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Off Topic => Games => Topic started by: Chris L on Mar 06, 2018, 01:03 PM

Title: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: Chris L on Mar 06, 2018, 01:03 PM
Okay, this isn't a game in the sense that there are winners, just the sense that everybody gets to play. Our friend @LeonoraArmfeldt started this on Facebook and it was immensely popular with a few players.

Take the title of a Broadway musical and drop one or two letters from it to form the title of a new show. Here are the two I posted on Mike's (Leonora's) thread:

-The Music Ma -- Remake of Gypsy
-Carouse -- Husband goes and gets drunk, comes home and beats his wife.
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: Chris L on Mar 06, 2018, 01:04 PM
I should mention that Mike had taken the idea from someone else, but he couldn't recall who.
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: MartinG on Mar 07, 2018, 10:53 AM
ENT - a bunch of Bohemian doctors struggle to survive in a busy and underfunded Ear, Nose & Throat Department.
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: Chris L on Mar 07, 2018, 11:58 AM
Ren - Angry chihuahua leaves longtime companion, moves to Greenwich Village.
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Post by: AmyG on Mar 07, 2018, 05:46 PM
Sunday in the Park with Georg

A sequel to either  The Sound of Music or She Loves Me
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: Chris L on Mar 08, 2018, 11:14 AM
App Use - A show where people wander around the stage tapping on the screens of their smart phones.

The Fan Sticks - Actors salute the audience by waving glow sticks in the air.
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: MartinG on Mar 08, 2018, 02:11 PM
Liver! - orphaned waif finds himself amid lowlife offal merchants in Victorian London.
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: Chris L on Mar 08, 2018, 02:40 PM
Quote from: MartinG on Mar 08, 2018, 02:11 PMLiver! - orphaned waif finds himself amid lowlife offal merchants in Victorian London.

How about "orphaned waif finds himself among lowlife organ harvesters in modern London"?

(Minus the waif, that was sort of the subject of the 2002 film Dirty Pretty Things.)
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: Chris L on Mar 09, 2018, 10:41 PM
Merrill, We Roll Along - The story of how producer Ray Stark encouraged Bob Merrill to write Funny Girl.

CTs - A new computerized scanning technology revolutionizes medical imaging -- and dances, too.

Sweeney Todd, the Demo Barber of Fleet Street - An angry barber demonstrates his throat-cutting techniques to other angry barbers, so that in the end everybody really does die.
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Post by: MartinG on Mar 10, 2018, 02:50 AM
West Side Tory - Member of British Conservative Party on a fact-finding trip to NYC falls in love with Puerto Rican ingenue and becomes embroiled in gangland skirmishes with tragic consequences.
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Post by: Chris L on Mar 10, 2018, 12:50 PM
Bye Bye Bird - The tragic extinction of the Dodo.

The Arch of the Falsettos - Revisal of Falsettos set in St. Louis.
Title: Re: Drop One or Two Letters...
Post by: MartinG on Mar 12, 2018, 12:39 PM
Hell Again - Schnitzler meets Sartre in eternal claustrophobic cycle of sexual power-play.