Trope Namers / Theatre

aka: Theater

From the stage to this very wiki... these tropes were brought into public consciousness for plays at the local theatre and/or opera house.

Theatre productions with their own pages

• William Shakespeare

Other Theatre Productions

• The Addams Family
  • One Normal Night

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• Annie Get Your Gun
  • Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

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• Aristophanes
  • The Birds
    • Cloudcuckooland
    • Cloudcuckoolander
    • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder
    • Cloudcuckoolanguage
    • The Cuckoolander Was Right
    • Cuckoosnarker
  • Lysistrata
    • Lysistrata Gambit

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• Avenue Q
  • Girlfriend in Canada
  • The Internet Is for Porn

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• Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Playing Cyrano

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• Doctor Faustus
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships

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• Fiddler on the Roof
  • If I Were a Rich Man

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• Gaslight
  • Gaslighting

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• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Amazing Technicolor Battlefield
  • Amazing Technicolor Population
  • Amazing Technicolor Wildlife
  • Amazing Technicolor World

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• La Cage aux folles
  • I Am What I Am

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• Naughty Marietta
  • Dream Melody

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• Oedipus the King
  • The Creon
  • Oedipus Complex (by way of Sigmund Freud)

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• Peter Pan (1904)
  • Clap Your Hands If You Believe
  • The Croc Is Ticking
  • Never Grew Up
  • Peter Pan Parody

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• The Pirates of Penzance
  • Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
  • Major General Song
  • Modern Major General
  • Talk About the Weather
  • With Catlike Tread

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• Plautus
  • Miles Gloriosus

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• Pygmalion
  • Pygmalion Plot

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• The Rocky Horror Show
  • Rocky Roll Call

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• R.U.R.
  • Robot

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• South Pacific
  • Taught to Hate

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• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me

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• Wicked
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

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• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
  • Little Known Facts

Opera

• Tosca
  • Scarpia Ultimatum

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• Richard Wagner
  • Götterdämmerung

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