Favorite quips from shows?- Page 2

[dreaming]

Favorite quips from shows?#25

Posted: 7/12/13 at 11:02am

"A clever, but sad line from Fiddler, said from Tevye to Chava, who hints that she's in love with the non-Jewish Fyetka: A fish and a bird can fall in love, but where would they make their home?"

That line oddly enough appears in the film "Ever After". I have to wonder if it's some kind of common saying, as I'd imagine whoever has the rights to "Fiddler" wouldn't be happy if the exact same phrase was used in "Ever After".

[jnb9872]

Favorite quips from shows?#26

Posted: 7/12/13 at 11:16am

I'm pretty sure it's some form of common saying, as Tom Waits wrote a gorgeous song based on it for Robert Wilson's ALICE.


Fish and Bird

Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

[Roscoe]

Favorite quips from shows?#27

Posted: 7/12/13 at 11:21am

From MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG:

So what are you having?
Not much fun.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[SamIAm2]

Favorite quips from shows?#28

Posted: 7/12/13 at 11:31am

Crazy Marie to Cinderella in Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Cinderella: "You'd be surprised how many beautiful gowns have crazy women in them."

This was especially wonderful in front of the glamorous audience at the 2013 Tonys Awards ceremony.
Cinderella Tonys' Performance (See 2:12)

[WicaS]

Favorite quips from shows?#29

Posted: 7/12/13 at 11:37am

You can talk to birds?

Updated On: 7/12/13 at 11:37 AM

[Ftworthguy]

Favorite quips from shows?#30

Posted: 7/12/13 at 2:29pm

"If I kept my hair natural like yours, I'd be bald." - Mame