Drop One or Two Letters...

[Chris L]

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.

[Chris L]

I should mention that Mike had taken the idea from someone else, but he couldn't recall who.

[MartinG]

ENT - a bunch of Bohemian doctors struggle to survive in a busy and underfunded Ear, Nose & Throat Department.

[Chris L]

Ren - Angry chihuahua leaves longtime companion, moves to Greenwich Village.

[AmyG]

Sunday in the Park with Georg

A sequel to either  The Sound of Music or She Loves Me

[Chris L]

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.

[MartinG]

Liver! - orphaned waif finds himself amid lowlife offal merchants in Victorian London.

[Chris L]

Liver! - 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.)

[Chris L]

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.

[MartinG]

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.

[Chris L]

Bye Bye Bird - The tragic extinction of the Dodo.

The Arch of the Falsettos - Revisal of Falsettos set in St. Louis.

[MartinG]

Hell Again - Schnitzler meets Sartre in eternal claustrophobic cycle of sexual power-play.