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#1

Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:38am

In your opinion, what is the most quotable musical of all time?
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#3

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:45am

Rent.
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#4

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:45am

RENT- I agree
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#5

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:45am

I know I quote Sweeney Todd all the time. But it's not the most quotable of all time, by any means.

I'd say Rent is pretty quoatable.
#7

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:50am

Jesus, I hope you all are kidding.

If there's a more quotable musical than Gypsy, I don't know what it is.
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#8

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:55am

Gypsy is great to quote as well, bu many non-Broadway people don't know what the heck you are talking about-I suppose it's the same for most other shows though
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#9

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 9:56am

The Producers, Gypsy, Hairspray, and The King and I ("is a puzzlement", "etcetera, etcetera" LOL)
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#10

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:09am

oo- you forgot "By your pupils you are taught."
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#11

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:19am

I was actually thinking King and I also because I say "Etc. etc. etc." and "is a puzzlement" almost as part of my daily language. I used "By your pupils you'll be taught" as the introduction to more than one paper in my education classes back in school.

I have to admit to slipping in the odd Rent quote in every day talking also....

I was teaching a class a couple of weeks ago, talking about charity, and without even realizing it I said to the kids, "Just imagine you're homeless, out on the street, you're hungry and frozen" ... one of my kids piped up IMMEDIATELY with "Some life that we've chosen!" I didn't even realize what I'd said - I sub-consciously quote things now! Ugh, this addiction of mine...
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#12

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:25am

Everybody knows Gypsy.

Proof:

1. Every once in a while, Kelly Ripa, out of nowhere, sings "I have a dreaaaaaaaam." Regis answers her with "A wonderful dreeaaaaaaam...."

2. Rose's Turn is the song of choice for Lucielle Bluth's drunken parades on Arrested Development....it was also the song of choice for when Buster trashed the apartment (I believe).
#13

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:27am

Does everyone knowing it qualify it for most quotable? Just asking....

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#14

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:48am

Sound of Music
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#15

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:49am

Wizard of Oz
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#16

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:50am

If we're talking NON-Broadway, then "Wizard of Oz" by a mile!

If we're talking Broadway, then I think "The Sound of Music" would win... but mostly because of how wide-spread the film was.
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#17

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:53am

the question was


In your opinion, what is the most quotable musical of all time?

it does not stipulate Broadway, non-Broadway, etc

and anyone saying RENT, rjust isn't thinking. I love RENT, BUT....there are so many more shows which people quote.




It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#18

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:54am

I'll say Chicago if only because of "All that Jazz" and how often I find myself using that at the end of a statement.

"Yeah, I have to go clean my apartment and all that jazz."

On more than one occasion when I see someone pulled over by a cop I'll involuntarily say "He had it coming. He only had himself to blame."

I also say things like "Lets give them the old Razzle Dazzle" when referring to impressing someone or throwing a party.

Last week I actually worked, "If Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently." into a religious discussion with my boss. re: Most Quotable Musical

Updated On: 1/28/06 at 10:54 AM

#19

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:56am

hmmm tie between sound of music and rent.

'Sound of music' dialogue is almost a daily thing for my mom.

bleh.
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#20

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 10:58am

Avenue Q has to be working its way up there.
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#21

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:17am

Oh - another one I thought of -- How To Succeed in Business...

I say "Well, it's been a long day" ALL the time...
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#22

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:25am

I'll go with Ruthless! . . .

"Why should I cry? I didn't get killed."

"To get on with my life, and off medication . . ."






Just kidding.
#23

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 11:39am

i think it's a generation thing. rent is by far the quotable musical of choice by the high school/college generation.
#24

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 12:13pm

I agree with The Sound of Music, Rent and the King and I.
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#25

re: Most Quotable Musical

Posted: 1/28/06 at 12:14pm

I guess it just depends on how and by who it is being quoted. Gypsy has a lot of famous lines and quotes that are used. There is even a book on musicals entitled "Sing Out, Louise!" 42nd Street has a lot of theatre cliches that get quoted a lot ("..you'll come back a star, musical comedy the two most glorious words in the english language", etc). I guess the younger generation of theatre goers will quote Rent, Wicked..etc. I also agree that Sound of Music is also used a bunch.
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