Greastest Broadway Line
Greastest Broadway Line
livelife
Stand-by Joined: 2/13/06
#0Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:23pm
what are some of the greatest musical lines in broadway history?
tell me more, tell me more...how much dough did he spend?
#1re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:27pm
Freddy: Don't snore at the opera.
Lawrence: It was Wagner.
Freddy: It was 6 hours! I don't even like to have sex and eat bacon for 6 hours.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
Updated On: 2/19/06 at 04:27 PM
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#2re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:31pm"Who do you have to fcuk to get a break in this town?!"
I will climb back up that mountain!
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:31pm
I was going to say A Chorus Line but that was silly....
so
"...to flirt with rescue when one has no intention of being saved..." from A Little Night Music
amcchemist
Chorus Member Joined: 7/5/05
#4re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:39pmEven though we are sitting down, we are giving you a standing ovation. - The Producers
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#5re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:39pm
From Sunday In The Park With George:
Dot: I've come to tell you I'm living because I thought you might care to know, foolish of me because you care about nothing.
George: I care about many things.
Dot: Things...not people.
It's not a line, but this dialogue is one of the most heart-breaking in a musical.
From Passion: "We each deal with our pride as we can, Captain"
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#6re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:51pm
TURPIN: You're in a marry mood today, Mr. Todd.
---Sweeney Todd
EMCEE: We have no troubles here.
---Cabaret
MILES: My virgin!
HYSTERIUM: Sir, I am no virgin.
ERRONIOUS: Those filthy pirates!
---A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
DICKENSON: But what's wrong with being called an Englishman - the English don't seem to mind.
FRANKLIN: Nor would I, were I given the full rights of an Englishman. But to call me one without those rights is like calling an ox a steer. He's thankful for the compliment, but he'd much rather be restored what's rightfully his.
DICKENSON: When did you first notice they were missing?
---1776
PROF. HILL: My dear little librarian, you pile up enough tomorrows and you'll find you've collected nothing but a lot of lonely yesterdays.
---The Music Man
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
#7re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:53pm
"We are the knights who say, NI!"
Joking.
Um, there are so many. I can't decide.
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#8re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 4:59pm
"Don't talk like a slut, Shelley!"
-Bat Boy
"I'm hurrying, Tracy, but my mother says I'm not allowed to perspire!"
-Hairspray
"At last, my arm is complete again!"
-Sweeney Todd
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#9re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:06pm
Usually when we have a thread like this, someone eventually chimes in and asks us if we ever see any straight plays. Well, I'll do that this time.
ELIZABETH PROCTOR: He has his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him.
---The Crucible
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
#10re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:10pmI think Al Hirschfeld had the greatest lines in Broadway history!
hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#11re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:18pm
Nice, BobbyBubby.
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:19pmWhoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#13re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:40pm
ELIZABETH PROCTOR: Adultery, John.
By far my favorite.
#14re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:43pm
"Even though we're sitting down, we're giving you a standing ovation" --Max Bialystock, The Producers
..and the line that is my signature: "There's a horse's ass for every light on Broadway" - Julian Marsh, 42nd Street
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
#15re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:44pm
Thesbijean -- that was what I was going to write!
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#16re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:49pm
Firstly, my signature 
Secondly (all from 1776)-
Adams: I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!
Adams: Well, it doesn't matter. I'll not appear in the history books anyway. Only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod, and the three of them - Franklin, Washington, and the horse - conducted the entire revolution all by themselves.
Franklin: I like it.
Franklin: Be careful, Mr. Dickinson. Those who would give up their liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Adams (upon finding out that Jefferson has not yet started the Declaration): Good God! A whole week! The entire earth was created in a week!
Jefferson: Someday, you must tell me how you did it.
Adams: Disgusting. Look at him, Franklin. Virginia's most famous lover!
Jefferson (hasn't seen his wife in 6 months): Virginia abstains.
Franklin: "Treason is a cause invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers."
Adams: I have more to do than stand here listening to you quote yourself.
Franklin: No, that was a new one!
Abigail: Oh, John. Can you really know so little about yourself? And can you think so little of me that you'd believe I'd marry the man you've described? Have you forgotten what you used to say to me? I haven't. "Commitment, Abby. Commitment. There are only two creatures of value on the face of this earth - those with a commitment and those who require the commitment of others." Do you remember, John?
Adams: I remember.
Updated On: 2/19/06 at 05:49 PM
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#18re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 5:58pm"George Bush...is only for now..... " Just kidding, but it is a great line...
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#19re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 6:05pm
What do you do when you're not sure / Sister James, I have doubts...I have such doubts.-Doubt
I swear to god George, if you even existed I'd divorce you. / You're all flops. I am the Earth Mother, and you are all flops./ Good . Better. Best. Bested- Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
And Anything that came out of Liev Schrieber's mouth in the Glengarry revival.
#20re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 6:11pm1776 is such a great show.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#21re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 6:14pm
jasonf,
I know, such a brilliant moment in quite possibly one of the most brilliant plays.
#22re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 6:42pm
Senator Fipp: What an unexpected surprise!
Hope: Is there any other kind?
~Urinetown
"Art is always in crisis: you must work fast to write in the breath on the window."
-Edward Bond
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#23re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 6:54pmJam Man's last one is my e-mail signature. I believe that's the greatest Broadway line.
andycomposer
Chorus Member Joined: 1/28/06
#24re: Greastest Broadway Line
Posted: 2/19/06 at 7:12pm
Not a musical , but a great line from America's greatest playwright.
"Once and for all you must know that there's a universe of people outside, and you're responsible to it."
ALL MY SONS (Arthur Miller)
