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Accidental Innuendos in Theatre.

  • A Very Potter Musical: The entire "He is your pawn and you are his queen," line considering Quirrell and Voldemort's extremely Ho Yay-y relationship. Word of God says it's supposed to be a chess joke.
  • invoked In The Drowsy Chaperone the Man in Chair asks if anyone had noticed the sexual implications of the song "Love is Always Lovely in the End."
  • Jesus Christ Superstar, during the Last Supper.
    Why don't you go do it?
    You want me to do it!
    Hurry they are waiting
    If you knew why I do it . . .
    I don't care why you do it!
    To think I admired you
    For now I despise you
    You liar - you Judas
    You wanted me to do it!
  • Julius Caesar: Act IV, Scene 3, in Brutus's tent. Brutus asks his page boy, Lucius, to play him some music on his...er...instrument.
    Brutus: [to Lucius] Where is thy instrument?
    Lucius: Here in the tent.
    [...]
    Brutus: Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile and touch thy instrument a strain or two?
    Lucius: Ay, my lord, an't please you.
    Brutus: It does, my boy: I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.
    Lucius: It is my duty, sir.
    Brutus: I should not urge thy duty past thy might; I know young bloods look for a time of rest…
    [Later, Lucius has fallen asleep while playing a strain or two on his instrument]
    Brutus [to Lucius]: Gentle knave, good night…If thou dost nod, thou break'st thy instrument; I'll take it from thee…"
  • There's one scene early in The Light in the Piazza where Fabrizio looks down aghast at himself, motioning towards his legs. He's actually referring to his clothes, but the innuendo becomes even greater when one factors in the relevant line in Italian, where he says "She can't love a little boy!"
  • In Me and My Dick Weenie gives Joey some homemade soup, causing the audience to gasp. They then clarify it's just chicken noodle.
  • "Just One Person" from the musical Snoopy!!!:
    "Two whole people, who believe in you
    Deep enough, and strong enough,
    Believe in you
    Hard enough and long enough
    There's bound to be some other person who
    Believes in making it a threesome"
  • A few lines in A Little Priest, from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:
    "Now a pussy's good for maybe six or seven at the most... and I'm sure they can't compare as far as taste!"
    • Made even more hilarious by the fact that the entire song is just a Hurricane of Puns, and yet this one was completely unintentional (it was referring to actual cats, and how much meat you can get out of them). However, given Stephen Sondheim has a rather has a rather dark sense of humor, there's a strong chance that while he's referring to actual cats, he was aware of the other wordplay here.
    • There's another one in the second act, in Mrs. Lovett's piece By the Sea. She's talking about how great life will be once she and Sweeney Todd are living by the sea, and saying that it'll just be the two of them and the occasional paying guest, and if he feels like it "now and then you could do the guest in". She talks about getting married and tells him to "bring along your chopper", meaning his razor. However, Sondheim notes in his book Finishing the Hat that when the show premiered in England, he discovered that "chopper" is also British slang for penis.
  • One of the major settings of Tannhäuser is the "Venusberg," the hill of Venus. Richard Wagner was aware of the potential for gynecological jokes and refrained from making it the title of the opera.
  • In Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, Prince Achmed recounts that when he was attacked by the Princess's tiger, it "grabbed ahold of [his] woody," referring to his Woody doll. Since it serves as this In-Universe, it only intensifies his "Tiger Fucker" nickname, as his soldiers all think he had sex with the tiger.
  • West Side Story: Maria advices to Tony: "When you come, use the back door."
  • Wicked: From As Long As You're Mine: "If it turns out it's over too fast..."
  • Though William Shakespeare intentionally wrote many Double Entendres into his plays, some of which tend to be lost on modern audiences, Ophelia's line "he comes before me" in Hamlet was probably not meant as innuendo. The Reduced Shakespeare Company, acting with typical Vulgar Humor, presented it as such; a footnote in the published edition of The Complete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) suggests two X-rated interpretations.
    • In the following dialogue of Hamlet, the Prince's words bring about a momentary laugh from Rosencrantz:
    Hamlet: Man delights not me— no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
    Rosencrantz: My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
    Hamlet: Why did you laugh, then, when I said "Man delights not me"?
    Rosencrantz: To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you.
  • One scene of Cirque du Soleil's Luzia has a cactus character with a phallic protuberance.


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