best lines
best lines
best lines#1
Posted: 5/7/08 at 12:58pm
i'm sure there are a gazillion threads with the funniest lines from specific musicals so i apologize but i was wondering if you could help me out
for a project my group is putting together a play that connects all the greatest lines in musicals into one big storyplot mix and mash
which are your favourite lines from any musical or play in general?
re: best lines#2
Posted: 5/7/08 at 1:21pm
well...i know it is cliche but..
'Well, we can't all just come and go by BUBBLE.' -Elphaba in wicked
and
"I was listening to the radio and it just reminded me of the way we were."
"Really? What was it?"
"The way we were."-Marie in song and dance
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re: best lines#2
Posted: 5/7/08 at 1:33pm
"... like they say in the Hamptons -- you are s**t outta luck, my dear": Velma Kelly in CHICAGO
re: best lines#3
Posted: 5/7/08 at 1:45pm
From "The Lion in Winter"
Eleanor: [to her jewelry] I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children.
and from "The Boys in the Band"
Harold: You're lips are turning blue. You look like you've been rimming a snowman.
Updated On: 5/7/08 at 01:45 PM
re: best lines#4
Posted: 5/7/08 at 1:49pm
slow love slow, times have past. now goes quickly see now it's past- sweeney
why did i do it? where did it get me?- gypsy
the shadows bring the starlight and everything youve ever been is still there in the dark night- spring.
re: best lines#5
Posted: 5/7/08 at 1:50pm
"I was only trying to be a good mother!"
- The Witch from Into The Woods
re: best lines#6
Posted: 5/7/08 at 2:48pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels - The Bushes of Tex were nervous wrecks beacause their son was dim....but look what happened to him.
re: best lines#7
Posted: 5/7/08 at 2:55pmKeep it positive, let out your inner freak!-Legally Blonde
re: best lines#8
Posted: 5/7/08 at 2:56pm
From Spelling Bee:
"Bobby, put down that phylactery, we Episcopalian!"
re: best lines#9
Posted: 5/7/08 at 3:32pmMaybe not exactly as I remember it, but: "All the demons in hell come back to haunt me!" - Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd
re: best lines#10
Posted: 5/7/08 at 3:33pmthanks so much guys:)
re: best lines#12
Posted: 5/7/08 at 3:52pm
Bitch, I do not know your life - Xanadu
The artichoke is steamed - Wicked
The new UPS guy is like walking porn - Legally Blonde
re: best lines#13
Posted: 5/7/08 at 4:18pm
Just thought of another:
"If you don't say yes, I'm gonna have a heart attack that'll kill us both!" - Daisy, Side Show
re: best lines#14
Posted: 5/7/08 at 4:20pm
Maureen and Joanne in RENT:
M: "It's a metaphor!"
J: "It's....it's less than brilliant.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
re: best lines#15
Posted: 5/7/08 at 4:20pmdouble post
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
re: best lines#16
Posted: 5/7/08 at 4:20pmtriple post
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
re: best lines#16
Posted: 5/7/08 at 4:20pmhow click happy could i possible be?
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
re: best lines#18
Posted: 5/7/08 at 5:34pmThere were a lot of lines from Violet in Osage County that I adored. I forgot most of them unfortunately except for "There's an indian in my attic!". That line was great but really only works in context. There were many other better ones that I just can't remember.
Other than that, there were many lines from Xanadu. They are pretty well known but was (and this may not be the exact wording) "Oh please, next door at Gypsy, Patti Lupone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet." That also really only works in context. Aside from that, the use of language was pretty funny. For example, this is another common one but "Oh snapeth" was great.
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re: best lines#19
Posted: 5/7/08 at 7:50pm
From How To Succeed
(1st time Joke)- So I said keep your hands where they belong
(2nd time Digusted)-So I said keep your hands where they belong
(3rd time Confused)-So I said keep your hands where they belong
So what the hell I'm having dinner with him
Best if done with different people every time
re: best lines#20
Posted: 5/7/08 at 8:02pm
New York is the center of New York. -Gypsy
I met a count in Greenwhich Village he was a poet and a playwright and he said Edith I can make an honest woman out of you. I thought that was very decent. -Grey Gardens
re: best lines#21
Posted: 5/7/08 at 8:24pm
As lame as it is, I loved "That was pure Vodka, you poop!"from The Drowsy Chaperone
"You can talk to birds?"- Into the Woods
"Dwarves are very upsetting" from Into the Woods
that's all i could think of...i'll be back later 
re: best lines#22
Posted: 5/7/08 at 8:33pm
Jersey Boys
We have liftoff!
(brief pause)
We have splashdown...
re: best lines#23
Posted: 5/7/08 at 8:34pm
My favorite(not just one line) is from Spelling Bee:
OLIVE- I've been thinking does flagellate have one L or two? And that if you take the 'w' in answer, the 'h' in ghost, the extra 'a' in aardvark, and the 't' in listen, you could keep saying 'what', but noone would ever hear you, couase all the leters are silent.
re: best lines#24
Posted: 5/7/08 at 8:53pm
"music in a musical how can we go wrong?" -[tos]
"kiss today goodbye. and point me towards tomorrow" - acl
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