The wisdom of Sondheim- Page 2

[knows_too_much]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 3:01pm

I have so maney here the first to come to mind

Madmen just get jeers and boos
not visits to thuer grave
while Lincoln who got mixed reviews, thanks to you John
now gets only raves

Thank you for the shade
and putting me in front
yes thank you Geaorge for that
and for the hat

The funniest joke I've never heard get a laugh

only three more tries and we'll have our prize
when the ends insight you'll realize
if the end is right...
it justifies the bean

Maybe I'm alone in thinking that is one of the funniest things ever written by somone other than Woody Allen, but I find Woody Allen laugh out loud funny so that tells you somthing about my sense of humor.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 4:49pm

C is for Company, I was honestly considering posting the "You watch while I revise the world" quote from SITPWG earlier. I agree that that entire section of "Beautiful" is amazing.

And I agree with,
"Pretty isn't beautiful, Mother.
Pretty is what changes.
What the eye arranges
Is what is beautiful."

It's just such a gorgeous song overall.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:02pm

It hardly ever seems to get mention though

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:07pm

Well, most of the quotes mentioned here are applicable to general life, which that particular quote probably doesn't. I'm glad someone did mention it, though.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:11pm

This quote is currently in my AIM profile:

Hard to see the light now
Just don't let it go
Things will come out right now
We can make it so
Someone is on your side
No one is alone

Pretty much that whole song.

[seasons of love]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:16pm

"Maybe you could show me...
How to let go,
Lower my guard,
Learn to be free.
Maybe if you whistle,
Whistle for me..."
-- Anyone Can Whistle

"I love him, I'm his.
And everything he is...
I am too."
-- West Side Story

"Children may not obey, but children will listen."
-- Into the Woods

"Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear...
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry my dear..."
-- A Little Night Music

"I was half convinced I'd waken,
Satisfied enough to dream you..."
-- Sweeney Todd

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

"Princes wait there in the world it's true...
Princes yes, but wolves and humans too..."
-- Into the Woods

There's so many good ones...

[knows_too_much]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:27pm

I forgot my favorite before

Work is what you do for others, Liebchen(sp)
Art is what you do for yourself

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:32pm

You stay, Johanna
The way I've dreamed you are
Oh look, Johanna--
A star!
A shooting star!
--Sweeney Todd

My favorite lyrics from that show. Probably my favorite song from that show.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 6:19pm

"if ya wanna bump it, bump it with a trumpet!"

"sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good."

"As long as you're a man, you're what the would will make of you. But as you are a woman you're only what it sees."

"A woman is a flower whose purpose is to please."

"Beauty is power, longing a disease."

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 9:15pm

"And when the woman that you wanted goes,
You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give."
But the women who won't wait for you knows
That, however you live,
There's a part of you always standing by,
Mapping out the sky,
Finishing a hat...
Starting on a hat..
Finishing a hat...
Look, I made a hat...
Where there never was a hat." Sunday in the Park with George

Such amazing lyrics. Im in into the woods right now and the kid playing jack had the nerve to say Sondheim can't write theatre and that Sweeney Todd is S*** and that Assassins is ok. I wanted to kill him!

[jasonf]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 9:30pm

theatreboy - that would have been totally justified homicide

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 9:42pm

"Demons will charm you
With a smile
For a while
But in time...
Nothings gonna harm you
Not while I'm aound."
-Sweeney Todd

Updated On: 4/11/06 at 09:42 PM

[wherethehorizonlies]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 9:43pm

if you know what you need
then to get what you want
better see that you keep what you have
~ITW

but alone is alone, not alive
~Company

some roads are soft and some are bumpy
some roads you really fly
some roads are rough and leave you jumpy
why make it tough by getting grumpy
plenty of roads to try
~Merrily We Roll Along

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 9:45pm

trust me jasonf he was gonna die. He also said the reason the music is so "F***ed up" was because sondheims mom raped him as a child. I wanted to kill him so badly and then I thought he is just the dumbest person I ever met cuz he's jack in Into the Woods a sondheim show which he says is brilliant. Ironically his two favorite musicals are Rent and Wicked so I don't think I need to say anymore.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 10:10pm

"You start out with a bagel
and end up with Conrad Nagel
on the screen
But in life you end up
right behind the pillar
in the mezzanine..."
-- "In the Movies" from "Saturday Night"

[jasonf]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 10:54pm

haha - yeah, well....not much you can do about it.

"Ok now you know,
Now forget it don't fall apart at the seams
It's called letting go of your illusions
And don't confuse them with dreams
If the going's slow
Don't regret it and don't let's go to extremes
It's called what's your choice
It's called count to ten
It's called burn your bridges, start again
You should burn them every now and then or you'll never grow
Because now you grow
That's the killer is now you grow
All right, nothing's fair
And it's all a plot
And tomorrow doesn't look too hot
Right, you better look at what you got...
Over here, hello!
Ok, Now you know, right?"

Brilliant.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 10:55pm

But alone is alone, not alive.

I really love that song so much.

Everybody's got the right to some sunshine
Not the sun but maybe one of its beams...

Nice is different than good.

Hard to see the light now
Just don't let it go
Things will come out right now
We can make it so.

[Necromancer07707]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 10:57pm

"We could have kept on growing instead of just kept on."
-MWRA

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 11:02pm

People make mistakes,
holding to their own,
thinking their alone.
Honor their mistakes,
everybody makes,
one another's terrible mistakes.
Witches can be right,
giants can be good,
You decide what's right,
you decide what's good,
Just remember...someone is on your side,
Someone else is not.
While you're seeing your side,
maybe you forgot,
Someone is on your side,
No one is alone.-Into the Woods

[jasonf]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 11:13pm

Maria Maria Maria MarEEEEEEa....MARIA MAAAAAAAARIA MARIA....

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 11:21pm

"Mommy, why did that strange man touch me down there?
And why did Daddy say I shouldn't tell?"

--A FUNNY THING HAPPENED WHEN TODD MADE OVERTURES IN THE PARK WHILE GEORGE WHISTLED A WALTZ AND BOUNCED MERRILY ALONG.
(unproduced musical)


Vivian Darkbloom
Ramsdale, New England

Updated On: 4/11/06 at 11:21 PM

[Millie Lammoreaux]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 11:41pm

"The roads you never take
Go through rocky ground,
Don't they?
The choices that you make
Aren't all that grim.
The worlds you never see
Still will be around,
Won't they!
The Ben I'll never be,
Who remembers him?" -- Follies

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 12:21am

I'd like to quote all of "Our TIme"

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 12:56am

Oh Enchanted, you made me smile.

[ALWrules]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 1:24am

"Then you've made your decision, which is not to decide"- ITW

" There are mouths to be kissed before mouths to be fed." -Night Music

" They all deserve to die!" -Sweeney Todd

" Everybody just hold tight to your dreams."- Assassins

"There's another national anthem for the one's who can't get in..." Assassins