Bad Lyrical Rhyming — Page 3

I have been lucky enough to see an amazing production of J&H with a Hyde and Lucy who had perfect chemistry and the rhyming in Dangerous Game just works, with the dry humping , the passion, the dark lighting.

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Something to consider...

Sometimes the rhyming is "bad" intentionally to play up the charcater. FINIAN'S RAINBOW has a wonderful song called "Something Sort of Grandish" where the leprechaun, Og, declares his love with a series of "-ish" rhymes (ie. granish/sugar-candish, darish/I don't careish etc) but that is the way the chracter talks.

What I hate is when words are mis-accented or have the pronunciation changed to make them rhyme: saw/before do not rhyme unless you mispronounce it with a southern accent(be-faw)which in JOSEPH/DREAMCOAT is wrong. How about in KISS ME KATE: "Where is the fun I used to find? Where has it gone? Gone with the wind!" Ok. To make that rhyme you have to pronounce wind and in wind a watch, but the phrase obviously should be gone with the wind. (I used to think teh line was Gone with the Wine" as in it's finished, done.)

Mark Andrew

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How about pretty much anything from Big the Musical...some of the lyrics in that show...wow...

I'm all in favor of near rhymes, but when they don't come off to good effect they can be maddening as anything. An example is the title number from HAPPY HUNTING:
"Everyone's on the hunt
For whatever they want,
And whatever you want,
Happy Hunting!"
You can't help but almost hear the first "want" as "wunt." By the time you get to the second "hunt," the whole lyric has gone soggy on you.

Too long he's preyed on us,
But now we know:
The phantom of the opera is there,
Deep down below.


Can you get anymore obvious?

I, too, disagree with some of the choices on this thread, but to each his own!