Most Meaningful Message
Most Meaningful Message
#0Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:54pm
In many if not in all broadway shows there are songs that really send a meaningful message to you. Which song do you think has the most meaningufl message and why?
Mine is Til We Reach That Day from Ragtime because it still relates to today's world about how America is not as great as it can be and how not everyone is accepting.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
WickedlyPerfect
Featured Actor Joined: 11/5/05
#1re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:56pmI always tend to say "Forget regret or life is yours to miss", I'm a scaredy cat with nerves of jello, so I always tend to miss out, but I never regret it because I know I will dwell on it and miss the next opportunity
What good is a life,
With no one to share,
The light of the moon,
The honor of a swear?
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#2re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 12:03am"Move On" from Sunday in the Park With George. I've quoted it in my signature.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#3re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 12:06amMove On is a great choice and not to get off topic I love the avatar chrysanthemum
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#4re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 12:12am
How about boiling it down to onew line? In the Finale of Les Miserables:
"To love another person is to see the face of God"
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#5re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 12:21amThere are certainly more emotional and more meaningful examples, but a still good one would be "Everything in life is only for now." from Avenue Q.
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#6re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 12:25amI love Happiness from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
Blue J
Featured Actor Joined: 1/31/05
#8re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 12:44am
I really like this from the Color Purple:
"Most of all, I'm thankful for loving who I really am. I'm beautiful, yes I'm beautiful. And I'm here."
Finding your voice/yourself is an incredibly powerful message, I think.
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#9re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:19am
These four spring to mind immediately:
Ain't It Good - Children of Eden
"We've lived so long in dark
I'm almost frightened to believe,
those clearing skies on that glistening horizon;
please tell me my eyes do not deceive me.
Ain't it good,
to smell the morning
in a world washed fresh and clean?
Now the storm has left its warning
and we see a hint of green..."
I am Changing - Dreamgirls
"Look at me...
I am changing,
trying every way I can
I am changing
I'll be better then I am
I'm trying to find a way
To understand, but I need you...
I need a hand..."
I'm Not Afaid of Anything - Songs for a New World
"I'm not afraid of anyone
not a soul can get behind this wall
so let them call
and watch them fall
cos afterall
I'm not afraid..."
I am what I am - La Cage
"I am what I am..."
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
Updated On: 2/9/06 at 01:19 AM
#10re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:38am"Baby, Dream Your Dream" from Sweet Charity.
♥♥♥
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#12re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 3:01am
Heh, I put up a bunch of these quotes around my dorm room. I'll add a couple:
My personal favorite:
"There's a face that we wear in the cold light of day, it's society's mask, it's societies, way and the truth is that it's all a facade...look behind the facade."-Jekyll & Hyde
My second favorite:
"Life's not worth a damn till you can say hey world I am what I am!"-La Cage
"You'll Never Walk Alone"(along w/ pretty much the rest of the song)-Carousel
"No One Is Alone"-Into The Woods
I kinda added something to make it make sense as a quote but:
"[We all need] to dream the impossible dream"-Man of La Mancha
And lots from Rent obviously, but this one I find I quote in a LOT of situations:
"You'll never share real love until you love yourself"
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#13re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 7:31am
"No Time At All" from Pippin is a song I've often turned to.
"Oh, it's time to start livin'
Time to take a little from this world we're given
Time to take time, cause spring will turn to fall -
In just no time at all!"
Avatar - Isaac, my blue-fronted Amazon parrot. Adopted 9/7/07. Age 30 (my pet is older than me!)
#14re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 7:37amHugs to Jon for my favorite line from Les Miserables
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#15re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 8:16am
1. Hell, NO. The Color Purple.
2. There is a fine, fine line between love and a waste of your time.(Q)
musicalsinger20
Understudy Joined: 9/3/04
#16re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 8:30am
Christmas Lullaby from Songs for a New World
No One is Alone from Into the Woods
The Christmas Lullaby shows a girl's confidence in a Mary and how she will be an example to the world. I find that very inspiring and I can associate with that song.
No One is alone reminds us of just that. No matter what happens someone will be there. There is so much truth in that.
By the way I love posts like this! They make you think.
#17re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 8:35amA Little Priest - I mean, I'd always struggled with my cannabalism, but this song showed me that it is ok to like trying all those delicious flavours of people...
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#18re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 9:19am
"To love another person is to see the face of God"
"Everything in life is only for now"
"You've gotta go after the things you want while you're still in your prime"
"How can you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you're torn apart"
"No day but today"
"Don't dream it, be it"
"Life is really up to you, you must choose what to persue. Set your mind on what to find and there's nothing you can't do"
"Love is worth forgiving for, now I realize everything worth living for is there in his eyes"
"I can't regret what I did for love"
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#19re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:32pmAgree with WickedlyPerfect on "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."
#20re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:48pmIts not from a song...but the quote from The Music Man that is in my signature has always been a favorite of mine.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#21re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:54pm"Nothing is too wonderful to be true." DRS
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#22re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 2:27pm
"Careful the things you say/Children will listen".
-Into the Woods
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#23re: Most Meaningful Message
Posted: 2/9/06 at 4:16pm
"No day but today" -Rent
"To love another person is to see the face of God" -Les Miz
"Someone to pull me up short, and put me through hell, and give me support for being alive" -Company
"No one is alone" -Into the Woods
"I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had, someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you" -Rent
"Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around" -Sweeney
"Was I really seeking good, or just seeking attention?" -Wicked
I have plenty more all around my room, but that's all I'll write for now :)
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