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  • Theater Productions
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        • Theatrical production playing in the Springfield Theater District, featuring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. (Season 17 episode Girls Just Want to Have Sums)
    • The 2-Layer Pineapple Surprise Cake In A Sun Hat Trick
        • Magic trick ALF attempts using Kate's sun hat (Season 3 episode Do You Believe in Magic?)
    • 2nd Infantry Division B Company Presents: Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
        • Theatrical production from Season 5 episode 11 A Lot of Brouhaha Over Zilch.
    • 3 Dollar Bills in Gay, Gay, Gay
        • Theater production in the famous Shelbyville Theater District. (Season 16 episode The Seven-Beer Snitch)
    • Alabamania
        • Fictional show advertised in Branson, Missouri when Bart and his friends arrive with his fake ID and rental car. (Season 7 episode Bart on the Road)
    • Angie
        • Maggie mentions a rock band from her world, The Rolling Who, a combination of The Who and the Rolling Stones, that performed a rock opera called Angie, actually a Rolling Stones song in reality. (Season 4 episode Common Ground)
    • The Angina Monologues
        • Stage show featuring Wilford Brimley in Branson, Missouri. (Season 13 episode The Old Man and the Key)
    • The Angry Lovers
        • Booth Templeton stars in the The Angry Lovers, a play by Spencer Coombs, at the Savoy Theatre. (episode The Trouble with Templeton)
    • Arnold
        • All-male version of the play Annie that Chad mentions in the limo.
    • Ass, You Lick It
        • Cleo starts a drama department in prison, with plans to perform Shakespeare inspired works. (Season 5 Charlie and Lacey Go For Broke)
    • Attention Whore: The Adam Decamp Story
        • Theatrical production featuring Blake's old drama camp teacher Mr. Buckley (Andy Dick) as Adam DeMamp. (Season 6 episode Meth Head Actor)
    • Authors In Hell
        • The play Woody stars in as Mark Twain (Season 6 episode 9 Puddin' Head Boyd)
    • Bash Howard's Rhapsody
        • New name Sandy Devereaux St. Clair proposes for Rhapsody after Bash comes into his full inheritance. (Season 3 episode Keep Ridin')
    • Beginnings: An Aerial Ballet
        • Dylan's friend buys him tickets to a production called Beginnings: An Aerial Ballet at the Royce Theater.
    • The Big Goodbye
        • Holographic program available in the Enterprise Holo-suite: "The 1940's world of gumshoe detective Dixon Hill."
    • Bite Me, Bite Me, Bite Me, Bite Me
        • Gershwin musical, according to 14 across in the crossword puzzle in Monica and Rachel's paper, which the newspaper delivery guy already completed for them, dissatisfied with the cookies they gave him instead of a holiday tip. (Season 2 episode The One With Phoebe's Dad)
    • Blamwellamum Of Woont
        • Opera performed by the Hallapolis State Opera. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."
    • Boxing Day
        • Joey's play that his friends go see at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. (Season 3 episode The One With the Screamer)
    • The Boy Who Couldn't Cry
        • The name of the play Charlie's prison patient Wayne writes (Charlie and Jen Together Again)
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        • Show that Bull attends in Atlantic City. (Season 9 episode Looking for Mr. Shannon)
    • The Chinese Chamber Of Doom
        • Magic trick - the finale of the magic act Bryan performs in a flashback about how he made ends meet during the off season in Nantucket in Season 5 episode Moonlighting.
    • The Cockeyed Mind Of Cliff Calvin
        • Cliff's idea for a standup comedy act (Season 10 episode 15 My Son, the Father)
    • The Creedish Death Tragedy on Ice
        • Chapter 27. Theatrical production starring Tender Branson, sponsored by SummerTime Old-Fashioned Instant Lemonade.
    • Dakota Dialogue
        • Last year's sensational project-o-scope production, the play that kicked off the use of Plains Indian sign language craze among the youth.
    • Dave, The Insane Maniac
        • A play in one act, by Beth and Bill. (Season 2 episode Bitch Session)
    • David Copperfield's Astonishing Girlfriend
        • Broadway production in New York City. (The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson)
    • Dicknanigans
        • An amazing theater production featuring dialogue without dialogue. (Season 4 episode Sex Addict Wendell)
    • Elephant!
        • A new Royal Shakespeare Company musical based on The Elephant Man, a sparkily nasty send-up of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
    • Equus Starring Sideshow Mel
        • Theater production in the famous Shelbyville Theater District. (Season 16 episode The Seven-Beer Snitch)
    • An Evening with David Brenner
        • The new Springfield Concert Hall quickly devolves into showing porn and then comedy club. (Season 16 episode The Seven-Beer Snitch)
    • An Evening With The Prophets
        • An original play by Woody's theater troupe (Season 7 episode 2 Swear to God)
    • F4: An Action Musical
        • While working for Lucille 2 at her rehabilitation center Austerity, Tobias organizes a musical version of Fantastic Four starring the residents, which include his girlfriend DeBrie (Season 4)
    • FAS
        • Also known as For All Species. Organization that presents the Menstruation Orientation seminar. (Season 5 episode Airplane Showdown)
    • Fire Drill Follies
        • Springfield Elementary production that Principal Skinner mentions that apparently didn't go very well. (Season 4 episode I Love Lisa)
    • Flesh Wounds In Ithaca
        • When Mickey auditions, he does a scene with Kramer from this play by Terrence Klufer. (Season 7 episode The Wait Out)
    • The Four Horesemen: Act One
        • The Four Horsemen's first major performance in Las Vegas, during which they appear to transport one of the audience members to the vault of his bank, the Crédit Républicain in Paris - and then proceed to rob it.
    • The Four Horsemen: Act Two
        • The Four Horsemen's second show in New Orleans, where they transfer millions of dollars from their benefactor Arthur Tressler's private accounts to the audience, made up of people that were denied insurance claims by Tressler's company in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
    • Free Bird / Free Chicken
        • An illusion G.O.B. performs at the courtyard of the courthouse as a protest against his father's continual persecution by prosecution. It was a ploy arranged by George Bluth to attempt to flee custody again. (Season 3)
    • Frosty the Hit Man
        • Annual bailiff Christmas pageant production. Bull plays the psycho killer. (Season 5 episode The Constitution Part 1)
    • The Genesis Campaign
        • Chapter 20, Chapter 19. Tender Branson's agent's idea, quick fix for the fact that Tender was still a virgin - very iffy media event in which Tender Branson gets married.
    • Gilmore Girls: The Musical
        • Musical interpretation of the Gilmore Girls TV show. (Season 1 episode In the Dark Night of the Soul It's Always 3:30 in the Morning)
    • The Golden Ribbon
        • Episode Host: Dana Carvey. The Golden Ribbon is the name of the play starring chickens written by Dana Carvey's character Ching Chang.
    • The Graduate (Jon Lovitz version)
        • Stage production of the classic movie starring Jon Lovitz as Mrs. Robinson (Webisode Episode 9)
    • Grease 2: The Musical
        • As part of his summer bucket list, Bart sneaks into Springfield Community Theater to appear in a presentation of Grease 2: The Musical. He jumps on stage as it ends, shouting, “Sit on it, Springfield!” The musical is “based on the sequel to the movie based on the musical”. (Season 17 episode The Monkey Suit)
    • The Great Herrmann's Cementia!
        • The Great Herrmann's magic show where he buries himself in cement in Season 2 episode 6 Oh Oh Oh... It's Magic.
    • The Great Seed
        • Poster outside the Savoy Theatre in the past. Play Booth Templeton starred in 30 years ago. "1927's big hit!” (episode The Trouble with Templeton)
    • Grin & Garrett
        • Monologues about surviving "Veni Vidi Vicki". From season 6 episode 11.
    • The Groundlings
        • Karl's client Ryan Gall that pays off his weed tab in acting dollars by pretending to be Adam's new friend is in an improv comedy called the Groundlings. (Season 5 episode The Slump)
    • Hamlet (All Zombie Production)
        • Frasier: "Honestly, Roz, you know, you haven't given me much to work with here. These are the worst actors I've ever seen." Roz: "Well, I'm sorry, but the Royal Zombie Company just left town with its all-zombie production of Hamlet!" (Season 10 Tales from the Crypt)
    • Havana Dreams
        • Las Vegas show. Bash and Sam play tennis with Zeissman twins that do that show Havana Dreams over at Coconuts. (Season 3 episode Desert Pollen)
    • Helen Meets Her Dream Guy
        • Joke Brian makes when he hires a actor to portray Helen's dream guy… "Get ready for the new smash play by Brian Hackett" (Season 2 episode The Puppetmaster)
    • Hello Donald
        • The play that Woody was in back in high school in Hanover. Originally Hello Dolly, but Donald Webster was the only guy that could sing the part so they renamed it (Season 6 episode 9 Puddin' Head Boyd)
    • Henry Pleads The Fifth
        • Cleo starts a drama department in prison, with plans to perform Shakespeare inspired works. (Season 5 Charlie and Lacey Go For Broke)
    • Herman Gunt's Magic Express
        • The Great Herrmann's first magic show from Season 2 episode 6 Oh Oh Oh... It's Magic.
    • Hooray For Presidents' Day
        • Springfield Elementary President's Day pageant. "A wonder full evening of theater and picking up after yourselves." (Season 4 episode I Love Lisa)
    • Human Farm
        • Orin's new performance art show. He's an animal living on a human farm. Running 24 hours a day at Pawnee Community College's Black Box Theater. (Season 5 episode Leslie vs April)
    • Hunch
        • "Get bent today" Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, sponsored by Toyota: The hatchback fit for a hunchback (Season 1 episode Every Doris Has Her Day)
    • I'm Gonna Kill You
        • Marge overhears Homer telling Bart he's going to kill him, but it turns out they're just reading a play called "I'm Gonna Kill You" by Edward Albee. (Season 13 episode Jaws Wired Shut)
    • I'm With Stupid
        • Lou Ferrigno's Of Mice and Nen: The Musical (Season 2 episode 7 Pin Cushion)
    • Jerry Seinfeld is the Devil
        • Susan Ross' old college roommate Sally Weaver's one woman show. (Season 9 episode The Cartoon)
    • Jimmy Carter's Habitat For Hilarity
        • The Simpson family goes on the road. "The Iowa State Fair presents the Simpsons Live! Opening Act: Jimmy Carter's Habitat for Hilarity" (Season 11 episode Behind the Laughter)
    • Julius Caesar
        • William Shatner plays a campy caricature of himself as he works on a one-man musical version of Julius Caesar in hopes of finally being taken seriously as a dramatist and musical performer.
    • Karen Walker Presents Gaybraham Twinkin'
        • Jack latest theatrical production, centered around a gay Abraham Lincoln (Season 10 episode Kid ‘n Play)
    • Kickinn' It: A Musical Journey Through The Betty Ford Center
        • Broadway production in New York City. (The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson)
    • King Homer: Eighth Wonder Of The World
        • Featuring Homer the giant ape from Ape Island, plus the Chubbiest Kickline in Town. (Season 4 episode Treehouse of Horror III - segment: King Homer)
    • King Lear Featuring Krusty The Clown
        • Homer reviews the food and entertainment at the Springfield Dinner Theater, featuring Krusty the Clown in a production of King Lear. (Season 11 episode Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?)
    • Klon-Dykes!
        • Theatrical production featured at the Arctic Circle Showroom, lounge at the Snowshoe casino in Las Vegas, from Homer and Ned's gambling trip. (Season 10 episode Viva Ned Flanders)
    • La Cocina
        • George's fictional off broadway play he makes up to impress the NBC executives. A comedy about a Mexican chef named Pepe. (Season 4 episode The Pitch)
    • Lance Murdock's Suicycle
        • Daredevil Lance Murdock's show featured at the Safari Casino in Las Vegas, from Homer and Ned's gambling trip. Lance Murdock jumps from a ramp to the ground over a ring of fire, then a ring of ice, and then a doggy doo-doo stick, and finally an audience member, while attempting to open a locked safe on his head. (Season 10 episode Viva Ned Flanders)
    • Leaving Las Vegas: The Musical
        • The producer of Leaving Las Vegas: The Musical is an alcoholic in the audience at the Alcoholics Anonymous Talent Show. (Episode Charlie and Sean Fight Over a Girl)
    • Lunch With Greatness
        • Stage play by the The Uptown Community Players, featuring a conversation between Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X. (Season 1 episode Black Hawk Up)
    • Malibu Stacy The Musical
        • Mr. Smithers travels to New Mexico to stage his Malibu Stacy musical production. (Season 11 episode Homer vs. Dignity)
    • McBreath
        • Play written by Blake's old drama camp teacher, Mr. Buckley, portrayed by Andy Dick. (Season 6 episode Meth Head Actor)
    • McKeesport Dinner Theater
        • A mystery dinner theater actor milks his part by prolonging his death scene. (Jeff Daniels / Luscious Jackson - January 14, 1995)
    • Memories of Bonanza: The Mall Show
        • Show at Springfield Mall in conjunction with the Nostalgia Licensing Corporation, featuring a couple of the actors that portrayed Indians on the TV show Bonanza. (Season 8 episode The Homer They Fall)
    • Merchant Of Venus
        • Joke made about Micheal Dorn's performance in Merchant of Venice (Season 1 episode 10 Thank You for Your Service)
    • A Midsummer's Night Invasion
        • Zoe's play at the Tesla School (Season 1 episode Before I Forget)
    • The Milkman Is Coming
        • Play - poster on the wall in the lobby of the theater where Chandler's girlfriend performs. (Season 4 episode The One With Rachel's Crush)
    • Morris The Cat
        • Theatrical production starring Steve Martin as the original Morris the Cat (Steve Martin's All Commercials TV special)
    • Mr. Rogers' Ice Is Nice
        • Joke Phoebe makes to her husband, who now skates with the Ice Capades show: This is pretty wonderful, Mr. Major Capades Guy! I remember when you were just King Friday in Mr. Rogers' Ice Is Nice. (The One With Phoebe's Husband)
    • The Murder Of Gonzago
        • Play that Hamlet plots to stage, featuring a death in the style of his father's murder.
    • Mussolini: the Man and His Music
        • Leo invests his lottery winnings in this musical play. (Season 2 episode Pick a Number)
    • Nashville On Ice: The All-Skating Country Jamboree
        • Frasier buys Martin and Sherry tickets to an ice show (Season 4 episode Three Dates and a Breakup)
    • Newtopia Rising, Book I: The Search For A New Utopia
        • Rock opera BoJack's roommate is writing from episode Zoes and Zeldas... basically it's Tommy by way of Cirque du Soleil.
    • The Nice Man Giveth
        • Play that the children of Springfield Elementary put on in order to try to get Mr. Burns to donate money to the school. (Season 11 episode Grift of the Magi)
    • Nudes on Ice
        • Show ALF mentions (Season 4 episode Love on the Rocks)
    • O Africa, Brave Africa
        • Patrick tells Detective Kimball that he and Paul Allen went to a new musical. It was a laugh riot.
    • Oh! Streetcar!: A Musical
        • Play that Marge stars in, based on A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Llewellyn Sinclair. (Season 4 episode A Streetcar Named Marge)
    • Okla-Homo!
        • Theatrical production featured at Rivera's, a casino in Las Vegas, from Homer and Ned's gambling trip. (Season 10 episode Viva Ned Flanders)
    • Once Upon A Mattress
        • Play featuring Bobby Bowfinger and The Glendale Tent Players.
    • One Guy Named Moe
        • Theatrical production playing in the Springfield Theater District, featuring Moe. (Season 17 episode Girls Just Want to Have Sums)
    • Parks And Dolls
        • Leslie's one-woman show about parks rules and regulations during her annual Leslie Knope Employment Enjoyment Summerslam Grill Jam Fun-splosion. (Season 5 episode Ms. Knope Goes to Washington)
    • Pawnee City Government Follies
        • Leslie: "Each December, one department puts on a show that spoofs what happened in our town. Prepare to laugh your Asnov! Sid Asnov is a former city councilman." (Season 2 episode Christmas Scandal)
    • Phantom Of The Oprah
        • A play about a deranged ex-producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show (Season 4 episode The Gift)
    • Phantom Of The Opry
        • Fictional show advertised in Branson, Missouri when Bart and his friends arrive with his fake ID and rental car. (Season 7 episode Bart on the Road)
    • Real World: San Francisco
        • Blake claims to have starred as the character Puck in a stage adaptation of the MTV show Real World: San Francisco back in college. (Season 5 episode The Slump)
    • Requiem For Demonic Dexter
        • Joke Dexter makes about the way he's playing everybody, saying it's like he's conducting a final symphony. (Season 2 episode That Night, A Forest Grew)
    • Reservations At 8
        • Fictional play by Neil Simon that Phoebe makes up while she pretends to accept a Nobel Prize with Joey's stolen Soapie award. Phoebe: "I'll tell you, it's such an honor to just be nominated for a Nobel Prize. And, you know, to win one for a massage! Especially just after winning a Tony Award for Best Actress." Rachel: "Our reservations are at 8." Phoebe: "…in Reservations at Eight by Neil Simon. Thank you, Neil. Thank you for the words." (Season 7 episode The One With Joey's award)
    • Rhapsody
        • Show girl performance at the hotel, which Bash produces. (Season 3)
    • Rhapsody And Requiem
        • Diane's play being put on in Seattle (Season 3 episode The Show Where Diane Comes Back)
    • Rochelle Rochelle: The Musical
        • Musical based on the film Rochelle Rochelle, starring Bette Midler, and Jerry's dating Bette's understudy. (Season 6 episode The Understudy)
    • Rogers the Musical
        • A Broadway musical about Steve and the Avengers. "A timeless story for a timeless hero"
    • Romeo In Joliet
        • Cleo starts a drama department in prison, with plans to perform Shakespeare inspired works. (Season 5 Charlie and Lacey Go For Broke)
    • The Rosie O'Donnell Musical
        • Ned foretells the closing after 3 performances - though he didn't need his special Dead Zone powers to see that. (Season 16 episode Treehouse of Horror XV - segment The Ned Zone)
    • Saline
        • The name of the play from which Jerry reads lines with his new sexy girlfriend, played by Tawny Kitaen. (Season 3 episode The Nose Job)
    • The Silent Echo
        • Stage play that Niles lied about seeing the year before (Season 6 episode Hot Ticket)
    • Simplectic
        • Leon passes on his friend's invitation to see a movie called Metal Eyes in order to catch the last performance of a one-woman show at the Hanning Playhouse called Simplectic, which is a monologue in verse. (Story: Understand)
    • The Simpsons Live!
        • The Simpson family goes on the road. "The Iowa State Fair presents the Simpsons Live! Opening Act: Jimmy Carter's Habitat for Hilarity" (Season 11 episode Behind the Laughter)
    • Soft Pitch
        • Name of play the guys make up in episode To Friend a Predator, kind of like A League of Their Own (Season 1 episode To Friend a Predator)
    • Someone Broke Into The Farm
        • Name of a fake one act play Todd comes up with in episode Chickens. They break into Gentle Farms and wake up the Gentle Farms chicken, who says, "Someone broke into the farm." And Todd says, "Maybe they're hearsing a one-act play called Someone Broken onto the Farm."
    • Song of Shelbyville
        • Theater production in the famous Shelbyville Theater District. (Season 16 episode The Seven-Beer Snitch)
    • Spellzapoppin' Magic Recital
        • Magic fair at Springwart's School of Magicry on Halloween Night. (Season 13 episode Treehouse of Horror XII - segment Wiz Kids)
    • Springfield Elementary Faculty Talent Show
        • Talent show featuring the teachers of Springfield Elementary. "That's Edu-tainment" Two-Milk minimum. (Season 10 episode Marge Simpson in Screaming Yellow Honkers)
    • Stab-A-Lot (play)
        • The Simpsons attend the opening night of Stab-A-Lot, the Itchy and Scratchy Musical, a re-imagining of Itchy and Scratchy by avant-garde diretor Juliana Krellner, based on the book by Tom Stoppard. (Season 17 episode Girls Just Want to Have Sums)
    • Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!
        • The brand new multimillion dollar musical starring Troy McClure as the human. (Season 7 episode A Fish Called Selma)
    • The Story Of Snow
        • The play that Woody helps put on at a junior high school (Season 6 episode 12 Christmas Cheers)
    • A Streetcar Named Donahue
        • Fake play from joke Brian makes about Phantom of the Oprah, a play about a deranged ex-producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show (Season 4 episode The Gift)
    • A Tale Of Two Cities: The Musical
        • Musical production that Joey auditions for that requires dancing. (Season 3 episode The One With All the Jealousy)
    • Tanner Dinner Theater
        • ALF puts on a play with his new ventriloquist dummy: "Starring Gordon Shumway and Paul" (Season 2 episode I'm Your Puppet)
    • Tears Of The Mariner
        • Stage play, actor Sir Trevor Aimsley's farewell tour. The theatrical event of the season. (Season 6 episode Hot Ticket)
    • The Tempest 2: Here We Blow Again
        • Shakespeare's sequel to his play The Tempest. (Season 4 episode Whenever You're Ready)
    • The Tragedy Of Loki Of Asgard
        • When Thor returns to Asgard, he arrives in the middle of a play about the death of his brother Loki.
    • The Truman Show
        • DVD Bonus Feature: Rushmore Academy and the Max Fischer Players present: The Truman Show, A new play by Max Fischer.
    • The Two Noble Kinsmen
        • Moe dries his tears with a lost play by William Shakespeare. (Season 15 episode Co-Dependents' Day)
    • Watch Will
        • Will's version of Jack's one-man play Just Jack when he imitates Jack in an attempt to sleep with Matt Bomer's character. (Season 10 episode Anchor Away)
    • The Watchmaker's Son
        • A play that Adrian Veidt mentions to his staff that he is writing, a tragedy in five acts. (Season 1 episode It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice)
    • Why Don't You Like Me?
        • 
A one-woman play, a bitter woman's journey through life. Joey buys tickets for the gang to get rid of them while he has a secret Days of Our Lives party up on the roof. (Season 9 episode The One With the Soap Opera Party)
    • Wisdom Of The Heart
        • Play written by Bartlett Wells that Elise McKenna performs at the Grand Hotel in 1912.
    • Women On The Wall: An Exploration Of Gender In Text And Media, Barbara Kruger And Jenny Holzer In Conversation With Helen Molesworth
        • Event Mr. Peanutbutter takes Diane to for her birthday in season 2 episode After the Party. Combines Mr. Peanutbutter's two favorite things - modern art and people talking about modern art.
    • The Wonderful World Of Ice
        • Carla's husband Eddie gets a job skating for an ice show (Season 6 episode 19 Airport V)

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