what are your favorite TLM underwater lyrics/lines? Mine are
"...So let the clock run out, their time is almost up, and once they're trapped i'll have them wrapped around my suction cup.." from the "I want the Good times Back reprise" "...one more chance to get her man, and then-the squid will hit the fan..." from "sweet child reprise" "...She doesnt even speak, she treats me like sashimi left over from last week" from "She's in Love"
what are yours?
" I just want to go home and watch that show about midgets and eat a block of cheese!" Liz Lemon- 30 Rock
-"I want the entire sea to worship me on bended fin" in I Want the Good Times Back
-The mersisters have a good one in She's in Love, "She's flipped, it never fails - all hot beneath her scales. She's found a deep sea hunk - and how she's as good as sunk"
My least favorite is Triton's line in If Only
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin waters" ... it's a little forced
Mine is "Now its got a procedural cause sort of a squid pro quo" from "Poor Unfortunate souls" and I also like " Now see for yourself how banishment feels" form "Poor Unfortunate Souls Reprise"
That's only a tease of what the show has to offer. You almost wish only a quarter the way through that a shark would come out and have a real feast...because only that would make it worth seeing.
"I'll make you obey/'Till you do as I say!" - The World Above (reprise)
It doesn't even make any sense!
Although I have to admit that the song Human Stuff was kind of cute.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
I began losing what little faith I had in the show once Grimsby said "As for me, I'm about to heave-HOOOOO". I cringed at pretty much every lyric in "She's In Love". Once Ursula referred to her contract having a "squid pro quo", I lost it.
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
I literally was sitting in the theatre with this look of pain on my face. I saw it during a wednesday afternoon after school and this crap was comming at me so hard I couldn't figure out if I liked it or not.
I then realized afterwards that I would rather have gotten a castration then sit through this show.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
"I then realized afterwards that I would rather have gotten a castration then sit through this show. "
Wow. I really enjoyed the show, sure it had it's flaws, but overall I had a good time.
The performances helped, and the music was decent. It's Disney not Shakespeare! One thing we can say is that it is certainly not as bad as that jungle monster known as Tarzan.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
1. I haven't even seen the show, and I find the puns excessive. Even on the demo it was a bit much.
2. I hate it when people say "It's not Shakespeare" to make an excuse for a show. Ok, it isn't. But that doesn't mean it can't be good. There are are plenlty of good shows that aren't Shakespeare.
PLEASE! Do not post anything negative or dramatic! DidYouReallyHearMe has LOST the ability to ignore such posts and he will comment! Please, help him.
With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
"2. I hate it when people say "It's not Shakespeare" to make an excuse for a show. Ok, it isn't. But that doesn't mean it can't be good. There are are plenlty of good shows that aren't Shakespeare. "
Okay, fine.
It's no [insert well-known amazing author or playwright here]
I'm just saying just because it's not the most wonderfully written amazing thing on the planet doesnt mean it's crap. To the little kids around me when I saw it, it was their perhaps first musical and they will always look back on it fondly, was it amazing, it had it's moments. But, it certainly shouldn't be degraded as it has been. Flaws are flaws, but to it's target audience, it's good.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
You wanna talk about "fun" shows with quality: City of Angels, Little Me, ...Forum, She Loves Me, (as much as I hate to say it) The Producers, Kiss Me Kate, Annie, Promises Promises, How to Succeed.... All of these are well structured, well written shows. They were all "fun", too. Not every show that sucks should be labeled "fun" and be given the Get out of Jail Free Card because of it. Some shows just suck. The Little Mermaid is one of them. Terrible dialogue, terrible new lyrics, bland new music ("Beyond My Wildest Dreams" and "One Step CLoser" have music ripped right from the movie score), awful designs (save Natsha Katz's lighting), bland choreography, elementary staging, and plot holes so big that you're afraid one of the actors is gonna fall into one while riding their heelies. Yes, the talent on that stage is impeccable and the original songs are great, but what good does it do the show?
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.