The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage- Page 3

Posted: 11/4/04 at 3:54pm

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players." -
William Shakespeare
As You Like It

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:47pm

To love another person is to see the face of G-d.~Les Mis
All of Bui Doi from Miss Saigon
No day but today~Rent
It well may be that we will never meet again...all the way til the end of For Good.

[TheGaIsSilent]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:50pm

"Come, Monsieur, where chains will never bind you." - Les Miserables

"Please get me through, I don't care how. Don't take my love away, not now..." - Miss Saigon

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:51pm

George Bush is only for now

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 4:52pm

All of Defying Gravity.

And one of my own personal faves:
"ANARCHY! Revolutions, justice screaming for solutions, forcing changes, risking danger, making noise and making pleas!"

and my favorite Mark line:
"Oh God, what I am doing?" and then all of What You Own

[mizzie]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 5:53pm

All of "DYHTPS" and "Red and Black" from Les Misérables. Also-
"You couldn't eat!?"-Tracy Turnblad
"My mother's punishing me for going to jail without permission!"-Penny Pingleton

[Irrational Number]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 6:50am

"Chris arrived with me today" -- John in "Miss Saigon" (sob value)

"Celebrate sensation" -- El Gallo in "The Fantasticks"

"You've got to be taught to hate and fear" -- Joe in "South Pacific"

"You and I, we are both men of La Mancha" -- (paraphrased) Cervantes in "Man of La Mancha"

"Tomorrow belongs to me" -- youth in "Cabaret" (scare value)

"I could have danced all night / And still have begged for more" -- Eliza in "My Fair Lady" (best exuberance)

"These hurried hours were all the life we could share / Still, I'll go on without a tear, just a prayer" -- Fiona in "Brigadoon"

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 8:37pm

I love into the woods.



"And though scary is exciting,
Nice is different than good.
Now I know, don't be scared. Granny is right, just be prepared.
Isn't it nice to know a lot?
..And a little bit.. not." - Little Red Ridinghood sings that



"Must it all be either less or more,
Either plain or grand?
Is it always 'or'?
Is it never 'and'?
That's what woods are for:
For those moments in the woods...

Oh, if life were made of moments,
Even now and then a bad one--!
But if life were only moments,
Then you'd never know you had one.

Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,'
Makes the 'or' mean more than is did before.
Now I understand--
And it's time to leave the woods."

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 8:49pm

My vote does to:

"And just when you think you're out there on your own
You see yourself in someone else's eyes.
And if they told you you could never love yourself-
it was a lie.

Hold up your head, never be afraid to shine.
Viva la diference,
in my body and my mind.
all out with loneliness, such a waste of time
come on in from the outside."

[superperson]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 8:51pm

Are your nostrils aquiver and tingling as well
At that delicate, luscious, ambrosial smell?

I love it!

Posted: 11/7/04 at 8:59pm

"Damn their warnings, damn their lies, they will see the people rise" -Les Miserables

"You always said how lucky you were to have friends like us. But it was us baby. We were the lucky ones" -Rent

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 9:00pm

"Take my hand... and lead me to salvation!" Les Miz
"Every word that he says is a dagger in me!" Les Miz
"And nobody.. through all out Oz.. no wizard that there is or was.. is ever gonna bring me down.." Wicked

[suchclumsytime]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 9:04pm

"What am I, a nymphomaniac?!?!?!" --Val, Babes in Arms, after heatedly kissing Jennifer Owens and then Susy, just moments later. Out of context, not so fabulous, but in...it just fit so WELL.

Updated On: 11/7/04 at 09:04 PM

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 9:09pm

Among those that were listed, I'd like to add

"If you were gay, that'd be okay."

[OneBlazeOfGlory]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 10:15pm

'AMNERIS
Radames! You barge into my bedchamber, waging a full-frontal attack, so to speak... and now you're stalling. Why?
RADAMES
I'm sorry, I didn't realize...
AMNERIS
There's a buck-naked princess lounging in her bed, calling your name. What exactly didn't you realize? Before our wedding night, pack up some of that dried monkey meat and have the royal cartographer draw you a map of the female body, Captain. Maybe then you'll be more inclined to come explore. (RADAMES looks around and then runs out of the room.) Was it something I said?
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Fiyero: Well, I see that once again the responsibility to corrupt my fellow students falls to me. Fortunately, I’m up for the task.
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I have a lot of other favorites, but they've already been mentioned. Basically, I like to laugh, so if it's funny, I like it. I enjoy the more profound lines/lyrics as well but I just retain more of the comedy

[MusicMan]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 10:30pm

"Mother...Papa...she knows!"

---THE MIRACLE WORKER

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 11:29pm

"I thought you did it for me, Mama..."

GYPSY

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 11:37pm

"Everyone hates his parents,
That's in the Torah!
It's what history shows,
In fact God said to Moses,
'Moses, everyone hates his parents,
That's how it is'
And God knew because God hated his!"

FALSETTOLAND

Updated On: 11/7/04 at 11:37 PM

[VivaBohemia]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 11:59pm

"David, you know, King David?"
"DAVE!"
"He made a science out of knocking out giants.."
"The Bigger they come, the harder they fall!"
"Didn't like math, or geography, but check this out, he loved Choreography!" - Footloose

Posted: 11/8/04 at 12:09am

Hands down:

(No lyrics needed)

Dum da da dum da da dum da da da da da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM.....

The opening refrain of "One" from A CHORUS LINE

end of thread
:)

[The Ninth Show]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:07am

"Can passion be selected?" - Camelot

[AbsolutKnight]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 8:41am

Now I'm where I want to be and who I want to be
and doing what I always said I would
and yet I feel I haven't won at all

Running for my life and never looking back
in case there's someone right behind
to shoot me down and say he always knew I'd fall

-Chess

[mominator]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 9:20am

Another vote for
"to love another person is to see the face of God" Les Mis

[musicalmjk]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 9:28am

I agree with singingbackup but also

Summertime, and the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high;
Oh, your daddy's rich, and your ma is good-lookin',
So hush, little baby, don't you cry.
-Porgy & Bess

and then theres Nine which i dont have time to explain right now off to class.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:29pm

"Wishes Come True, not free" - Into the Woods
"I'm Flying High, Defying Gravity"