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Favourite Sondheim lyric
#25re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/25/05 at 1:59am
Just looking back at so many moments of absolute genius- is there anybody at all in his league in terms of lyrics?
PS I did consider those old threads dead and gone... chill out Pab, or I'll start a gratuitous "Hi, I'm 12 and love Wicked thread!!!"
jollipops
Chorus Member Joined: 4/10/05
#26re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/25/05 at 4:55am
'You're so nice
you're not good, you're not bad
You're just nice.
I'm not good, i'm not nice
I'm just right!
I'm the witch, you're the world.'
-Into the Woods (genius)
#27re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/25/05 at 10:27am
"pretty isn't beautiful, mother, pretty is what changes, what the eye arranges is what is beautiful." - Sunday in the Park with George
"more red, more blue, more beer" - Sunday in the Park with George
"whats that muddle in the middle?" "thats the puddle where the poodle did the piddle" - Sunday in the Park with George
"try actor thats compactor" "yes and always arrives overdone" - Sweeney Todd
"years from now we'll remember and we'll come back. To this theatre and hang a plaque this is where be began....being what we can" - Merrily We Role Along
by favorite I made favorites lol.
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
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#28re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/29/05 at 2:12pm
I could post for days on this topic!
You're sorry-grateful
Regretful-happy
Why look for answers
Where none occur
You'll always be
What you always were
Which has nothing to do with
All to do with her
"Not a day goes by..."
#29re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/29/05 at 2:25pm
This is a little like asking which is my favorite cookie!
The haiku of "Is There No Other Way" Pacific Overtures
"Now, Soon, Later" A Little Night Music" (cant believe that hasnt been revived yet.) Each song is a masterpiece and then they are intertwined, amazingly, beautifully.
It is truly how impossibly the lyric fits the music that has me always in awe...
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#31re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/29/05 at 2:45pm
the slotted spoon wont hold much soup---the slotted spoon can catch the potato-ittw
what i call, enterprise, poppin ****s into pies-st
#32re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/29/05 at 2:55pmI agree that it's impossible to come up with one definitive lyric - every time I think of one, I jump to six or seven more... for instance - I started out with anything from "A Little Priest", then I jumped to anything in "Assassins", all of "Mama's Turn", and it just becomes a lesson in futility - I think it's easier to ask what is least favorite... doesn't SS say it's the lyric from "I Feel Pretty"? (It's alarming how charming I feel???)
"Not a day goes by..."
QHDramaQueen
Stand-by Joined: 2/3/05
#33re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 4/29/05 at 3:04pm" Dont be afraid that it wont be perfect, the only thing to be afraid of really is it wont be."- Company
#34re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:12am
"Wishes come true, not free."
Into the Woods
*still squeeing over Friday's show*
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#35re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 9:30am
Sometimes she drinks in bed,
Sometimes he's ho-mo-sexual--
But why be vicious? They keep it out of sight.
Heigh-ho! They're gonna be all right!
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#36re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 11:03am
All of More..... and
"When you're on my list babe
it's just a question of when"
#37re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 11:39am
Not a day goes by
Not a single day
But you're somewhere a part of my life
And it looks like you'll stay
As the days go by
I keep thinking when does it end
Where's the day I'll have started forgetting
But I just go on thinking and sweating
And cursing and crying
And turning and reaching
And waking and dying
And no, not a day goes by
Not a blessed day
But you're still somehow part of my life
And you won't go away
So there's hell to pay
And until I die
I'll die day after day after day
After day
After day after day after day
Til the days go by
Til the days go by
Til the days go by
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#38re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 11:43am
"It's your father's fault that the curse got place
and the place got cursed in the first place."
-Into the Woods
#39re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 2:37pm
ooh good topic
the one in my icon
"It's your father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place!"
"You may know what you need, But to get what you want, Better see that you keep what you have."
"The roof, the house, and the world you'd never thought to explore.
And you think of all of the things you'd seen.
And you wish that you could live in-between.
And you're back again, only different than before.
After the sky."
pretty much all of gee officer krupke
My Daddy beats my Mommy,
My Mommy clobbers me,
My Grandpa is a Commie,
My Grandma pushes tea.
My sister wears a mustache,
My brother wears a dress.
Goodness Gracious, that’s why I’m a mess!
Yes!
Officer Krupke, he shouldn’t be here.
This boy don’t need a couch, he needs
A useful career.
Society’s played him a terrible trick,
And sociologically he’s sick!
I am sick!
We are sick, we are sick,
We are sick sick sick
Like we’re sociologically sick!
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
#40re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 3:26pm
So he's the master of witty word-play, and just as skillful applying his scalpel to the heart: the 'Not a Day Goes By' lyric... *deep sigh*. Oh and the one mentioned earlier, 'Every Day a Little Death'.
Mr Sondheim, even thought the word is tossed around far too easily, you are a bona fide genius!
How I long for a really good movie of Into the Woods or Sweeney Todd. Can it ever happen?
Tenorific2
Leading Actor Joined: 2/16/05
#41re: Favourite Sondheim lyric
Posted: 5/1/05 at 3:27pm"they hear drums, i hear music, be my friend".
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