Favorite Forbidden Broadway lyrics???? — Page 3

To iamironflan I don't know the answer to your first question, but I know that in the 5/4 part she says "Couldn't you just write Carousel?"
But I loved the Spring Awakening skit, and the Doubt, Yoko Ono, and Light in the Piazza ones are great!

See my sig. I know they're not technically lyrics, but they are part of the cast recording, so it counts. =]

Super-frantic-hyperactive-self-indugent-mandy

Does anyone have the lyrics to that one?

In the meantime, my faves are:
from SVU:

"Who, every night, must play a stuck-up Tevye
Like he's doing Chekhov at the Odyssey,
and who, every night, must underplay disdain
while killing all the comedy?
MOLINAAAAAAA! MOLINA! HAAAAAA! HAAAAA!
MOLINA!"
--Fiddler with No Jew

"If you wanna send 'em, play a philodendron!"
--You Gotta Get a Puppet

"You stand there like a dummy, but the ratings soar,
Then I sing a Dolly tune, and ratings hit the floor!"
--Welcome to the Tonys

"Some people sing, some people dance, some people act-- I do HELLO DOLLY!"
--Carol Channing sequence

"When I appeared in RAGTIME, he critiqued my role as 'deadly,'
But I bounced back in KISS ME KATE and triumphed in this medley,
But then I lost the Tony when he swooned for Heather Headley!"
--I Hate Ben

And, for us musical directors alike, the whole song "I'm Sick of Playing Their Songs" gets us every time!

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Super-frantic-hyperactive-self-indugent-mandy

Anyway, I have the lyrics RIGHT HERE!

[?Hava Nagila?]
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
Am I for real?

I know you?re thinking
Have I been drinkin??
Mandy Patinkin
What a schlemiel!

Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai
Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai

(the pianist goes nuts on the keys)
Easy?easy?

(stops, then Yiddish-style dirge plays on piano)
These Yiddish songs were taught to me by my mother in the mamaloshen. That means the native tongue. They are sweet, simple songs from a culture rich in tradition, and I have brought them here tonight to pummel them to death.

[overacting like hell, played extremely slow at first, then gradually accelerating to tempo]
Dreidel? dreidel? dreidel-uhh?
I made you out of clayyy?
And when you?re dry and readyyy?
Then dreidel we shall play
Dreidel, dreidel, [yells] DREIDELLLLLLLLLL!!!!!

Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai
Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai

[?Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?]
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy
When I get hysterical, the critics think I?m dandy
When they cast a lunatic, I always come in handy
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy

Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai
Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai

Because I?m such an oddity, my mainstream days are through
And since I left Chicago Hope, there?s nothing much to do
And so I built a repertoire to please a Yiddish fan
So Broadway, won?t you welcome back your mamaloshen man!

[faster]
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy
Am I under medication, oversexed or randy?
Pass around the matzo balls and Manischewitz brandy
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy

Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai
Hai-digga-digga-digga-dai-dai

There?s nothing I like better than a lyrical stampede
Gesticulating Sondheim always makes my fingers bleed
And so to get the kudos and attention that I need
I like to take a simple song and DOUBLE UP THE SPEED!

[so fast that the piano accompaniment becomes a little sloppy]
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy
Music drives me crazier than ??? candy
I can bark and wag my tail like Annie?s doggy Sandy! WHOO!
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy

C?mon Paul, take me home!

[the tempo builds to a haphazardly unattainable frenzy!]
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy
If you eat while watching me, you?ll throw up all your candy!
Alter kackers love it when I get all Holy Land-y!
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandy
Super-frantic, hyperactive, self-indulgent Mandyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

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