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* BlackComedy: Bad, Bad Crush is filled with this, as Jane counters Harriet's hatred of Phillip by exploiting the DoubleMeaning [[PunBasedTitle in the title]] - Harriet's bad, bad crush on Phillip, and [[spoiler: the bad, bad crush that the family of four had to endure]].
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* BlackComedy: BlackComedyBurst: Bad, Bad Crush is filled with this, as Jane counters Harriet's hatred of Phillip by exploiting the DoubleMeaning [[PunBasedTitle in the title]] - Harriet's bad, bad crush on Phillip, and [[spoiler: the bad, bad crush that the family of four had to endure]].endure]]. This is a departure from the usually light-hearted tone from the rest of the show.
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The story follows [[TheMatchmaker Emma]], a witty and motivated [[spoiler: student]] student attending Highbury Preparatory School, as she tries to get her friend, [[TheDitz Harriet]], a boyfriend. Along the way, she has to work out her own problems with love, too.
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''Emma! A Pop Musical'' is a {{Comedy}} JukeboxMusical released in 2014, with book and concept by Eric Price. It's [[SettingUpdate a modern]] [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation of]] ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' by Creator/JaneAustin.
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''Emma! A Pop Musical'' is a {{Comedy}} JukeboxMusical released in 2014, with book and concept by Eric Price. It's [[SettingUpdate a modern]] [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation of]] ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' by Creator/JaneAustin.
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''Emma! A Pop Musical'' is a {{Comedy}} JukeboxMusical released in 2014, with book and concept by Eric Price. It's [[SettingUpdate a modern]] [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation of]] ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' by Creator/Jane Austin.
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[[caption-width-right:466:"Girl power has never sounded so good!"]]
''Emma! A Pop Musical'' is a {{Comedy}} JukeboxMusical released in 2014, with book and concept by Eric Price. It's [[SettingUpdate a modern]] [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation of]] ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' by Creator/Jane Austin.
The story follows [[TheMatchmaker Emma]], a witty and motivated [[spoiler: student]] attending Highbury Preparatory School, as she tries to get her friend, [[TheDitz Harriet]], a boyfriend. Along the way, she has to work out her own problems with love, too.
! ''Emma! A Pop Musical'' contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: In this version, Jane Fairfax is the daughter of the owner of Fairfax Vending, and [[spoiler: after one of their vending machines falls on a family of four, she is forced out of Highbury because she no longer has the money to attend due to the lawsuit]]. So, Emma [[spoiler: throws a party to raise money to pay for her court case and keep her in Highbury]].
* AdaptationalJobChange: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] with Frank (referred to as Frankie), who changes from having an ambiguous/no job to [[spoiler: a massive pop star]].
* AffablyEvil: Phillip (Mr. Elton). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he only keeps up the nice persona for the election.
* AgeLift: The setting is changed to a preparatory high school, and as such, all of the characters are high school age.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Phillip's election is played up a lot. Eventually, he has a girl following him around and revealing [[ExaggeratedTrope just how micromanaged every word he says is and how everything he does is for the election]].
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: An adaptation of Literature/{{Emma}} for the modern age.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Suing a vending machine company for one of their machines falling over is highly unrealistic. Vending machines are going to fall over, it's not the company's fault that it did.
* BlackComedy: Bad, Bad Crush is filled with this, as Jane counters Harriet's hatred of Phillip by exploiting the DoubleMeaning [[PunBasedTitle in the title]] - Harriet's bad, bad crush on Phillip, and [[spoiler: the bad, bad crush that the family of four had to endure]].
--> '''Harriet and Jane:''' Such a bad, bad crush.
--> '''Harriet:''' All the pain that I feel--
--> '''Jane:''' [[spoiler: Yeah, but they felt it worse]].
* {{Bowdlerize}}: The play has a Junior version that's half an hour shorter in runtime and cuts a few songs.
* DarkReprise: [[spoiler: In Turn The Beat Around / [[Music/WhitneyHouston I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], Emma reprises Stay as she realizes she's been so focused on matching up people, she hasn't realized her own loneliness]].
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Emma is lecturing Harriet about how Martin isn't right for her, he chimes in to correct her.
--> '''Emma:''' Harriet, he works in the kitchen and is a member of "I Can't Believe It's Not Gutter".[[note]] The name of his bowling team. [[/note]]
--> '''Martin:''' ''(overhearing, MARTIN chimes in.) We're thinking of changing it to "[[Music/BonJovi Living On A Spare]]."
* TheDitz: Harriet can sometimes show shades of this trope due to her airheadedness.
* DoubleMeaning: Exploited in Bad, Bad Crush - Harriet's crush on Phillip, and Jane's problem with [[spoiler: the vending machine crushing a family of four]].
* DumbIsGood: Martin, the [[InsistentTerminology dishwasher-slash-busboy]] at Highbury is the first subject of Harriet's attraction. Emma initially doesn't like him because she thinks of him as lesser for not attending Highbury, but [[spoiler: Harriet ends up with him at the end]].
* ElevenOClockNumber: [[spoiler: Turn The Beat Around / I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], the MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber that underscores Phillip's party and is essentially the climax of the show. It also shows Emma [[spoiler: finally realizing her own loneliness after matchmaking for so long]].
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Phillip is hinted as not liking Harriet, but [[spoiler: Emma]] during the party. He pulls away from Harriet immediately after taking the picture and [[spoiler: focuses his attention on Emma, complimenting her photography]].
* JukeboxMusical: The musical features mostly pop hits from the late 1900s from the likes of Music/WhitneyHouston and Music/SaraBareilles.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Emma addresses the audience in the beginning during the wedding to give us some exposition.
** Emma also gives us this gem right after:
--> '''Emma:''' Mr Knightley? [[ContinuityNod Sounds like a character from]] [[Literature/{{Emma}} an 1800's English novel]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: Verges on {{Parody}} with Harriet. [[RunningGag She sings "Be My Baby" while falling in love]], and ends up singing it ''four times'' over the course of the musical, most of which are someone she ''just met''.
* LoveHurts: The song Bad, Bad Crush focuses on this, at least for Harriet.
* MagnificentBastard: Phillip. The character list on the licensing page describes him as "snobby, arrogant, and a true politician, [[SleazyPolitician in the worst sense of the word]]."
* TheMatchmaker: Emma is notoriously this. She notes by the end of the musical [[spoiler: she was so focused on others' love lives, she forgot to focus on her own]].
* MinorCharacterMajorSong: Ashley steals the show with [[spoiler: Turn The Beat Around / I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], which is essentially the climax of the show.
* MondegreenGag: At the party, while taking pictures, Emma tells Harriet to pose with "serious contemplation". Harriet mishears her as saying "[[PottyHumor serious constipation]]", and poses looking uncomfortable, with her hands on her stomach.
* MoodWhiplash:
** The BsodSong "Stay" immediately goes into [[spoiler: Turn The Beat Around / I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], an energetic dance number.
** During the aforementioned dance number, Emma suddenly realizes [[spoiler: her own neglected love life]] in a surprisingly poignant moment, then as she sings the last note, it kicks right back into energetic.
* RoleSwapAu: In the [[Literature/{{Emma}} novel]], Jane played the piano and Frankie was the one who had to leave Highbury suddenly. In the show, Frankie is a huge pop star and Jane is forced to leave Highbury on short notice.
* RunningGag: Harriet singing "Be My Baby" while following in love, a gag that happens ''four times'' over the course of the musical [[JustifiedTrope to emphasize just how much of a hopeless romantic she is]].
* SettingUpdate: The musical is an adaptation of Literature/{{Emma}} set in modern times and in a high school.
* SkewedPriorities: When Emma is told about the [[spoiler: vending machine accident]] in Fresno, California, she says "Ew... [[BaitAndSwitch Fresno]]."
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-> ♫ Be my, be my baby... ♪
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[[caption-width-right:466:"Girl power has never sounded so good!"]]
''Emma! A Pop Musical'' is a {{Comedy}} JukeboxMusical released in 2014, with book and concept by Eric Price. It's [[SettingUpdate a modern]] [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations adaptation of]] ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' by Creator/Jane Austin.
The story follows [[TheMatchmaker Emma]], a witty and motivated [[spoiler: student]] attending Highbury Preparatory School, as she tries to get her friend, [[TheDitz Harriet]], a boyfriend. Along the way, she has to work out her own problems with love, too.
! ''Emma! A Pop Musical'' contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: In this version, Jane Fairfax is the daughter of the owner of Fairfax Vending, and [[spoiler: after one of their vending machines falls on a family of four, she is forced out of Highbury because she no longer has the money to attend due to the lawsuit]]. So, Emma [[spoiler: throws a party to raise money to pay for her court case and keep her in Highbury]].
* AdaptationalJobChange: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] with Frank (referred to as Frankie), who changes from having an ambiguous/no job to [[spoiler: a massive pop star]].
* AffablyEvil: Phillip (Mr. Elton). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he only keeps up the nice persona for the election.
* AgeLift: The setting is changed to a preparatory high school, and as such, all of the characters are high school age.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Phillip's election is played up a lot. Eventually, he has a girl following him around and revealing [[ExaggeratedTrope just how micromanaged every word he says is and how everything he does is for the election]].
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: An adaptation of Literature/{{Emma}} for the modern age.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Suing a vending machine company for one of their machines falling over is highly unrealistic. Vending machines are going to fall over, it's not the company's fault that it did.
* BlackComedy: Bad, Bad Crush is filled with this, as Jane counters Harriet's hatred of Phillip by exploiting the DoubleMeaning [[PunBasedTitle in the title]] - Harriet's bad, bad crush on Phillip, and [[spoiler: the bad, bad crush that the family of four had to endure]].
--> '''Harriet and Jane:''' Such a bad, bad crush.
--> '''Harriet:''' All the pain that I feel--
--> '''Jane:''' [[spoiler: Yeah, but they felt it worse]].
* {{Bowdlerize}}: The play has a Junior version that's half an hour shorter in runtime and cuts a few songs.
* DarkReprise: [[spoiler: In Turn The Beat Around / [[Music/WhitneyHouston I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], Emma reprises Stay as she realizes she's been so focused on matching up people, she hasn't realized her own loneliness]].
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Emma is lecturing Harriet about how Martin isn't right for her, he chimes in to correct her.
--> '''Emma:''' Harriet, he works in the kitchen and is a member of "I Can't Believe It's Not Gutter".[[note]] The name of his bowling team. [[/note]]
--> '''Martin:''' ''(overhearing, MARTIN chimes in.) We're thinking of changing it to "[[Music/BonJovi Living On A Spare]]."
* TheDitz: Harriet can sometimes show shades of this trope due to her airheadedness.
* DoubleMeaning: Exploited in Bad, Bad Crush - Harriet's crush on Phillip, and Jane's problem with [[spoiler: the vending machine crushing a family of four]].
* DumbIsGood: Martin, the [[InsistentTerminology dishwasher-slash-busboy]] at Highbury is the first subject of Harriet's attraction. Emma initially doesn't like him because she thinks of him as lesser for not attending Highbury, but [[spoiler: Harriet ends up with him at the end]].
* ElevenOClockNumber: [[spoiler: Turn The Beat Around / I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], the MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber that underscores Phillip's party and is essentially the climax of the show. It also shows Emma [[spoiler: finally realizing her own loneliness after matchmaking for so long]].
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Phillip is hinted as not liking Harriet, but [[spoiler: Emma]] during the party. He pulls away from Harriet immediately after taking the picture and [[spoiler: focuses his attention on Emma, complimenting her photography]].
* JukeboxMusical: The musical features mostly pop hits from the late 1900s from the likes of Music/WhitneyHouston and Music/SaraBareilles.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Emma addresses the audience in the beginning during the wedding to give us some exposition.
** Emma also gives us this gem right after:
--> '''Emma:''' Mr Knightley? [[ContinuityNod Sounds like a character from]] [[Literature/{{Emma}} an 1800's English novel]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: Verges on {{Parody}} with Harriet. [[RunningGag She sings "Be My Baby" while falling in love]], and ends up singing it ''four times'' over the course of the musical, most of which are someone she ''just met''.
* LoveHurts: The song Bad, Bad Crush focuses on this, at least for Harriet.
* MagnificentBastard: Phillip. The character list on the licensing page describes him as "snobby, arrogant, and a true politician, [[SleazyPolitician in the worst sense of the word]]."
* TheMatchmaker: Emma is notoriously this. She notes by the end of the musical [[spoiler: she was so focused on others' love lives, she forgot to focus on her own]].
* MinorCharacterMajorSong: Ashley steals the show with [[spoiler: Turn The Beat Around / I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], which is essentially the climax of the show.
* MondegreenGag: At the party, while taking pictures, Emma tells Harriet to pose with "serious contemplation". Harriet mishears her as saying "[[PottyHumor serious constipation]]", and poses looking uncomfortable, with her hands on her stomach.
* MoodWhiplash:
** The BsodSong "Stay" immediately goes into [[spoiler: Turn The Beat Around / I Wanna Dance With Somebody]], an energetic dance number.
** During the aforementioned dance number, Emma suddenly realizes [[spoiler: her own neglected love life]] in a surprisingly poignant moment, then as she sings the last note, it kicks right back into energetic.
* RoleSwapAu: In the [[Literature/{{Emma}} novel]], Jane played the piano and Frankie was the one who had to leave Highbury suddenly. In the show, Frankie is a huge pop star and Jane is forced to leave Highbury on short notice.
* RunningGag: Harriet singing "Be My Baby" while following in love, a gag that happens ''four times'' over the course of the musical [[JustifiedTrope to emphasize just how much of a hopeless romantic she is]].
* SettingUpdate: The musical is an adaptation of Literature/{{Emma}} set in modern times and in a high school.
* SkewedPriorities: When Emma is told about the [[spoiler: vending machine accident]] in Fresno, California, she says "Ew... [[BaitAndSwitch Fresno]]."
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-> ♫ Be my, be my baby... ♪
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