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* DisownedAdaptation: Former Simpsons writer and showrunner Mike Reiss loathed the play, finding it bleak and pretentious. The only parts he stated he enjoyed were the chunks that just reenacted Cape Feare wholesale.
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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act III is an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!
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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three is an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!

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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three III is an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!
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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three has five or six levels of recursion, depending on whether you tend to associate "Cape Feare" with the 1962 or 1991 iteration of the similarly-named movie. If the latter, it's an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!

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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three has five or six levels of recursion, depending on whether you tend to associate "Cape Feare" with the 1962 or 1991 iteration of the similarly-named movie. If the latter, it's is an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!
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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three is an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!

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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three is has five or six levels of recursion, depending on whether you tend to associate "Cape Feare" with the 1962 or 1991 iteration of the similarly-named movie. If the latter, it's an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!
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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three is an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book.

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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three is an opera based on a play based on [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book. Whew!
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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, Act Three is an opera based on a play based on a ''Simpsons'' episode [[WholePlotReference based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book.

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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, the ShowWithinAShow in Act Three is an opera based on a play based on a ''Simpsons'' episode [[WholePlotReference a TV episode based on a movie]] remade from a movie based on a book.
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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, Act Three is an opera based on a play based on a ''Simpsons'' episode [[WholePlotReference based on a movie remade from a movie]] based on a book.

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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, Act Three is an opera based on a play based on a ''Simpsons'' episode [[WholePlotReference based on a movie movie]] remade from a movie]] movie based on a book.
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* RecursiveAdaptation: Act Three is an opera based on a play based on a ''Simpsons'' episode [[WholePlotReference based on a movie remade from a movie]] based on a book.

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* RecursiveAdaptation: InUniverse, Act Three is an opera based on a play based on a ''Simpsons'' episode [[WholePlotReference based on a movie remade from a movie]] based on a book.
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* RecursiveAdaptation: Act Three is an opera based on a play based on a ''Simpsons'' episode [[WholePlotReference based on a movie remade from a movie]] based on a book.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before settling on ''The Simpsons'', other shows Anne Washburn considered writing about were ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', and ''Series/{{MASH}}''.

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* TheDanza: The initial survivors are all named after the original Off-Broadway cast members who played them.



* {{Tuckerization}}: The initial survivors are all named after the original Off-Broadway cast members who played them.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: The initial survivors are all named after the original Off-Broadway cast members who played them.----
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* ThrowItIn: Washburn began the process of writing the play by gathering the actors and having them try to recall the plot of "Cape Feare" from memory. Most of the dialogue in Act I is taken verbatim from those conversations.

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* ThrowItIn: Washburn began the process of writing the play by gathering the actors and having them try to recall the plot of "Cape Feare" from memory. Most of the dialogue in Act I is taken verbatim from those conversations.conversations.
* {{Tuckerization}}: The initial survivors are all named after the original Off-Broadway cast members who played them.
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* ThrowItIn: Washburn began the process of writing the play by gathering the actors and having them try to recall the plot of "Cape Feare" from memory. Most of the dialogue in Act I is taken verbatim from those conversations.

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