Worst Broadway Lyric ever?- Page 7

[DTBG2]

Posted: 3/16/05 at 2:09pm

there are countless verses in BKLYN. Oh, God this musical...

for those who don't know.

BKLYN - BROOKLYN feat. Eden Espinosa
Updated On: 3/16/05 at 02:09 PM

[whitless]

Posted: 3/16/05 at 5:16pm

"It's my yard
So I will try hard
To welcome friends I have yet to know!
Oh, I'll plant
My own tree
My own tree and
I'll make it grow!"

Okay, it's from "Valley of the Dolls" but it was SUPPOSED to be a Broadway show. (I'm still mystified what exactly that musical was supposed to be about -- a woman sings a "triumphant" number inside a giant mobile, a Vegas showgirl in headdress is in it, a girl sings a song on top of a box ...)

[RCCS_5280]

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:28pm

"She don't score at Bowl-a-rama, still he's got to thank his mama...whoa, whoa, whoa, Let's Hear It For the Boy..."

[Sapsorrow]

Posted: 3/16/05 at 6:39pm

"Which way's the party?/Which way's the next keg of Winkie beer?"

On a cool San Francisco night, that little lyric managed to single-handedly crush all hopes I had for Wicked making a successful book-to-musical transition. On the upside, they had the presence of mind to cut the offending song before it got to Broadway. On the downside...we got "Dancing Through Life" in its place.

"To kill outside St. Paul's/requires a lot of balls"

...

Damn you, Leslie Bricusse. Damn you to hell.

[joniray]

Posted: 3/16/05 at 11:45pm

re: Oz - was

No one seemed to mind when Yip Harburg did it.

"We're off to see the wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
We hear he is a wiz of a Wiz
If ever a Wiz there was"

[allofmylife]

Posted: 3/17/05 at 12:58am

Any line from the terrible song poor David Opatashu had to sing in "Bravo Giovanni" The worst is "Arrivaderchi virture. I don't wanna hurt you" but "Senigore Toscarini (or something like that) here is your knife back, and with my luck they'll go and give me my wife back..." is right down there too.

HOWEVER for all you girls out there looking for a belt audition piece, "I'm All I've Got" the song that won Michelle Lee her Tony award is amazing. How could that song come from the same show?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 3/17/05 at 1:03am

Joniray, you missed the worst line: "The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch."

You know, making up words that rhyme CAN be done well. Larry Hart did it all the time. Some of his words even entered the language (to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry...) but "slitch??????

[allofmylife]

Posted: 3/17/05 at 1:10am

To Feodor Sverdlov (god, I'm on a roll tonight) from page one, I agree, that line is pretty bad. And yet the show has the simple and stunningly effective line "Somebody even painted the damn sky, just so Leona could come here and cry."

Updated On: 3/17/05 at 01:10 AM

[liz328]

Posted: 3/17/05 at 1:33am

Concerning Nessa/confess-a, I just wanted to mention that technically this lyric does continue. Schwartz doesn't just add "a" to "confess." It's "Nessa, uh, Nessa, I've got something to confess - a reason why, well, why I asked you here tonight." Not the best rhyme in the world, but an actual rhyme to say the least and A LOT better than a lot of these other things. LOL...whoever mentioned the dreadful Jellicle cat song was right on. It's pretty easy to "rhyme" if you are just repeating the same phrase over and over...
Updated On: 3/17/05 at 01:33 AM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/17/05 at 2:18am

The worst probably has to be:

"I'll fly like a raven
in a sky of doves.
I'll make you love to hate me,
but it's still love - it's still love."

Give me a F*CKING break. Terrible.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 3/17/05 at 11:03am

"I am a Las who alas loves a lad who once I had in canabury, Tis a Row Dow Dee Doll Dow Day, Tis a Row Dow Dee Doll Dow Day"

sondheim is a genius and I love Sweeney Todd but I can't stand Parlor Songs, especially the part above.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:27pm

Off-Broadway from the song "Marvin's Giddy Seizures" from the show "In Trousers"

"Marvin holds his breath, his face is under water
But that's not a seizure.
Marvin talks of death, he imitates a slaughter
But that's not a seizure."

[ALWrules]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:33pm

" I must disregard his charms, and his manly rugged arms." WIW

Why, David Zippel?

[??]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:49pm

I can't believe noone has mentioned this line...

"One thing I'll say for him, Jesus is cool!"


Now, JCS is my favorite show....but this line is terrible!

[QuiteSo]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:50pm

In defense of what someone said about the "little elf" line in Jane Eyre: a lot of the lyrics were taken from the actual text of the novel. I know that's not much of an excuse, but I think they were really trying to be faithful to the novel - and they were, to an extent.

I hate when show titles are repeated: "...WICKED! WICKED! WICKED!" and "RENT RENT RENT RENT RENT!". When I first heard that last one, I literally thought, "Are they for real? This sounds like something The Simpsons would do as a parody".

Jekyll and Hyde is full of them, especially "Murder! Murder!". Oh, and the "First Transformation"? A violent transformation...set to waltz music. It makes me laugh every time - almost like "The Proposal" in Jane Eyre ("Because the pain, because the grief is slowly turning to rage")...sorry, Jane, but it's hard to take you seriously when such happy-sounding music is being played.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:50pm

I'm not sure if I posted somewhere else in this, maybe I did, but as much as I like the music, some of the Wicked lyrics are terrible:

"she's a terror, she's a tartar..."

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:54pm

Nobody in all of Oz
No wizard that there is..or was.


uuughhhh.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:56pm

sorry if this has been mentioned already but...


"God I'm a dancer! A dancer dances!"

Love Chorus Line, but I hate that line.

[anotherhundredpeople]

Posted: 1/26/06 at 3:06pm

"Every endeavor I have made ever..."

-"This is the Moment" from Jekyll & Hyde

ouch.

[michelle4]

Posted: 1/26/06 at 4:24pm

Not the worst, but .....

"like a seed dropped by a skybird in a distant wood."

Skybird!!!! Come on!!

[Color and Light]

Posted: 1/26/06 at 4:47pm

Basically all of Jekyll and Hyde makes me turn white.

But I think there is a special place in lyric hell reserved for this one:
"Dreams the way we planned them/if we worked in tandem."

I just cannot stand that line. "Wicked" has a lot of bad rhymes, but that one just takes the cake for me.

[HoshiForever]

Posted: 1/26/06 at 5:05pm

hahaha this is FAR too amusing. I'm personally surprised no one has said this one yet:

"Who do you think you are
Barging in on me and my guitar?"

I adore Rent...but no. And then it just HAS to come back in Finale A! *shakes head*

[teh_pretty]

Posted: 1/26/06 at 5:10pm

Just to follow-up with the terrible Wicked lyrics--

"She's wicked - get her!"

[CJR]

Posted: 1/26/06 at 5:24pm

Not Broadway, but it's still the most GOD AWFUL lyric Ive ever heard... especially if you were on the receiving end when it was being sung.

"I have felt on my thighs, the raw meat of your love, my love"

From My Life With Albertine

Posted: 1/26/06 at 5:24pm

Stronger than anyone
six times as pretty
an eagle brasier with a wing on each titty
TITTY!TITTY!TITTY!TITTY!
-- Caroline, or Change

I can't play this song in the car because I'm afraid of looking perverted.