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

[NJRae]

Posted: 9/10/06 at 5:18pm

"We can't all come and go by bubble, you know!"

And I may be paraphrasing on this one but:
"That's right, you just follow that same road the whole time. Oh I hope they don't get lost. I'm so bad at giving directions!"

[AshleyBrownFan123]

Posted: 9/10/06 at 5:20pm

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

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 9/10/06 at 5:22pm

Damn Yankees (revival cd)
applgate: hello, hell? its me....what do you mean WHO..who else gets to leave?

chicago (all of it really but these especially)
Billy: lets just say if jesus christ had lived in chicago today, and he had 5000....things woulda turned out differently

Velma: (first spoken line)hey......hey.... HEY YOU!!!
Roxie: what?
Velma: get outta my chair

[C is for Company]

Posted: 9/10/06 at 5:25pm

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

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/11/06 at 2:43pm

I know it doesn't count but:

Rent: The Movie:

Collins: Merry Christmas, bitches!!!!!

[SweeneyPhanatic]

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

*"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.

[JemimaPearl]

Posted: 9/11/06 at 5:09pm

the entire catfight scene in wicked. It's absolutely priceless.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 9/11/06 at 5:20pm

omg me too, C is for Company.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/11/06 at 5:24pm

"Shug: Sound like Mister goin' to the toilet on ya!
Celie: Sometimes it feel dat way! "

Exactly why I hated my experience at THE COLOR PURPLE.

That line is not supposed to garner a laugh. You're supposed to feel horrible for her, not laugh at her - or with her. Horrible.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 2:40pm

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.

[mediakilled]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 4:27pm

what's the matter? Bird Lady......?

'Raul Esparza to Euan Morton in Taboo

[Hank]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 5:43pm

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.

[The Stars R Aligned]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 7:24pm

Jersey Boys
Bob-...I dont give a f**k about the old neighborhood

Wicked
Nessarose-Whats in the punch?
Boq-Lime and Berrys and Melons
Nessarose-Oh My!

the wicked one is kinda wierd but i thought it was cute!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 7:27pm

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

[The Stars R Aligned]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 8:21pm

ok im recalling some other J.B ones that i didnt quite remember

Tommy Devito:Nick, remember when we couldn't get arrested?
Bob Gaudio:When was that when you were three.

Bob Gaudio:Im not drawn to the old neighborhood. My life never revolved around the old neighborhood. I could give a f**k about the old neighborhood!!!

thats the quote from Bob i was thinkin of!

i love Jersey Boys
its so cool

now more!

Spelling Bee

Panch: Please spell Mexicans
Chip: Hey!

Wicked
Glinda: Im Marrying Fiyero
Elphaba: Really when?
Glinda: Oh, he dosnt know yet.

Glinda: Populer...lar.....

Glinda (talking about the Grimmerie): Can I touch it?
Morrible: NO!

Hairspray

well i cant think of any good ones...

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 8:34pm

"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! :)

[matt schneider]

Posted: 9/12/06 at 9:04pm

There are the ones in my signature and I have many others, but there are way too many to list.

[Musical Director]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:58am

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."

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 12:01pm

BYE BYE BIRDIE has some classic lines.

This one's from memory, so excuse the paraphrasing:

"This is Rose? Sweet little Rose Alvarez? What happened, Rose, you have a sudden shock or something?"

[folkyboy]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 12:26pm

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.

[iheartamc10]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 12:46pm

I'm so corny:

It's a line/moment/beginning of a song:

Jersey Boys:
Bob: .... and she looks up at him... defiant.. and says..

All: "Big Girls Don't Cry...Big Girls Don't Cry.."

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 12:51pm

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

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 1:00pm

Gypsy
"New York is the center of everything"
"New York is the center of New York"


"I have a job dear my daughters are my job and I have two of them."

"I can read... a little." Sunday In The Park With George

Into The Woods

"Have you done this to our house"
"Always thinking of yourselves"
Updated On: 1/7/07 at 01:00 PM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 1:05pm

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.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/13/06 at 2:59pm

Gee, Munkustrap, this may sound odd to you, but maybe there are people who actually liked Jersey Boys and want to share their favorite lines from it.