What is your favourite B'way musical quote?

[aces25]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 8:59pm

From a musical, a quote from the script (not in a song) from a show presenting on Broadway...

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 9:14pm

Ugh, I can't remember the exact quote, but it's something like this:

"What do you guys do in special ed?"
"We do MUSICALS!" - - - - Hairspray

It completely describes my High School Musical.

[Wicked_Elphie]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 9:15pm

(about Tom Sawyer)
Millie: Was he...sexy?
Graydon: He was twelve!
Millie: Well, if you got it, you got it!

Thoroughly Modern Millie

I dunno if it's my fave and i have a lot more...i promise I'll think of them later but that's just such a funny line and Sutton always delivers it sooo well!

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 9:27pm

"You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends. But it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones." -RENT

[NYCbabe3789]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 9:29pm

That quote from TMM is great...everytime Sutton says it I die laughing.

[jesseeinstein]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 9:41pm

"You are OUT OF CONTROL! I mean c'mon, it's just a pair of shoes! Get over it!"
-Glinda in Wicked

"We Can't all travel by bubble"
-Elphaba in Wicked

"Let the green girl go!"
-Fiyero in Wicked

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Nothing like a little Wicked:)

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 10:06pm

Annie -
"Why any kid would wanna be an orphan, I'll never know."
Miss Hannigan, no one ever laughed at me, I must have sucked it up, cuase I think it is funny. lol Probably not my favorite, just can't think of any others at this point.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 10:17pm

"Well, why not hydraulics?"
"Heh, heh, heh....You run along now, Little Sally."
-Spencer Kayden and Jeff McCarthy in Urinetown

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 10:17pm

"My mother had a baby once". Jigger in Carousel

"Put on a new coat of paint. You're starting to peel" Jigger in Carousel

"I'll name it later". Adam (talking about Eve) in The Apple Tree

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 10:19pm

From The Producers: "Who do ya gotta F*** to get ahead around here?!"

and

"Heil Myself"

I haven't laughed out loud like that in awhile..

[BroadwayNYC]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 10:22pm

"New York is the center of New York." Gypsy.
"I was trying to be a good mother." Into the Woods.

[dididda]

Posted: 2/22/04 at 10:22pm

AMNERIS. Radames! This is my bedchamber. You can't just... you know you shouldn't... Aida, leave

RADAMES. Is that your bed in there?
AMNERIS.Silk covered and fat with feathers.
RADAMES.Why don't you go in and I'll join you in a moment.
AMNERIS. Radames, are you sure? We're going to be married in a week.
RADAMES. Amneris, we've been engaged nine years.
AMNERIS. Good point.

AMNERIS.Radames! You barge into my bedchamber, waging a full-frontal attack, so to speak... and now you're stalling. Why?
RADAMES. I'm sorry, I didn't realize...
AMNERIS. There's a buck-naked princess lounging in her bed, calling your name. What, exactly didn't you realize? Before our wedding night, pack up some of that dried monkey meat and have the royal cartographer draw you a map of the female body, Captain. Maybe then you'll be more inclined to come explore.(RADAMES looks around and then runs out of the room.)Was it something I said? When we were children we understood each other so well. Now he's a mystery to me.

Aida. What that man sees and understands could be etched on a grain of sand

. i have aida in the player, i love that scene! haha

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 10:36am

I hope I remember it correctly but it was something like...

MOTHER : If you want to marry my son you will have to go over my dead body.
IRENE : That sounds like a very good route !

from " Crazy for You "

[PennyLou]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 10:59am

""What do you guys do in special ed?"
"We do MUSICALS!" - - - - Hairspray

It completely describes my High School Musical." ~ JoizeyActor

Yeah that was def. my high school 2 lol, I loved that line I'm so upset they took it out of the show!


Penny: Hi Mrs. Pingleton.. I mean mom! ~ It kind of gets lost under the excitement of everything else going on on stage but I love it! along with like everything else Penny (the joys of side kicks) says but still.

Millie: I'm broke not poor.
Ms. Dorothy: There's a difference?
Millie: Poor sounds permanent, broke can be fixed ~ the words I live by.

[VocalLizzy]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 11:03am

A few from "The Boy From Oz":

Dee: "You're not Legs Diamond...you're not even NEIL Diamond!"

Peter: "I need to know I can do this in Australia, they only stand for the Queen."
Greg: "Well?"

Liza: "Sex sucks. If it weren't for sex we could have been so happy."

Lizzy
ScarfDiva and brand new bw.com poster!

[Corine2]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 12:39pm

Lil head
Who do you have to f--- to get a break in this town!(Producers)
Mine- If you don't like the way i look well i don't give a damn.
Edna- Hairspray.
I'm a pretty girl Mamma- Hairspray
I can hear the bells- Hairspray
Updated On: 2/23/04 at 12:39 PM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 3:04pm

"Call nothing thine own, except thy soul. Love not what thou art, but only what thou may become. Do not persue pleasure, for thou may have the misfortune to overtake it. Look always forward. In last year's nest, there are no birds this year. Be just to all men, be Courteous to all women. Live in the vision of that one for whom all great deeds are done. She that is called Dulcinea"
Cervantes as Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 3:55pm

My favorite will always be:

"I need your shoe to have a child!" - Baker's Wife in Into the Woods

Personally, I think Into the Woods has some of the best one-liners in Broadway history.

[Qfan]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 5:27pm

damn it you beat me! Mister Matt

[Taryn]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 5:31pm

"I was raised to be charming, not sincere."

'Nother Into the Woods gem.

[Elphie]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 5:39pm

"Dont dream it, be it."
RHS
Among the many...Too Too Many Musical Quotes I love

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 6:04pm

"I've grown accustomed to her face."

--Alan Jay Lerner, MY FAIR LADY

[Broadwaynut81]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 6:09pm

JULIAN: Who was that?
BILLY (Or ANDY): She wants to be in the line (something like that).
JULIAN: Of who, Notre Dame? -- 42nd Street

Also, when I saw the Hairspray tour in Boston, it was the day after the Red Sox lost the playoff game against the Yankees. During "Timeless to Me" there was a long pause and Bruce Vilanch uttered, "Why don't we sing something from Damn Yankees!" The whole audience went crazy for almost five minutes.

[Bret]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 6:30pm

I too must go with ""What do you guys do in special ed?"
"We do MUSICALS!" - - - - Hairspray. It just reminds me of my high school musical. A lot.

[A_Boy_From_Oz]

Posted: 2/23/04 at 8:03pm

"Don't be afraid it won't be perfect, the only thing to be afraid of really is that it won't be." from Company