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#26

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/9/07 at 10:09pm

good neeeeeeeeeeeeewwwws!...She's deeeeeeeeeeeaad!!!! haha just kidding....

"A new world calls across the ocean..."

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#27

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/9/07 at 10:38pm

I second "Damn Damn Damn Damn"

"Every day a little death . . ."

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#28

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/9/07 at 10:47pm

"Last night I had a dream"

#29

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/9/07 at 10:57pm

"A new world calls across the ocean..."
"Jamie is over and Jamie is gone"

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"Wishes come true, not free..."

#30

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 12:09am

Anybody who stays home is dead. If I die, it won't be from sittin' - it'll be from fighting to get up and get out!

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Gangway, world, get off of my runway.
- Mama Rose, Gypsy

A bird cage I plan to hang,
I'll get to that someday...
A bird cage for a bird who flew away
Around the world.
- Edie, Grey Gardens

#31

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 12:27am

Are the stars out tonight? I don't know if it's cloudy or bright... cause I only have eyes for you (can this count?)

HERE SHE IS BOYS - HERE SHE IS WOLRD.... HERE'S ROSE!!!!

Is it really me?

Daddy always said that he married beneath him.

... I'm not that smart.

In the mists of this nothing, this mess of a life, still there's this wanting just to see you go by.

Daddy played paino, played it very well.

#32

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 12:32am

"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd"
"Again...Step kick..."
"White, a blank page or canvas."

#33

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 12:34am

POP,SIX,SQUISH,UH OH, CICERO; LIPSCHITZ.

#34

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 12:37am

How does spoken dialogue count as a lyric?

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#35

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 1:26am

You're right, B3TA07, technically two of my examples are dialogue. Please forgive me for any trauma or chaos that resulted from my inaccuracy.

Updated On: 8/10/07 at 01:26 AM

#36

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 1:27am

Join us: leave your field to flower.

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#37

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 1:45am

"Mother cannot guide you, now you're on your own." Into The Woods

"I never wanted to love you, I only wanted to love and not be blamed." March Of The Falsettos

"There was a time, our happiness seemed neverending.." Ragtime

"Go out and tell our story, let it echo far and wide, make them hear you." Ragtime

"Will I lose my dignity?" RENT *This is one of my favorite lines ever*

#38

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 2:07am

I have a lot of favorites! :)

"There was a barber and his wife, and he was beautiful..." ~Sweeney Todd

"Stop telling me what to do-oooo. Don't treat me like a child of two-ooo. I know that you want what's best. But mother, please! Give it a rest!!!" ~Hairspray

"December 24th, 9 P.M, Eastern Standard Time!" ~Rent (I don't know why, but I just love that line!)

"I am here to tell you we can never meet again..." ~Aida

"Left my home at 15, wore this very same coat..." ~Songs For A New World

"Jamie is over and Jamie is gone. Jamie's decided it's time to move on...." ~The Last Five Years

#39

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 3:15am

"Another Op'nin' Another Show"

#40

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/10/07 at 5:35am

"Give me somebody to dance for..."-"Music and the Mirror", A CHORUS LINE.
"I wish I could forget you, erase you from my mind"-"I Wish I Could Forget You",PASSION.
"Listen, I got 36 expressions"-"I'm the Greatest Star", FUNNY GIRL.
"Tell me is love still a popular suggestion or merely an obsolete art?"-"I'm a Stranger Here Myself",ONE TOUCH OF VENUS.
"Yes, I know it worked just dandy for that Indian Mr.Ghandi"-"Mr.Stopnick and Emmie", CAROLINE OR CHANGE
"Too many mornings, waking and pretending I reach for you"-"Too Many Mornings," FOLLIES.
"Who's that woman? I know her well"-"Who's That Woman?", FOLLIES

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#41

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 5:47am

Once again, "Here she is boys, here she is world! Here's Rose!"
"In 1902, Father built a house at the edge of the Broadview Avenue Hill in New Rochelle, New York."
"Honey, what you crying at? You're not losing him to that!"
"Look at my ass! Look at my thighs! I'm catnip to the guys!"
"Oh yeah? That's what you think!"
"Curtis was supposed to-'Love Me! Curtis was supposed to love me!'"
"What's the time? Well, it's gotta be close to midnight"
"We go together..."

#42

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 5:51am

Willkommen, bievenue, welcome

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#43

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:48am

absolutely reiterating my love for;
attend the tale of sweeney todd - best opening line of a musical ever!
also wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome
and a new world calls across the ocean

then

i do not read to think

shadowlands...the leaves have fallen

you're on the air, im underground

and suddenly all of my confidence dribbles away with a pitiful plop

my brother lived in san francisco, he said he'd finally found his place

#44

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:46am

A spoken line, but I like it a lot:

Don't worry, it's quite suitable for the children. This is a tale of passion, desire, bloodshed and death. Everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.

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#45

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 10:28am

I'm so glad someone mentioned "December 24, 9 pm, Eastern Standard time"

"Stop the clock, take time out" tick tick Boom

"It's rather dull in town, I think I'll take me to Paree" My Fair Lady

"Order design composition tone form symmetry balance" Sunday in the Park with George

"They all lived happily, happily, happily ever after" Once Upon a Mattress

"Someone to hold you too close" Company

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The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

Updated On: 8/11/07 at 10:28 AM

#46

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 3:41pm

Ok, so this song isn't exactly from a Broadway musical, but it's magical just the same ... "Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today." from New York, New York.

"I Studied all the pictures in magizines and books" - Not For the Life of Me, Thoroughly Modern Millie

"A simple choice, nothing more, this or that, either or." - Gimme Gimme, Thoroughly Modern Millie

"I don't want to show off no more" - Show Off, The Drowsy Chaperone

"I put a monkey on a pedestol" - Bride's Lament, The Drowsy Chaperone

~Darci

#47

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:26pm

"DEAR ELLE HES A LUCKY GUY IM LIKE GONA CRY!!!!! I GOT TEARS COMIN OUTTA MY NOSE!!!!!"

#48

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 6:44pm

"Walk him up. walk him up. Walk him up the Stairs."
- Purlie

"I've heard it said, that people come into our lives, for a reason"
- Wicked

"Another hundred people just got off of the train"
- Company

"It's such a great night for a murder!"
- Stop! You're Killing Me!

"Something is stirring, shifting ground, it's just begun"
- Merrily We Roll Along

"525 thousand 600 minutes"
_RENT

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#49

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:03pm

"Something familiar, Something peculiar, Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!"- A Funny Thing...

#50

re: best opening lyric

Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:03pm

"And I am telling you I'm not going"
"Damn, damn, damn, damn"
"Doo-doo, doo-doo. Doo-doo, doo-doo. Doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo. You could drive a person crazy, you could drive a person mad."