Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#1
Posted: 11/1/16 at 10:54pm
Since those of us in the United States are coming to the end of an interminable election that is the craziest many of us can remember (even worse than the 2000 hanging chad mess that gave us the Iraq war), I thought it would be time to apply whole songs or lines from plays, musicals, or songs that sum it up. Here are the two I thought of, but I know there are tons of others:
"You try my patience. Make your choice!" -- The Phantom to Christine, "The Phantom of the Opera."
"One week [day] more before the storm..." -- "Les Miz," One Day More.
I'm sure our snarkmeisters can think of much better ones. 
Audrey Liebross
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#3
Posted: 11/1/16 at 11:11pm
"Totally F*CKed." (whether he wins OR loses, he's gonna make things miserable)
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#4
Posted: 11/1/16 at 11:12pm
Obviously The Reynolds Pamphlet from Hamilton. Might as well get it out of the way XD
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#5
Posted: 11/1/16 at 11:18pm
"Thank Goodness" from Wicked seems to do the job.
Hillary -- "I hear that she can shed her skin as easily as a snake!"
Trump -- "Like some terrible [orange] blizzard throughout the land [he] flies...!"
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#6
Posted: 11/1/16 at 11:23pm
Donald Trump: "Stop! Don't! No! Please!" (Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now from "Hairspray"
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#7
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:41am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_Tt_GFjEs
for those who find both candidates deplorable
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#8
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:50am
Science fiction double feature at the late night double feature picture show
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#9
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:50am
"You are foul smelling, shriveled, and weak! You are losers." (Matilda)
"They don't have a plan, they just hate mine!" (Hamilton, but let's be real, the entirety of Act 2 is a goldmine)
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#10
Posted: 11/2/16 at 8:13am
"What the fu<k"
if/then
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#11
Posted: 11/2/16 at 8:19am
Great thread AH.
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#12
Posted: 11/2/16 at 9:58am
"Something stinks. Something immoral. Something so bad that words have lost their meaning." ~Falsettos~
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/13
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#13
Posted: 11/2/16 at 10:53am
"The Last Midnight"
To my angry Bernie and third party supporting friends.
You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice.
I'm not good I'm not nice I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world!
and if you-know-who wins:
I'm leaving you alone. You can tend the garden. It's yours.
Separate and alone. Everybody down on all fours.
"Want you Gone" by Jonathan Coulton (not a showtune but it applies)
To the GOP post election:
"You've got your
short sad life left
That's what I'm counting on
I'll let you get right to it
Now I only want you gone"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#14
Posted: 11/2/16 at 10:58am
To anyone thinking of voting for the orange lizardman -
"Oh no. You don't dare." -The History of Wrong Guys, Kinky Boots
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#15
Posted: 11/2/16 at 11:22am
"Out for Blood" - Carrie, complete with the original staging.
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#16
Posted: 11/2/16 at 11:52am
"If I don't stay I'll no longer be a temptation for the others to, do something dreadful- something, they'll regret for the rest of their lives!" -Anton Schell in The Visit
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#17
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:11pm
ONE NIGHT ONLY. LET'S NOT PRETEND TO CARE!!!!
I'd also kill to see Trump as Evillene singing "Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News"
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#18
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:19pm
Hopefully, the Cell Block Tango line " He had it coming" on election night.
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#19
Posted: 11/2/16 at 1:18pm
"Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid"
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#20
Posted: 11/2/16 at 1:20pm
The conversation between Will and Ziegfeld's Favorite right before, "Our Favorite Son" in The Will Rogers Follies.
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#21
Posted: 11/2/16 at 1:29pm
Why did they ever cut the Suffragette element and song from the Mary Poppins stage show? It made Winifred Banks such a great character.
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#22
Posted: 11/2/16 at 4:33pm
I blew it. I just assumed that it was in the play.
"Our daughters daughters will adore us..."
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#23
Posted: 11/2/16 at 9:21pm
From Little Shop of Horrors (the title of which also fits)
"What a creepy thing to be happening"
From Evita:
It's annoying that we have to fight elections for our cause/
The inconvenience--having to get a majority/
If normal methods of persuasion fail to win us applause/
There are other ways of establishing authority
(We have ways of making you vote for us, or at least of making you abstain)
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#24
Posted: 11/2/16 at 9:26pm
Both of these are for people who don't like either candidate.
"And so we say up to the sky, Hasa Diga Eebowai!" ~The Book Of Mormon~
"Life's a sham and every move is wrong." ~Falsettos~
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#25
Posted: 11/2/16 at 9:27pm
From Legally Blonde from the the perspective of the Greek Chorus talking to Hillary
"Honey whatcha cryin at?
You're not losing [the presidency] to that
Both [his] hair and shoes are flat
Why is [he] so rude?"
Show tunes or lines that describe the election#26
Posted: 11/2/16 at 9:43pm
From FOLLIES:
"There is no hope"
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