Name That Tune: Broadway Style!- Page 5

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 1:28pm

Although, no one ever correctly answered my first one (it was "She Loves Basketball" from Promises, Promises not The Beautiful Game) I will give it another go. This one should be just as easy as that one...

The dream has turned to ashes, the wheat has turned to straw. And someone asks the question: "What's the dyin' for?"
The living can't remember, the dead no longer care.
But next time it won't happen. Upon my soul I swear.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 1:31pm

SHENANDOAH?

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 1:33pm

Munk that is correct! One of my favorite songs. I guess you are up to bat now.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 1:50pm

It's one of my favorite shows...I love it.

the opposite of dark is bright;
the opposite of bright is dumb.
so anything that's dark is dumb.
that's the rule of thumb!

[Pippin]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 1:52pm

simple from "anyone can whistle"


"Shakespeare was a hack. so we read Kerouac."

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 2:38pm

that has to be from THE NERVOUS SET, unless there's another beatnik musical I've not heard of. but I have definitely heard that line, so I'm thinkin that's the show. OK let's see, something not too obscure...

"Why are all the greatest talents
All so damned ridiculous?
And so off their bloody balance,
And not rational, like us?"

[Julian2]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 6:48pm

No clue. Hint please?

[Boq101]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 12:25am

We don't know the answer and thats been up since October.
It is now December, so new lyrics are in order.
B'way Matt you're pretty good to have stumped plenty of us for such a long time, I looked EVERYWHERE!

Poor young rich boy!
Masturbates for a vaudeville tarte,
What a waste of a fiery heart!

Poor young burgeois!
There are things that you've never tought,
Come to Emma and you'll be taught, here!

[Julian2]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 12:31am

Ragtime

I don't mind the moonlight swims
It's the loop de loops that hurt

Kids!

How we ever beat the Russians?

Kids!

I didn't know what puberty was till I was almost past it

[evadiva]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 12:40am

Bye Bye Birdie!



"Lucky's what I am - ain't no sucklin baby lamb! Sure as hell don't give a damb fer what they think about me!"

[Menken Fan]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 12:50am

That would be "Lucky" from Floyd Collins.

He's on his knees.
I'm lying flat,
Just like a bad idea.
He starts to blow.
I start to fight.
The room is yellow and the bed is white.

[evadiva]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:00am

In Trousers


"How sad to see a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport - a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee."

[Menken Fan]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:27am

The Quartet from Chess

"Go out when I want to
When I don't then I stay
Got magical bracelets
Some bullets bound someway"

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:49am

"I Hate the Bus" from CAROLINE OR CHANGE

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 1:55am

OH and the one I posted way back that no one got was the 1st act finale of DARLING OF THE DAY

next one, a bit of a toughie:

"Suddenly it looked like they were dyin in the desert,
Lookin for some kind of comfort from the heat,
And I had water!
I was the only one with water,
And I couldn't spare a drop of it to drink."

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 3:37am

The Last Session?

If so, "When I was a tyke, I said what I like is art,
I know I'm a boy, but what I enjoy is art,
looking at paintings, going to plays,
music and books informing my days,
filling my mind, flooding my heart with art Updated On: 12/17/06 at 03:37 AM

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 3:55am

yep! and that lyric is from BOUNCE by Sondheim, right?

"My mama told me,
Son, forget what might have been.
Give yourself a break,
Whatever's happening.
Don't let your spirit, son
Come closing in."

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 4:15am

Yep, I'm listening to it right now and love it. Hmm, I don't know what yours is from though...

[cello_dude]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 1:50pm

how bout this one

i love my father, and i wanna tell him
i love my mother, and i wanna tell her
i love my brother, and i wanna tell him
i love my sister, and i wanna tell her
i love my mirror and i wanna tell me
i wanna love me, i wanna love me
you cant love another without loving yourself!

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:43pm

that's from the marvelous TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. no one's named the last tune I posted. it's not that obscure, surely someone knows it.

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:51pm

how about..

"but then the earthquake hits, and the bank closes in and you realize you didn't know anything.."

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 12/22/06 at 5:57pm

the opening from SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. OK we're on off-broadway now, so surely someone can guess my last lyric post!

"My mama told me,
Son, forget what might have been.
Give yourself a break,
Whatever's happening.
Don't let your spirit, son
Come closing in."

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/26/06 at 11:28pm

bump, I have no clue, but now I'm curious.

Please take this message
to Mother for me
Carry it with you
Across the blue sea
Mother, oh Mother
Wherever I go,
Your Maggie is missin' you so...

[Boq101]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 1:43am

Montage in ACL!!! LOVE IT!!

Here's one:

Le ombre lo riempivan
La luce non pariva mai

Clara, la luce nella piazza
Clara, mia luce, mio cor
Ora che sono sveglio
All'ombra non vo tornar

Non sapevo di sentirmi solo
Privo del senso della vita
Era cosi

[jenna2]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 4:16am

Light in the Piazza! Statues and Stories, I believe... (But it's in italian, so it all sounds the same to me! lol.) I guess it's my turn now, just need a sec to come up with one!