Best Broadway Lyric?

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#0Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 8:47pm

What do you think is the all time best Broadway lyric?

Please include the show it is from.
Updated On: 1/28/06 at 08:47 PM

Yankeefan007
#1re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 8:54pm

Poppin' pussies into pies.

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Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72
#2re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:07pm

OMG!!!! There are so many!!!!

"Dont breathe too deep dont think all day, dive into work, drive the other way" -RENT

"How could a night so frozen be so scalding hot, how can a morning this mild be so raw" -RENT
Chorus Line
"Dance ten looks three, and Im still on unemployment, dancing for my own enjoyment, That aint it kid, That aint it kid" -

"In my ivory tour life was just a hostess snack, but now Ive tasted chocolate and Im never goin back" -Hairspray
"Our bodies entwining defenseless and silent, no second thoughts, Ive decided" Phantom

"Believe in yourself right from the start, believe in the magic thats inside your heart" The Wiz

"Dreams were all I ever knew, Dreams, you wont need them when Im through" Miss Saigon

"Dont Wish, dont start, wishing only wounds the heart" Wicked


Those are a few of my faves....Dont worry, Ill remember some more and post them later :)


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LaVieHilary
#3re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:02pm

"No day but today"--RENT

Some others that I'm having a mental block on right now
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Oooh Ms.toffeles I loooove your Chorus Line quote!!!



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BtMartin25
#4re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:18pm

"it's up to you, new york, new york!" - new york, new york.

not really a quote from broadway. But i feel it fits.. for everything.


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andycomposer
#5re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:31pm

MY ROMANCE by Lorenz Hart.
JAVERT'S SUICIDE in Les Mis by Herbert Kretzmer is quite brilliant.

Thesbijean
#6re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:42pm

City of Angels

You Can Always Count on Me (the whole song is filled with them)

But, my favorite is...

I don't need a map,
I naturally head for the dead end street,
You can always count on me...

and also...

Though my kind of dame no doubt will die out like the dinosaurs,
You can always count on me,
I'm solely to blame,
My head gives advice that my heart ignores,
I'm my only enemy

Brilliant
Updated On: 1/28/06 at 10:42 PM

Diva in Training
#7re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:50pm

"Out of somewhere I have something I have never had. And sad is happy...Thats all I see"

-The Light in the Piazza

That whole song is so lyrically beautiful

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ljay889
#8re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:04pm

All of A LITTLE PRIEST. I can't just pick one part. The lyrics are incredible.

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BSoBW3
#9re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:06pm

"Pupping pu$$ies into pies"

"Push Da Button"


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ljay889
#10re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:09pm

If life is a school, I'll pass every test
If life is a game, I'll play it the best
I won't give in, and I'll never bend
and I Am My Own Best Friend.. - CHICAGO wonderful lyrics

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andycomposer
#11re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:11pm

I love also PACIFIC OVERTURES:

"It's a herb that's superb for disturbances at sea" - (CHRYSANTHEMUM TEA)

blahblahblah
#12re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:21pm

Not of all time but my favorite today (I'm an Assassins newbie)


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jimmirae
#13re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:39pm

"Kiss of the Spider Woman"
"Into the Woods"
"The Rink"
"Sweeney Todd"
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
"Les Miz"
and probably
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" with ALL it's endings!


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freeadmission
#14re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:42pm

""Out of somewhere I have something I have never had. And sad is happy...Thats all I see"

-The Light in the Piazza

That whole song is so lyrically beautiful"

A-FREAKING-MEN!


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Dancinqueen123
#15re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:13am

Almost anything from Rent


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Theatreboy49
#16re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 12:52am

There so many that I can't possibly pick but one of the best is "Shes the climax of your technicolor dreams" from Kiss of the Spider Woman. Most of Sweeney and Rent are great as well but I don't think you can pick just one lyric.


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littleredridinghood
#17re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 1:02am

Anything Sondheim, PORTER, Finn, Brown, or LaChiusa...or City of Angels... Chicago, A Chorus Line... and whoever said Drood, thank you (the confessions and "Both Sides of the Coin" are so great!)!

Chrysanthemum62001
#18re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 1:08am

Thesbijean, I have had that song on a constant repeat for the past few days! My personal favorite is "I'm no femme fatale, but faithful and true as a saint bernarnd, barkin' up the wrong damn tree."

Also every single word in A Little Priest. "Here's a politician so oily it's served with a doily. Have one. Put it on a bun. Well, you never know if it's going to run."


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Ourtime992
#19re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 1:18am

With all due respect, RENT lyrics do not belong in this thread.

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BroadwayChica
#20re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 1:31am

I agree. Nothing against Rent, but we're talking best lyrics of ALL TIME.

I second "A Little Priest" - that song's about as good as it gets.

Also from Sweeney Todd: "There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it, and its morals aren't worth what a pit could spit..."

Urban
#21re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 9:01am

Thirding the fact that RENT and 'best broadway lyric' are oil and water.

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YankeeGal#24
#22re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 9:48am

Please forgive me, but I had to pick a whole song becuase the lyrics are so incredible:

I Only Have Eyes for You (42nd Street)

My love must be a kind of blind love
I can't see anyone but you.

Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
I Only Have Eyes For You, Dear.

The moon maybe high
but I can't see a thing in the sky,
'Cause I Only Have Eyes For You.

I don't know if we're in a garden,
or on a crowded avenue.

You are here
So am I
Maybe millions of people go by,
but they all disappear from view.
And I Only Have Eyes For You.


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jasonf
#23re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 10:07am

Thesbijean -- for me, you have the right show, but the wrong song (not to disparage that one, but it's not my favorite from CoA):

And come to think of it
Your writing always mirrored our relationship
With dangers popping up
And sweet young strangers popping up like weeds
So if you wish official pardoning
You better do a little gardening
You know you needn't be so generous with your seeds
Your fertile lies don't fertilize
It needs work.

My second favorite lyric, also from CoA:

You drool at my adventures
Your broads in bed are bored
Go home and soak your dentures
Your pen is no match for my sword


Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

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Wanna Be A Foster
#24re: Best Broadway Lyric?
Posted: 1/29/06 at 10:08am

OK, not to be a party crasher, but this thread is about specific Broadway lyrics, right? So pick a lyric or 100, but saying "Anything from RENT, SWEENEY, WICKED..." doesn't really answer the question. If you want to start a Best Score thread, go right ahead. re: Best Broadway Lyric?


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