Wow, so many...
"Come back to bed, kid. Take me inside you. I promise, I won't lie to you."
"Just close the gate, I'll stand and wait. Jamie... Goodbye."
"If I hadn't believed in you, I wouldn't have loved you at all."
The Last Five Years "And I thought, my God... I'll never have the moon."
Songs for a New World "To love another person is to see the face of God."
"I am reaching, but I fall, and the stars are black and cold..."
"For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping, and tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake."
"Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will sing no more."
"Can it be you fear to die? Will the world remember you when you fall? Could it be your death means nothing at all? Is your life just one more life?"
Les Miserables "Life goes on, but I'm gone, 'cause I die without you."
"Why does distance make us wise? You were the song all along."
"Because reason says I should have died three years ago."
"When your heart has expired..."
"Let's go eat--I'll just get fat. It's the one vice left when you're dead meat."
"You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends... but it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones."
"Why am I the witness? And when I capture it on film, will it mean that it's the end and I'm alone?"
"Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?"
"It's over." [Collins]
Rent "I think there's a time to come to New York, and a time to leave."
"Don't be afraid that it won't be perfect. The only thing to be afraid of, really, is that it won't be."
Company "You should be loved by the one who supports you, always supports you, whatever you do. Yes, you should be loved in the way I love you." [That whole song, but especially these last lines.]
"Who would want to join this madness? Who would change my monogram? Who will be part of my circus? Who will love me as I am?"
Side Show "But I want you to try, Joe. If you succeed I'll give you everything: all the light locked in this heart, all that's lost inside my soul."
"Lost in a daze... tell me, what am I still doing here? I should have vanished. I should be gone before you wake."
Piece "I remember where I was when it happened."
"Yeah."
Lennon "Elphaba! We are going to be together always! You can see houses flying through the sky... can't you see that?"
"There's a kind of, a sort of... cost. There's a couple of things get lost. There are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed."
"It's not her; she had nothing to do with it. I'm the one you want. It's me. It's me!"
Wicked "I love you, Alfred. Whatever happens, never forget that."
"There's nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the heart."
"Seize the night."
"Say a prayer to all the gods. Some are near, and some are far. Say a prayer to all the gods: Make us braver than we are."
Dance of the Vampires "I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you... Mama, Mama, Mama!"
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee "Oh, God, don't let me live and die alone."
"Lizzie, don't go!"
"He said 24 hours! He said 24 hours!"
110 in the Shade "Where are your troubles now? Forgotten? I told you so."
"She wouldn't look Jewish at all."
Cabaret "And he touched me, and I let him love me. So let that be my story."
Spring Awakening "No spirit could win me, no hope left within me... If I can't love her, let the world be done with me!"
"Told you so."
"Belle, look into my eyes. Belle, don't you recognize the Beast within the man who's here before you?"
Beauty and the Beast "Let her go! Let her live, let her die on her own! We are all of us bruised and alone. Now we both will have nothing to hold..." [Well, that entire reprise, really.]
The Scarlet Pimpernel "He'd say, 'Maggie, do you want to dance?' and I'd say, 'Daddy, I would love to.' Everything was beautiful at the ballet: raise your arms, and someone's always there..."
A Chorus Line "Now that I've seen her, she's more than a name..."
and/or
"It's her or me, and it's me he must choose. I don't hate this girl, even so... it's her or me, it's a fight I can't lose. I can't live wondering where his heart is, now I have to know."
Miss Saigon "How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do."
Taboo And, the ultimate:
Raul's anguished cry at the end of
The Normal Heart.
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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Updated On: 1/3/08 at 04:05 PM
