Least Favourite Line?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 6:17pm

What's your least favourite line, spoken or sung, from any Broadway show? (Current, past, or... heck, throw 'future' in there as well.)

From Les Miserables, I'd have to say: "There is a room that's full of toys/There are a hundred boys and girls." This line always annoys me to no end; I always feel they should switch the order and make it rhyme, dangnabit.

From Little Mermaid: "It's more than simply sentimental, it's an aphrodisiac!" (Um... kids' show, and I fail to see how this line even makes sense in context.)

From Scarlet Pimpernel: After being told that Percy is the Scarlet Pimpernel, Marguerite screams "OH MY GOD!" For a moment, the Cleverest Woman In Europe has transformed into Elle Woods.

More to come, I'm-a guessing...

[balletandbroadway]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 6:20pm

The chorus of "blah" to Totally F'ed in Spring Awakening.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 6:20pm

But that's the most meaningful lyric in the whole show!

[SgtDonut]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 6:52pm

Dude, I love the blahs!

[bwayfan9]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 7:12pm

The blahs are quite enjoyable

"Nessa, Oh Nessa, I Have Something to Confess-a reason why"
Boq, Wicked




I F*CKING HATE THAT LINE

[musicaltheatrefan3]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 7:18pm

Listen
I am alone at a crossroad
I'M NOT AT HOME IN MY OWN HOME

It was so easy to rhyme that! and they didn't! (they could've done, I'm not ALONE in my own home)

Schmerg-You're just like me in the way that we both do British spellings, but we weren't raised that way. I've even challenged myself into doing British dates (December 8 would be 08/12/200 and even putting the dates before written months! I love it! Updated On: 10/28/08 at 07:18 PM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 7:36pm

MTF3-- Holy smokes, I didn't even notice that I was doing that! Ha... I belong to (now my dirty secret comes out) a Harry Potter fanfiction site that requires British spelling. I've gotten so used to modifying my spelling for that site that I guess I accidentally used it here, too. I remember I got downgraded for doing that on an essay awhile ago (I think I spelled 'judgment' as 'judgement,' which is the British way.)

Bwayfan9-- Eurgh, never been a big fan of that line, either.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 7:40pm

Listen
I am alone at a crossroad
I'M NOT AT HOME IN MY OWN HOME


The lyric didn't need to rhyme. There was a reason it was written that way.

To change it to "I'm not alone in my own home" takes the meaning out of the line.

[musicaltheatrefan3]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 7:49pm

They shouldn't take off points for that. You could've been from a country that spells it like that. That's horrible. I'd write that teacher up. Has she ever heard of ALTERNATIVE SPELLINGS?

[sally1112]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 8:41pm

From Grey Gardens (a show I absolutely adore)

"You had two hands, you have modeled gloves." It is so contrived and is only used to rhyme with "celebrated loves"

And the worst line of all time, from Rent,
"Think twice before to poo-poo it." Yikes!

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 8:47pm

Those lyrics from the song Listen, are very powerful and drive the point home very well.

[jasonf]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 8:51pm

"To kill outside St. Paul's
Requires a lot of balls"
-- Jekyll and Hyde

Just a terrible terrible lyric!

[sally1112]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 8:58pm

jasonf, I forgot about that one! Bad, bad, bad lyric.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 8:59pm

I can never decide whether I love that one or hate it. It's so out there...

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:07pm

The blahs in SA make my literally CRINGE.
And I can't stand anything from grease. I just can't. My mind wisn't capable of taking in such horriblness.

[musicaltheatrefan3]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:08pm

I love love love ACL, but

"and he said nothing
could get a girl transferred"

it's just kind of strange

[EugLoven]

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:13pm

In almost any show, I cringe when a character literally TELLS the audience or another character how they're feeling.

[withoutyou08]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 12:11am

" "Nessa, Oh Nessa, I Have Something to Confess-a reason why"
Boq, Wicked

I F*CKING HATE THAT LINE "

agreed bwayfan

[MyLife]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 12:39am

When Nina says "Yeah, you want fries with that?" in In The Heights. It makes me cringe! There isn't any better lingo from home you could have taught those kids at Stanford?

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 12:44am

Another Wicked one:

Glinda: There are bridges you cross you didn't know you've crossed until you've crossed!

WTF? I understand what it means but couldn't they word it more eloquently?
Updated On: 10/29/08 at 12:44 AM

[Kad]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 12:54am

"I love love love ACL, but

"and he said nothing
could get a girl transferred"

it's just kind of strange "


That lyric makes perfect sense in context.

[Enjolras872]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 12:54am

I actually like the "bridges" line in "Thank Goodness," but maybe I just like the way Kristen sings it on the OBCR. *shrug*

But "I'd sooner buy defying gravity" should probably have never happened, and "Oh here it... it's a candy bar wrapper" from Light my Candle - Rent kind of bothers me.



Updated On: 10/29/08 at 12:54 AM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 1:17am

Whatever the unmemorable, lame-ass line that accompanies that ridiculous cop-out ending in Wicked was.

[blondebaby589]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 9:59am

rosscoe(au), I agree with you about "Listen".
Kad, I agree with you about "Nothing".

The line I hate is from Rent
"Excuse me if I'm off track,
But if you're so wise then tell me
Why do you need smack?"

[lisaatje009]

Posted: 10/29/08 at 10:50am

The line I hate is from Rent
"Excuse me if I'm off track,
But if you're so wise then tell me
Why do you need smack?"

I totally agree with you! I can't stand that line either. I love the rest of the song though..