What are your favorites?
" It's over now the Music of the Night!" POTO
"One Shifts left to right, practicing the art of the possible." Evita.
" Even though we are sitting down, we are giving you a standing ovation!" The producers
" Up until he left for Hades he was Katnip to the ladies." Woman in White.
" Thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there!" Les Miz.
And about a million others
"To be in love is the sweetest thing...but to risk everything for love is even sweeter!!!" -Kiss of the spider woman-
"It's not the heat that's killing me... it's the humanity."
---Jeff Douglas in "Brigadoon"
"forget regret or life is yours to miss"- rent
" you gotta think big to be big"- hairspray
"I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you" -- Rent
"Poor Fool, he makes me laugh, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha" - Carlota
"It's good to see me, isn't it" - Galinda
"Who'd believe a chorus girl who's gone and slept with the patron?" - Sir Andre and his friend(i knew it five seconds ago...ugghh!)
lol Firmin?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
All About Ruprecht--all of it. It's just a priceless song.
Same applies with (it's on Carols for a Cure) Spelling Bee Massacres The 12 Days of Christmas.
Um...let's see...
"And we'll serve to anyone, meaning anyone...at all!" from Sweeney's A Little Priest.
"Everywhere, it's everywhere...it's everything and everywhere...Fabrizio...the light, the light in the piazza...my love..." from The Light in the Piazza (title song).
Understudy Joined: 4/13/05
"George Bush is only for now." Ave. Q
"Careful before you say 'listen to me', Children will listen" Into the Woods
"How can I win when I'm not on my side?" The Goodbye Girl
"Now there's somethin' all you ladies should know. If you wanna light your man on fire, you gotta take it real' slow!" - Shug Avery in The Color Purple
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
"Life's not worth a damn 'til you can say 'Hey world, I am what I am!!'" - LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
The whole song Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries (FOSSE) - fantastic lyrics!!
"Think of those crisp, aging bones, then something fresh on the palate. Think of the scrumptious carnality twice in one day, there's no possible way to describe what you feel when you're talking to your meal"-Into the Woods.
"I do not hope for what I cannot have, I do not cling to things I cannot keep, the more you cling to things the more you love them, the more the pain you suffer when they're taken from you"-Passion
"Look at him go, rattling on me, with just one more brain what a half-wit he'd be"-Chicago
"Off to the gym, then to a fitting, claiming they're fat, and looking grim 'cause they've been sitting choosing a hat...DOES ANYONE STILL WEAR A HAT?"-Company
"Everything in life is only for now".
"Sucks to be me".
"Fantasies come true"
"Big, blonde, beautiful"
Updated On: 11/21/05 at 08:48 AM
"A slotted spoon doesn't hold much soup".
And,
"The slotted spoon CAN catch the potato!!!!"
Into the Woods.
"Nobody's on nobody's side"
- Tim Rice
"Why does it take an accident before the truth gets through to us?"
-Jonathan Larson
"You got to have Heart and Music!"
-William Finn
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
I've said it once and I'll say it again:
Max: Bloom the 2 cardinal rules of Broadway are: 1. Never put your own money in the show...
Leo: And two?
Max: NEVER PUT YOUR OWN MONEY INNNNNNNNNN THE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!
"Make them beg for more and then... don't it to them!" - GYPSY
"Kids, go play in the alley" - GYPSY
"If I coulda, I woulda...and thats show business." - GYPSY
Everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same - Chess
The world needs people like you and me who've been knocked around by fate.
'Cause when people see us, they don't want to be us, and that makes them feel great. - Avenue Q
"The Bush's of Tex were nervous wrecks because their son was dim - and look what happened to him" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"You got the same wig I got? (Yes) You got the same dress I got? (Yes) then shut up!" - Dreamgirls
"I'd rather make a Pot Roast, (Then go and Brown an Onion!) - and have some Peace and Quiet - (You've already HAD my Husband!)"
- Woman of the Year
"I went wearing imitation junk so large and gaudy that her diamond shrunk, the crowd went wild with a big hooray and costume jewelry was here to stay!" - CoCo
"I Invented Myself!" - The Wild Party
and the GREATEST Entrance line EVER -
"I'm Here!" - Timbuktu (Thank You Eartha!!)
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/05
I'm not a second rate queen getting kicks for the throne....from Evita
"I'm not going into the toilet! I'm going into showbusiness!" -The Producers
"Help! This crazy tomato's raping me!" - Reefer Madness
"Well, we can't all come and go by bubble." -Wicked
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
I have to say that the best line ever written for musical theater has to be...
To Flirt With Rescue When One Has No Intention of Being Saved from "A Little Night Music"
I just love that line. It is such an amazing truth in our lives that we do this either conciously or subconciously. (did I spell that word right?)
"Does anyone still wear a hat?" -- COMPANY
"In his eyes i see a gentle glow and thats where i'll be safe i know" ~Jekyll and Hyde
"They say that i have the best @$$ below 14th street is it true, you're staring again" ~ Rent
"What do you want to say to me Terry? Tell me this is your chance. What do you need to say to me Terry, does it concern romance?" ~Side Show
"I telephoned my analist about it and he said to see you monday, but by monday i might be floating in the Hudson with the other garbage." ~Company
"Somebody loves me my heart is beating so fast!
All kinds of music is pouring out of me,
somebody love me at last!" ~Sweet Charity
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