Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#1Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:52pm
I have two favourites from shows that I've done;
GRACE & ANNIE: Cheese!
(Annie - it's such a randomline and not funny at all)
LOUIS: Mother, I don't think I shall ever be afraid again!
(The King and I - Oh Oscar, why?)
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#2re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:04pm
Oh, I'm a big fan of cheese. I know this is based on text from the novel, but I find:
"You are my life, my second self; oh, be my wife, my little elf"
from JANE EYRE quite hysterical and cheesy.
I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:06pm**Shudders**
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#3re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:14pm
From ROCKABYE HAMLET:
"God son, when you go to France,
Keep your divinity in your pants"
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#4re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:41pm
From DRS:
"Love is my legs and you are my love
So you are my legs, my love."
Deliciously AWFUL lyrics! HAHA!
"To love another person is to see the face of God!"
#5re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:46pm
"It's me Link....from the show?"
Hairspray.. good times
BDavis0092
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/06
#6re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:03pmThe spit take in Drowsy is pretty cheesy...but that's why it's in the show.
www.youtube.com/BwayNY225
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#7re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:17pm
I understand that it's probably a pretty heavy moment for him, but is it really necessary for Roger, upon hearing that Mimi has been found dying, to go to the lip of the stage and shout "NOOOOOOO!!!"?
...and on pitch??
Just a thought that ran through my head at Rent yesterday. As it does every time.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
PersonofInterest
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/06
#8re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:23pm
"Come on guys, CHILL!"
Has always made me a little uncomfortable.
PersonofInterest
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/06
#9re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:25pmPlus, sometimes I just get SO PISSED that Mimi doesn't die. She really should die.
#10re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:31pm
i'll get slapped for this one. my vote for cheesiest
But the line from wicked when they are gonna have punch
where norbert goes "apples, peaches, and pears" then glinda responds "oh my"
BDrischBDemented
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/05
#11re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:34pm
Really, any line from "Wicked" that references "The Wizard of Oz" is cheesy.
And really really, 90% of the lines in "Wicked" in general are cheesy.
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
Squire on the Fire?
Chorus Member Joined: 3/2/07
#12re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:37pm
I was going to say "I'd sooner buy defying gravity."
And the punch line is Boq and Nessa, not Fiyero and Galinda, by the way.
ETA: The line in 'Christmas Makes Me Cry' from BKLYN:
"Santa Claus is just a man wearing funny clothes..."
"I love acting. It's so much more real than life."
-Oscar Wilde
"Get what? Sex? With you? AN OLD PERSON LIKE YOU? Good God." -Edith 'Big Edie' Beale, Grey Gardens
Updated On: 3/18/07 at 09:37 PM
"Get what? Sex? With you? AN OLD PERSON LIKE YOU? Good God." -Edith 'Big Edie' Beale, Grey Gardens
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#13re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:37pm
iRuvPrinceton: Have you actually read the novel? In the context, those lines are beautiful.
I get annoyed that Mimi doesn't die, too. She dies in the opera!
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#14re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:38pm
I love the song, but I don't like the line, "Like cats to cream" from Wheels of a Dream.
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
PointOfNoReturn612
Swing Joined: 4/2/05
#15re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:00pm
Much as I LOVE Wicked, I must say that "There are bridges you cross you didn't know you crossed until you've crossed" made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it!
(and I agree about the corny Wizard of Oz puns as well!)
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#16re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:04pm
Nessarose:" What are you doing here"
Elphaba:" Well There's no place like home"
Gotta love Wicked even with it's cheezyness
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#17re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:06pm
ETA: The line in 'Christmas Makes Me Cry' from BKLYN:
"Santa Claus is just a man wearing funny clothes..."
Oh come on...that's pretty bad, but you have ALL of Brooklyn: The Musical to choose from and that's the worst you can come up with?
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
onstage06
Swing Joined: 1/24/07
#18re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:09pm
As much as I love this show: from Maury Yeston's Phantom
"I know magic, magic is my friend"
wow
PersonofInterest
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/06
#19re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:11pm
This isn't REALLY a cheesy lyric but here's something that has always driven me crazy in one of my favorite shows.
In "A New Brain" when Rhoda answers the phone and Mr. Bungee is on the line, there is about a half second pause where she listens to him and then she spits out about 32 bars of dialogue! Drives me crazy, and that's one of my favorite numbers in the show!
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#20re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:12pmI can't stand "ye gods" and "jeely kly" from the Music Man. Ulgh.
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PersonofInterest
Featured Actor Joined: 7/9/06
#21re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:16pm
OOOh. Yeah, that's a good one. I think it's "Ye Gads" but does it really matter? It's annoying whatever it is!
Updated On: 3/18/07 at 10:16 PM
BDavis0092
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/06
#22re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:18pmYeah it's "Ye Gads" and it's annoying.
www.youtube.com/BwayNY225
#23re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:22pm
"iRuvPrinceton: Have you actually read the novel? In the context, those lines are beautiful."
Ooh, yes, I have read the novel (and loved it), and I understand why the lyrics are there, but when I listen to the song, it just irks me. No other explanation.
I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.
jbdc
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/07
#24re: Worst/Corniest/Cheesiest Line in a Show
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:22pm
Footloose: Dancing is not a Crime. They took a beautiful monologue from the film and came up with this....
"...Y'know, King David?
Dave
He made a science outta
knockin' out giants
The bigger they come
The harder they fall
He didn't like math
or geography,
but, check this out:
He loved choreography!
Careful, Ren
There's a law
Now what were you saying
To Reverend Shaw?
...So he would dance
Hal-le-lu
Every time he had the chance
Whatever the season
or circumstance
He found a reason to throw
a party in his pants
And he'd dance
Par-tay!
He would dance
So dancing doesn't always
make you do nasties
Look at the Book of Ecclesiastes [my personal favorite]
Okaaay!
...It says it right here
Right here
Man doth dance
And it was good..."
[remember that this is where the audience is supposed to be most sympathetic to Ren--and they give him this to say. God bless Walter Bobbie director and co-writer. Why is he still allowed near new scripts?]
Updated On: 3/19/07 at 10:22 PM
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