My senior quote in the yearbook was a few lines from Our Time from Merrily We Roll Along... But we also got to have a Top Ten quote if we were in the top ten of our senior class, and I decided it would be funny to have mine be: "Who needs to read and write When you can dance and sing?" from the Nicest Kids in Town from Hairspray (which you mentioned is one of your fave musicals)... everyone thought it was really funny, because I was often made fun of for putting the drama department above academic responsibilities... but hey, it turned out okay in the end!
the lyrics in 'MOVE ON' in sondheim's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE actually were what i used in a similar circumstance 876765 years ago. I'm paraphrasing but they go something like 'move on, stop worrying where you're going, you've gone.'
something like that. the whole song is appropo, but those lyrics are the ones i remember.
I would suggest NOT using Rent- I have a feeling it will be even more overused than it had been prior to the movie (if that makes any sense)
I'm a senior this year- I already had to turn in my quote (I used something from Company: "Don't be afraid that it wont be perfect, the only thing to be afraid of really is that it wont be"...something along those lines)- on my senior page (my senior class is only around 120 students- so we can buy a whole page if we want) I have longer quotes from tons of different things- "Our Time," "You There in the Back Row," something from "Pippin"...just lots of random stuff mixed in with pictures of me in my dance recital costumes from age 4-16 (I'm 17 now, but don't have dance pictures from this year :-/ )
"Have I mentioned today how lucky I am to be in love with you?" Last 5 Years
"If I didn't believe in you, then here's where the travelogue ends. If I didn't believe in you, I wouldn't have stood before all of our friends and say this is the life i choose, this is the thing I can't bear to lose. Trip us or trap us but we refuse to fall. That's what I thought we agreed on, Cathy. If I didn't believe in you, I wouldn't have loved you at all." Last 5 Years
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree. ~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel. ~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known. ~A Tale of Two Cities ~
"To reach the unreachable star Though you know it's impossibly high to live with your heart striving upward to a far unattainable sky!" -Man of La Mancha
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
All these artsy-fartsy phrases. You want something short that people will remember and FORESHADOWS their lives to come. For that, there's only one that's perfect:
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
(Lauren Bacall in "Applause", doing Bette Davis in "All About Eve.")
I'm supposed to submit my senior quote sometime soon. Still picking between a few. "I may be small but I've got giant plans to shine as brightly as the sun" -Little Women musical "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship" -Little Women book "I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than one hundred people's ninth favorite thing" -[title of show] "If you know what you want, then you go and find and you get it"- Into the Woods "As I'm going along, I carry with me promises that can't go wrong as I travel on my way" -Violet
This thread hasn't been updated in awhile though, anyone got any newer suggestions?