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#2

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:59pm

"if the Gable boat means a sable coat, anchors away!"
#3

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:00pm

"...no egos/amigos (sp?)"

from "Together Wherever We Go" from Gypsy.
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay

GO CARDINALS!!!
#4

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:20pm

Man, that Sondheim can sure write great rhymes! Here's a couple from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, the show which I consider to have the wittiest lyrics in theatrical history:

No. Not even figs! Raisins!
Ahh, liasons...

Then she saves the cigar butt
Bizarre, but you're joking?

She flutters
How charming
She flitters
My word
She floats
Isn't that alarming?
What is she? A bird?

If you never heard the OBC CD of this delightful score, you're cheating yourself!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#5

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:54pm

Another Sondheim, from Sweeney, not exactly a rhyme but certainly a great tongue-twister:
"I am a lass who alas loves a lad who alas has a lass in Canterbury."
Nothing like a good English folk song parody.
"WHEN is the winter of our discontent?" "NOW is the winter of our discontent!" Visit My Blog

Updated On: 7/3/05 at 10:54 PM

#6

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:05pm

this is my new favorite because it never goes out of my head! i'm always singing it:

"i'm just a someone in an old museaum, i'm as different as different can be, and the beauty is i still meet people like me..."
#7

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:08pm

"Buy him a castle / He'll still be an a*shole..." - DRS

"Les poissons, les poissons / Hee hee hee! Haw haw haw!" - The Little Mermaid

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#8

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:10am

"No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage." -Annie

"Take off that gloomy mask of tragedy, it's not your style.
You'll look so good that you'll be glad ya decided to smile." -Bye Bye Birdie

Ha ha, love those. :).


Updated On: 2/15/14 at 12:10 AM

#9

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:18am

"We've no time to sit and dither
While her withers wither with her" -Into the Woods

How's THAT for internal rhyming! I love Sondheim. ^_^
#10

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:25am

"With those shoulders, what a back she had
Her legs were build to drive men mad" (wild party off-bway)

"he had a most amazing eyes that I have ever seen,
he came in with the ticket for the 2nd mezzanine
I ripped it up and put him right down there in J-13" DRS

Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."

Updated On: 7/4/05 at 12:25 AM

#11

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:53am

Actually, David Yazbek wrote some pretty witty lyrics for THE FULL MONTY:

I played for hoofers who can't hoof
I played for tone-deaf singers
And once, when I insulted Frank
I played with broken fingers

This guy needs a helmet
That guy needs some lypo
And I could use some Geritol
Delivered in a hypo
But I don't want to gripe! Oooooooooh...

Really wish Kathleen Freeman won that Featured Actress Tony over Cady Huffman!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

Updated On: 7/4/05 at 12:53 AM

#12

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 1:00am

Same here - Cady Huffman was intolerable.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#13

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 1:03am

I love

first you're another slow eyed vamp,
then someone's mother, then you're camp.
#14

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 1:14am

Okay, more Sondheim (specifically "How I Saved Roosevelt" from Assassins):

"... or we'd have been left
bereft
of FDR."

"To think if I'd let him get up closer.
I saw right away he was insane-
Oh! This is my husband, we're from Maine.
He told me sit, but I said no sir!
This makes or vaction a real success.
Are you with the press?
-Yes.
Oh, God! I'm a mess!"
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay

GO CARDINALS!!!
#15

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 1:28am

The entire song: 'A Weekend In The Country" (A Little Night Music)

Something is stirring, Shifting ground... It's just begun. Edges are blurring All around, And yesterday is done.
#16

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 1:36am

also,

Buds Won't Bud,
Chicks won't chick and knicks won't knack,
Blue is white and white is black,
When the love you love won't love back.

Buds won't Bud
Notes won't note and knots won't knot,
T's won't cross and I's won't dot
When the hope you hope goes to pot.
Something is stirring, Shifting ground... It's just begun. Edges are blurring All around, And yesterday is done.
#18

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 2:09am

Out for Blood

I don't take no attitude when I know I've been screwed. Carrie White's got a lot to regret.....It's a little simple gig you help me kill a pig and then I've got some plans for the blood.

In

Everyday, I just pray...Every move I make is right. Where I go. Who I know. How I wear my hair come Saturday night.

Carrie is the BEST rhyme show ever
#20

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 2:12am

A New Brain:
"If someone asks you to lose your virginity
with someone you have affinity"
Elyse. No day but Today. My avatar: me talking to Norbert Leo Butz.
#21

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 2:14am

All of Guys and Dolls...genious...especially Adelaide's Lament.

Akiva
#22

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 2:17am

"Who knows?
There's something due any day
I will know, right away
Soon as it shows
It may come connanballing down
Through the sky
Gleam in its eye, bright as rose
Who knows?"

Pretty much all of that song. I love the rhymes and the structure.
#23

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 2:35am

This thread has driven me into a fit of madness, because I know there is some lyric that I used to tell everyone was an AWESOME rhyme and I would point it out everytime it played, but I have since forgotten what it was. So now I'm looking through my recordings to see if I can remember what it is. And I have a lot of recordings. This could take awhile.
-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?

"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????
#24

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 2:45am

"Nessa?"
"Yes?"
"A-Nessa? I've got something to confess-a reason why..." - Wicked

"Mimi, me, me, me." - Rent

"Blame it on me. Blame it on mommalie and dadalie, 'cause depression runs in our family" - Putnam County Spelling Bee


Yeah...basically, all the ones people hated in the hate thread, I love.

Also:

"Everyone's a little bit racist, sometimes/
that doesnt mean we go around commiting hate crimes." - Avenue Q

And lots from Into the Woods, Guys and Dolls, Wicked, Rent, and Chicago.
#25

re: Best Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/4/05 at 4:08am

from Ave. Q

"Brian buddy where you been, the term is Asian American"

"Grab your dick and double click for porn porn porn"

"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his dick in"

These lyrics had me busting up when i first hear them and i still get a kick out of them!

from DRS-

"will give me hummers in my hummer"

I just love that line... when i saw the show at the Old Globe Theare, that line had me dying (as well as these guys in front of me who couldn't stop laughing that entire number)

in fact most of David Yazbeck's lyrics are quite ingenious to me...

and just because I love Miss Saigon so much... I STILL BELIEVE... even though it's not a rhyme... it's just a cool song... haha

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