Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#2Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 12:24am
Don't know if it qualifies as a one-liner per say, but Beth's "Oh god is there dancing, cuz I'm not a dancer!" line in Opening Doors is always a delight to hear, especially when delivered by Betsy Wolfe.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#3Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 2:06am
“The closest I ever gave”
“Somebody stop me before I sing again” - Bazzard
#5Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 4:23am
“Isn’t that alarming? What is she? A bird?” Night Music is full of ‘em!
bwayobsessed
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
#6Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 6:18am
I feel like
”poppin p**sies into pies”
and
”it justifies the beans”
both deserve a spot on this list
cmorrow
Stand-by Joined: 10/25/12
#7Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 6:36am
Not sure if this counts, but it's a one-line note Sondheim sent to friends:
“Dear Peter and Mary, Just a note to thank you for the wine, which arrived on the day that my doctor told me my triglyceride count was higher than ever. Love, Steve.”
saxpower
Featured Actor Joined: 9/14/16
#8Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 10:07am
From "Into the Woods" (Jack's mother explaining why the cow must be sold) "Her withers wither with her"
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#10Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 11:09am
Not from one of his shows, but from his interview with Adam Guettel.
Guettel: Your poodles have very topiary tails.
Sondheim: Well, they're topiary dogs. That's what poodles do for a living.
#11Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 12:01pm
"She says, I'm perfect, she swears"
"You're perfect, godd*mn it"
It took me SEVERAL listens to understand just how funny and genius that lyric is, and it remains among my favorite lines he ever wrote.
#12Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 12:16pm
"I sort of hate to ask it, but do you have a basket"?
Just give the world Love.
Nolan LuPone
Featured Actor Joined: 8/9/21
#13Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 12:40pm
"Is that just revolting? All greasy and gritty? It looks like it's molting! And tastes like...well pity."
Or
"I prefer general." "With or without his privates?"
#14Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 1:05pm
"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with **** and the vermin of the world inhabit it."
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#15Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 3:32pm
Nolan LuPone said: "I prefer general." "With or without his privates?""
“A Little Priest” never fails to crack me up every single time.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
christinelavin
Swing Joined: 11/11/21
#17Favorite Sondheim one-liners?
Posted: 12/13/21 at 6:08pm
I mean he kneads me. I mean like dough George.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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