Words/phrases you learned from musicals? — Page 2

Schaudenfraude, many of the words from Spelling Bee and of course the variety of phrases from [tos].

I learned how to sing by looping Maria's do-re-mi lesson in "The Sound of Music."

Your haircut is so title of show

I learned that B&E meant breaking and entering because of Jersey Boys.

I think it was Sondheim that interjected the phrase "Everything's Coming Up Roses" into American vernacular.

I didn't know what "cheese grits" were until I heard "Pump Boys & Dinettes". I knew what grits were, but I didn't know you could have cheese in them.

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I was actually thrilled several years ago when I took the GRE. About halfway through one analogy used the word mollify. I sat there for a minute, not knowing exactly what it meant and trying to remember where I had heard it, when suddenly Bernadette Peters popped into my head as the Witch: "Sorry, I'm still not mollified! And I laid a little spell on them..." Yes! A few questions later I ran into the word proclivity, which I had learned playing the Beadle in Sweeney Todd a few months earlier. I got a 740 verbal, got into grad school, and I swear I owe it all to Stephen Sondheim.