Best Broadway Quote

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 12:36pm

Hey guys I was wondering what your favorite broadway quote was. It doesn't HAVE to be a lyric, it could be dialogue. My recent favorite (I am probably forgetting some) is:

"It's like Ginger Rodgers said to Fred Astaire: Anything you can do I can do backwards....and in heels." - La Cage Aux Follies

[kate2]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 8:48pm

i crack up every time i hear "throw me on the ground, and START ME LIKE A CHEVY!" (Ms Sondra from ASU) also from that show "ONE NIIIIIGHT WITH YOUUUUU!!" (whenever a character 'falls in love')

[ozboy]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 9:26pm

"I was raised to be charming, not sincere"

[jam_man]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 10:41pm

Here's just 5:


"Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?" My Fair Lady

"My dear little librairian, you pile up enough tomorrow, and you'll find you've collected nothing but a lot of sad, lonely yesterdays." The Music Man

"You're in a merry mood today, Mr. Todd." Sweeney Todd

"We'll not discriminate great from small.
No we'll serve anyone -
Meaning anyone -
And TO anyone -
At all!" Sweeney Todd

"Here we got a nice, respectable business goin'." Sweeney Todd


Obviously, I love Sweeney!

[greatdct]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 10:43pm

Well, it isn't from a show, but it's from a novel that was turned into a show.

"She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant."

[kas]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 10:44pm

"we're going over to my house to watch the mickey mouse club - annette's growin' up."

"our lives become the stories that we weave."

bad: any of friedrich's lines from Sound of Music. I hate that dorky kid. :) he;s so random

[pab]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 10:46pm

"Who do you have to fu*k to get a break in this town?!"

[bythesword84]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 10:46pm

"They have one, two, two men! And we're all so poor!" -Urinetown

"I am beloved, and its because I am a b!tch." -Taboo

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 10:58pm

One of my favorite moments/quotes during one of my favorite shows. I had a friend of mine capture it in an icon photo. The last scene in "The Apple Tree."

Updated On: 8/15/05 at 10:58 PM

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 11:09pm

my favoriteS

The Producers-
1)"Who do you have to F*ck to get a break in this town?"
2)"Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss?"
3)"And so Leo I was....Oh sorry, wrong office"
4)" When did you do all this? Ulla: "Intermission"

GYPSY-
1)"Meetcha round the corner in haaaaaaaalf an hour!"

42nd Street-
1)"Maybe Philly'll change your luck..."
2)"Musicians stay in the pit and for a good reason"

Thoroughly Modern Millie-
1)"Who are you? The UNwelcome wagon?"

[morosco]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 11:41pm

With the right wig I can play any role! (

Or something to that effect. Mrs. Meers. Modern Millie.)

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 11:43pm

"It's not the heat... it's the humanity."

Jeff Douglas, "Brigadoon"

[RaininSmilies]

Posted: 8/15/05 at 11:57pm

What is your quote from, greatdct? I know I've read it, but I can't remember where it's from!

And my favorite Broadway quote would probably be "I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs" from Rent. That always makes me smile.

[DougieCool]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 12:20am

The Producers
"Even though we are sitting down...we are giving you a standing ovation."
it was said in a tour of the show i saw...not sure if it's a real line or a great ad lib but still great

INTO THE WOODS
"I was raised to be charming ...not sincere."

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"I can finally afford to see a broadway Show...Great Big Stuff"

Wicked
"Because I knew you i have been changed for good"

[greatdct]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 12:22am

The Wicked novel. For some reason I was just really struck by that line. I've never forgotten it.

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 12:58am

just look at my signature =)

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 12:58am

just look at my signature =)

[zzannahk]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 1:19am

my favorite line in all of Wicked is

"let the green girl go"

[Dre2387]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 2:02am

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels:

Freddy: You...you're smooth.
Lawrence: I hope you can say that to me when I'm old and grey.
Freddy: I just did.

not my absoulte favorite, but a pretty good one. Specially with John and Norbert doing the parts. Cause Norbert is right on time with that last line. So fast yet so perfect.

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 2:03am

There are only 25 registered gays in Putnam county, they only allotted us 2 and ½ blocks for the gay pride parade can you imagine the Judy Garland melody? *sings a bar* Opps were done see everyone next year!

Spelling Bee

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 2:13am

"Bye later see ya, hope you don't get gonoria!" ~ Avenue Q

"After all i am JUST an ordinary housewife and mother, just like al you housewives and mothers out there" ~ Pippin

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 2:15am

The Producers
"Even though we are sitting down...we are giving you a standing ovation."
it was said in a tour of the show i saw...not sure if it's a real line or a great ad lib but still great

NOPE! 'Tis a hilarious line ACTUALLY in the show!

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 2:15am

touche.

I haven't actually seen Bee, I was just thinking of the music, which is mostly harmless...

[AnotherDay46]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 2:31am

I love...

"Our leading man was so gay...he nearly flew away...where did we go right?"

and

"Last night a star was born on Broadway - the lovely Miss Ulla
Inga Hansen Bensen Yonsen Tallen-Hallen Svaden-Svanson.
We predict that her name will soon be up in lights. If they can find enough bulbs."

From The Producers ^_^

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/16/05 at 5:17am

Thernadier, I don't think it is an ad lib because I heard it in the tour as well and it's printed in the Producers coffee table book.

I forgot how the quote exactly went, but in ASU, Chad wanted to take a swim with Ed, and he said something about how they could slap their privates.

"Who do you have to fu*k to get a break in this town?" - Producers