Here's a fun game for anyone who is interested. The original poster posts a lyric from a musical (the more obscure, the better) and the the first person to guess which show it is from correctly gets to post the next lyric. I'll start: "Why am I high on her cheap perfume?"
My biggest pet peeve right now is when people pronounce it "Marry-us" and not "Mah-ree-us".
THE PRINCE OF PILSEN Here's another one: Vampires and Demons Banshees and Sprites Gorgons and Hellions And Fetches and Frights Servants of terror O hear and obey:
My biggest pet peeve right now is when people pronounce it "Marry-us" and not "Mah-ree-us".
Would no one defend him, protect him, befriend him, would none hear his cry?
The opening song from Bat Boy, right?
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
HADES INC, 1927, by William Miller and Alexander Matthews: a strange little work that was indeed professionally performed. The first act is all standard light opera. The second act is all 20s jazz.
"Lullaby in the garden, where dream flowers grow. Lullaby, my child of a world we'll never know."
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim