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#26

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:16pm

From Cinderella:
"I'm a young Norwegian princess or a milkmaid
I'm the greatest prima donna in Milan
I'm an heiress who has always had her silk made
By her own flock of silkworms in Japan"
Just because two words have the same last letters doesn't mean they actually rhyme...that's all I'm saying
"It's really crazy backstage. Just before the show started, Elaine Stritch got into a fight with stage hand, and then inexplicably started squeezing Hugh Jackman's buttocks. And by the time they had sedated her, she had punched out two cops and was holding Norbert Leo Butz hostage, threatening to kill one of his three names." -Nathan Lane
#27

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:22pm

I'll get flack for this, but I always thought

"THERE WERE GAZEBOS and THERE WERE NO NEGROS" from RAGTIME is a pretty desperate lyric. Doesn't rhyme, and you know the word "gazebo" is only there because they clearly couldn't think of anything else to put with "negro."
#28

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:28pm

I know two plus two.
I know false from true.
I just don't know what to do when bridges burn.
I guess I've gotta learn.
[In sotto voice] So I'll learn.

-"It Hurts To Be Strong," from CARRIE! The Musical by Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore

Incidentally, my user name is from CARRIE!'s title song:

I'm Carrie.
I am the sound of distant thunder, the color of flame.
I'm Carrie.
I am a song of endless wonder that no one will claim.
But someday,
Oh, my! Someday,
Someone will know my name.
"I am the sound of distant thunder, the color of flame." CARRIE the Musical

Updated On: 7/2/05 at 09:28 PM

#29

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:35pm

You won't catch flack from me, Micheal B., becuse that's EXACTLY what I thought the first time I heard those lyrics!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#30

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:16pm

"June" and "Moon"
Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity last forever. Watch out BWW... HE'S BACK.
#31

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:26pm




From Cinderella:
"I'm a young Norwegian princess or a milkmaid
I'm the greatest prima donna in Milan
I'm an heiress who has always had her silk made
By her own flock of silkworms in Japan"
Just because two words have the same last letters doesn't mean they actually rhyme"

Uh...except they do.

Vivian Darkbloom
Ramsdale, New England



#32

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:33pm

"The wickedest witch there ever was, the enemy of all of us here in Oz."

Ugh.

"A Whole New World, Kiss the Girl..."

Neither of these really rhyme. I like both the scores as a whole, but these words don't match!
#33

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:39pm

enchanted hunter, they don't rhyme at all.

shelley, i've always gotten upset at that since i was in cinderella.

also, what is the deal with enchanted hunter? you sign a different name and location on every post. i don't understand.
#34

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:41pm


Last time I checked it was Mil-on, not Mil-an.
#35

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:46pm

I can check for you, LOL I'm in Cinderella right now, so I have the R&H company script, LOL
..its spelled MILAN
#36

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:48pm

she was talking about pronunciation. we all know that the city is spelled milan. but it's pronounced with a latin a rather than a long a
#37

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:49pm

South Pacific:
"I could say life is just a bowl of Jell-o
and appear more intellegint and smart, but i'm stuck like a dope in the thing called hope and I can't get it out of my head...."
Thats...weird...lol
#38

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:57pm

I guess I'm alone on this one but I thought the rhyming in Wicked was really clever!

"Listen Nessa, Uh Nessa
I've got something to confess
A reason why..........."

"Now that I've chosen to become a pal,
a sister, and advisor
there's nobody wiser...."

Then again no one really ever agrees with me on theses boards anyway.
#39

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 11:59pm

Speaking of Cinderella...it's not the rhyming, I just hate the whole play on words thing with "Impossible" into "It's Possible".

On rhymes, here's one from Hairspray:
"Hey mama, Hey mama, take my hand."
"First lets make a pit stop at the weiner stand."

What?!

Updated On: 7/3/05 at 11:59 PM

#40

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 12:05am

I love RENT to death but
"I'll call, I hate the fall"
Mimi: AZT break
Roger: You?
Mimi: Me, you?
Roger: Mimi....

Those lines have always kind of annoyed me for some reason. And while I very much enjoy Wicked, some of the rhymes in there do vex me a bit. Someone beat me to the "Think of it as personality Dialysis, Now that I've chosen to become a pal, a sister, and advisor..." line. Same deal, couldn't figure out for the longest time with the slur of words after "dialysis" meant. :-P
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart. -Scrubs
#41

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 12:11am

You want to produce films and write songs?
You need somewhere to do it!
It's what we used to dream about
Think twice before you pooh-pooh it.

It seems, Benny has the vocabulary of a seven yeat old.
#42

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 12:31am

UGH Benny's Pooh Pooh it line gets me every time. I absolutely hate it. BUT I really like You'll See Boys, and I think beyond pooh poohing things all the rhymes work well. Especially "whose rent keeps open our shop". As said its a technique used by shakespere who was pretty talented last time i checked.

My least favorite though is from Last five years and is actually in a song that i love:

"You don't have to put the seat down
You don't have to watch the news
You dont' have to learn to tango
You don't have to eat prosciutto (<<<--This line drives me crazy. I actually cringe while listening to it)
You don't have to change a thing
Just stay with me"
#43

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:23am

I actually love this line even though it's horrible:
"Oh Noah,
You go-a,
All the way back to the protazoa."

From Children of Eden. Oh Stephen Schwartz, will you ever learn. . .
"Without Jews, fags, and gypsies, there is no theatre!" ~Mel Brooks, To be or not to be

Updated On: 7/3/05 at 01:23 AM

#44

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:29am

While it isn't a musical and keep in mind I love him, but...

Adam Pascal's CD Civilian
the very first line sung on "Sing a Beautiful Song"
"With every motion, there's an ocean of emotion."

*shudders and buys Adam a rhyming dictionary*
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#45

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:31am

Slagging Shakespeare I am not. In the village that is East, in the city of York that is new, believe not I did that in that manner people did speak.

Corrected I stand.

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#47

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:43am

I think the rhyming in Wicked was clever. It's not your conventional rhyming scheme, which is probably why people rush to attack it rather than appreciate it.
#48

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 2:40am

Oh, I agree with the Cinderella one from "In My Own Little Corner." And from "Live Out Loud" from Andrew Lippa's A Little Princess (which premiered here in California but never actually made it to B'way) "If that makes me headstrong, fine, that's a fault I'm glad is mine." It's an otherwise well written song that I happen to love, but that particular rhyme feels extraordinarily forced.
#49

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 3:07am

From Children of Eden...

"Not a hills of beans, till you pass along your genes."

Broadway Bound Star, everytime I've sung that song it goes...

"I could say life is just a bowl of Jell-o
and appear more intellegint and smart, but i'm stuck like a dope in the thing called hope and I can't get it out of my heart...." not head
#50

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:16am

I don't think the rhyming in Wicked is clever at all...OZ AND WAS DO NOT RHYME!!!! AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!

:0)

Also in a New Brain the "hell no" rhyme in "just go" kills me. HA.
-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?

"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????

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