What is your favourite sexually-charged line in a Stephen Sondheim musical?- Page 3

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 8:35pm

Yeah, I too was going to say all of "Everybody Ought To Have a Maid." Or alternatively, like 90% of the lyrics in Forum.

Everyone's already listed most of the ones that I would have picked.... I'm glad that all the innuendo in Into the Woods is really there and I'm not just a freak.

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 9:09pm

Wow -- I NEVER thought of the "thicket is it thick" - that whole thing as sexual. Actually, despite the use of the word "prick" - I'm still not sure it is....or was that supposed to be a joke and I'm humor deprived tonight?

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 9:32pm

"Life is knowing what you want
Darling
That's the thing you have to... know
You'll get everything you
Want, darling
Have a little patience
Climbing moutains can be slow
Darling
Take it easy as you... climb"
-one of the Growing Up reprises in the revised Merrily We Roll Along
It's extremely sexually charged in the context and with the accompaniment... just listen to Michelle Pawk on that CD... yowza.
Okay, it may not be the MOST sexually- charged line Sondheim ever wrote... but I'm a Merrily freak through and through.

[gwalke4]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:02pm

But a seaside wedding could be devised
Me rumpled bedding legitimized

Is there a more piquant lyric?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:17pm

Amneris - that made me laugh out loud!

I agree!


AND:

'Ow would you like a little squiff, dear,
A little jig jig,
A little bounce around the bush?
Wouldn't you like to push me crumpet?
It looks to me, dear,
Like you got plenty there to push.
Updated On: 12/5/05 at 11:17 PM

[MTQ]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:29pm

"Did Sondheim really intend on the line the whole "poppin pussies into pies etc" in PRIEST to have a sexual double meaning?"

And then there's the whole "and a ****'s good for six or seven at the most"!

But my favorite is "The history of the world, my sweet, is who get's eaten and who gets to eat."

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:36pm

But then there's the "General...with or without his privates" line in PRIEST.

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:37pm

I forgot about that one, BSO!

Great funny/sexual line.

"With is extra!" Updated On: 12/5/05 at 11:37 PM

[DancNdaMoonlite]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:37pm

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

My friend and I did the show a few years ago and we used to go up to random people on the street saying that.
...good times...

[musicman117]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:38pm

I love in Into the Woods when Cinderella's Prince leaves and the Baker's Wife says.

"What was that!"

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:38pm

Whenever I hear that line I bust out laughing. And what's sad is it is such a cheap joke.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:40pm

But what is great is that the characters know it is a cheap joke.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:46pm

This is also true.

And I think it works perfectly - I mean, what joke does work perfectly when you are talking about the different types of people-pies?

[sadiem100]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 11:55pm

Grr... all of my Priest quotes have been stolen. I love that song, it always makes me start laughing really hard. My friends think I'm on crack sometimes.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 11:02pm

"To die loved is to have lived"
Fosca in Passion.

[ShineOn]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 1:24am

"Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood. They will not protect you the way that they should."

I love that one.

The best thing about the ITW's ones are they're more... "subtle"... than the lines in his other shows. Very clever man, that Sondheim.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 1:31am

it's not my favorite, but i think that this Into the Woods line is pretty darn sexual:

He was robbing me,
Raping me,
Rooting through my rutabaga,
Raiding my arugula and
Ripping up the rampion
My champion! my favorite!

anyone else take that for more than it's literal meaning?

[Isabella2]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:54pm

well no that i think about it, i'm not sure. I first heard that line when I was very young and didn't really understand it.

[thez914]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:29pm

wow, i think you guys might be giving sondheim a little TOO much credit for being a 'sexually charged' lyricist. haha...you guys need to get your minds out of the you-know-where...

[Jon]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 7:33pm

"Louie's art is not hard to swallow" - SITPWG

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 8:56pm

The way you guys are intrepetting some of these lines ANYTHING with a sexual reference, even if it's unintentional, is being brought up. (See, like that). What were Lerner and Lowe thinking when they wrote "Come back to me" or "Come to me, bend to me"? Those too?

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 9:47pm

"Your eyes, George.
I love your eyes, George.
I love your beard ,George.
I love your size, George."

[walkingthroughfire13]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 10:54pm

"It may take two of us to have this child" is my fave. I'm doing that show now!!!

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 11:38pm

Ey, oy, sailor boy
Want it snuggly harbored?
Open the gate, but don't be late
I see it lists to starboard!

[LostLeander]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 1:27am

What's important really is the SIZE!

Joanna Gleason then holds out her hand to Chip...

Am I the only one who got that?

Also, Michelle Pawk's...

Nothing wrong with wanting me...
Darling..
Also nothing wrong with..

not.

MM, sex-ay.