"What is that?" "It's fop, finest in the shop and we have some shepard's pie peppered with actual shepard on top"
that whole song is genius!
Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood.
They will not protect you the way that they should.
~Into the Woods
"There is no plague! You are trying to raise cows on the side of a MOUNTAIN!!!" ~Meredith Parker, Bat Boy
So many classic lines in Urinetown, but especially during the moment where the two cops are breaking up the riot.................. (screaming in desperation)"They have ONE....TWO.....TWO MEN -- and we're all so poor!!!"
I think my newest favorite line is from 'bare' when they are rehearsing Romeo and Juliet:
Nadia slaps Ivy.
Director (something to the affect of): "I looked all through the script and I don't think the nurse slaps Juliet."
Nadia (slaps Ivy again while holding her script): "I really think there's a slap there."
Agnes Gooch (Mame) is singing of being pregnant, "If life is a banuet, I stuffed myself!"
"We really need a good revival of Mame on Broadway."
-Theaterbaby i agree, Mame is one of the greatest shows I think I've ever seen. It's a classic and it needs to be revived!! Updated On: 5/15/04 at 12:36 PM
"The biggest hit show on Broadway and we have empty seats in the front row. What's the matter with people, Lon? Are they afraid of the rain? .. bunch of pussies."
This has been bothering me for weeks because i cant remember the line, but it was from 42nd St. they are talking about musicians and saying "thats why we keep them in a pit"
anyone know that line?
Though scattered and divided we are still its heart...AIDA SEPTEMBER 5th, 2004...one more longing backward glance...
I AM NOW "TGIF!"
When Whoopi Goldberg was in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", her character was trying to talk Hysterium into dressing like a woman. Conversation went something like:
Hysterium: He'll never believe I'm a girl. Look at me. Whoopi: Mmmm, Miss Thang. You are SO FINE!!! Hysterium: But what if he tries to kiss me? Whoopi: He won't try to kiss you. Hysterium: How can he help it if I'm, 'SO FINE'?
The guy playing Hysterium said that last line with a Whoopi-esque 'black-cent'. It was so funny I almost cried.
Ok i just think that most of avenue q is hilarious! And a lot of lines from Bat boy are funny and a lot of the ones i like were already mentioned i'm not gonna type 'em again.
It's not outright funny, but just SO cheesy and predictable, from "The Boyfriend".
(Bobby has just proposed to Maisie and she says she'll tell him in a few hours.)
Bobby: Well, there's only one thing we can do while waiting...
Chorus: What's that?
Bobby: DANCE!!!!
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Miss Preen- "Oh, you mustn't eat candy Mr Whiteside, it's very....bad.....for.....you."
Sheridan Whiteside- "Miss Preen. My Great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy everyday of her life, she lived to be a hundred and two, and when she had been dead for three days she still looked better than you do now."
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
"we'll name the first child Beverly" "well then I hope it's a girl"
Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood.
They will not protect you the way that they should.
~Into the Woods
"There is no plague! You are trying to raise cows on the side of a MOUNTAIN!!!" ~Meredith Parker, Bat Boy
"It's not outright funny, but just SO cheesy and predictable, from "The Boyfriend". (Bobby has just proposed to Maisie and she says she'll tell him in a few hours.)
Bobby: Well, there's only one thing we can do while waiting...
Chorus: What's that?
Bobby: DANCE!!!! "
That made me think of Hairspray:
"They can keep us from kissing, but they can't stop us from singing!" (Link)
while strolling down memory lane the other day, i came across some old SP quotes:
"Oh no, I love black. Just not on me...or anyone that I know. Of course, if I had your complexion, I might wear black too." ~Percy
"Boys, when they ask you where you've been for the last two days what will you tell them?" "Off netting butterflies {look from Percy} I *was* off netting butterflies" ~Percy + Elton
"We meet again Sir Percy." "So we do and you appear to have lost none of your flair for stating the obvious." ~Chauvelin + Percy
hee...also remembered one from Kiss Me Kate
"Oh there was a waltz in it, remember? Something about a bar" ~Lilli
P.S. I am determined to not let this thread die - so keep thinking!! :)
Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood.
They will not protect you the way that they should.
~Into the Woods
"There is no plague! You are trying to raise cows on the side of a MOUNTAIN!!!" ~Meredith Parker, Bat Boy
Meredith: "You have to look out for these boys Shelly. MOst of them are so out of control with their hormones that they really aren't in charge of their actions. But you don't suffer from their hormonal problems, so you'll bear the responsibility if something happens." Shelly: "Like what?" Meredith: "The wages of sin is death, sweetheart, that's all I'm saying."
Lorraine: "Oh, you boys are in denial. I went out to that ranch of yours yesterday and every one of those bony cows was lying around like a welfare mother."
Mrs. Taylor: "That's right. Burn, you freak! Burn! You'll pay for what you did to me. You'll pay in hell Bat Boy!"
Parker: "Don't worry folks, the creature is on what is commonly know as a 'rampage.'"
From the evil she done Lord
Set her free, Set her free, Set me free
Don't let my sorrow
Make evil of me
here's two from the m.p. THE WOMEN - Joan Crawford's character Crystal Allen to the other women: "There's a name for you ladies, but it's not used in high society... outside of a kennel!"
a distressed Countess DeLave: "get me a bromide...and put some gin in it!"
"I've had two years to grow claws, Mother, and they're Jungle Red!" Mary Haines - The Women
the producers: max: alamenchen mushelmachen haiden tomalgastzen pipchlachen woman: what does that mean? max: who knows i don't speak yiddish
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
"How 'bout bad subject matter? Or a bad title, even, that could kill a show pretty good."
"Not so much, as it is, a METOPYHSICAL place!"
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle