Line #19 Theatre/BulletsOverBroadway


1	The movie about a Broadway play, turned into a Broadway play! Actually named "Bullets Over Broadway: TheMusical", this adapts the [[Film/BulletsOverBroadway Woody Allen film of the same name]] while still keeping most of the plot intact.
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3	No relation to the sequel to the musical murder mystery, ''Theatre/TheAltos'', also entitled ''Bullets over Broadway''.
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5	!!This play exhibits the following tropes:
6	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While not unattractive by any means, Creator/DianneWiest was not her youngest in 1994, and Helen was portrayed as more of an aged beauty. In most productions of the PLAY, though, Helen is portrayed as a younger woman, not much older than David, possibly to avert MayDecemberRomance.
7	* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: Of the Woody Allen film. To be fair, it makes more sense then some other examples.
8	* CanineCompanion: Mr. Woofles to Eden.
9	* DeathSong: [[spoiler:"Up A Lazy River (Reprise)" for Cheech.]]
10	* GreekChorus: What the [[spoiler: mobsters are [[AllPartOfTheShow mistaken for in the climax]]. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint How they came to that conclusion with what the mobsters are saying...]] ]]
11	* [[KindheartedCatLover Kindhearted Dog Lover]]: Eden walks the line between this and a canine version of CrazyCatLady.
12	--> '''David''': I'll set out a saucer of milk for him.
13	--> '''Eden''': Oh, you don't have to worry, [[{{Squick}} I breastfeed him.]]
14	--> ''{{Beat}}''
15	--> '''Eden''': Just kidding!
16	* IntercourseWithYou: [[StylisticSuck The Hot Dog Song.]]
17	* JerkassHasAPoint: Olive and Cheech agree on one thing: David is a terrible writer.
18	--> '''Olive''': For once, the meathead is right.
19	* JukeboxMusical: Most of the songs, with only a couple exceptions, are all pre-existing popular songs from the late 1910's and 1920's.
20	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[DownplayedTrope Actually less than you would expect]], though it still happens. For example, [[spoiler: when the mobsters interrupt the play looking for Cheech, the set is turned to face the audience, and when Nick says Cheech is still in the theatre, he gestures out into the real theatre.]]
21	* MusicalWorldHypothesis: It seems to be a mix. A number of the songs, such as "Tiger Rag", "You Rascal You", "Lazy River", and David and Ellen's parts in "Ain't I Good To You", are clearly diegetic. "The Hot Dog Song" seems to be a mix of Diegetic and All In Their Head, with Olive genuinely singing the song to David and Marx while remembering how it was performed back in the day. Some other songs, such as the finale ("Yes, We Have No Bananas"), "Ain't I Good To You", and "Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" could just be characters singing songs they heard before while changing some lines to fit their situation-i.e. diegetic. A few songs seem to fall under All In Their Head ("Blues My Naughty Sweetie" seems to go completely unheard by David, and "The Panic Is On" is pretty clearly David having a panic attack), but for the most part, all the others seem to be either Adaptation (appropriately enough) or Alternate Universe.
22	* StylisticSuck: In addition to Olive's BadBadActing, we get the [[HurricaneOfEuphemisms Hot Dog song]], which is [[IntercourseWithYou exactly what you think it is.]] It's actually LESS subtle than the original, and has some fitting visuals.
23	--> '''Olive''': Afterwards, I'll explain the DoubleEntendre. That's French. [[TheDitz I think it means intercourse!]]

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