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* SignatureLine: "You're going out a youngster, but you've ''got'' to come back a star!"
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* GeniusBonus: Peggy introduces herself to Julian by saying "I'm from Allentown, Pennsylvania." A few moments later, when Julian realizes that she bumped into him earlier he asks "aren't you the Mack truck that tried to run me down this morning?" Mack trucks were manufactured in Allentown, PA from 1905 through the 1950s, and the company headquarters were there.
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* TightsUnderShorts: Peggy wears this for her tap dance solo during the eponymous musical number at the climax.
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Was adapted into a successful Broadway musical in 1980, with a revival in 2001.
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Was [[ScreenToStageAdaptation adapted into a successful Broadway musical musical]] in 1980, with a revival in 2001.
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!!''42nd Street'' provides examples of:
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* DivorceInReno: Alluded to in these lines from the song "Shuffle off to Buffalo":
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* DivorceInReno: Alluded to in these lines from the song "Shuffle off Off to Buffalo":
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-->What do you go for\\
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Tell the truth, you go to see those beautiful dames.
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Tell the truth, you go to see those beautiful dames.''
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* MaleGaze: Abner the producer and his flunkies ogle the girls that Marsh is auditioning for the chorus. Lampshaded later in the film, when Abner and the flunkies are at another rehearsal, and he says that after three weeks of watching he doesn't care anymore.
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* MaleGaze: Abner the producer and his flunkies ogle the girls that Marsh is auditioning for the chorus. Lampshaded later in the film, when Abner and the flunkies are at another rehearsal, and he says that after three weeks of watching he doesn't care anymore. Like the song "Dames" says:
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Tell the truth, you go to see those beautiful dames.
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"Young and Healthy" also serves as something of an IAmSong for Billy, subtly setting him up in contrast to Julian, who is neither.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Dorothy Brock. She's a genuinely talented actress and singer, but she can't dance at all. The problem is that keeps insisting that she can. The best the creative team can do is give her extremely simple steps to do and have more talented dancers perform around her to distract the crowd.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Dorothy Brock. She's a genuinely talented actress and singer, but she can't dance at all. The problem is that keeps insisting that she can. The best the creative team can do is give her extremely simple steps to do routines and have more talented dancers perform around her to distract the crowd.
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* AdaptationalVilliany: In the original film, Dorothy Brock is a neutral supporting character, and her injury is a total accident. The musical makes her into a more antagonistic force and EvilDiva who only cares about herself; as such, her injury is caused by Peggy (albeit still by accident), leading Dorothy to furiously demand she be fired.
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* AdaptationalVilliany: AdaptationalVillainy: In the original film, Dorothy Brock is a neutral supporting character, and her injury is a total accident. The musical makes her into a more antagonistic force and EvilDiva who only cares about herself; as such, her injury is caused by Peggy (albeit still by accident), leading Dorothy to furiously demand she be fired.
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* MethodActing: When Peggy acts stiffly during rehearsal, Julian kisses her to show her what it's like to be in the arms of someone you love. After that, she nails the part. Much later, he gives her a kiss in the dressing room to reveal it was NotAnAct.
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* MethodActing: An In-Universe example. When Peggy acts stiffly during rehearsal, Julian kisses her to show her what it's like to be in the arms of someone you love. After that, she nails the part. Much later, he gives her a kiss in the dressing room to reveal it was NotAnAct.
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* TheAce: When it comes to show performances, Peggy only needs mild coaching to sing, dance, and act very well onstage.
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* TheAce: When it comes to show performances, Peggy only needs mild coaching has enough pure, raw talent to sing, dance, and act very well onstage.instantly pick up whatever dance moves she sees. After Dorothy gets injured, the other members of the ensemble [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] this to convince Julian to use her as the replacement, saying that she has what it takes.
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* GeniusBonus: Peggy introduces herself to Julian by saying "I'm from Allentown, Pennsylvania." A few moments later, when Julian realizes that she bumped into him earlier he asks "aren't you the Mack truck that tried to run me down this morning?" Mack trucks were manufactured in Allentown,PA from 1905 through the 1950s, and the company headquarters were there.
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* FriendlyEnemy: By the end of the show, Peggy and Dorothy have formed this dynamic--Dorothy openly admits that she's envious of Peggy, but the two are able to mutually respect each other, with the older woman coaching Peggy on the show's big romance number. The two turn the song into a duet, and they part as frenemies.
* GeniusBonus: Peggy introduces herself to Julian by saying "I'm from Allentown, Pennsylvania." A few moments later, when Julian realizes that she bumped into him earlier he asks "aren't you the Mack truck that tried to run me down this morning?" Mack trucks were manufactured inAllentown,PA Allentown, PA from 1905 through the 1950s, and the company headquarters were there.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Dorothy uses this trope to get her way throughout the production process--since her "sugar daddy" Abner is putting up the cash for the show, she flaunts Julian's rules and makes it clear that if she's unhappy, she'll pull his funding.
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* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Dorothy Brock is the Technician, who has more Broadway training and experience. Peggy is the Performer, whose passion for dance shows in everything she does. In an interesting take, Peggy is ''also'' the more skilled dancer of the two, but her characterization is more aligned with the Performer trope.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Dorothy Brock is beginning to show her age, and everyone on the creative team knows it--and also knows enough to not mention it at all. It doesn't help that Dorothy, while a talented singer, can't dance to save her life, although she insists she can.
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* SensationalStaircaseSequence: Part of the title song involves a giant staircase with lots of dancers performing on it.
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* AmbigousEnding: Peggy becomes a star, but it's unclear if she and Julian will end up together. They have obvious chemistry, and like each other, but Julian seems unsure if he's overstepping his bounds as a director and authority figure. The play implies that if Julian goes to the kids' cast party, then he'll have chosen Peggy but ends before he can make the decision.
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* AmbigousEnding: AmbiguousEnding: Peggy becomes a star, but it's unclear if she and Julian will end up together. They have obvious chemistry, and like each other, but Julian seems unsure if he's overstepping his bounds as a director and authority figure. The play implies that if Julian goes to the kids' cast party, then he'll have chosen Peggy but ends before he can make the decision.
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* MaybeEverAfter: The AmbiguousEnding shows Peggy going to the kids' cast party, but inviting Julian. They've also kissed a few times, during rehearsal and in her dressing room. Julian takes out her scarf, sings the last lines, and strokes it.
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* KissDiss: In the final scene Julian tells Peggy she has "a very loving heart. And I would never want to see it broken." They lean toward each other as if to kiss, but he pushes her away at the last moment. Depending on staging and interpretation, this either cements Julian's reputation as a ManipulativeBastard or is his moment of realizing that IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.
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* DoubleEntendre: Any number from the chorus girls during the opening audition, mostly taken from the film. ("I've been abroad." "You're telling me!") And a doozy in the final scene, from ''Peggy.'' She's just ended the show within a show by performing a very sexually suggestive dance to the title song, which is itself a reference to what was at the time the red light district of New York. When Julian congratulates her afterward, she replies ''"you were inside me, pulling the strings. So I congratulate you."'' Julian's somewhat rambling response suggests that he understands exactly what she has just said, but is trying desperately to ignore it.
