Swing Joined: 9/23/07
"I swear to God I'll never understand how you can stand there, straight and tall, and see I'm crying, and not do anything at all."
The Last Five Years
I know this is so cliche (although no one has said it yet) but I LOVE:
"To love another person is to see the face of God..."
- Les Mis
"Where are your troubles now? Forgotten? I told you so."
Good one, Marianne.
From Meadowlark/Baker's Wife...
"So the sun god flew away/
and when the king came down that day/
he found his meadowlark had died/
every time I heard that part, I cried"
Some of these are really cliche, but:
Look what God Has Done!~ The Color Purple
but all he said was, I know how to blow things up ~Ragtime
Still your heart says the shadows bring the star light, and everything you've ever been you're still there in the dark night~ Spring Awakening
So happy to see all of the Ragtime references. That was the first show I ever saw on broadway and it has so many chill-inducing lyrics, including:
"I buried my heart in the ground - when I buried you in the ground"
Legally Blonde:
When Warner has just confronted Elle over the kiss with Callahan and he's being a jerk and Kate Shindle's line is "Warner. Shut up." She delivers it so well and it always just sits with me for a while. Maybe it's just me...
RENT:
"The code?"
"A-N-G-E-L."
and...
The first time "So with a thousand sweet kisses" is said during the I'll Cover You Reprise.
and...
"So let's find a bar so dark we forget who we are, where all the scars from the nevers and maybes die."
SA:
"I'm gonna be your wound."
Brooklyn(yes I know, weird choice...)
"And Daddy's eyes would stop my cries and make everything alright."
ACL:
"And I dug right down to the bottom of my soul and cried cause I felt nothing."
Tick Tick...Boom!
The last "come back" in Come To Your Senses.
Aida:
"I know the truth and it haunts me, I learned it a little too late."
"We're given paradise, if only for a day."
"There is a time, there is place, when love should conquer all."
Pretty much all of the the reprise of Elaborate Lives and Radames' letter.
Understudy Joined: 12/7/06
From SIDE SHOW "Take Wing. Fly to Glory. Dance, Sing Tell Your Story. You Bring Such Joy to Those You Known
From MISS SAIGON "Please Don't You See We've Been Watched Over As We Crossed the Wildest Seas. Even God wants us together. Can I end this Journey please."
"Take that look off your face.
I can see through your smile.
You would love to be right.
I bet you didn't sleep good last night,
couldn't wait to bring all of that bad news to my door.
Well, I've got news for you: I knew before."
Song and Dance. Bernadette Peters
"I'll shove you under the goddamn bed!"
Around The World, Grey Gardens, Christine Ebersole
When Ebersole whispers "my mothers gate!"
Around The World (reprise), Grey Gardens
And for a FUNNY, unexpected, thrill I got the biggest laugh I ever had on Broadway:
"BITCH, I Don't know your life." Xanadu
Stand-by Joined: 9/4/07
"I am George, I am." (WAOVW?)
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
"Cause the devils to blame.
and the angels proclaim!"- J&H
"So believe that she mattered, and believe that she always will!"- Little Women
"Do I fail them even now?"-Little Women
""So believe that she mattered, and believe that she always will!"- Little Women "
Good one! I agree.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
"I found myself a green glass love".
Thoroughly Modern Millie
well, the first time I heard this line it gave me chills, from Cabaret: "If you could see her through my eyes, she wouldn't look Jewish at all..."
From Spring Awakening, when Moritz tells his dad he flunked out of school and Moritz's dad says: "what am I supposed to tell people?"
The Reprise of "I Must get on that ship" during "to the life boats" from Titanic
From Parade: "It means, No! This isn't over!
No, the date's not set!
No, I won't wake up tomorrow
Drowning in my sweat!"
Ohh, everyone has come up with really great ones. Hmm, these are pretty random, but:
Creepy chills on the first "Why don't you come up to my office?" - Parade
"What is the good of the strongest heart in a body that's falling apart, a serious flaw. I hope you know that." - Evita, Waltz for Eva and Che
That last, high "Christine, I love you" at the end of Phantom
"And I looked around, and I thought, my god, I'll never have the moon" - Songs for a New World, Stars and the Moon
That crazy, "Take a look at my eyes" that Raul did in Taboo
"And so I forgive you...Jew." - Parade, My Child Will Forgive Me
"God forgive me. Look at what I've done. Look how I protected you. All for Laura." - Woman in White, All for Laura
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
"And I looked around, and I thought, my god, I'll never have the moon" - Songs for a New World, Stars and the Moon
GOOD ONE! Chills every single time.
Oh, yes, ashley, I agree (its so weird to type that, because my name is ashley, too...)
Maybe this counts, maybe it doesn't but Barret Foa crying out during the "Finale" on the 2000 off-Broadway recording.
I know a lot of Rent ones have already been said, and maybe it's cliche, but
"I don't own emotion- I rent" from What You Own
Updated On: 11/15/07 at 10:29 PM
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
"It's your Nellie, now." Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd," though it depends on how it's delivered. LuPone's delivery is my favorite.
"Was I so foolish
To think I could pray
When there's only one chance
I could save you?
I gave you life
I can take it away!
Let the shadows descend
Like a knife!"
From "When There's No One" from "Carrie." Probably the best song in that whole score.
The entire Act I finale version of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" from "Cabaret" gives me chills (especially when I watch it).
I'm sure there are more, but these were the first to come to mind.
I have to agree with the "to love another person is to see the face of God" lyric. That always sends tears running down my face.
Also Miss Saigon
"Now that i've seen her
I know why he lied
And I think
It was better when I didn't know"
The intro of The Next 10 Minutes from L5Y always tugs at my heartstrings as well.
"Was my cheek upon your chest? An ocean away..."
-The Light in the Piazza
"If I didn't believe in you, I'd never have loved you at all."
-The Last 5 Years
Also, I can't quote it exactly, but in Wicked, I love Elphaba's lines during "One Short Day" about "No one's staring, etc."
SITPWG - "Goodbye Mama" (Dot)
Gypsy - "I made you!" (Rose)
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
"Slim down dear, things will change. After all you've such a pretty face"- A Quiet Night at Home from Bare. Kills me EVERY time. I don't know why but I almost cry just thinking about it.
"One of these days you will look back in shame
After you've learned that a spark's not a flame
You will regret how you pushed love aside
when you're married to NOTHING!
When you're misery's bride!"
~Side Show
"Could I live without her, or let her go? How loud must I scream Noooooooo!"
~Lippa's Wild Party
I think I'm a sucker for passionate male power belting
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