"Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,' Makes the 'or' mean more than it did before." (Moments in the Woods)
"Please Hello, I come with letters from Her Majesty Victoria Who, learning how you're trading now, sang "Hallelujah, Gloria!" And sent me to convey to you her positive euphoria As well as little gifts from Britain's various emporia." (Please Hello)
"Sweet summer evenings, hot wine and bread /
Sharing your supper, sharing your bed /
Simple joys have a simple voice:
It says why not go ahead?"
"Buying on credit is so nice. One look at us and they charge twice. I'll have my own washing machine. What will you have though to keep clean? Skyscrapers bloom in America. Cadillacs zoom in America. Industry boom in America. 12 in a room in America."
some great punchlines in that song: If you're all white in America. or Free to wait tables and shine shoes.
Both Chrysanthemum Tea and Please, Hello have some his best rhymes. I'll type later...gotta run!
just listening to my sweeney cd and heard amazing rhyming lyrics that were good enough to bump this year old thread!
There were these two, you see, Wanted her like mad, One of 'em a JUDGE, T'other one his BEADLE. Every day they'd nudge And they'd wheedle. But she wouldn't budge From her needle. Too bad. Pure thing.
is it pathetic or wonderful that this post had me well up? god i love sondheim.
man oh man. i'm posting the whole thing of this (i know someone put the end but whatever.)
If you know what you want Then you go and you find it and you get it... do we want a child or not? And you give and you take and you bid and you bargain or you live to regret it! There are rights and wrongs and inbetweens No one waits when fortune intervenes! And maybe they're really magic, who knows? Why you do what you do That's the point all of the rest of it is chatter! If the thing you do is pure in nintent if its meant and its just a little bent does it matter? no all that matters is that Everyone tells tiny lies what's important really is the SIZE! Only three more tries and we'll have our prize when the end's in sight you'll realize when the end is right, it justfies the bean!!
phew. ILU bakers wife!
MWAH! -Meghan
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you. Muriel: You will? Andre: Only if you leave.
Dot by dot, Building up the image. Shot by shot, Keeping at a distance doesn't pay. Still, if you remember your objective, Not give all your privacy away, A little bit of hype can be effective, Long as you can keep it in perspective. After all, without some recognition No one's going to give you a commission. Art isn't easy. Overnight you're a trend, You're the right combination- Then the trend's at an end, You're suddenly last year's sensation. If you feel a sense of coalition, Then you never really stand alone. If you want your work to reach fruition, What you need's a link with your tradition, And of course a prominent commission, Plus a little formal recognition, So that you can go on exhibit- So that your work can go on exhibition!
- "Putting It Together", Sunday In the Park With George
Mapping out a sky. What you feel like, planning a sky. What you feel when voices that come Through the window Go Until they distance and die
- "Finishing the Hat", Sunday In the Park With George
Must it all be Either less or more? Either plain or grand? Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"? That's what woods are for - For those moments in the woods. - "Moments in the Woods", Into the Woods
We've no time to sit and dither While her withers wither with her! - "Prologue", Into the Woods
Man, I have to sing the latter and it's a killer. Updated On: 2/26/06 at 09:32 PM
Wait a minute! Magic beans for a cow so old that you had to tell a lie to sell it which you told. ~ITW
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree. ~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel. ~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known. ~A Tale of Two Cities ~
Oh, so many great ones have been mentioned! Color and Light mentioned my two favorites from Sunday in the Park...
All of "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," in particular "When a person says that you upset her, That's when you're good. You impersonate a person better Than a zombie should. I could understand a person If he wasn't good in bed. I could understand a person If he actually was dead. Exclusive you! Elusive you! Will any person ever get the juice of you? You're crazy, You're a lovely person, You're a moving, Deeply malajusted, Never to be trusted, Crazy person yourself. You're bad... Bobby is my hobby and I'm givin' it up!" -COMPANY
"Should there be a marital squabble, Available Bob'll Be there with the glue! Who could we open up to? Secrets we keep from guess who. Who is so safe, and who is so sound? You never need an analyst with Bobby around." -COMPANY
This isn't so intricate lyrically, but I absolutely cannot get it out of my head lately: "And though I'll think of you I guess Until the day I die, I think I miss you less and less As every day goes by, Johanna..." -SWEENEY TODD
Updated On: 2/26/06 at 10:22 PM
I *think* this is Sondheim, and perhaps not his most intricate though... (from Candide)
Life is absolute perfection, As is true of my complexion. Every time I look and see me, I'm reminded life is dreamy. Although I do get tired Being endlessly admired, People will go on about me - How could they go on without me? (If the talk at times is vicious, That's the price you pay when you're delicious.) Life is pleasant, life is simple- Oh my God, is that a pimple? No, it's just the odd reflection - Life and I are still perfection! I am everything I need! Life is happiness indeed!
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
Lucy is juicy But terribly drab. Jessie is dressy But cold as a slab. Lucy wants to be dressy. Jessie wants to be juicy. Lucy wants to be Jessie And Jessie Lucy. You see, Jessie is racy But hard as a rock. Lucy is lacy But dull as a smock. Jessie wants to be lacy, Lucy wants to be Jessie. That's the sorrowful précis. It's very messy.
"A sea of whims that I submerge in Yet so lovable in repentance Unfortunately still a virgin, but you can't force a flower... Don't finish that sentence!"
Why did you do it, Johnny, Throw it all away? Why did you do it, boy, Not just destroy The pride and joy Of Illinois, But all the U.S.A.? --"The Ballad of Booth", Assassins
Free country Means your dreams can come true: Be a scholar -- Make a dollar -- Free country Means they'll listen to you: Scream and holler -- Grab 'em by the collar! Free country Means you don't have to sit -- That's it! And put up with the s**t. --"Everybody's Got the Right", Assassins
BALLADEER Look on the bright side, Not on the sad side, Inside the bad side Something's good! This is your golden Opportunity: You've been a preacher --
GUITEAU Yes, I have!
BALLADEER You've been an author --
GUITEAU Yes, I have!
BALLADEER You've been a killer --
GUITEAU Yes, I have!
BALLADEER You could be an angel --
GUITEAU Yes, I could!
--"The Ballad of Guiteau", Assassins
Those always give me chills. Oooh, Sondheim, how do you do it?
I'm so excited nobody else posted mine! The whole song, but...
Now, insofar as approaching it, What would be festive But have its effect? Now, there are two ways of broaching it: A, the suggestive, And B, the direct. Say That I settle on B, to wit, A charmingly Lecherous mood, A, I could put on my nightshirt or sit Disarmingly, B, in the nude. That might be effective; My body's all right-- But not in perspective And not in the light. I'm bound to be chilly And feel a buffoon, But nightshirts are silly In mid-afternoon. Which leaves the suggestive, But how to proceed? Although she gets restive, Perhaps I could read. In view of her penchant For something romantic, De Sade is to trenchant And Dickens too frantic, And Stendhal would ruin The plan of attack, As there isn't much blue in "The Red and the Black." De Maupassant's candour Would cause her dismay, The Brontes are grander But not very gay, Her taste is much blander, I'm sorry to say, But is Hans Christian Ander- Sen ever risque? Which eliminates A...
I love "On the Steps of the Palace", so I'm posting these lyrics, even if they're already here.
"But then what if he knew who you were when you know that you're not what he thinks that he wants?
And then what if you are what a prince would envision?
Although how can you know who you are 'till you know what you want, which you don't, so then which do you pick? Where you're safe out of sight and yourself but where everything's wrong, Or where everything's right, and you know that you'll never belong, And which ever you pick do it quick 'cause you're starting to stick to the steps of the palace!"
"Now it's he and not you who is stuck with a shoe, In a stew... In the goo... And you've learned something too, something you never knew, on the steps of the palace!"
"She flutters." "How charming." "She twitters." "My word!" "She floats." "Isn't that alarming? What is she, a bird?"
and
"She loves my voice, my walk, my moustache The cigar, in fact, that I'm smoking She'll watch me puff until it's just ash Then she'll save the cigar butt." "Bizarre, but You're joking."
and
"She dotes on--" "Your dimple." "My snoring." "How dear." "The point is, she's really simple." "Yes, that much seems clear."