History TitleDrop / Theatre

* Arthur Miller's ''All My Sons'': Joe says at the end, "Sure, he was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were."

* When the curtain opens on the prologue of ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'', we see and hear the fiddler playing, and a [[AC: TitleDrop]] is the very first line in the show. The fiddler, who plays no part in the plot, is explained by Tevye to be a metaphor for the tenacious existence of Anatevka and its people.
* The opening scene of ''Theatre/DamnYankees'' has one [[AC: TitleDrop]] in dialogue (what Joe says when Meg asks him if the Washington Senators won the game he was watching) and another in the song "Six Months" ("Those damn Yankees! Why can't we beat 'em?")

* Several characters in ''Dog Sees God'' title drop the scene titles, and Beethoven mentions in The Vipers Nest that it's said "a dog sees god in his master." Interestingly, the play also drops the title of another Charlie-Brown themed work in the final monologue, as CB reads a letter from his mysterious pen pal CS (Charles Shultz) who tells him that despite his struggles, he is [[{{Peanuts}} a good man]].

* In the opening scene of ''TheMusicMan'', one of the salesmen on the train calls Professor Harold Hill a "music man" during the "Rock Island" [[PatterSong patter]].
* In the Musical "Catch Me If You Can", the opening song "Live in Living Color" has a title drop on a high note at the end of the bridge

* "The sight is dismal, and our affairs from England come too late. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, to tell him his commandment is fulfilled, that ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''."

* "You're a good man, [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]." Not only the first song, but the last line of the play (said by Lucy, of all people).

* "There are no AngelsInAmerica" re: the lack of spiritual or ethnic history in the nation's culture--it's a big rant about how everything is political. Although, in the context of this play, there [[spoiler: are angels in America]], and Louis is, as Belize says "so full of piping hot crap that the mention of [his] name draws flies" in the monologue/monolith in which he makes the above statement.

* In ''YouCantTakeItWithYou'', Grandpa drops the title in reference to Mr. Kirby's wealth.

* ''InheritTheWind'' has Matthew Harrison Brady [[AsTheGoodBookSays quote scripture]]. It becomes considered for his [[spoiler:epitaph]].
* "Don't forget that a few years ago we came through the depression by TheSkinOfOurTeeth. One more tight squeeze like that and where would we be?"
* In ''WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'', the TitleDrop occurs as a bit of drunken singing (parodying "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf").

* In ''Up The Down Staircase'', the title (an offense one of the protagonist's students is detained for) is rather painfully dropped twice, once near the beginning and once at the play's "climax."
* "When he died--- and by the way he died the '''DeathOfASalesman''', in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston---when he died, hundreds of salesman and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months after that."

* ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'' has a literal TitleDrop in its first scene, where Blanche tells how she came to the house on Elysian Fields. Later, there is a less literal but more meaningful reference:

* A double title drop is done in AndrewLloydWebber's ''Tell Me on a Sunday''. There's the title song, but it also contains the lyrics "let me down easy, no big song and dance". ''Tell Me on a Sunday'' was combined with ''Variations'' to form the reworked show ''Song and Dance'', consisting of one "song" act (Tell Me on a Sunday) and one "dance" act (Variations), so this one is a retroactive title drop as well.

* Natalie drops the title in a bittersweet duet with her mother in {{Next to Normal}}: