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* ''MissSaigon'': "I'm Chris' wife. My name is Ellen". The audience already knows this, but the line clearly has this effect on Kim.
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* ''AllMySons'': "Your brother’s alive, darling, because if he’s dead, your father killed him."

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* ''AllMySons'': ''All My Sons'': "Your brother’s alive, darling, because if he’s dead, your father killed him."
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* ''AllMySons'': "Your brother’s alive, darling, because if he’s dead, your father killed him."
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* ''SunsetBoulevard'' actually has a Wham ''Song'', specifically "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," in which Max fills in all the remaining holes relating to Norma's past. The biggest WhamLine within the song is probably "Please, understand, she was [[spoiler: my wife]]."
* {{Tosca}}! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMidSentence aaaaaaargh!]]

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* ''SunsetBoulevard'' ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'' actually has a Wham ''Song'', specifically "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," in which Max fills in all the remaining holes relating to Norma's past. The biggest WhamLine within the song is probably "Please, understand, she was [[spoiler: my wife]]."
* {{Tosca}}! ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}''! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMidSentence aaaaaaargh!]]
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* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]

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* ''SweeneyTodd'': ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]
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* ''Theatre/SunsetBoulevard'' actually has a Wham ''Song'', specifically "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," in which Max fills in all the remaining holes relating to Norma's past. The biggest WhamLine within the song is probably "Please, understand, she was [[spoiler: my wife]]."

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* ''Theatre/SunsetBoulevard'' ''SunsetBoulevard'' actually has a Wham ''Song'', specifically "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," in which Max fills in all the remaining holes relating to Norma's past. The biggest WhamLine within the song is probably "Please, understand, she was [[spoiler: my wife]]."
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* [[{{Hamlet}} "...revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."]]

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* [[{{Hamlet}} ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'': "...revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."]]"
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* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': Jean Valjean shouts at the zealous and cruel police officer, Inspector Javert: "You know nothing of my life; all I did was steal some bread! You know nothing of the world!" Javert's response? "Dare you speak to me of crime, and the price you had to pay? Every man is born in sin, every man must choose his way. You know nothing of Javert, I was born inside a jail! I was born with scum like you, I am from the gutter too!"
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* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'': "I could not send it, here it is again."
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* ''NextToNormal'': "Whose birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"

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* ''NextToNormal'': "Whose birthday is it?" "My brother's. " [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"
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* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]

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* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]lived!"]]

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* ''TheBookOfMormon'': "I'd do anything for you, you're my best friend."

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* ''TheBookOfMormon'': ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'': "I'd do anything for you, you're my best friend."
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* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]
* ''TheMousetrap'':
--> '''Ms. Ralston:''' [[spoiler: I thought policemen didn't carry revolvers?]]
--> '''Sergeant Trotter:''' [[spoiler: They don't, Ms. Ralston. I'm not a policeman.]]

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* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]
* ''TheMousetrap'':
--> '''Ms. Ralston:''' [[spoiler: I thought policemen didn't carry revolvers?]]
--> '''Sergeant Trotter:''' [[spoiler: They don't, Ms. Ralston. I'm not a policeman.]]
lived!"]]
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* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]

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* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]lived!"]]
* ''TheMousetrap'':
--> '''Ms. Ralston:''' [[spoiler: I thought policemen didn't carry revolvers?]]
--> '''Sergeant Trotter:''' [[spoiler: They don't, Ms. Ralston. I'm not a policeman.]]
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* ''[[TickTickBoom tick, tick...BOOM!]]'': Jon gets angry with his best friend Michael and screams, "What the hell do you know about fear? What do you know about anything?" Michael responds, [[spoiler:"I know I'm sick, Jon, and I'm not going to get any better."]]

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* ''[[TickTickBoom tick, tick...BOOM!]]'': Jon gets angry with his best friend Michael and screams, "What the hell do you know about fear? What do you know about anything?" Michael responds, [[spoiler:"I know I'm sick, Jon, and I'm not going to get any better."]]"]]
* ''SweeneyTodd'': [[spoiler: "'Don't I know you', she said!... You knew she lived!"]]
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* ''[[TickTickBoom tick, tick...BOOM]]'': Jon gets angry with his best friend Michael and screams, "What the hell do you know about fear? What do you know about anything?" Michael responds, [[spoiler:"I know I'm sick, Jon, and I'm not going to get any better."]]

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* ''[[TickTickBoom tick, tick...BOOM]]'': BOOM!]]'': Jon gets angry with his best friend Michael and screams, "What the hell do you know about fear? What do you know about anything?" Michael responds, [[spoiler:"I know I'm sick, Jon, and I'm not going to get any better."]]
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* [[TickTickBoom tick, tick...BOOM]]: Jon gets angry with his best friend Michael and screams, "What the hell do you know about fear? What do you know about anything?" Michael responds, [[spoiler:"I know I'm sick, Jon, and I'm not going to get any better."]]

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* [[TickTickBoom ''[[TickTickBoom tick, tick...BOOM]]: BOOM]]'': Jon gets angry with his best friend Michael and screams, "What the hell do you know about fear? What do you know about anything?" Michael responds, [[spoiler:"I know I'm sick, Jon, and I'm not going to get any better."]]
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* In ''{{Urinetown}}'', [[AllKnowingSingingNarrator Little Sally asks Officer Lockstock]] what Urinetown is like. In the interest of [[MediumAwareness maintaining dramatic tension]], Lockstock ''tries'' to avoid answering the question, telling her "Look, its power depends on mystery. I can't just blurt it out, like '[[spoiler:There is no Urinetown! We just kill people!]]'"

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* In ''{{Urinetown}}'', [[AllKnowingSingingNarrator Little Sally asks Officer Lockstock]] what Urinetown is like. In the interest of [[MediumAwareness maintaining dramatic tension]], Lockstock ''tries'' to avoid answering the question, telling her "Look, its power depends on mystery. I can't just blurt it out, like '[[spoiler:There is no Urinetown! We just kill people!]]'"people!]]'"
* [[TickTickBoom tick, tick...BOOM]]: Jon gets angry with his best friend Michael and screams, "What the hell do you know about fear? What do you know about anything?" Michael responds, [[spoiler:"I know I'm sick, Jon, and I'm not going to get any better."]]
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* {{Tosca}}! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMidSentence aaaaaaargh!]]

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* {{Tosca}}! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMidSentence aaaaaaargh!]]aaaaaaargh!]]
* In ''{{Urinetown}}'', [[AllKnowingSingingNarrator Little Sally asks Officer Lockstock]] what Urinetown is like. In the interest of [[MediumAwareness maintaining dramatic tension]], Lockstock ''tries'' to avoid answering the question, telling her "Look, its power depends on mystery. I can't just blurt it out, like '[[spoiler:There is no Urinetown! We just kill people!]]'"
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* "Tosca"! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMidSentence aaaaaaargh!]]

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* "Tosca"! {{Tosca}}! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMidSentence aaaaaaargh!]]
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* [[Tosca]]! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMid-Sentence aaaaaaargh!]]

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* [[Tosca]]! "Tosca"! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMid-Sentence [[KilledMidSentence aaaaaaargh!]]
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* ''Theatre/SunsetBoulevard'' actually has a Wham ''Song'', specifically "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," in which Max fills in all the remaining holes relating to Norma's past. The biggest WhamLine within the song is probably "Please, understand, she was [[spoiler: my wife]]."

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* ''Theatre/SunsetBoulevard'' actually has a Wham ''Song'', specifically "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," in which Max fills in all the remaining holes relating to Norma's past. The biggest WhamLine within the song is probably "Please, understand, she was [[spoiler: my wife]].""
* [[Tosca]]! Finalmente mia...[[KilledMid-Sentence aaaaaaargh!]]
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* In AynRand's play ''Night of January 16th'', Karen Andre, accused of murdering Bjorn Faulkner, is nearing the end of her testimony, when the SurpriseWitness barges into the courtroom. Karen frantically tries to prevent him from saying anything, but he tells her, "Your sacrifice is useless: Bjorn Faulkner is dead." Karen faints from this revelation, and the curtain falls on the second act.

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* In AynRand's Creator/AynRand's play ''Night of January 16th'', Karen Andre, accused of murdering Bjorn Faulkner, is nearing the end of her testimony, when the SurpriseWitness barges into the courtroom. Karen frantically tries to prevent him from saying anything, but he tells her, "Your sacrifice is useless: Bjorn Faulkner is dead." Karen faints from this revelation, and the curtain falls on the second act.



* From ''{{Theatre/Wicked}}'': 'You have no real power,' as well as a WHAM moment when Glinda shows the Wizard Elphaba's keepsake, [[spoiler: identifying him as her father, moments after having had her murdered.]]

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* From ''{{Theatre/Wicked}}'': ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'': 'You have no real power,' as well as a WHAM moment when Glinda shows the Wizard Elphaba's keepsake, [[spoiler: identifying him as her father, moments after having had her murdered.]]



* ''{{Next to Normal}}'': "Whose birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"

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* ''{{Next to Normal}}'': ''NextToNormal'': "Whose birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"
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* ''{{RENT}}'': "AZT Break." [[spoiler: How Mimi reveals to Roger she has AIDS.]]

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* ''{{RENT}}'': "AZT Break." [[spoiler: How Mimi reveals to Roger she has AIDS.]]]]
* ''Theatre/SunsetBoulevard'' actually has a Wham ''Song'', specifically "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," in which Max fills in all the remaining holes relating to Norma's past. The biggest WhamLine within the song is probably "Please, understand, she was [[spoiler: my wife]]."
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* ''{{Next to Normal}}'': "Whose birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"

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* ''{{Next to Normal}}'': "Whose birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"]]"
* ''{{RENT}}'': "AZT Break." [[spoiler: How Mimi reveals to Roger she has AIDS.]]
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* From David Auburn's ''Proof'': "I didn't find it. [[spoiler: I wrote it."]] End Act 1.

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* TheBookOfMormon "I'd do anything for you, you're my best friend."

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* TheBookOfMormon ''TheBookOfMormon'': "I'd do anything for you, you're my best friend."



* From {{Theatre/Wicked}}. 'You have no real power,' as well as a WHAM moment when Glinda shows the Wizard Elphaba's keepsake, [[spoiler: identifying him as her father, moments after having had her murdered]]
* ''{{Next to Normal}}'': "Who's birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"

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* From {{Theatre/Wicked}}. ''{{Theatre/Wicked}}'': 'You have no real power,' as well as a WHAM moment when Glinda shows the Wizard Elphaba's keepsake, [[spoiler: identifying him as her father, moments after having had her murdered]]
murdered.]]
** Another one takes place at the end, at the site where Elphaba made her last stand. [[spoiler: The Scarecrow comes on stage, knocks on the floor]], and says two words: [[spoiler:"It worked!" Elphaba, alive and well, comes up through a trap door and reunites with her beloved Fiyero before they make plans to flee to Earth.]]
* ''{{Next to Normal}}'': "Who's "Whose birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"
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* TheBookOfMormon "I'd do anything for you, you're my best friend."
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* In AynRand's play ''Night of January 16th'', Karen Andre, accused of murdering Bjorn Faulkner, is nearing the end of her testimony, when the SurpriseWitness barges into the courtroom. Karen frantically tries to prevent him from saying anything, but he tells her, "Your sacrifice is useless: Bjorn Faulkner is dead." Karen faints from this revelation, and the curtain falls on the second act.
* ''Humble Boy'': "Mother?...Mother, [[spoiler:please tell me you can see him.]]"
* ''{{Cabaret}}'': "But if you could see her through my eyes...[[spoiler:She wouldn't look ''Jewish'' at all.]]"
* [[{{Hamlet}} "...revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."]]
* ''{{Godspell}}'': "This is the beginning."[[spoiler:...of the end. Jesus says this to tell the community that was built during Act 1 that he's going to leave them to see if they retained the lessons learned from his teachings. And it all goes downhill from there, ending in His Crucifixion.]]
** Also, the line right before "On the Willows": [[spoiler: "And I tell you I shall never again drink from the fruit of the vine until I drink it again with you in the Kingdom of my Father." Jesus then says goodbye to the rest of the cast.]]
* From {{Theatre/Wicked}}. 'You have no real power,' as well as a WHAM moment when Glinda shows the Wizard Elphaba's keepsake, [[spoiler: identifying him as her father, moments after having had her murdered]]
* ''{{Next to Normal}}'': "Who's birthday is it?" "My brother's. [[spoiler: "I didn't know you had a brother." "I don't. He died before I was born.]]"

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