What do you think about the song; "Big Spender" really means to you?
What do you think about the song; "Big Spender" really means to you?
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#1What do you think about the song; "Big Spender" really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 3:35pm"Big Spender" is one of the hottest, sizzling, flamethrowing Broadway musical numbers of all-time from "Sweet Charity." And tell me what do you think about the song really means to you?
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 3:35pmWhat?
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#2re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 3:37pmWhores...
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#3re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 3:38pmIt makes me think of Beverly D'Angelo dancing in just a towel for Chevy Chase.
#4re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 3:41pmShawn, what's with the obnoxious screen name?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#5re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 3:42pm
It makes me think of sluts. Loose women who are going to spend eternity in the bowels of hell for their loose and whorish ways.
GOD IS NOT MOCKED!
#6re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 5:05pmIt makes me think of big daddies with lots of money that I would never consider being with in real life, but when they wave their money in my face I might consider it.
#7re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 5:26pmCalvin, I think of the exact same thing! I love that movie!
#8re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 5:28pmMy early twenties.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#9re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 5:29pm
I was only 7 years old when it was out in theaters, but my dad took me anyway (and got in trouble with my mom for it later, as there were some fairly risque scenes, like the Paris strip club). But that really was the first time I ever heard Big Spender.
#10re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 6:02pmI just quoted the title last night to a friend when she told me her pittance for a summer of bitch work.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#11re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 8:45pm
Edie Adams for Muriel Cigars
My first memories of Big Spender
#12re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 8:46pmSlutz.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#13re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 8:47pmMercury poisoning
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#14re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 8:48pmHA HA HA! Good one, cartagena!
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Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#15re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 10:01pmI'm with Steve2 - I think of Edie Adams singing "Hey Big Spender - spend a little dime on me"
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 10:17pm
It makes me think of how brilliant Bob Fosse's original staging was. With minimal movement, he made those girls sell that song and put it over the top.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 4/15/09 at 10:17 PM
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#17re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 10:24pm
Picture this,
Times Square 1966
Above the old Howard Johnson's on B'way and 46th there was a neon sign about women dancing, (the sign was there long after the joint closed, maybe someone has a pic).
As a teenager I was a great wanderer around the Theatre District, still am, but it wasn't till I saw the Amazing Gwen Verdon in Fosse's brilliant production of SWEEY CHARITY that I even gave a thought to what those women did.
So I decided to find out for myself, I was tall but also young looking but I had no trouble getting in, as I ascended the stairs I past a womam wearing gobs of make-upand smelling of what I imagined was sex.
Scared the sh*t out of me and then she touched me, and I went running sown the stairs and the first bus back to Jersey.
I mean, she was nothing like Gwen!!!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 10:28pmSo, now do you go lap dancing regularly?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#19re: What do you think about the song; 'Big Spender' really means to you?
Posted: 4/15/09 at 11:21pmNo, I just drink.
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