Parts of A Show That I Never Got

I thought I would make a thread to help people out. :)
"In (SHOW NAME,) I never got the part where (STATE EXAMPLE.)"
And then the next poster would explain and/or give their example.

Here is my example;
In Wicked, I never got the part where Glinda says, "POOF!! OH LOOK!!! IT'S TOMORROW!"

*feel free to ignore

"*feel free to ignore"

That made me LOL'ed. Sorry, I just couldn't ignore the request to ignore.

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Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-order_bride - hehe.

Or a general kind of metaphor that the girl is special .

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Updated On: 12/22/09 at 08:13 PM

Some of those lyrics in Wicked are so bad that I'm too busy cringing to decipher them.

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Yeah, that Company line means she's so dirty she'd be considered obscene.

Is it okay for me to say all of the lyrics in Wicked. Only because of the fact that a majority of them just don't seem to work or make sense.

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I *always* think it's a mistake in Gypsy when Rose says "They want their train tickets back? Give them their bus tickets back!" I still don't understand why that's the line, and it always sounds a little awkward to me.

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In Shrek, in "I Know it's Today" when adult Fiona sings "I'm a very gifted bowler". I know it rhymes with "bipolar", but really? She complains about having "only bare essentials", where is all of this room to go bowling?

And I second all of Wicked, if not just the "buying gravity" lyric.

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I never understand why Mother's younger Brother is not just her son. The actor always seems to be too young to have a middle aged sister. I don't understand why it can't just be her older son.

Because E.L. Doctrow wrote it that way.

Mother is supposed to be in her 30's. She's not "middle-aged." She has a son who's not even 10 yet. Younger Brother is in his mid-20's, hardly young enough to be Mother's older child. You're making it sound like she's in her 50's or something.

When Glinda comes to the castle where Elphaba put Dorothy did she come by bubble or did she somehow get through the army of flying monkeys to confront Elphaba? How she got there in the first place seemed odd when I saw Wicked last Saturday. I just assumed that the bubble broke since that show occasionally has technical issues.

I wonder why there was no reconciliation with Benny or was he just could not be redeemed in Rent since he took Mimi from Roger (and being the most immoral person in the show for cheating).

I agree with peerrjb.

"Waiting Around for the Girls Upstairs" was a perfect concoction of Sondheim's writing and Bennett's staging. Past and present intertwined and the result was dazzling.

I saw the original 6 times and I was obsessed by it. I can only see that a huge grin would come over my face each time that song began. It still happens when I listen to the OBCR.

Lines like "Weren't we chuckle-heads then?" and "Life was fun and oh-so intense. / Everything was possible and nothing made sense" and "Very young and very old hat, / Everybody has to go through stages like that" are Vintage Sondheim: at once epigrammatic, paradoxical and perfect expressions of character.

"All Things Bright and Beautiful" doesn't belong there. If you listen to the lyrics, the song is another candidate for the "Too Many Mornings" slot, in which Sally falls in love with Ben all over again while Ben recalls his failed promises to her. The lyrics don't belong in the opening.

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Updated On: 12/22/09 at 11:00 PM