The greatest line or lyric ever said/sung on a stage- Page 4

[midtowngym]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 4:57pm

I am what i am...

[americasinging]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:14pm

Lyrics; "Gliddy glub gloopy, nibby nabby noopy, la la la lo lo. Sabba sibby sabba, nooby abba nabba, le le lo lo. Tooby ooby walla, nooby abba naba, early morning singing song!" -Good Morning Starshine -HAIR - Okay so maybe they're not the greatest lyrics or most meaningful but just say the words and they'll make you smile!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:24pm

I was in WORKING, love that music.

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:27pm

Oh boy. . .
"Someone tell me when is it my turn, Don't I get a dream for myself?" - Gypsy

"I dim the lights and think about you, spend sleepless nights to think about you. You said you loved me, or were you just being kind?" - Follies

"Tonight, tonight won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star. - West Side Story

I can go on with Sondheim. I could get into Passions because of all the Fosca-ness, but I will spare you.

"And the world will be better for this that one man scorned and covered with stars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable star." -Man of LaMancha

* I love NINE Musicalmjk, I didn't have time to explain its significance either. "Unusual Way" would bring me to tears.

[americasinging]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:29pm

That's awesome Munk!!! What part were you? I was the "Woman" who sang "If I could've been." We did it for our school compitition. We took first at region (of course). But enough reminesing, I freaking love the musical!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:30pm

Mmmm, oh yes...UNUSUAL WAY is one of the best songs ever written. All the lyrics in NINE are brilliant, as is most everything in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and FOLLIES.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:33pm

My three favorites. I mean ALL TIME favorites are, "Guido, this is just not my idea of a successful marriage"-Luisa in Nine, "I've never lied to royalty before"- Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, and "Oh my God, someone's been sleeping in my dress!"- Vera in MAME

[Fiji]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:37pm

"I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine." -RENT

"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark." -Romeo and Juliet

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:42pm

"I need your shoe to have a child!" - Into the Woods

"I shall cling to him with all my might.
It's my right." - Our Kind of Love from The Beautiful Game

Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:51pm

To Flirt With Rescue When One Has No Intention of Being Saved - A Little Night Music..... Hands down the best line ever uttered.

[adamized88]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 7:23pm

i agree with so many people have said - but to add a few - sorry for any repeats

love all of mimi's part from another day

"nothing is an accident
we are free to have it all
we are what we want to be
it's in ourselves to rise or fall" - Aida

"life may be scary but it's only temporary...everything in life is only for now" - ave q

all of "fine, fine line" "for good" "i'm not that girl" "defying gravity"

"corner of the sky" - is one of my favorite songs (lyric wise ever!!!)

"nothing lasts, nothing holds, all of me. my hearts far, far away, home and free" - Beauty and the Beast

life is a cabaret

a lot of into the woods

**EDIT** thought of some more

"if you don't like your fate change it! you are your own master, there are no shackles on you." - Aida

all of elaborate lives and the quest (the impossible dream)

sorry bklyn haters but "there's a heat behind these hands, there's a soul beneath these clothes..and i you feel the spirit move you give only what you can - and i'll sing my song good and strong. i'm gonna sing it from the heart behind these hands!"

Updated On: 11/8/04 at 07:23 PM

[mint0621]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 7:54pm

When Roger yells "MIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~" in Rent

Gives me chills just thinking about it.

[callitquits]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 8:52pm

I'm only the second vote for "Sing out, Louise" from Gypsy? Wow. My other favorite is "I'll go out and make it, or steal it, or take it, or die" from Billy's Soliloquy in Carousel.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 9:04pm

"Look I made a hat"

[Ad_Libbing]

Posted: 11/8/04 at 9:25pm

Oh, wow. So, so many:

"And remember the truth that once was spoken: to love another person is to see the face of God!" from Les Miz gets me every time, as does "When your heart has expired," in RENT's 'I'll Cover You (Reprise.)' Then again, much of RENT leaves me either tremendously happy or crying to the stranger to my left.

"I am what I am," is definitely a very good line as is (yeah-- go on and laugh) "For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you," from 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.' And, on a Schultz theme, I'll add "If just one person believes in you... then maybe even you can believe in you too," from the very end of 'Snoopy!'

I'll shut up now. xD The sap is hurting me.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 7:45am

bump
since a new thread is being made that mimics this thread i thought i might get this thread back

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 7:58am

Mrs. Lovette: "Try actor thats compactor,"
Sweeney Todd: "Yes and always arrives overdone!"

[sipos]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 8:36am

"Have I mentioned today how lucky I am to be in love with you?" -L5Y

Without going any further, I have to agree with that one being really great. The greatest ever? Dunno. Broadway, not technically. Crap.
But really great. And I love it.
I'm still thinking of one.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 11:15am

MRS. LOVETT: Here we are, hot from the oven.
TODD: What is that?
MRS. LOVETT:It's priest. Have a little priest.
TODD: Is it really good?
MRS. LOVETT: Sir, it's too good, At least. Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh, So it's pretty fresh.
TODD: Awful lot of fat.
MRS. LOVETT: Only where it sat.
TODD:Haven't you got poet Or something like that?
MRS. LOVETT: No, you see the trouble with poet Is, how do you know it's Deceased? Try the priest.
TODD: Heavenly. Not as hearty as bishop, perhaps, but not as bland as curate, either.
MRS. LOVETT: And good for business — always leaves you wanting more. Trouble is, we only get it in Sundays . . .
Lawyer's rather nice.
TODD: If it's for a price.
MRS. LOVETT: Order something else, though, to follow, Since no one should swallow It twice.
TODD: Anything that's lean.
MRS. LOVETT: Well, then, if you're British and loyal, You might enjoy Royal Marine. Anyway, it's clean. Though, of course, it tastes of wherever it's been.
TODD:Is that squire On the fire?
MRS. LOVETT: Mercy no, sir, Look closer, You'll notice it's grocer.
TODD: Looks thicker. More like vicar.
MRS. LOVETT: No, it has to be grocer — it's green.
TODD: The history of the world, my love —
MRS. LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors ...
TODD:— is those below serving those up above.
MRS. LOVETT:Everybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors ...
TODD: How gratifying for once to know —
BOTH:— that those above will serve those down below!
MRS. LOVETT: Now, let's see ... We've got tinker ...
TODD (Looking at it): Something pinker.
MRS. LOVETT: Tailor?
TODD: Paler.
MRS. LOVETT: Butler?
TODD: Something Subtler.
MRS. LOVETT: Potter?
TODD (Feeling it): Hotter.
MRS. LOVETT: Locksmith?
TODD:Maybe for a lark ...
MRS. LOVETT: Then again, there's sweep If you want it cheap And you like it dark.
Try the financier. Peak of his career.
TODD: That looks pretty rank.
MRS. LOVETT: Well, he drank. It's a bank Cashier. Last one really sold. Wasn't quite so old.
TODD: Have you any Beable?
MRS. LOVETT: Next week, so I'm told. Beadle isn't bad till you smell it And notice how well it's Been greased. Stick to priest.
Now this may be a bit stringy, but then, of course, it's fiddle player.
TODD: This isn't Fiddle player. It's piccolo player.
MRS. LOVETT: How can you tell?
TODD: It's piping hot.
MRS. LOVETT: Then blow on it first.
TODD:The history of the world, my sweet —
MRS. LOVETT:Oh, Mr. Todd, Ooh, Mr. Todd, What does it tell?
TODD: — is who gets eaten and who gets to eat.
MRS. LOVETT:And, Mr. Todd, Too, Mr. Todd, Who gets to sell.
TODD: But fortunately, it's also clear —
TODD: MRS. LOVETT: That everybody But everybody Goes down well with beer.
MRS. LOVETT: Since marine doesn't appeal to you, how about rear admiral?
TODD: Too salty. I prefer general.
MRS. LOVETT: With or without his privates? "With" is extra.
TODD: What is that?
MRS. LOVETT: It's fop. Finest in the shop. Or we have some shepherd's pie peppered With actual shepherd On top. And I've just begun. Here's the politician — so oily It's served with a doily —Have one.
TODD:Put it on a bun. Well, you never know if it's going to run.
MRS. LOVETT: Try the friar. Fried, it's drier.
TODD: No, the clergy is really Too coarse and too mealy.
MRS. LOVETT: Then actor — That's compacter.
TODD: Yes, and always arrives overdone. I'll come again when you Have judge on the menu . . .
MRS. LOVETT: Wait! True, we don't have Judge — yet — but would you settle for the next best thing?
TODD: What's that?
MRS. LOVETT: Executioner.
TODD: Have charity toward the world, my pet.
MRS. LOVETT: Yes, yes, I know, my love —
TODD: We'll take the customers what we can get
MRS. LOVETT: High-born and low, my love
TODD: We'll not discriminate great from small No, we'll serve anyone — Meaning anyone —
BOTH: And to anyone At all!

[lesserworm]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 11:27am

A few of my favorites:

"Manipulating our judicial system to win a contest is un-American!"-Hairspray.

"Let me guess! You got tied up!"
"No, just handcuffed a little."-Little Shop of Horrors.

And I know this is a bit self-serving, but...
"Shut up! I know what you're saying! She says 'pipe dreams' 50 300 times, you repeat yourself endlessly! It's lifelike, granted one could hear it on a bus if you were listening to a stupid person talking on and on! But I am on a streetcar, not a bus! And I want poetry, and art and music, and if I can't have that, I'd rather be dead!!!"-Desire, Desire, Desire.

[ReNtHeAd04]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 11:35am

"they say that i have the best ass below 14th street is it true?"- rent

and

"you'll be with me, like a handprint on my heart"- wicked

[MatureDignity]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 11:39am

Hold your Bat Boy

And there's so much funny stuff in Taboo. "These boots are not tacky!"

[sipos]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 11:44am

"Manipulating our judicial system just to win a contest is un-American!"-Hairspray.


Great line, lesserworm.

And so many from ITW like:
"I was just trying to be a good mother!"

[MatureDignity]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 11:49am

Hey sipos-- I thought the line in Bat Boy was "Don't talk like a slut, Shelley!" I could be wrong. : )

[sipos]

Posted: 11/24/04 at 11:53am

I just cued my video to that line cause I had a feeling and then fixed it, right before I saw your comment.

But thanks. I had it comin'.