Rhyme Time!

[Trina55]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:19pm

I'm sure this topic has come up before, but as I'm relatively new here and as I'm in intense procrastination mode over a take-home final exam, I thought I'd throw it out there.

What's your favorite rhyming lyric from a musical?

I have three:

Not forgetting the tasks unachievable
mountains unscaleable
if it's conceivable
but unavailable
...Into the Woods

Yes I feel guilt
Yes I'm annoyed
So was Jung
So was Freud
...Falsettos

and now of course I can't remember the third one. hmmmm....
post away. I'll be back when I think of it.

:o)

[greeneyed_one]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:39pm

Pretty stupid but I love this one from Wicked:
"Nessa,
Listen Nessa
I've got something to confess-a
reason why..."

[YayJudyYayJudy]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:46pm

You may dine on any single thing you wish
Though I'd wait for dinner we are serving fish...


doesn't get much better than David Zippel

[kelly0ann]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:58pm

Plenty have hoped and dreamed and prayed
But they can't get out of Klimovich
If Schmuel had been a cute goyishe maid
He'd've looked a lot like you
Maybe it's just that you're afraid to go out on to a limb-ovich
Maybe your heart's completely swayed
But your head can't follow through
- The Last 5 Years

If you were gay
I'd shout HOORAY
And here I'd stay
But I wouldn't get in your way
- Ave. Q

Those were just the first that came to my mind


Updated On: 12/21/05 at 10:58 PM

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:59pm

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 10:59 PM

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:59pm

Her letters do contain a few proposals to your Emperor
Which if, of course, he won't endorse, will put her in a temper or, More happily, should he agree, will serve to keep her placid, or
At least till I am followed by a permanent ambassador.

and:

Great Britain wishes her position clear and indisputable;
We're not amused at being used and therefore stand immutable;
And though you Japs are foxy chaps and damnably inscrutable...

Both from Please Hello (Pacific Overtures) by Stephen Sondheim.

[greeneyed_one]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:41pm

"I get the dough, I get the broad,
I'm getting rid- of Sigmund Fraud"

From Dirty Rotten Scoundrels : )

[ALWrules]

Posted: 12/22/05 at 12:13am

Grab your dick and double click for porn,porn,porn! Avenue Q

Up until he left for Hades he was catnip to the ladies.
Woman in White

Every time we looked around there he was, the hairy hound from Budapest. Never leaving us alone, never have I ever known a ruder pest.
My Fair Lady

That's the way that this song goes.
Your standing on my toes.
Spamalot

No, you see the problem with poet is how do you know its deceased; try the priest.
Sweeney Todd

A toast to that invincible bunch. The dinosaurs surviving the crunch.
Company

And my personal favorite

They all deserve to die!!! Tell ya why, Mrs. Lovett, tell ya why!
Sweeney Todd

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/22/05 at 12:20am

"I wont stand by while critics praise ya, you're getting shipped to Southeast Asia." -Millie

"Don't be offended by my frank analysis, think of it as personality dialasis, now that I've chosen to become a pal, a sis...ter and and advisor, there's no body wiser, not when it comes to popular." -Wicked

And not from a musical, but I think my friend discovered the only existing word that rhymes with orange: door-hinge

[ALWrules]

Posted: 12/22/05 at 12:23am

Uh, I don't think those totally rhyme.

[jv92]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 7:47pm

Give 'em a show that's so splediferious
Row after row will grow vociforous (spelling?)

Can't get any better than Fred Ebb.

or

This guy needs some lypo
I could use some gerital
Delivered in a hypo
But I don't wanna gripe, oh

and

Well, too much of DRS

Can't get better than Yazbek either

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 7:57pm

I love Yazbek!!!

And that line from MFL is great too.

Hmmmmm

I like "Show You a Thing or Two" from BatBoy. That whole part where Edgar says I will discuss Capernicus... and all that.

Moder Major General. Especially when Gilda did it with the Muppets. Probably before most of our time.

[Georgeanne]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 8:04pm

I love almost all of "Welcome to Kanagawa" from PACIFIC OVERTURES. Actually, just PACIFIC OVERTURES in general.

[grizzabella]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 8:14pm

"I joined the Foreign Legion with a sabre in my hand.
I crawled across the desert with my belly in the sand
with men who loved their camels and their brandy and their
swears.
Nobody dished, nobody swished,
When I was a Foreign Legionaire."
Jerry Herman - La Cage Aux Folles