Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
#0Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:13pmWhat do you think is the worst broadway lyric, making no sense or just sounding dumb....i would love to hear what you have to say!
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#1re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:14pm
"Join us...leave your cheese to sour."
"Let's go down to the Ozdust Ballroom / We'll meet there later tonight."
playbill_signer_05
Leading Actor Joined: 1/23/05
#2re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:18pm
I LOVE rent, but I think it has a few lame lines, such as:
"It's what we used to dream about, think twice before you poo-poo it."
#3re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:18pm
shbrtalley44, the one from Pippin was my first choice lol...it really is a bad lyric
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#4re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:20pmlike said earlier- i am not a fan of the poo poo line.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#5re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:20pm"There are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed." That has got to be the worst Braodway lyric I have ever heard.
#6re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:20pmromance....sex presented pastoraly....now you have me humming magic to do of all things!
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#8re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:22pmDon't get me wrong, I love "Magic To Do," but MY CHEESE?
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#9re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:24pm
"An old lady is waltzing in her flat, waltzing with her cat", from DO I HEAR A WALTZ?, lyric by Stephen Sondheim
I groaned in the theater when I heard this lyric.
scooter3843
#10re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:24pm
but the one that strikes me is It's Braves and Giants Two to two.
The pitcher's name is Hub Purdue. from ragtime...anything from that song can be used
#11re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:25pmHardly "bad" lyrics guys...Can you be a little more creative???
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#12re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:25pmMFL, do you understand nuance? Oy.
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#13re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:26pm"Superlover" from BKLYN
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#14re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:28pm
Hardly "bad" lyrics guys...Can you be a little more creative???
Well, they sounded bad to my ears when I hear them in 1965 (at least I think I saw that show in '65). I really did groan when I heard them. They're horrible lyrics, especially when compared to Rodger's great tune.
scooter3843
#15re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:32pm"For he will do as he do do"
So let the party and the sounds rock on, I'm gonna shake it till the life has gone, gone, gone - rose tints my world and keeps me safe from my trouble and pain!
#16re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:37pm
it's not a lyric, but it's a line in BKLYN
"and with our tears, we can water roses"~ brooklyn
...now i know, it isn't eden's fault, and she doesn't choose to say that, she is just paid to say it, but i was sitting within reach of the "give only what you can" sign, and i was tempted to throw it at her! 
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#17re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:38pm
Majorly off topic, but thebestshowshavetransvestites...I so just read your name as:
the best show shave transvestites.
I was like "WHAT?"
Anyway, the one that pops into my head right now is from COMPANY
"Let's hear it for the ladies who luch
Those dinosaurs surviving the crunch."
I don't know what it is but it drives me up the wall.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#18re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:38pmi totally agree, when i saw brooklyn, i was tempted to like it just because of the music, but after i got the cd and the more i listened to it, the more i realized how randomly absurd some of it is, though i do love once upon a time.
Luvinbroadway
Leading Actor Joined: 7/18/03
#20re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:44pm
spider - Haha 
It's a bit worse when I read it that way for half a second, thinking I made a typo in it. Ah, the patheticness of me! *not threadjacking*
"Hairy, scary, straight or bi..." from Taboo... Only because he's supposedly talking about boys, yes? So wouldn't it be, "Gay or bi"? O_o
So let the party and the sounds rock on, I'm gonna shake it till the life has gone, gone, gone - rose tints my world and keeps me safe from my trouble and pain!
#21re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:49pmany song from BKLYN
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#22re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:50pm"you gotta get your seafood mamma,your favorite dish is fish" -wonderful town,but the show is so good...it makes up for it-
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#23re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:54pm
Hate to knock my own favorite, but...
"Over at the Frankenstein place..." from RHS, simply because it ISN'T the Frankenstein place... Not that "the Frank N Furter place" would've fit, but... Oh, it's Rocky Horror, who cares! Wee!
...Ahem.
So let the party and the sounds rock on, I'm gonna shake it till the life has gone, gone, gone - rose tints my world and keeps me safe from my trouble and pain!
#24re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:55pm
I like the music in Chicago, but here's one bad lyric
"Throw 'em a fake and a finagle
They'll never know you're just a bagel,"
Godspell - "You gotta stay pretty in the city of God."
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