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* AdaptationExpansion: The EP version eliminates the Butter-Nut Coffee plugs from the commercial version, but also adds a few minutes of new material, including an additional song ("I Look in Your Face").
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* NoIndoorVoice: Biff and the other locals, parodying the tendency of performers on original cast albums to not tone down their theatrical projecting in the recording studio.
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* SdrawkcabName: Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is "Ahamo!").
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** Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is"Ahamo!")."Ahamo!").
** There's also a mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Ak-Sar-Ben Ak-Sar-Ben]], the RealLife civic group in Omaha whose name is Nebraska spelled backwards.
** Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is
** There's also a mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Ak-Sar-Ben Ak-Sar-Ben]], the RealLife civic group in Omaha whose name is Nebraska spelled backwards.
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'''Omaha!''' is a recorded musical comedy with book, lyrics and music by Creator/StanFreberg. Originally a six-minute, 38-second radio commercial for the Butter-Nut Coffee Company of Omaha, the original cast recording was issued on an EP in 1958.
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* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The cover is done in the style of a Broadway musical album, but is in fact a parody of it.
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Whatta they got in ''Omaha!'' that they never have in other musicals?'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Whatta they got in ''Omaha!'' "Omaha!" that they never have in other musicals?'']]
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The original commercials this album was based on are more or less forgotten.
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* {{Jingle}}: The reprise finale of the radio commercial: "Whatta they got in Butter-Nut / That they haven't got in other coffees?"
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* {{Jingle}}: The reprise finale of the radio commercial: "Whatta commercial:
--> ''Whatta they got inButter-Nut / That Butter-Nut''
--> ''That they haven't got in othercoffees?"coffees?''
--> ''Whatta they got in
--> ''That they haven't got in other
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[[caption-width-right:350:Whatta they got in ''Omaha!'' that they never have in other musicals?]]
''Omaha!'' is a recorded musical comedy with book, lyrics and music by Creator/StanFreberg. Originally a six-minute, 38-second radio commercial for the Butter-Nut Coffee Company of Omaha, the original cast recording was issued on an EP in 1958.
''Omaha!'' is a recorded musical comedy with book, lyrics and music by Creator/StanFreberg. Originally a six-minute, 38-second radio commercial for the Butter-Nut Coffee Company of Omaha, the original cast recording was issued on an EP in 1958.
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''Omaha!''
'''Omaha!''' is a recorded musical comedy with book, lyrics and music by Creator/StanFreberg. Originally a six-minute, 38-second radio commercial for the Butter-Nut Coffee Company of Omaha, the original cast recording was issued on an EP in 1958.
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'''Tracklist (9:33 minutes)'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Overture"
# "Whatta They Got In Omaha?"
# "Omaha Moon"
# "Omaha"
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "I Look In Your Face"
# "Reprise"
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The original commercials this album was based on are more or less forgotten.
* ArcWords: The word "Omaha".
* ArcWords: The word "Omaha".
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white.
* ExcitedShowTitle: "Omaha!"
* FaceOnTheCover: Freberg is pictured between the crowd.
* ExcitedShowTitle: "Omaha!"
* FaceOnTheCover: Freberg is pictured between the crowd.
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* MinisculeRocking: A musical condensed under 10 minutes length.
* OneWordTitle: "Omaha", not mentioning "Overture" and "Reprise".
* PunBasedTitle: "Omaha!" is obviously a take-off of ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''
* QuestioningTitle: "Whatta They Got In Omaha?"
* OneWordTitle: "Omaha", not mentioning "Overture" and "Reprise".
* PunBasedTitle: "Omaha!" is obviously a take-off of ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''
* QuestioningTitle: "Whatta They Got In Omaha?"
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[[caption-width-right:350:Whatta they got in ''Omaha!'' that they never have in other musicals?]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Whatta they got in ''Omaha!'' that they never have in other musicals?]]
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The plot is simple: Biff (Freberg) loves Julie (Frances Osborne), but their tender love duets are interrupted by Eustace K. Butter-Nut (Byron Kane), the only man ever to leave Omaha.
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The plot is simple: Biff (Freberg) loves Julie (Frances Osborne), and Julie loves Omaha, but their tender love duets of love (for each other and for the town) are interrupted by Eustace K. Butter-Nut (Byron Kane), the only man ever to leave Omaha.
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* SdrawckabName: Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is "Ahamo!").
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* SdrawckabName: SdrawkcabName: Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is "Ahamo!").
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''Omaha!'' is a recorded musical comedy with book, lyrics and music by Creator/StanFreberg. Originally a six-minute, 38-second radio commercial for the Butter-Nut Coffee Company of Omaha, the original cast recording was issued on an EP in 1958.
The plot is simple: Biff (Freberg) loves Julie (Frances Osborne), but their tender love duets are interrupted by Eustace K. Butter-Nut (Byron Kane), the only man ever to leave Omaha.
The musical numbers include an overture, four songs and a last-act finale, which is impressive for a show only ten minutes long.
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!!These tropes can be found in ''Omaha!'':
* CrowdSong: People in Omaha are cursed to hold their hands up in the air and sing choruses.
* {{Jingle}}: The reprise finale of the radio commercial: "Whatta they got in Butter-Nut / That they haven't got in other coffees?"
* RepriseMedley: The finale is made up of several earlier songs with different lyrics--in particular, singing "Butter-Nut" instead of "Omaha."
* SdrawckabName: Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is "Ahamo!").
* SpellingSong: The ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''-like title song spells "O-M-A-H-A" at the end.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Lampshaded: "Try to keep from bursting into song every time I ask a question, will you?"
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The plot is simple: Biff (Freberg) loves Julie (Frances Osborne), but their tender love duets are interrupted by Eustace K. Butter-Nut (Byron Kane), the only man ever to leave Omaha.
The musical numbers include an overture, four songs and a last-act finale, which is impressive for a show only ten minutes long.
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!!These tropes can be found in ''Omaha!'':
* CrowdSong: People in Omaha are cursed to hold their hands up in the air and sing choruses.
* {{Jingle}}: The reprise finale of the radio commercial: "Whatta they got in Butter-Nut / That they haven't got in other coffees?"
* RepriseMedley: The finale is made up of several earlier songs with different lyrics--in particular, singing "Butter-Nut" instead of "Omaha."
* SdrawckabName: Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is "Ahamo!").
* SpellingSong: The ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''-like title song spells "O-M-A-H-A" at the end.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Lampshaded: "Try to keep from bursting into song every time I ask a question, will you?"
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