Songwriters Don Roth and Timmy Tappan borrowed heavily from Hammerstein's introduction to the reprise in "Love Isn't Love ('Til You Give It Away)", which was a song covered by Reba McEntire on her Behind the Scene album:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Ocean Colour Scene | Broken Social Scene | The Seldom Scene | Den Nationale Scene | Carnets de scène | Street Scene (San Diego music festival) | Nativity scene | Sur scène | Street Scene | Freak Scene | Early Norwegian black metal scene | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 9) | Wessex Scene | ''Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene II''. 1795 engraving by Luigi Schiavonetti | The Scene Is Dead | The Scene Aesthetic | The Mad Scene | The famous scene of Samus' reveal to be female at the end of 1986's ''Metroid (video game) | The distinctive ''mise-en-scène'' of ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | The Dance Scene | ''The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan''
scene from Byron's The Giaour | Street Scene (play) | Street Scene (1931 film) | Scene It? | Scene from ''The Haunted Man'' at the Adelphi Theatre | Scene from '''Stanley Keyes''' play ''Dragon Slayers,'' directed by Brad Mays | Scene from ''Carnaval Atlântida'' (1952) featuring Oscarito | Scene (film) | ''scène familiale'' - Monteux |
In various affairs the royals faced, Beel's taciturn way of acting on behalf of the monarchy and his prudent pulling the strings behind the scene as Vice President of the Dutch Council of State gave him the nickname 'The Sphinx'.
In an essay for the 2005 Rhino Records reissue of the album, critic Anthony DeCurtis wrote that one of the major themes of the album is how "the joy of performing before an audience lends a purpose to everything that happens - the good and the bad - behind the scene."