Words/phrases you learned from musicals?- Page 2
Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
pli1018
Broadway Star Joined: 4/16/07
#25re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 2:27pmSchaudenfraude, many of the words from Spelling Bee and of course the variety of phrases from [tos].
#26re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 2:34pmSchaudenfraude from Avenue Q naturally. And capybara from Spelling Bee- was watching Jeopardy the other day and it was one of the answers.
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#27re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 2:43pmI learned how to sing by looping Maria's do-re-mi lesson in "The Sound of Music."
#28re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 3:07pm
neurasthenic- Spring Awakening
schadenfreude- Avenue Q
And as for the phrases:
"The devil you know beats the devil you don't." - Side Show
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#30re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 4:00pmYour haircut is so title of show
#31re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 4:09pmCramazing is my new favorite [tos] inspired phrase. I'm trying to make it happen with my friends...without much success.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#32re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 5:04pmI learned that B&E meant breaking and entering because of Jersey Boys.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#33re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 5:23pmI learned what "Don't bogart that joint" means from Xanadu... actually I heard it in Xanadu and had to ask what it meant!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#34re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 7:34pm
I think it was Sondheim that interjected the phrase "Everything's Coming Up Roses" into American vernacular.
I didn't know what "cheese grits" were until I heard "Pump Boys & Dinettes". I knew what grits were, but I didn't know you could have cheese in them.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#35re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 7:41pm
Schadenfreude- Avenue Q
I was taking a test a while ago and I was having so much difficulty. I was thrilled when I came upon a word that I knew from a show.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the word or the show.
Also, "syzygy" was recently used on a TV game show.
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
#36re: Words/phrases you learned from musicals?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 7:46pmI was actually thrilled several years ago when I took the GRE. About halfway through one analogy used the word mollify. I sat there for a minute, not knowing exactly what it meant and trying to remember where I had heard it, when suddenly Bernadette Peters popped into my head as the Witch: "Sorry, I'm still not mollified! And I laid a little spell on them..." Yes! A few questions later I ran into the word proclivity, which I had learned playing the Beadle in Sweeney Todd a few months earlier. I got a 740 verbal, got into grad school, and I swear I owe it all to Stephen Sondheim.
