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* Part of the reason Oscar Hammerstein II wrote "A Real Nice Clambake" for the second act opening of ''Carousel'' was to demonstrate his research into authentic New England cuisine. (Hammerstein, however, [[Did Not Do the Research]] on "June Is Bustin' Out All Over," and so had to [[Hand Wave]] why the sheep were mating in the spring rather than their usual late autumn/early winter season.)
** Is that why I kept getting hungry whenever my high school's cast rehearsed that song? Because seriously, everything sounded ''delicious''.
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* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] employed a curious mix of this and [[Artistic License]]. For instance, Gilbert's set designs for ''[[
** Similarly, in ''[[The Yeomen of the Guard]]'', which is set early in the reign of [[Henry VIII]] (c.1520), Gilbert correctly puts Yeomen of the Guard on duty at the Tower of London instead of Yeomen Warders (the former guarded the Tower from 1509-1548, when the latter formed to take over those duties). He also received critical praise for the accuracy of his set design, which included a building (the Cold Harbour Tower) that had been destroyed long before the 19th Century. And yet, again for [[Rule of Cool]], the chorus of Yeomen were dressed in the Elizabethan uniforms audiences were familiar with.
** Most of ''[[The Mikado]]'' foregoes accuracy in favor of [[Rule of Funny]], but Gilbert did hire a Japanese tea-girl to teach the "little maids from school" how to comport themselves like young Asian ladies.
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