42nd Street

42nd Street is a 1933 musical film focusing on the struggles to put on a Broadway musical with such complications as an ailing director and a last minute substitution of a chorus girl for the leading lady. The film features the line "You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" which has often been paraphrased or misquoted in other showbiz scenarios.
The film was turned into an actual Broadway musical in 1984.
==References==
*When Valerie Harper auditions for Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Show episode 120, Kermit says "You're going out on that stage a star, but you're gonna be coming back a chorus girl," reversing the line. 
*At the end of episode 519, in regards to Chris Langham, being portrayed as a messenger who filled in for the guest star at the last minute, Waldorf remarked, "It's a classic show business story: Chris Langham walked into this theater a nobody." Statler adds, "And he's walking out a has-been."
*Oscar the Grouch casts Linda as Dirt in his play in Sesame Street Episode 1879. He tells her, "I'm gonna send you out there a mess, but you're gonna come back a star!"
*Sarah has a poster for the musical in her room in Labyrinth.
*In A Muppet Family Christmas, when Fozzie Bear brings his new snowman comedy partner inside Grizzly Farm to perform their routine, he promises, "You are coming in a snowman, but you are going out a star!"
*The title song was performed in a medley in the Walt Disney World live show Muppets on Location: Days of Swine and Roses.
*In Episode 3989 of Sesame Street, Prairie Dawn puts on a show based on "Little Red Riding Hood." A duck joins just before the performance is scheduled and assumes the role of Little Red's granny. Prairie tells the duck, "You're going out a duck, but you're coming back a grandma!"
==Connections==
*Jerry Orbach originated Julian Marsh in the Broadway musical
*Ginger Rogers played Ann Lowell in the film
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