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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omaha_1984.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350: ''Whatta they got in "Omaha!" that they never have in other musicals?'']]
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4	''Omaha!'' is a recorded musical comedy with book, lyrics and music by Creator/StanFreberg. Originally a six-minute, 38-second radio commercial for the Butter-Nut Coffee Company of Omaha, the original cast recording was issued on an EP in 1958.
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6	The plot is simple: Biff (Freberg) loves Julie (Frances Osborne), and Julie loves Omaha, but their tender duets of love (for each other and for the town) are interrupted by Eustace K. Butter-Nut (Byron Kane), the only man ever to leave Omaha.
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8	The musical numbers include an overture, four songs and a last-act finale, which is impressive for a show only ten minutes long.
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10	'''Tracklist (9:33 minutes)'''
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12	[[AC:Side One]]
13	# "Overture"
14	# "Whatta They Got In Omaha?"
15	# "Omaha Moon"
16	# "Omaha"
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18	[[AC:Side Two]]
19	# "I Look In Your Face"
20	# "Reprise"
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22	!!These tropes can be found in ''Omaha!'':
23	* AdaptationExpansion: The EP version eliminates the Butter-Nut Coffee plugs from the commercial version, but also adds a few minutes of new material, including an additional song ("I Look in Your Face").
24	* ArcWords: The word "Omaha".
25	* CrowdSong: People in Omaha are cursed to hold their hands up in the air and sing choruses.
26	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white.
27	* FaceOnTheCover: Freberg is pictured between the crowd.
28	* {{Jingle}}: The reprise finale of the radio commercial:
29	--> ''Whatta they got in Butter-Nut''
30	--> ''That they haven't got in other coffees?''
31	* MinisculeRocking: A musical condensed under 10 minutes length.
32	* NoIndoorVoice: Biff and the other locals, parodying the tendency of performers on original cast albums to not tone down their theatrical projecting in the recording studio.
33	* OneWordTitle: "Omaha", not mentioning "Overture" and "Reprise".
34	* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The cover is done in the style of a Broadway musical album, but is in fact a parody of it.
35	* PunBasedTitle: "Omaha!" is obviously a take-off of ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''
36	* QuestioningTitle: "Whatta They Got In Omaha?"
37	* RepriseMedley: The finale is made up of several earlier songs with different lyrics--in particular, singing "Butter-Nut" instead of "Omaha."
38	* SdrawkcabName:
39	** Saying Butter-Nut's name backwards breaks the curse on Omaha (which spelled backwards is "Ahamo!").
40	** There's also a mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Ak-Sar-Ben Ak-Sar-Ben]], the RealLife civic group in Omaha whose name is Nebraska spelled backwards.
41	* SpellingSong: The ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''-like title song spells "O-M-A-H-A" at the end.
42	* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Lampshaded: "Try to keep from bursting into song every time I ask a question, will you?"

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