What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
sharkgirl100
Chorus Member Joined: 2/1/05
#0What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 6:06pmJust a bit curious to see what you guys think is the best lyric from any broadway show since there's already a thread for the worst. so, what is it? please share. Updated On: 3/11/05 at 06:06 PM
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 6:18pm
"So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky
As someone told me, everyone deserves the chance to fly
And if Im flying solo atleast Im flying free
And to those who ground me
Take a message back from me---
Tell them how Im defying gravity
Flying high defying gravity
And nobody in all of Oz, no Wizard that there is or was is ever gonna bring me down!"- Wicked.
"In a row I have a ducks loads of gals to give me loads of yucks
Leave the cooing to the other clucks..."- Millie
#2re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 6:26pm
"You've gotta go after the things you want while you're still in your prime" * Avenue Q
"SPending two productive hours, tearing through a hundred pages, what a tale of star crossed lovers, life is lived, on other stages" * A Quiet Night At Home * Bare
"Well it looks like love, and it sounds like love, and it seems like love, and it feels like love, and it walks like love and it talks like love and it runs like love and it skips like love and it hurts like live disapoints like love disappears like love reappears like love and it shouts like love and it sings like love so guess what my friend I think, I think I got love" * Zanna Don't
"Memories that fade and flicker" * Bare- All Grown Up
Basically all of "Halloween" from RENT..I can't remember the lyrics currently for some reason...
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#3re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 6:27pm
i have a few- "no day but today" - rent
"viva la vie boheme"- rent
"schadenfreude, what's that some sort of nazi word? Yup it means hapiness at the misfortune of others. wow that is german!" ave q
"everything in life is only for now" avenue q
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 6:33pm
To Flirt With Rescue When One Has No Intention of Being Saved
-- A Little Night Music
#5re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 6:46pm
"George Bush is only for now"-Avenue Q
"Dream a dream, then end another"-Bare
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss"-Rent
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#6re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 7:24pm"If she complains your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus." Brush Up Your Shakespeare from Kiss, Me Kate. That entire song cracks me up.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
#7re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 7:31pm
My father was a tattoo artist in Haiphong
But his designs on Mother didn't last too long
~~"Miss Saigon"
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#8re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 7:38pm
"last night your words were like seeds
at first they seemed mild
they grew into deeds
this riot's our child
the child is on fire
he's hot as the sun
he'll burn like a pyre
til freedom is won"-Urinetown
"stop worrying if your vision is new
let others make that decision
they usually do
you keep moving on"-SITPWG
"everybody's got the right to their dreams"-Assassins
"we can never go back to before"-Ragtime
"love who you are and someone else might do the same"-Zanna Don't!
"no one can give you courage
no one can thicken your skin
I will not fail so you can be comfortable Cathy
I will not lose because you can't win"-L5Y
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#9re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 7:41pm
Basically most everything from RENT (bits from a bunch of the different songs)
For Good- Wicked
Suddenly Seymour, and the end of Downtown (someone tell me I still could get out of here, etc.) from LSoH
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#10re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 7:52pm
I don't have one favorite. I have thousands of favorites.
But Gimmee Gimmee is on the very top of my list from Millie.
2. Purpose
3. It Sucks To Be Me
4. Fine, Fine Line
5. I Can Hear The Bells
6. Good Morning Baltimore
7. Defying Chenoweth
8. Let's Ruin Times Square Again
9. The Internet Is For Porn
10. Only In NY
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#11re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 7:59pm
"And goodness knows, the Wicked lives are lonely, goodness knows, the Wicked die alone. It just shows, when you're Wicked, you weep only on your own." -Wicked
For Good-Wicked
"How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day? -Rent
"Come be how you want to, and see how bright we shine!" -Wicked
"How do you leave the past behind, when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?" -Rent
"You can't stop a river, as it rushes to the sea. You can try to stop the hands of time, but you know it just won't be!" -Hairspray
Depaultheatrekid
Stand-by Joined: 1/6/05
#12re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 8:07pm
Think of celebrated head of state or especially great communicators, did they have brains or knowledge dont make me laugh the were popular..pllllleaase its all about popular -Wicked
You are the one I choose folks would kill to feel your shoes -rent
If you had a shave head that'll be cool, if you came from spain or japan just as long as your not form hebrew school -Last five Years-
Who do you have to **** to get a break in this town - The producers-
Take her home she wasted .yeaaaa-Ave. Q
#13re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 8:09pm
"It was marvelous to know you,
And we aren't really through.
Crazy business this, this life we're livin'
Can't complain about the time we're given
With so little to be sure of in this world..."
-Anyone Can Whistle
#14re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 8:11pm
i dont have a fav. but isnt this Mary_Ethels job?
lol, just kidding! 
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#15re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 8:25pmPretty much every lyric in Gypsy and also from West Side Story "I like to be in America, Okay by me in America, Everything free in America, For a small fee in America."
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#16re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 9:12pm
For fun: "Left the theatre and called the doctor for my appointment to buy... tits and ass!" - Chorus Line.
For emotion: "And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine, by being my friend." - Wicked.
2 of my fave lyrics of all time.
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BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#17re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 10:58pm
"DOn't MAke ME Laugh" Wicked
"F**K you lady that's what stairs are for" Avenue Q
"How Can You Tell *hides behind meat pie*" Sweeny Todd
#18What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:08pm
Well... ignoring all these recent hits, I'd have to say
"The bliss of ignorance will never be replaced" from CHILDREN OF EDEN
or
"May I return to the beginning" (though only when accompanied by the key change) from JOSEPH...DREAMCOAT
"I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards."
— Peter Brook
#19re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:09pm
"her smile was like a glass of lemonade" - Parade
"dont be offended by my frank analysis, think of it as personality dialysis" - Wicked
"and soon i'll match them in renown" - Wicked
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
#20re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:22pmAll the RENT spoofs from Forbidden Broadway. :-P and Happiness from YAGMCB was so cute.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
#21re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:31pm
yes! i love "happiness is playing the drum in your own school band!" and also "he said you were, an... an enigma!" both from YAGMCB. classic, cute show.
X
I got you. Yeah, I got you on camera - you on candid camera now... An' you ain't know that...
#22re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:36pm
I also like:
Happiness is anyone and anything at all
That's loved by you
~~YAGMCB
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#23re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:38pm
I have many like profound and sweet quotes, measure life in love, never walk alone, etc. And though Bush making fun-ofs are funny, it's kind of obscure but I think here's my two both from Jekyll & Hyde's facade, any version.
"Half mankind thinks the other half is blind."
"Look behind the facade."
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#24re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 3/10/05 at 11:38pm
I dunno why: You alone can make my song take flight....., You will curse the day you did not do....,
And anything from Les Mis...
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