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I can't help it, theater runs in my veins - my dad is an amateur actor, my aunt is a singer, and my cousin is a soon-to-be Broadway star. So I'm happily familiar with musicals from the 1930s onward! 
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My wife and I are considering the name William Eliot. However, I'm worried about the connection to the film Billy Elliot. I think it's a lovely movie, but I'm afraid my son will get teased for it.
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A “hard knock life” is so much sweeter with a great name! Annie is a beloved musical that opened on Broadway in 1977. There have been many stage, film, and TV adaptations of this heart-warming rags...
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The only two baby names to debut on the charts thanks to Follies girls.
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One of the greatest partnerships of the Victorian era was that of composer Arthur Sullivan and dramatist W.S.Gilbert. Together the two collaborated on fourteen comic operas, wildly popular in their day and still enduring and beloved today. As for the names, they are a delightful example of Victorian fancy --...
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Elea's got a little list... sorry, I couldn't help it. Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone's ever had twin boys called Gilbert and Sullivan?
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**Apparently my Hairspray Video was locked and I didnt even know it so now u guys get 2 Names in Movies in 2 DAYS!!!! Enjoy some "grease-y" names my lovelies...
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MAMMA MIA HERE I GO AGAIN!! Amanda // Sophie Meryl // Donna Stellan // Bill Pierce // Sam Colin // Harry Dominic // Sky Julie // Rosie Christine // Tanya Lik...
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I'm not ashamed to say this is one of my favourite films :D
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Alexander Armstrong performing No Rhyme For Richard, from Blondel, at Sir Tim Rice: A Life In Song. Broadcast on BBC1 on 25th December 2014,
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Thanks to my friend Becky for sharing this! There's no rhyme for Richard*, but there are plenty of rhymes for a certain other royal name... oh, and it mentions the Venerable Bede :D *I'm sure there must be. Like "pictured", for instance.
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George Frideric Handel was a prolific composer of operas and, it turns out, a great creator of quasi-unique baby name possibilities.
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I never knew! There's Erenice, Bellante, Esilena, and more names that are...er...too hot to Handel.
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"I watched Annie with my kids the other day and couldn't help but sing along. ;) I also couldn't help but wonder if the orphans' names were their given names or just nicknames.
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From Nephele, some delightful and unexpected names from the lesser known operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan--as in Fiametta, Lelia and Roderic. - baby names
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" The BBC are doing an entire season on the 18th century which has made me super excited, as you can imagine. We're only three shows in but it's oh so good - if you're an 18th century history geek obviously. So far, they have concentrated on George Frideric Handel, born in 1685, who is considered to be one of the most accomplished opera composers in history."
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"Name nerdy yummy" is definitely a thing. Carilda, Fidalma, Edilia...om nom nom.
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Haley Sedgwick pays tribute to her childhood favorite, Shirley Temple, and the names of the characters the Depression Era dimpled darling played. - baby names
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Pepper, Duffy, Kate--what s your favorite of the orphans names in Annie ?
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Mia and Lachlan were expecting a baby girl any day when Mia wrote in to the blog. It was her second time writing in, as she asked for help in 2013 with her second son. As Mia and Lachlan aren't pla...
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Welcome, Tallulah Dorothy, aka Lou! Beautiful name (and a great musical too - the connection's no bad thing).
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The names of some famous English showgirls of the late 1800s.
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Zachary / Troy Vanessa / Gabriella Ashley / Sharpay Lucas / Ryan Corbin / Chad Monique / Taylor Olesya / Kelsi Kaycee / Martha Jemma / Tiara Like | Subscribe...
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Kristen / Anna Idina/ Elsa Joshua/ Olaf Jonathan / Kristoff Santino / Hans Christopher / Oaken Ciarán Edie / Gerda Stephen / Kai Like | Subscribe | Follow me...
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Nikki / Tracy John / Edna Christopher / Wilbur Brittany / Amber Zac / Link Amanda / Penny Michelle / Velma James / Collins Latifah / Maybelle Elijah / Seawee...
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We're changing it up a bit by doing a post on a opera singer, Marie Cabel. Born Marie-Josèphe Dreulette in Liège, Belgium, to an officer father who eventually came to work as an accountant for a few differnet theatres.
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An interesting life, and beautiful names: Athénaïs, Philine, and more.
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We watched The Sound of Music this past week, and a surprising number of the names sounded good to me. Liesl is a name Paul and I briefly considered for Elizabeth, but we didn't like the way it rhy...
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Trixie Friganza was “one of the great singing comediennes of the first decade of the 20th century.” She acted and sang in theater, vaudeville, and movies.
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Musical Theatre fan? Broadway baby names are great to tell a story of how your son was named and helps to have a favorite bedtime story.
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Starring Jean (as in Valjean...at last...we see each other plain...oh be quiet Clare), Erik, Danny, Shrek, Alonso, Link, Huey, and Tony.
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"Dianora (DEE-ah-NOR-ah) is an Italian name found in the opera La Spinalba. The author of the libretto is unknown, but the music was written by Francisco Antonio de Almeida."
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"My fiancé and I are heading to India in two months to pick up our newly adopted daughter, and we still aren't sure what to name her! We both adore the name Birgitta and think it fits her perfectly. The only problem is our other daughter, who we adopted from Russia, is named Liesl…and both names happen to be two of the von Trapp girls in The Sound of Music!"
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And I know a girl called Cyd - unusual, short and sassy, it works very well for her.