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* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has a metric ton of these, mostly based on the famous 1938 [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]] film. Best example is probably:
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* ''Theatre/CinderellaLloydWebber'' uses a modulation of a snippet of "In My Own Little Corner", a song from a prior stage adaptation, ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein''. The same melody appears multiple times in the IAmSong "Bad Cinderella".
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* In ''Theatre/LOrfeo'', Charon the Ferryman is less than pleased to see Orpheus because of other visitors to the Underworld as of late, mentioning Pirithous and Theseus, who tried to abduct Persephone, and Heracles, who came to seize Cerberus as part of his Twelve Labors.
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* In a 2021 Edinburgh Fringe production of ''The Return of Franchise/SherlockHolmes'', when Watson is going through the mail Holmes received during the Great Hiatus, one is from "your father, Morland Holmes, in America". Holmes grimaces and Watson quickly disposes of it. The name Morland for Holmes's father, and the idea Holmes has a difficult relationship with him, come from ''Series/{{Elementary}}''.
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* ''[[MythologyGag/TheSpongeBobMusical The [=SpongeBob=] Musical]]''
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** The introduction to the Caucus Race has a few measures of "[[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Under the Sea]]".
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{{Mythology Gag}}s in theatre.
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* ''Film/AliceInWonderlandJr'' uses the first line of music from "It's A Small World" when Alice shrinks.
** The introduction to the Caucus Race has a few measures of "[[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Under the Sea]]".
* The 1995 concert version of ''Theatre/AnyoneCanWhistle'' had Creator/AngelaLansbury as narrator stating that she was the mayoress of a town much like the one in the musical some 31 years ago "for a very short term." The original production opened in 1964, and ran on Broadway for only one week.
* The 2013 West End musical ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has many of these (in addition to several {{Internal Homage}}s to other versions of the novel).
** Charlie's "How'ja do?" {{Catchphrase}} in Act One is inspired by the BreakingTheFourthWall introduction to the character in the opening chapter, in which he, via the third-person narrator, greets the reader with "How d'you do? And how d'you do? And how d'you do again?"
** Mike Teavee's favorite videogame is ''Captain Knuckleduster'', a title inspired by the novel's counterpart loving TV shows with gangsters "giving each other the one-two-three with their knuckle-dusters!"
** The show is set in ThePresentDay; near the end of Act One, Willy Wonka is explicitly described as having been a ReclusiveArtist "for over 40 years" -- which is to say, since TheSixties, when [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the novel]] was published.
** In the transitional scene between the Nut Room and the Department of the Future, among the ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime inventions stashed away in the lonely cellars of the factory are Square Sweets That Look Round, a {{Pun}}-based gag that warranted most of a [[BreatherEpisode Breather Chapter]] in the book.
** In the novel, there are many inventions of Mr. Wonka's that are only discussed or mentioned in passing such as ice cream that never melts, Eatable Marshmallow Pillows, and Fizzy Lifting Drinks. Those three and several others are worked into this adaptation...as ideas ''Charlie'' has. (This is significant.)
* In the 2011 Broadway revival of ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'', "Save the People" ends with Jesus picking clothes out of a costume-rack, including the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''-styled t-shirt (a reference to his costume in the film), which he rejects.
* In ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple'', one song has the refrain, "Circe turns men into swine." What makes this a Mythology Gag is that here it's only a metaphor.
* ''[[Theatre/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Lightning Thief]]'', the musical adaptation of the first book in the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' series.
** Percy says that his singing will probably cause an avalanche in "The Campfire Song", an allusion to a line in ''The Last Olympian''.
** Grover discusses getting dam snacks from the Hoover Dam during "Drive", a reference to a joke from ''The Titan's Curse''.
** During the song "D.O.A." a line from "Come Sail Away" is quoted, a song by the band Styx. The gang are currently in Hades, talking to Charon, the ferryman who brings souls across the river Styx.
* In the revised stage musical of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', when guessing Ariel's name during their OldFashionedRowboatDate, Eric references fellow Disney heroines [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]], and [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa]].
* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: in part IV: ''[[http://www.mrshawking.com/sample-page/scripts/gilded-cages-stage-play/ Gilded Cages]]'', Nathaniel refers to Sergeant Arthur Swann as "[Mary's] nice policeman." This was incorporated into the dialogue because Circe Rowan, the longtime actress playing Mary, always referred to the Arthur character as such.
* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', as in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Jigglypuff scribbles drawings on Ash and co. when they fall asleep after she sings.
** A Dodrio can be heard giving a morning crow like one does in episode one of the anime.
* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', the guitar riff Roger plays is Musetta's Waltz from Puccini's opera ''Theatre/LaBoheme'', [[LampshadeHanging as mentioned in the show]]. Another snippet from the opera turns up as an interlude in the title song.
** The first few lines of Musetta's Waltz are copied almost word for word in "Take Me or Leave Me".
** Not to mention that the line "They call me Mimi" was taken directly from the opera.
* Creator/WilliamShakespeare did it, making the trope OlderThanSteam:
** Characters in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' refer to Lucrese and to Theatre/TroilusAndCressida's love.
** While in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', Polonius notes that he once played ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''.
* ''Theatre/TanzDerVampire'', adapted from ''Film/TheFearlessVampireKillers'', makes the 'ah-ah-ah' melody Sarah and Herbert sang in the bath in the film into a major {{leitmotif}}.
* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has a metric ton of these, mostly based on the famous 1938 [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]] film. Best example is probably:
-->"What's in the punch?"\\
"Lemons and melons and pears."\\
"Oh my!"
** When Elphaba enchants her paraplegic sister's silver slippers to allow her to walk, the magic turns them ruby red. This is a reference to how the magic slippers were made of silver in the original L. Frank Baum novel, but were changed to ruby in the film to take advantage of the new Technicolor film process.
** Elphaba's "Unlimited" aria uses the first few notes of "Somewhere, Over the Rainbow".
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{{Mythology Gag}}s in theatre.
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* ''Film/AliceInWonderlandJr'' uses the first line of music from "It's A Small World" when Alice shrinks.
** The introduction to the Caucus Race has a few measures of "[[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Under the Sea]]".
* The 1995 concert version of ''Theatre/AnyoneCanWhistle'' had Creator/AngelaLansbury as narrator stating that she was the mayoress of a town much like the one in the musical some 31 years ago "for a very short term." The original production opened in 1964, and ran on Broadway for only one week.
* The 2013 West End musical ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has many of these (in addition to several {{Internal Homage}}s to other versions of the novel).
** Charlie's "How'ja do?" {{Catchphrase}} in Act One is inspired by the BreakingTheFourthWall introduction to the character in the opening chapter, in which he, via the third-person narrator, greets the reader with "How d'you do? And how d'you do? And how d'you do again?"
** Mike Teavee's favorite videogame is ''Captain Knuckleduster'', a title inspired by the novel's counterpart loving TV shows with gangsters "giving each other the one-two-three with their knuckle-dusters!"
** The show is set in ThePresentDay; near the end of Act One, Willy Wonka is explicitly described as having been a ReclusiveArtist "for over 40 years" -- which is to say, since TheSixties, when [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the novel]] was published.
** In the transitional scene between the Nut Room and the Department of the Future, among the ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime inventions stashed away in the lonely cellars of the factory are Square Sweets That Look Round, a {{Pun}}-based gag that warranted most of a [[BreatherEpisode Breather Chapter]] in the book.
** In the novel, there are many inventions of Mr. Wonka's that are only discussed or mentioned in passing such as ice cream that never melts, Eatable Marshmallow Pillows, and Fizzy Lifting Drinks. Those three and several others are worked into this adaptation...as ideas ''Charlie'' has. (This is significant.)
* In the 2011 Broadway revival of ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'', "Save the People" ends with Jesus picking clothes out of a costume-rack, including the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''-styled t-shirt (a reference to his costume in the film), which he rejects.
* In ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple'', one song has the refrain, "Circe turns men into swine." What makes this a Mythology Gag is that here it's only a metaphor.
* ''[[Theatre/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Lightning Thief]]'', the musical adaptation of the first book in the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' series.
** Percy says that his singing will probably cause an avalanche in "The Campfire Song", an allusion to a line in ''The Last Olympian''.
** Grover discusses getting dam snacks from the Hoover Dam during "Drive", a reference to a joke from ''The Titan's Curse''.
** During the song "D.O.A." a line from "Come Sail Away" is quoted, a song by the band Styx. The gang are currently in Hades, talking to Charon, the ferryman who brings souls across the river Styx.
* In the revised stage musical of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', when guessing Ariel's name during their OldFashionedRowboatDate, Eric references fellow Disney heroines [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]], [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]], and [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa]].
* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: in part IV: ''[[http://www.mrshawking.com/sample-page/scripts/gilded-cages-stage-play/ Gilded Cages]]'', Nathaniel refers to Sergeant Arthur Swann as "[Mary's] nice policeman." This was incorporated into the dialogue because Circe Rowan, the longtime actress playing Mary, always referred to the Arthur character as such.
* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', as in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Jigglypuff scribbles drawings on Ash and co. when they fall asleep after she sings.
** A Dodrio can be heard giving a morning crow like one does in episode one of the anime.
* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', the guitar riff Roger plays is Musetta's Waltz from Puccini's opera ''Theatre/LaBoheme'', [[LampshadeHanging as mentioned in the show]]. Another snippet from the opera turns up as an interlude in the title song.
** The first few lines of Musetta's Waltz are copied almost word for word in "Take Me or Leave Me".
** Not to mention that the line "They call me Mimi" was taken directly from the opera.
* Creator/WilliamShakespeare did it, making the trope OlderThanSteam:
** Characters in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' refer to Lucrese and to Theatre/TroilusAndCressida's love.
** While in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', Polonius notes that he once played ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''.
* ''Theatre/TanzDerVampire'', adapted from ''Film/TheFearlessVampireKillers'', makes the 'ah-ah-ah' melody Sarah and Herbert sang in the bath in the film into a major {{leitmotif}}.
* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has a metric ton of these, mostly based on the famous 1938 [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]] film. Best example is probably:
-->"What's in the punch?"\\
"Lemons and melons and pears."\\
"Oh my!"
** When Elphaba enchants her paraplegic sister's silver slippers to allow her to walk, the magic turns them ruby red. This is a reference to how the magic slippers were made of silver in the original L. Frank Baum novel, but were changed to ruby in the film to take advantage of the new Technicolor film process.
** Elphaba's "Unlimited" aria uses the first few notes of "Somewhere, Over the Rainbow".
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