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In Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth", the entire action of the play happens in a fictitious New Jersey town with the name "Excelsior". Longfellow is also directly mentioned with a fictitious poem towards the end of Act I. Lorenz Hart alludes to Longfellow's poem in the title song of the musical "On Your Toes":