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== [[Theater]] ==
* The name [[Trope Namer|comes from]] the ancient [[Older Than Television|(1910)]] [[The Musical|musical]] ''[[Naughty Marietta (operetta)|Naughty Marietta]]''; its Dream Melody is better known as "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life."
* Another [[Musical Theatre]] example is ''[[Lady in the Dark]]'', in which the frustrated magazine editor Liza Elliott keeps humming a childhood tune to herself at times when she is lost in thought or is overcome with panic. She can't recall the words to it ("My ship has sails that are made of silk...") until she relives her childhood in [[Flash Back|flashbacks]] with the help of her psychoanalyst. Lyricist Ira Gershwin compared the importance of "My Ship" to the show to that of "a stole necklace or missing will to a melodrama."
* In ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'', Blanche has the Varsouviana polka stuck in her head. This upsets her because {{spoiler|this was the song that was played when her husband shot himself.}}
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