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#52

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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.
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
#53

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
JOHN LITHGOW I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#55

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled." (Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#56

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
#57

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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"
"The hours between twilight and darkness belong to the makers of music and tellers of tales." - Pagan saying / "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." - Willy Wonka / "Theatre is life, film is art, TV is furniture." - Unknown from internet
#58

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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."
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#59

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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."
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#61

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
#62

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
#63

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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.
But if you kiss me,
If we touch,
Warning's fair:
I don't care
Very much

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

#65

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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?
-------------------------
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 re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

Here in this cold white room tied up to these machines, it's hard to imagine life as it used to be. Laughing, screaming, tumbling queen... Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen. Whirling, swirling, never blue... How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do... RIP Jason
#68

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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

"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

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

#69

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
*Krissy* **Support the use of illegal wood burning stoves. Get your own metal trash can today!**
#70

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
:)
#71

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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

"Can passion be selected?" - Camelot
Did you ever see something and say, "I just have to have it"? Sometimes a dream appears unattainable...but for anyone who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.
#72

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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
#73

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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

Another vote for
"to love another person is to see the face of God" Les Mis
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien
#74

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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.
need to defrag my brain.
#75

re: The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage

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

"Wishes Come True, not free" - Into the Woods
"I'm Flying High, Defying Gravity"
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

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