What are your favorite lines of dialogue from a Broadway Musical? — Page 2

Ah, it's still hot!-Piazza

Kristin as Glinda: Look, Elphie, Fiyero's been thinking (don't remenmber the rest). In worried.

? as Fiyero: Listen, I've been thinking.

Eden as Elphie: Yes, I heard.

-Wicked

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The final phone conversation that Margaret has with Roy in Piazza, it gets me every single time.

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*"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

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*"Pardon me sir what's that awful stink?"
*"Smels to me like piss and looks like ink!"

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*"Mrs. White, how tall are you?"
*"Six-three."
*"With heels?"
*"With anybody."

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*"I'm thirty years old...tomorrow! And I haven't worked since I played Annie, when I was ten!"


Okay, the last two weren't Broadway, and two weren't spoken words, but tehy still work.

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omg me too, C is for Company.

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I don't know, Bob, walk like a man?

Yes, walk like a man.

As opposed to a girl?

As opposed to a kid?

I don't know if I got it right.

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From Thoroughly Modern Millie:
Muzzy: So you see snookums, you can marry your boss after all.
Millie: Who cares? I found myself a green glass love.
Jimmy: Funny, I found myself an emerald.

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

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"And then, I ordered the ICED TEA!!!"- Jolene to Lawrence in DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

"Okay, whatever that was, it was really good."- Holly after Robbie and Julia kiss in THE WEDDING SINGER

and the part in THE COLOR PURPLE where Shug and Celie are imitating Sofia and Squeak... priceless! :)

Here are a couple of mine:
From BYE, BYE, BIRDIE, Mae Peterson says to her son, Albert:
"You're just like your father. You'd marry anything!"
From A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC..this happens in the middle of Send In The Clowns, Frederick says to Desiree:
"I should not have come. To flirt with rescue when one has no intention of being saved."

i don't know what kind of gay man i would be if i didn't go about the house saying "I'm pretty, Mama!" from Gypsy every so often.

but yeah, the line that sticks with me when this thread was mentioned was the part in Wicked when the witches are sitting in their dorm and Galinda goes "Elphie, Fyeiro and are going to be married!" and Elphaba goes "Oh that's great! I didn't know he proposed." and Galinda gets that wicked look in her eyes and goes "He doesn't know yet!"

haha I am SO Galinda.

None of these JERSEY BOYS lines are anything spectacular, why the obsession?

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That whole bit in LitP with Clara going up to Fabrizio and crying "Look at me!" after hearing Franca's whole spiel on how someday he won't look at her anymore.

Love love love love love the part in Sweeney Todd after "Green Finch" when Anthony finds out exactly why the birds still sing. Who doesn't get chills when hearing "We blind them"... and especially after Johanna wondered why they still sing when in that situation.

This is kind of sung, but I'm always cracked up by that part in Joseph after he's been taken by the Ishmaelites: "And I don't speak Egyptian very well!"

Passion: "Respect has everything to do with love." "That's not true, but it hardly matters right now." (or something like that)

Parade: "I got us a strategy!"

Ragtime, when Tateh has to work in the factories and there's all this dialogue about his situation. ;_;

And, the last one off the top of my head, the whole scene in Amneris's bedroom in Aida when she tells Radames "Maybe you should have the royal cartographer draw a map of the female body, and then you'd be more likely to COME EXPLORE!" Or something like that Cheap laugh, sure, but it worked.

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