Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Show tunes or lines that describe the election
#1Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#3Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/1/16 at 11:11pm
"Totally F*CKed." (whether he wins OR loses, he's gonna make things miserable)
DefyMe
Swing Joined: 10/31/16
#4Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/1/16 at 11:12pm
Obviously The Reynolds Pamphlet from Hamilton. Might as well get it out of the way XD
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#5Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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...!"
#6Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/1/16 at 11:23pm
Donald Trump: "Stop! Don't! No! Please!" (Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now from "Hairspray"
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
broadwayguy91
Broadway Star Joined: 12/23/15
#7Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:41am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_Tt_GFjEs
for those who find both candidates deplorable
iNick1224
Understudy Joined: 12/8/07
#8Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:50am
Science fiction double feature at the late night double feature picture show
#9Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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)
#10Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 8:13am
"What the fu<k"
if/then
To seek revenge may lead to hell yet everyone does it but seldom as well......
#11Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 8:19am
Great thread AH.
Stephanatic
#12Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 9:58am
"Something stinks. Something immoral. Something so bad that words have lost their meaning." ~Falsettos~
"I have maggots in my scrotum!"
MrsSallyAdams
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/13
#13Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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"
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Updated On: 11/2/16 at 10:53 AM
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#14Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#15Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 11:22am
"Out for Blood" - Carrie, complete with the original staging.
#16Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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
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#17Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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"
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#18Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 12:19pm
Hopefully, the Cell Block Tango line " He had it coming" on election night.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#19Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 1:18pm
"Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid"
Stephanatic
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Stand-by Joined: 3/10/13
#20Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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.
#21Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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.
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#22Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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..."
Stephanatic
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Featured Actor Joined: 9/14/16
#23Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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)
#24Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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~
"I have maggots in my scrotum!"
#25Show tunes or lines that describe the election
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?"
#26Show tunes or lines that describe the election
Posted: 11/2/16 at 9:43pm
From FOLLIES:
"There is no hope"
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