The man who has everything! And I'd rather be what I am — a drunken whore!
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** A frequent joke will have some characters looking unsure when "That Frank" sings "a son who's straight".
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** A frequent joke will have some characters looking unsure when "That Frank" sings "a they sing "A son who's straight".straight," in "That Frank."
