History Theatre / SpiesareForever

''Spies Are Forever'' ran between March 11 and April 3, 2016, at the [=NoHo=] Arts Center in Los Angeles, with a follow-up concert performance of the songs in the show titled ''Spies Are Forever: [[Film/TheMatrixReloaded Reloaded]]'' as part of the late-night programming of the Creator/TeamStarkid Summer Season at Stage 773 in Chicago, from July 23-25 2016. There was a plan to perform a reunion concert, ''Spies Are Forever: In Concert at 54 Below'', in New York from June 8-9, 2020, which has been indefinitely postponed due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. It finally returned to Los Angeles on April 28th, 2024 with "Spies Are Forever: Live to Film Concert Experience," performed at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood.

''Spies Are Forever'' ran between March 11 and April 3, 2016, at the [=NoHo=] Arts Center in Los Angeles, with a follow-up concert performance of the songs in the show titled ''Spies Are Forever: [[Film/TheMatrixReloaded Reloaded]]'' as part of the late-night programming of the Creator/TeamStarkid Summer Season at Stage 773 in Chicago, from July 23-25 2016. There was a plan to perform a reunion concert, ''Spies Are Forever: In Concert at 54 Below'', in New York from June 8-9, 2020, which has been indefinitely postponed due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, with plans for a future reunion or a sequel still in the air.

* WholePlotReference: The initial ExcusePlot of the stolen nuclear warhead that can be used to hold any city in the world to ransom is obviously a very common plot, but in the Franchise/JamesBond film canon is most similar to ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Curt Mega's initial encounter with Tatiana and his subsequent relationship with her is drawn from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', and Tatiana's double-cross at TheCasino and confession of being ForcedIntoEvil is from ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' (as is the general plot of a TuxedoAndMartini sequence at TheCasino followed by being captured and tied to a chair by a TortureTechnician). [[spoiler: Finally, the main plot of Owen's role as the true BigBad is lifted from Alec Trevelyan's relationship with James Bond in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Curt to Barb. [[spoiler:It's later revealed it's actually because of IncompatibleOrientation, though.]]

* ObliviousToLove: Curt to Barb.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Agent Curt Mega. Even better, it's the actor's name in RealLife.

* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: "One Step Ahead" takes this up to eleven as a joke, with [[spoiler: Owen]] and Curt somehow ending up in the "International Weapons Museum" where they steadily progress through the history of warfare, first dueling with [[SimpleStaff quarterstaves]], then [[HeroesPreferSwords longswords]], then [[TheMusketeer muskets]], before finally coming full-circle back to their original semiautomatic pistols.

* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: "One Step Ahead" takes this UpToEleven as a joke, with [[spoiler: Owen]] and Curt somehow ending up in the "International Weapons Museum" where they steadily progress through the history of warfare, first dueling with [[SimpleStaff quarterstaves]], then [[HeroesPreferSwords longswords]], then [[TheMusketeer muskets]], before finally coming full-circle back to their original semiautomatic pistols.

* LastEpisodeThemeReprise: It's all part of the same show, but "One Step Ahead" is very much following this trope, an epic UpToEleven reprise of "Spies Are Forever" as the backdrop of Agent Curt Mega's FinalBattle with [[spoiler: Owen]].

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The New Democratic Republic of Old Socialist Prussian Sloviskia is obviously fictional, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia Prussia]] is, of course, a real place that's part of Germany, which makes it a little confusing that Dr. Baron von Nazi's German government-in-exile wants to conquer it on Germany's behalf. Presumably this is an AlternateHistory where Germany broke into a few more pieces than the two halves it was left in after World War II in our timeline.

* FourthReich: The main plot seems at first like it's going to be about Baron von Nazi trying to create a new National Socialist state in the NDROSPS as a staging point for World War III. [[spoiler: It turns out there's a ManBehindTheMan -- the Deadliest Man Alive -- who's only using him for a much more subtle dystopian plot.]]

** Aside from being a generally immature joke, Richard Big could be a reference to Biggus Dickus from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheLifeOfBrian''.

* MythologyGag: Al Fallick's initial appearance as the Informant, disguised as a waiter, is a CallBack to the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE309I0zlNM job interview]]" interview with Creator/MaryKateWiles where "Al the Intern" pretends to be a waiter at "TCB headquarters".

!! Spies are Forever contains examples of:

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: "When I got the news that [[spoiler: Owen]] died and you lived..."

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: One of the Nazi chorus line members in "Not So Bad" turns out to be father of rocketry Wernher von Braun himself. (Some brutally satirical ArtisticLicenseHistory, of course, since by 1961 con Braun was a proud American citizen staunchly proclaiming he'd renounced all Nazi ties since he'd [[HeelFaithTurn become a born-again Christian]].)

* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The KGB is called by its real name, but the names of the CIA and [=MI6=] are never mentioned; Curt and Owen's respective agencies are only described by the generic name of the American and British "secret service".

* WholePlotReference: The initial ExcusePlot of the stolen nuclear warhead that can be used to hold any city in the world to ransom is obviously a very common plot, but in the Franchise/JamesBond film canon is most similar to ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. Curt Mega's initial encounter with Tatiana and his subsequent relationship with her is drawn from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', and Tatiana's double-cross and confession of being ForcedIntoEvil is from ''Film/CasinoRoyale''. [[spoiler: Finally, the main plot of Owen's role as the true BigBad is lifted from Alec Trevelyan's relationship with James Bond in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.]]

''Spies are Forever'' is a full-length Musical Comedy created by the Creator/TinCanBrothers (Creator/CoreyLubowich, Creator/JoeyRichter, and Brian Rosenthal), set during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar period.

* SharedUniverse: Potentially with ''Podcast/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye'' and ''Theatre/SolveItSquadReturns'', [[spoiler: since Chimera is the parent company of ''Wayward Guide'''s Miner Mole Inc., and a character from ''Solve-It Squad Returns'' is mentioned.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: One of the Nazi chorus line members in "Not So Bad" turns out to be father of rocketry Wernher von Braun himself. (Some brutally satirical ArtisticLicenseHistory, of course, since by 1961 was a proud American citizen staunchly proclaiming he'd renounced all Nazi ties since he'd [[HeelFaithTurn become a born-again Christian]].)