Musical Theatre Quotes

[spybud007]

Musical Theatre Quotes#1

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:18pm

I need a quote for my yearbook and was wondering if anyone had any good quotes from plays or musicals (or just about theatre)?

Thanks

[Elphie3]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#2

Posted: 12/2/08 at 1:29am

Here are some of my favorites:

"Live! Live! Live! Life's a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death!" - "Mame

"If you know what you want than you go and you find it and you get it" - "Into the Woods"

"Life is just a bowl of cherries" - "Good News!" (or you could make the case for "Fosse")



I keep thinking of really bad ones. Like can you imagine if someone's quote was "Never forget, and never forgive"? LOL!

Then there's always your favorite and mine

"Defy Gravity!"

Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken

[Paul W. Thompson]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#3

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:55am

If you are into "Sweeney Todd," you will appreciate one of my favorite quotes, one which usually goes unrecognized by most people:

"How many verses ARE there?"

:)

[Smaxie]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#4

Posted: 12/2/08 at 9:11am

That's "How many BELLS are there?"

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[madbrian]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#5

Posted: 12/2/08 at 9:13am

"Whatever happened to class?"

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[Katurian2]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#6

Posted: 12/2/08 at 9:22am

I did, "If you can know where you're going, you've gone" from Sunday in the Park with George

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[ashley0139]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#7

Posted: 12/2/08 at 10:41am

I chose between:

"I may be small, but I've got giant plans to shine as brightly as the sun." -Little Women

and

"Tell me, what's the challenge if you never try? So watch me fly, 'cause I'm not afraid." -Songs for a New World

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[Eastwickian]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#8

Posted: 12/2/08 at 11:28am

"Everybody goes down well with beer"

[Cearsgk]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#9

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:45pm

“It ain’t no mystery if it’s politics or history/The thing you gotta know is everything is showbiz.”

"It ain't no myst'ry If it's politics or hist'ry The thing you gotta know is Ev'rything is show biz" - Mel Brooks

[LegallyBroadway2]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#10

Posted: 6/5/11 at 9:39pm

Any new ones?

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#11

Posted: 6/5/11 at 9:42pm

"How many verses ARE there?"

Forbidden Broadway...


lol

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[chewy5000]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#12

Posted: 6/6/11 at 12:00am

Who's not wearing any clothes? I'm not!

[pinoyidol2006]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#13

Posted: 6/6/11 at 1:26am

Hasa diga eebowai.

I like your imperturbable perspicacity.

[jdrye222]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#14

Posted: 6/6/11 at 2:00am

(sorry, not sure why that posted three times) Updated On: 6/6/11 at 02:00 AM

[jdrye222]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#14

Posted: 6/6/11 at 2:01am

"You only get so much to work with before the seltzer's lost its fizz... And so it's wise to realize: this is all there is."

[jdrye222]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#16

Posted: 6/6/11 at 2:01am

"You only get so much to work with before the seltzer's lost its fizz... And so it's wise to realize: this is all there is."

[fingerlakessinger]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#17

Posted: 6/6/11 at 2:12am

Kinda cliche but mine was
"Forget regret or life is yours to miss"
RENT

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[into_the_woods2]

re: Musical Theatre Quotes#18

Posted: 6/6/11 at 2:50am

"Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor."
"No knot unties itself."
"The greatest prize often lies at the end of the thorniest path."
(basically all of 1st or 2nd midnight-Into the Woods)

"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch