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From: Lamont
"Sometimes I feel you're touched."
Into the Woods"The Giant is a WOMAN!!!"
Into The Woods(James Lapine)
From: jrny
"Joy today and bliss tomorrow
And forever after"
-Into The Woods"First you're another sloe-eyed vamp
Then someone's mother
Then your camp!
Then you career
From career to career"
-Follies"Every knot was once straight rope."
-Into The Woods
From: meaghan
"All things are beautiful,
Mother.
All trees, all towers,
Beautiful.
That tower -
Beautiful, Mother,
See?
A perfect tree.
" -Sunday in the Park with George"Laugh at the kings or they'll make you cry!"
-Anyone Can Whistle
From: Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton
"Today I woke to weak to walk."
-A Funny Thing Happned on the Way to the ForumFrom: Vicki
"Something familiar,
Something peculiar,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!"
-A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumFrom: Achievement.org
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
- The Academy of Achievement's exclusive interview with Stephen SondheimFrom Rex:
"Some times I stand
In the middle of the floor,
Not going left,
Not going right.
-Follies"She loves my voice, my walk, my moustache,
The cigar, in fact, that I'm smoking.
She'll watch me puff until it's just ash,
Then she'll save the cigar butt.
Bizarre but ... you're joking!"
-A Little Night MusicFrom Benita Black:
"...so I took a vow
Said, "This bum'll
Be Beau Brummel."
-Gypsy
From Robert D. :
"This time for me!"
-Gypsy"Exclusive you,
Elusive you,
Will anybody ever get the juice of you? "
-Company"Automobile in America,
Chromium steel in America,
Wire-spoke wheel in America,
Very big deal in America!"
-West Side Story"In view of her penchant
For something romantic,
DeSade is too trenchant
and Dickents too frantic,
And Stendhal would ruin
The plan of attack
As there isn't much blue in
"The red and the Black."
-A Llittle Night Music"I'll have our future suit your whim,
Blue chip preferred.
Putting it in a synonym,
Perfect's the word."
-Follies"And are you beautiful and pale
With yellow hair, like her?
I'd want yu beautiful and pale
The way I've dreamed you were,
Johanna."
-Sweeny Todd"Not a day goes by,
Not a blessed day.
But you're still somehow part of my life
And you won't go away."
-Merrilly We Roll Along"Finishing the hat,
How you have to finsh the hat,
How you watch the rest of the world
From a window
While you finsh the hat."
-Sunday in the Park With George"Now, as the sweet imbecilities
Tumble so lavishly
Onto her lap.
Now there are two possibilities
A, I could ravish her
B, I could nap."
-A Little Night Music"Gee Officer Krupke,
Krup you!"
--West Side Story"Not Bobby and Jackie and Jack
And Ethel and Ted and Eunice and Pat
And Joan and Steve and Peter and Jean and Sarge-
There's probably dozens of others at large,
God knows -
And Joe and Rose"
-Merrilly We Roll Along"My blue-eyed Sarah
Warm Joanne
Sweet Jenny
Loving Susan
Crazy Amy,
Wait for me,
I'll hurry, wait for me."
-Company"Lining up the friends but in addition
Lining up a prominent commission,
Otherwise your perfect composition
Isn't going to get much exhibition."
-Sunday in the Park With George"City on Fire!
Rats in the grass
And the lunatics yelling in the streets!
It's the end of the world! Yes!
-Sweeney Todd"You take your road,
The decades fly,
The yearnings fade, the longings die.
You learn to bid them all goodbye."
-Follies"The opposite of Left is Right,
The opposite of right is wrong
So anyone who's Left is wrong, right?"
-Anyone Can Whistle"Every little pillow has its use
Take it from a conoissoor.
I'm the boy who coined the word "seduce,"
Not a lousy amachoor.
Every little thing has its function
In conjunction
With amour.
Take it from a boy who's had
Rendezvous galoor.
To impress, to appeal,
Use finesse, be genteel."
- Saturday Night"The moon's like a million-watt electric light-
It shines up the city as it climbs.
And I gotta spend another Saturday night
Alone with the Sunday Times"
-Saturday Night"And what if none of their souls were saved
They went to their maker impeccably shaved
By Sweeney
By Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
-Sweeney Todd"Hey Mr. Producer
I'm Talkin' to you, sir!"
- Follies"It's the little things
The litlle. little, litlle, little, little things"
- Company"My father is a bastard
My ma's an SOB
My grandpa's always plastered
My grandma pushes tea
My sister wears a mustache
My brother wears a dress
Goodness gracious
That's why I'm a mess!"
- West Side Story"A maid!
A maid!
A maid!
A maid!Everybody oughta have a maid.
Everybody oughta have a working girl.
Everybody oughta have a lurking girl."-A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
"You're always sorry
You're always grateful
You're always wondering
What might have been
Then she walks in.And still you're sorry
And still you're grateful
And still you wonder
And still you doubt
Then she walks out.Good things get better
Bad gets worse
Wait
I think I meant that in reverse."
-Company"Ladies in their sensitivities, my lord
Have a fragile sensibility
When a girl's emergent
Probably it's urgent
You defer to her
Gent
ility
My lord"
-Sweeney Todd
From Robert:
"Once I was a schlepper
Now I'm Miss Mazeppa"
-Gypsy
From Cheryl:
"Dreams don't die so keep an eye on your dreams."
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: Samantha
"Sometimes when all the wrappings fall there's nothing underneath at all"
-FolliesFrom: Josh "How do you know so much about it when you've never been there?"
-CompanyFrom: Messyjessy
"You and me, pal, we're the loonies. Did you know that? Bet you didn't know that."
-Sunday In The Park With George"All right, Mother, when?
Lost the beans again!
Punish me the way you did then!
Give me claws and a hunch,
just away from this bunch,
And gloom and the doom
And the boom cruuuunch!"
-Into The Woods
From: Lyle
"Scrapbooks full of me in the background."
-Gypsy
From: Mike
"A thicket it's no trick, is it thick?
It's the thickest
The quickest is pick it apart with a stick
Yes but even one prick it's my thing about blood
Well it's sick
It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves
Dwarfs (Dwarfs)
Dwarfs are very upsetting"
-Into the Woods
From: Jay
Wishes come true, not free.
-Into the WoodsFrom: Candice
"What's the good of being good if everyone is blind, and you're always left
behind?"
-Into the Woods
From: Chip
"It's your father's fault
that the curse got placed
and the place got cursed in the first place."
-Into the Woods"There's a lot that's at stake,
But you've stalled long enough
'Cause you're still standing
stuck in the stuff on the steps."
-Into The Woods
From: Ryan
"...the ear hears things that the mind doesn't...you look at a sidewalk,you don't see the grouting,
but the grouting is there. If you've built the sidewalks, you look at the grouting.
You say: Gee, that's bad grouting over there....the idea is not to make it effortful
for the listener...you put too much cement in, it absolutely rigidifies it and it becomes boring..."grouting"
...holds [music] together, but allows it to expand and contract and prevents it from breaking..."
-Stephen Sondheim on Music
From: Kelisha
"Perpetual sunset is
Rather an unset-tling thing.
The hands on the clock turn,
But don't sing a nocturne
Just yet."
-A Little Night Music
From: Candy
"What's the good of being good if everyone is blind,
And you're always left behind?"
-Into The WoodsFrom Martha:
"Without woods. Without witches, or slippers or hoods."
-Into The WoodsFrom Jeff:
In reference to standard crosswords :
'And as for "Bantu hartebeest," I say its "lebbek" -- and I say the hell with it."
From Jenifer:
"When will we meet?
I long to ask you
Why do you smoke?
Where are you from?
Charles, am I ugly?
Charles, am I dumb?
Charles, do you like me?
Charles, could you love me?"
--Evening Primrose
From Florence:
Sometimes I catch him looking and looking, and I just look right back.
-Company
From Ray:
"I've gotten through,
'Hey lady, aren't you whozis,
Wow what a looker you were!'
Or better yet,
'Sorry, I thought you were whozis,
Whatever happened to her!'
- Follies"Old friends pour
Through the revolving door
Maybe there's one that's more
If you find one, that'll do
But us, old friends
What's to discuss, old friends
Here's to us
Who's like us
Damn few!"
- Merrily We Roll Along"The morning ends
I think about you
I talk to friends
And think about you
And do they know
It's like I'm losing my mind?"
- Follies"Sometimes she drinks in bed
Sometimes he's homosexual,
But why be viscious,
They keep it out of sight
Good show, they're gonna be alright!
And so, we're gonna be alright!
Heigh ho, we're gonna be alright!"(We're Gonna Be Alright- alternate lyrics provided by SJS for Side By
Side By Sondheim)"No don't look at me,
Please not just yet,
Why am I here,
This is crazy
Look at this party
Isn't it eiree
Look at these people
Aren't they dreary
I'm so glad I came!"
-Follies-"Demons are prowling everywhere
Nowadays
I'll send 'em howling, I don't care
I've got ways."
-Sweeney Todd(Fredrick)"She'd strike you as unenlightened
(Desiree)No I'd strike her first!
(Fredrick)Her reticence, her apprehension
(Desiree) Her crust!
(Fredick) No!
(Desiree) Yes!
(Fredrick) No!
(Desiree) Fredrick!
(Fredrick) You must meet my wife
(Desire) Let me get my hat and my knife!
(Fredrick) What was that?
(Desiree) I must meet your wife
(Both) Yes I (you) must....."
- A Little Night MusicFrom Kieran:
"There's a whole in the world
Like a great black pit
And it's full of people
Who are filled with of shit
And it goes by the name of
London"
-Sweeney Todd
From Brent Marty:
"This is how Samson was shorn,
Each, in her style, a Delilah reborn."
-Follies
From Jules:
"It's our time, breathe it in
Worlds to change and worlds to win.
Our turn coming through,
Me and you, pal, me and you!"
-Merrily We Roll Along"Oh, I know you fancy him, but men ain't like women, they ain't
what you can trust, as I've lived and learned."
- Sweeney Todd (Hugh Wheeler)
From Gordon:
"I sensed in him a danger,
Deception,
Even violence.
I must admit to some degree
That it excited me."
- Passion"I mean, even cream of wheat has lumps!"
- Merrily We Roll Along"And a friendship's like a garden: you have to water it, and tend it, and care for it. And I want it back."
- Merrily We Roll Along (George Furth)"In case you didn't notice, this is my first time on T.V. - and my last!"
- Merrily We Roll Along"You are the only family I know.
Please: come with me."
- Into the Woods (James Lapine)"In Florence, Italy, a woman will leap from the Duomo clutching a picture of your victim and cursing
your name."
- Assassins (John Weidman)"One's impossible
Two is gloomy
Give another number to me!
Side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side!"
- Company"Tall . . . she's tall enough to be your mother . . . Goliath!"
- Company
From Otto:
"We Lose things,
And then we choose things,
And there are Louies,
And there are Georges,
Well Louis, and George.
But George has George,
And I need someone....Louis"
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Greg and Marsha Williams
"The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.
You have to move on."
-Sunday in the Park with George
From: Ashley
"slotted spoons don't hold much soup"
-Into The Woods
From: Lizbeth
"When you know you can't have what you want, where's the profit in wishing?"
-Into The Woods
From: D "My final thought is a simple but mighty one: it is the obligation we have been given.
It is to not turn out the same. It is to grow, to accomplish, to change the world."
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: Rachel
"Every road has a turning,
That's the way you keep learning."
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: Steven Gillenwater
"We're bringing back style to the White House
I'm painting it beige for a start
We're making it into a cultural lighthouse
For glamour and beauty and art
Evenings of the Budapest playing Vivaldi
And Munch doing bits of Ravel
We'll get Leontyne Price to sing her
Medley from 'Meistersinger'
And Margot Fontaine to dance 'Giselle'"Together?"
"Won't it be perfectly swell?"
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: Willz
"Then you leave a person dangling, sadly, outside your door,
Which could only make a person gladly want you even more!"
-Company
"Easy now hush love hush I keep telling you whats your rush,
keep your thoughts nice and lush, wait!"
-Sweeney Todd
" The Lord's my employer and now he's my lawyer!"
-Assassins
"Why do his friends call him Lillian?"
-The Mad Show
From: Mario Z.
"Here's to the girls who play wife
Aren't they too much?
Keeping house but clutching a copy of "Life"
Just to keep in touch.The ones who follow the rules
And meet themselves at the schools
Too busy to know that they're fools
Aren't they a gem?I'll drink to them,
Let us all drink to them."
-CompanyFrom: Amanda
"Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor"
-Into The WoodsFrom: Candy-Leigh
"You may know what you need but to get what you want better see that keep what you have!"
-Into The WoodsFrom: Mathew Davis
"I was taught to be charming not sincere"
-Into The Woods
From:Josephine Debienne
"We disappoint. We Disappear. We die, but we don't."
-Into The WoodsFrom:Laurie S.
"Why is love so easy to give, and so hard to recieve?"
-Passion
"What I want most of all, is to know what I want"
-Into The WoodsFrom: Babs
"Just when I stopped
Opening doors,
Finally knowing
The one that I wanted was yours.
Making my entrance again
With my usual flair,
Sure of my lines,
No one is there."
-A little Night Music
From:Lola
"I frequently laugh myself to sleep contemplating my own future"
-A little Night Music(dialogue by Hugh Wheeler)From: Laura
"We do not belong together, and we should have belonged together.
What made it so right together is what made it all wrong."
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Jenna
"Trouble is, Charley,
That's what everyone does.
Blames the way it is
On the way it was.
On the way it never ever was."
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: Matthew Davis
"A gun kills many men before its done hundreds
Long before you shoot the gun
Men in the mines
And in the steel mills
Men at machines
Who died for what
Something to buy-
A watch, a shoe, a gun
A Thing to make the bosses richer,
But
A gun claims many men before its done...
Just
One
More"
-Assassins
From: Andy Clark "Steward"
"If you know what you want then you go and you find it and you get
it...""There are rights and wrongs and in betweens..."
-Into the Woods
From: Sarah T.
"There's not a breath
Of air up here.
And they're up here.
Forever."
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Brent Marty
"As dumbbells go he's rather slow,
And as for being saintly, even faintly, no.
But who needs Albert Schweitzer when the lights are low!
And oh boy, oh boy, can that boy fox-trot!"
-Follies"And while it's going along
You take for granted some love will wear away.
We took for granted a lot and still I say...
It could've kept on growing
Instead of just kept on...
We had a good thing going...going...
Gone."-Merrily We Roll Along
"What's hard comes simple
What's natural comes hard."
-Anyone Can Whistle
From: Jenny
"Nothing with gods, nothing with fate;
Weighty affairs will just have to wait!"
-A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
From: Lucia S.
"The things that I want, I don't seem to get,
The things that I get...well, you know what I mean?"
-Follies
"Sometimes when the wrappings fall,
There's nothing underneath at all!"
-Follies
"Okay, so now you know, life is crummy"
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: Ted G.
"Careful the tale you tell
That is the spell
Children will listen."
-Into The Woods
From: alan borrow
"We have so much in common it's a phenomenon."
-Gypsy
From: Nancy E. Jones
"A couch must be sprayed
With the fragrance of new pine,
And soon all vertical things will be supine.
A woman will feel at ease
As long as she's smelling trees in bloom."
-Saturday Night
From: Joseph Molnar
"You would have liked her,
Mama did things
No one had done.
Mama was funny,
Mama was fun,
Mama spent money
When she had none."
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Chris Z.
"Oh if life were only moments
Even now and then a bad one
But if life were only moments
Then you'd never know you had one"
-Into The Woods
