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
#4re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:20pmlike said earlier- i am not a fan of the poo poo line.
#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.
#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???
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#12re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:25pmMFL, do you understand nuance? Oy.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#13re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:26pm"Superlover" from BKLYN
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.
#15re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:32pm"For he will do as he do do"
#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! 
"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.
#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
#21re: Worst Broadway Lyric ever?
Posted: 3/1/05 at 7:49pmany song from BKLYN
#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-
#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.
#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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