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Is anyone else obsessed with rhyme in Broadway musicals?

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Is anyone else obsessed with rhyme in Broadway musicals?

I'll keep singing the praises of Peter Mills, who might be one of the greatest lyricists working today. Golden Boy of The Blue Ridge and The Hello Girls are master classes in using the dialect of your subjects to discover new rhymes.

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Is anyone else obsessed with rhyme in Broadway musicals?

I kind of am, and I will check out your links.

I'm particularly intrigued by the notion of "hidden rhymes" that aren't apparent to a casual listener, like the ones Sondheim famously discussed in "The Ladies Who Lunch" (laugh/caftans, gas/classes, etc.). I've noticed a similar one in "Unworthy of Your Love," viz. sky and I in the first verse:

I am nothing
You are wind and water and sky
Jodie
Tell me, Jodie, how I can earn your love

(Similarly with god/body in the second verse.)

Does anyone know of other "hidden rhyme" examples, from Sondheim or otherwise?

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