Howe, Desson (April 1, 1988). "Beetle Juice". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012 . Retrieved April 4, 2008.

writers (February 20, 2013). "15 famous fictional New England locales". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on December 25, 2013 . Retrieved July 28, 2019. Ghostlight Records released the original Broadway cast recording digitally on June 7, 2019, [37] which sold well. [38]Using the handbook and the Maitlands' wedding clothes, Otho performs a seance that forces the couple to appear before them. However, this causes the Maitlands to deteriorate, their forms reverting to their decaying corpses.

With a Simpsons-esque level of foresight, Beetlejuicetook on the superhero craze twenty years before it actually happeend in an episode that lampoons everything about the culture. Just listen to the narrator tell the origin story of the hero Beetlejuice comes up with:The famous Belafonte-infused lip-syncing scenes, which led to “Day-O” being played on top-40 radio stations, only happened because the singer’s music was easy to license. Songs such as the R&B classic “When a Man Loves a Woman” (this was pre–Michael Bolton) were suggested, but were too expensive to clear. “Every time somebody heard the words ‘David Geffen,’” Lewis said, “they raised the price.”