Worst Broadway Lyric ever? — Page 7

there are countless verses in BKLYN. Oh, God this musical...

for those who don't know.

BKLYN - BROOKLYN feat. Eden Espinosa

Updated On: 3/16/05 at 02:09 PM

"She don't score at Bowl-a-rama, still he's got to thank his mama...whoa, whoa, whoa, Let's Hear It For the Boy..."

re: Oz - was

No one seemed to mind when Yip Harburg did it.

"We're off to see the wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
We hear he is a wiz of a Wiz
If ever a Wiz there was"

Joniray, you missed the worst line: "The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch."

You know, making up words that rhyme CAN be done well. Larry Hart did it all the time. Some of his words even entered the language (to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry...) but "slitch??????

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Concerning Nessa/confess-a, I just wanted to mention that technically this lyric does continue. Schwartz doesn't just add "a" to "confess." It's "Nessa, uh, Nessa, I've got something to confess - a reason why, well, why I asked you here tonight." Not the best rhyme in the world, but an actual rhyme to say the least and A LOT better than a lot of these other things. LOL...whoever mentioned the dreadful Jellicle cat song was right on. It's pretty easy to "rhyme" if you are just repeating the same phrase over and over...

Updated On: 3/17/05 at 01:33 AM

"I am a Las who alas loves a lad who once I had in canabury, Tis a Row Dow Dee Doll Dow Day, Tis a Row Dow Dee Doll Dow Day"

sondheim is a genius and I love Sweeney Todd but I can't stand Parlor Songs, especially the part above.

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" I must disregard his charms, and his manly rugged arms." WIW

Why, David Zippel?

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In defense of what someone said about the "little elf" line in Jane Eyre: a lot of the lyrics were taken from the actual text of the novel. I know that's not much of an excuse, but I think they were really trying to be faithful to the novel - and they were, to an extent.

I hate when show titles are repeated: "...WICKED! WICKED! WICKED!" and "RENT RENT RENT RENT RENT!". When I first heard that last one, I literally thought, "Are they for real? This sounds like something The Simpsons would do as a parody".

Jekyll and Hyde is full of them, especially "Murder! Murder!". Oh, and the "First Transformation"? A violent transformation...set to waltz music. It makes me laugh every time - almost like "The Proposal" in Jane Eyre ("Because the pain, because the grief is slowly turning to rage")...sorry, Jane, but it's hard to take you seriously when such happy-sounding music is being played.

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Nobody in all of Oz
No wizard that there is..or was.


uuughhhh.

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"Every endeavor I have made ever..."

-"This is the Moment" from Jekyll & Hyde

ouch.

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Basically all of Jekyll and Hyde makes me turn white.

But I think there is a special place in lyric hell reserved for this one:
"Dreams the way we planned them/if we worked in tandem."

I just cannot stand that line. "Wicked" has a lot of bad rhymes, but that one just takes the cake for me.

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Just to follow-up with the terrible Wicked lyrics--

"She's wicked - get her!"

Stronger than anyone
six times as pretty
an eagle brasier with a wing on each titty
TITTY!TITTY!TITTY!TITTY!
-- Caroline, or Change

I can't play this song in the car because I'm afraid of looking perverted.