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" |
21 | ---- |
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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