Words/phrases you learned from musicals?- Page 2
Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
pli1018
Broadway Star Joined: 4/16/07
#25re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 2:27pmSchaudenfraude, many of the words from Spelling Bee and of course the variety of phrases from [tos].
#26re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 2:34pmSchaudenfraude from Avenue Q naturally. And capybara from Spelling Bee- was watching Jeopardy the other day and it was one of the answers.
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#27re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 2:43pmI learned how to sing by looping Maria's do-re-mi lesson in "The Sound of Music."
#28re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 3:07pm
neurasthenic- Spring Awakening
schadenfreude- Avenue Q
And as for the phrases:
"The devil you know beats the devil you don't." - Side Show
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#30re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 4:00pmYour haircut is so title of show
#31re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 4:09pmCramazing is my new favorite [tos] inspired phrase. I'm trying to make it happen with my friends...without much success.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#32re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 5:04pmI learned that B&E meant breaking and entering because of Jersey Boys.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#33re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 5:23pmI learned what "Don't bogart that joint" means from Xanadu... actually I heard it in Xanadu and had to ask what it meant!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#34re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 7:34pm
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.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#35re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 7:41pm
Schadenfreude- Avenue Q
I was taking a test a while ago and I was having so much difficulty. I was thrilled when I came upon a word that I knew from a show.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the word or the show.
Also, "syzygy" was recently used on a TV game show.
#36re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 7:46pmI 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.
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