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Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes

Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes

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All_For_Laura
#1Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 3:18pm

We have a Company thread, its time for Grey Gardens! I know some of these quotes are derived right from the movie, but others are fresh.

Here are mine:

Edith: "It's a goddamn beautiful day, Shut Up!"

Gould: "Maybe it's time I...drank from my own tumbler."

Gould: "Well, if some poor off sailor asks me to show him the Astor Bar, what am I supposed to do, ignore him?"

Little Edie: "I don't know whether you know that, I mean, do you know that?"

Little Edie: "If we're still living next year, I think a vegetable garden would be a good thing, don't you?"

Little Edie: "Do you think my costume looked alright for Brooks? I think he was a little amazed."

Edith: "People discover me everytime I leave the house, I never think anything of it."

There are soooo many, but those are a few of my favorites. List yours!


...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

Yankeefan007
#1re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 3:37pm

"Choose to be happy" pretty much defines my life at the moment.

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WickedGeek28
#2re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 3:37pm

Honestly . . .


"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

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jrb_actor
#3re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 3:51pm

In addition to those above:

"GODDAMMIT, MOTHER!!!!"

"She only left me one little kitty to keep me warm"

"Somewhere in Athens a statue is missing its pedestal"

There are SO many great lines in the show. And the lyrics---full of gorgeous imagery.


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All_For_Laura
#4re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 4:17pm

The somewhere in Athens quote is also a favorite of mine!!


...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

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miss pennywise
#5re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 4:21pm

"Not today, Geraldine!"

"They called me 'Body Beautiful Beale.' It's my, whadyacallit, uh, my sobriquet."

"I just have to find this Libra man!"

"They can get you for wearing red shoes on a Thursday...it's a mean, nasty Republican town."

Those are just off the top of my head.


"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

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InfiniteTheaterFrenzy
#6re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 4:33pm

"Get up the nerve to be
All you deserve to be"

The lyric has struck me utterly every time I've seen the show.


[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

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doodlenyc
#7re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 4:41pm

"He always compliments me on my corn!"

"mammorobellia, I guess you'd call it."


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Piazzaslight
#8re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 4:52pm

I agree with "It's a god damn beautiful day! SHUT UP!" A favorite ever since I first read that.

All of "AROUND THE WORLD." That's my favorite song out of the whole score.


MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza

"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel

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miss pennywise
#9re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 4:55pm

Lately, my favorite line has been Little Edie saying, "Responsibility is the hallmark of aristocracy. That's what did me in."


"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

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All_For_Laura
#10re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 6:25pm

Okay and what about

"I came back here to take care of my dying mother...And then she pulled a fast one on me, she kept right on breathing"

I love that line!


...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

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theaterkid1015
#11re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 6:26pm

"Da-da-da-dummm"

And, I don't know if it's in the show, but does Little Edie still call Jerry "The Marble Faun?"


Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

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InfiniteTheaterFrenzy
#12re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 6:27pm

Grey Gardens has a wonderful, wonderful book. Definite Tony nom, if not win.


[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

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All_For_Laura
#13re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 8:25pm

Yup, she does call Jerry The Marble Faun!


...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

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dirty rotten guy
#14re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 8:43pm

There is one where Edie says something about telling Jackie Kennedy to take Edith on her yacht in the Greek Islands and that shut her up. I can never word it exactly, but everytime I hear it, I just die. SO FUNNY!


"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"
Updated On: 11/27/06 at 08:43 PM

#15re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 11/27/06 at 8:45pm

when Jerry asks Little Edie how she is, she responds:
"Sublime, jerry; & yourself?"

Big Edie: Its very difficult to raise a child 56 years of age.

shesamarshmallow
#16re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 12/22/06 at 3:45pm

"Now remember, you're an old time mammy..."

Slays me!


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singingshowgirl
#17re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 12/22/06 at 4:48pm

"jerry likes my corn"

"da da da da dummmmm"

"it's a mean, nasty republican town"

Roscoe
#18re: Favorite Grey Gardens The Musical Quotes
Posted: 12/22/06 at 6:02pm

I can't help noticing that most of the quotes above are also quotes from the films.


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