Post a lyric from a musical -- then dare someone to identify the musical!

[bertha katzenengel]

I dare you to identify the musical that this is from:

It's Braves and Giants 2 to 2
The pitcher's name is Hub Perdue
Jack Murray's now up at bat . . . .

My god! Would somebody look at that!

[MorningGlow]

1. Damn Yankees?

I'm just going with the odds, here. :shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

6. good guess! but no.

:hi:

[Aristus]

2. "I have been in expectation of receiving a reply,

on the subject of my last fifteen dispatches...
Is anybody there?
Does anybody care?
Does anybody care?"

[bertha katzenengel]

8. it's on the tip of my tongue

argh!

[Aristus]

13. Well, spit it out, bertha

:-)

[bertha katzenengel]

20. 1776?

[Aristus]

21. DONE, Bertha! Done!

B-)

yr humble and ob'nt...

G. Washington

[bertha katzenengel]

22. you wanna be more impressed?

it was a swag. the word "dispatches" and a little history... :shrug:

[MorningGlow]

3. Okeley dokeley--dare ya

I want to go home, I want to go home
I don't want to go in the trenches no more
Where whizzbangs and shrapnel they whistle and roar
Take me over the sea, where the alleyman can't get at me
Oh my, I don't want to die
I want to go home

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Miss Saigon?

Not a good guess... it sounds more like WWI to me.

[MorningGlow]

15. Nope

But you are right about which war!

[bertha katzenengel]

16. yeah... trenches & whizzbangs

I refuse to use Google. :(

[Silver Swan]

25. Oh what a lovely war.

One of my favorites.

[MorningGlow]

34. Ding ding ding ding!!

Very good! :applause: :toast:

[flvegan]

4. Alrighty then

Well you got caught with a flat
Well how 'bout that
Well babies don't you panic
By the light of the night
It'll all seem alright
I'll get you a Satanic mechanic

(This one should be fairly easy)

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Rocky Horror

[flvegan]

7. You rose tint my world.

:loveya:

[trackfan]

10. Ok

For Paul Revere I'll bite
I hear his foot's all right
Of course it all depends if it rained last night

[LisaM]

49. Well that's from Guys and Dolls

I know that one!

[Dr. Strange]

11. Well, temeah's gonna be sad he missed it, but...

You're a naughty one, saucy Jack,
You're a haughty one, saucy Jack.

[IntravenousDemilo]

78. Well, if anyone should answer this, it should be me.

It's from the "work in progress" by David St Hubbins in This is Spinal Tap.


So here's one:

There's water that you part,
Water that you walk on,
Water that you turn to wine,
But water from a rock -- Lord, what a miracle!
This is a miracle that's divine.

[Mad_Dem_X]

103. Just a guess, but...

Jesus Christ Superstar?

[SPQR]

104. Anyone Can Whistle

...really divine.
Simply Divine!

[IntravenousDemilo]

114. DINGDINGDINGDINGDING!

The show is very timely for today, what with recession looming in a US run by corrupt politicians. If only there weren't those book problems, it would be nice if Anyone Can Whistle were revived. I saw a concert version here in January, which was a momentous occasion for me because now I've finally seen productions of every one of Sondheim's musicals, and he's been my mentor for 27 years. Took me long enough, eh?

The show I really want to see revived is The Golden Apple, because then we might get a complete recording of Jerome Moross's score at long last. The existing OC album has only about half of the music (the show is completely sung). I can't even find the score anywhere, so I don't know what half of the songs sound like.

I'm mentioning this because I get the feeling you're a big musical fan.

[SPQR]

118. Never heard of The Golden Apple,

so I don't know as much as I'd like to. I've loved Anyone Can Whistle ever since I heard the album back in HS, and you're right, it's a timely show for today, with its mix of religion, economics, politics and conformity. But the purely escapist part of me has been longing for a revival of On the 20th Century -- I never got to see the original and it's got such a great, fun score.

[rateyes]

12. These:

Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso,
Notte e giorno d'intorno girando,
Delle belle turbando il riposo,
Narcisetto, Adoncino d'amor.

Delle belle turbando il riposo,
Narcisetto, Adoncino d'amor.

Non piu avrai questi bei penacchini,
Quel cappello leggiero e galante,
Quella chioma, quell'aria brillante,
Quel vermiglio donnesco color!
Quel vermiglio donnes color!

[CBHagman]

24. That's from...

...Le Nozze di Figaro. Something about Cherubino not getting to keep the ladies up at night once he goes into the army. ;-)

[rateyes]

27. Cigar for you!

[CBHagman]

14. I'll play.

Here's one I think of every time I'm selecting tomatoes at the Giant:

At any vegetable market from Borneo to Nome,
You mustn't squeeze the melon till you get the melon home.

[rateyes]

18. I know it!

But, I'll let others give the answer. :evilgrin:

[CBHagman]

23. That's what my English professor used to say.

To a flummoxed, tongue-tied student: "You know, but you're not going to tell us, are you?"

[rateyes]

28. OK, I'll try:

Guys and Dolls?

[CBHagman]

30. Oh, yeah.

"Marry the Man Today," sung by Sarah Brown and Miss Adelaide.

You win the kewpie doll.

[rateyes]

17. How about these:

On silent feet it came
Breathing a sheet of flame, it came
Closing it on its rightful prey
Burning a hundred years away
The Morning of the Dragon
Truth up the street
The tiger we were stalking
Walked on paper feet
And in the clear white heat
Of dawn
Was gone

[IntravenousDemilo]

79. Well, THAT is from Miss Saigon!

Try this:

Like a perfumed woman,
The wind blows in the bunkhouse.
Like a perfumed woman,
Smellin' of where she's been.

Smellin' of Oregon cherries,
Or maybe Texas avocados,
Or maybe Arizona sugar-beets.

The wind blows in,
And she sings to me 'cause I'm one of her ramblin' kin.

[Dr. Strange]

19. Try this one:

Sometimes, the world is black.
And tears run from your eyes.
And maybe we'll all get really sick.
And maybe we'll all die.
So...

Let's build a snowman!
We can make him our best friend.
We can name him Tom or we can name him George!
We can make him tall, or we can make him not so tall.
Snowman!

[IntravenousDemilo]

80. CANNIBAL, THE MUSICAL!

I just got the DVD. Shpidoinkle...

ETA: Whoops, forgot to leave one for you.

I like rain, I like hair
I like you
You're around, you're right here
So you'll do

I'm gonna tell you how much I love your mind
But it simply isn't true

[Dr. Strange]

90. More Parker and Stone, eh?

Team America, fuck yeah!

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. I'm gonna stuff it up my asshole and ride the briefcase again, you disgusting perverted bastard worm

Curious to see who knows that line.

I know a few will.

[rateyes]

31. Ode to Larry Craig?

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. No, but that's a pretty good guess!

[rateyes]

50. LOL.

I'm going to give you some initials, and you tell me if I'm right.

Singer: FZ Song: BB

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. You got it right in the potato-headed whatchamacallit's nose

:patriot:

[nomorenomore08]

29. One of the few movie musicals I actually like:

"With a little plan you can change your life to-day
You dont have to spend your life addicted to smack
Homeless on the streets giving handjobs for crack..."

Different song, same movie:

"Bombs are flying
People are dying
Children are crying
Politicians are lying, too

Cancer is killing
Texaco is spilling
The whole world's gone to hell
But how are you?"

[Dr. Strange]

32. Now find the connection between your musical and mine:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7599071#7599159

[BreweryYardRat]

33. An easy one.

What is that?

It's fop.
Finest in the shop.

[Malikshah]

36. Easy peasy lemon squeezy...

Sweeney Todd.

Personally, I'm looking for Shepherds Pie peppered with actual Shepherd on top. :)

[EFerrari]

35. His Royal majesty, Christopher Rupert

Heraild: His royal highness Christopher Rupert Vwindemier Vlandamier Carl Alexander Francois Reginald Lancelot Herman --

Boy: HERMAN?

Herald: Herman.. Gregory James is giving a ball.

[elfrangel]

45. Cinderella...eom

[elfrangel]

47. Dup...sorry

self-delete

[colinmom71]

37. I know this one, and I love this musical!!

Ragtime... "Up your alley!" (BTW, there's a nifty series of videos of a PBS documentary on the making of Ragtime on YouTube.)

Hmmm... Try this one...

"And he showed me things
Many beautiful things,
That I hadn't thought to explore.
They were off my path,
So I never had dared.
I had been so careful, I never had cared.
And he made me feel excited -
Well, excited and scared."

[Malikshah]

38. Wild guess-- most likely wrong, but...

Into the woods?

[colinmom71]

39. You got it right on the first guess! :-)

[bertha katzenengel]

63. Yippee!

I'm so glad someone else out there loves it. It was the first musical I ever saw, and I cried from the moment Little Boy ran out onto the stage and picked up the stereopticon to the final bows. I was so moved.

Yours? My only guess is Jesus Christ Superstar. :shrug:

I will have to look for that PBS series! Seriesly!!!!11!!111!!11!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. Here's one:

No doubt you think I'm giving in
To petulance and malice
But I'm tired of gracious living
In this stuffy little palace...

[IntravenousDemilo]

83. Candide

OK, try:

When the begat got to gettin' under par,
They begat the daughters of the D.A.R.
They begat the babbits of the bourgeoisie,
Who begat the misbegotten G.O.P.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

92. I don't know the answer to yours, but

congratulations on knowing Candide!

[IntravenousDemilo]

100. It's one of my all time favourites. I have two different versions on CD,

the OC album, which I like because of Barbara Cook, and the red-covered two-disc one that Bernstein did shortly before his death, which I like for its completeness. I also have the vinyl version of the smaller Hal Prince production. I don't have the Livent production with Andrea Martin as the Old Lady.

As to the one I left you, think "Irish". Sure, and I'll give you another song from the show:

Oh, my heart is beating wildly
And it's all because you're here.
When I'm not near the girl I love,
I love the girl I'm near.

Any femme that flutters by me
Is a flame that must be fanned.
When I can't fondle the hand that I'm fond of,
I fondle the hand at hand.

My heart's in a pickle. It's constantly fickle,
And not too partickle, I fear.
When I'm not near the girl I love
I love the girl I'm near!

[SPQR]

106. Finian's Rainbow

What's-his-name, the leprechaun.

[IntravenousDemilo]

112. Very good, yes. Great songs in that terrific satire, but they don't do it much now, unfortunately.

Og.

[terrya]

41. Ok I'll play

Here's to the ladies who lunch--
Everybody laugh.
Lounging in their caftans
And planning a brunch
On their own behalf.
Off to the gym,
Then to a fitting,
Claiming they're fat.
And looking grim,
'Cause they've been sitting
Choosing a hat.
Does anyone still wear a hat?
I'll drink to that.

[Richardo]

44. 'Company'

I would not have known that except we caught it on 'Great Performances' on PBS a few weeks back. And it was a great show.

[terrya]

46. That is correct!

It is a fabulous show.

[Tikki]

42. Fetch me my jimmy choo flip flops,.....

....Where is my pink prada tote?
I need my tiffany hair band,
And then I can go for a float....


?




Tikki

[lightningandsnow]

48. I'm guessing

"Legally Blonde: The Musical"?

[Tikki]

61. A newer musical that is for sure......

but not Legally Blonde...


Tikki

[IntravenousDemilo]

84. I'm not terrifically proud that I know this, but...

High School Musical 2 (as if one wasn't enough).

Try this one on for size:

Hey mama, hey mama,
Look around
Everybody's groovin' to a brand new sound
Hey mama, hey mama,
Follow me
I know something's in you
That you wanna set free

[Tikki]

119. My adult kids love that musical....HAIRSPRAY...

and you were correct about High School Musical....and the grandchildren love it.




Tikki

[Mezzo]

51. It's from the smash hit

Ragtime!!!

"Make them Hear you" would be a good song for BO.

[bertha katzenengel]

64. Very well done! And damifyou aren't right about "Make Them Hear You!"

Very well said.

Since I saw Ragtime, I've always wanted to sing the role of Emma Goldman.

...and although they called it "the crime of the century,"
Goldman knew it was only 1906

and there were ninety-four years to go!
WWWWWHEEEEEEEEE!

[elfrangel]

52. Here's mine:

Ev'ry so often we long to steal
To the land of what might have been
But that doesn't soften the ache we feel
When reality sets back in

[lightningandsnow]

55. It's from Wicked.

"I'm Not That Girl"

[elfrangel]

66. Correct!!

[Guava Jelly]

53. My pleasure

Mine will come as a surprise to me.
Mine I lead to chance and chemistry.

Female(spoken) Chemistry?
Male (spoken) Yeah, chemistry.

Suddenly I'll know when my love comes along
I'll know then and there
I'll know at the sight of her face
How I care, how I care, how I care
And I'll stop. And I'll stare.

[CBHagman]

60. Sky Masterson to Sarah Brown.

In Guys and Dolls.

The G&D fans are out in force in the Lounge tonight.

[Guava Jelly]

62. You win!

I love that freaken musical..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl1C8-kG6P8
Marlon Brando & Jean Simmons~Guys And Dolls~Woman In Love

[CBHagman]

71. I've got the 1992 cast album.

At least I think it's 1992. It's Peter Gallagher (Sky), Josie de Guzman (Sarah), Faith Prince (Adelaide), Nathan Lane (Nathan Detroit), and Walter Bobbie (Nicely-Nicely Johnson).

"I gotta go to a prayer meeting!"

[MrSlayer]

54. Shut your fucking face Uncle Fucka.

You're a boner biting bastard Uncle Fucka.
You're an Uncle Fucker yes it's true.
Nobody fucks uncles quite like you.

[lightningandsnow]

56. "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut"

[lightningandsnow]

57. Here's one...

"You're living in America
At the end of the millenium
You're living in America
Where it's like the twilight zone"

[u4ic]

65. delete

[Dangerously Amused]

67. RENT: What You Own

[skids]

58. "What's a nice girl like you doing on a knight like this?" n/t

[ironflange]

68. "I could talk about the egrets but I'd really rather not"

I saw this show in London but it never hit Broadway.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

69. God Bless the human elbow

God bless it where it bends
If it bent too long we'd be dry I fear
If it bent too short we'd be drinking through our ear...etc

[IntravenousDemilo]

85. I can hear the warm baritone of Robert Preston as...

Ben Franklin in Paris

My turn:

Before Lord God made the sea and the land,
He held all the stars in the palm of his hand,
And they fell through his fingers like grains of sand,
And one little star fell alone.

Then the Lord God hunted through the wild night air
For the little lost star on the wind down there,
And he pledged and he promised he'd take special care,
So it wouldn't get lost again.

[SPQR]

108. Lost in the Stars

That's a beautiful song. My partner can sing the hell out it.

[IntravenousDemilo]

113. I'd love to hear him sing it. I assume he has a nice, rolling bass-baritone voice.

It really needs that. I've sung it twice as an offertory hymn, but unfortunaely, I'm a tenor.

[Dangerously Amused]

70. No way can I be what I'm not!

But hey, don't you want your girl hot?
So don't fight, don't lose your head,
'Cause every night who's in your bed?
Who? Who's in your bed?

[Lyric]

75. Take me for what I ammmmm, who I was meant to beeee

And if you give a damn, TAKE me baby....or leave me. :hi:

"Take Me Or Leave Me" Rent

[Dangerously Amused]

77. Bingo!

[GreenPartyVoter]

72. I tried this the other day, but it died before it took hold. LOL

[Elidor]

73. When I was a lad I served a term

As office-boy to an attorney's firm
I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,
And I polished up the handle of the big front door!

Chorus.
He polished up the handle of the big front door!

Sir Joseph.
I polished up that handle so carefullee
That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

Chorus.
He polished up that handle so carefullee,
That now he is the ruler of the Queen's Navee!

[IntravenousDemilo]

86. The Lass that Loved a Sailor,

or, HMS Pinafore

If you're in an operetta mood, here's one:

Sons of toil and danger,
Will you serve a stranger
And bow down to Burgundy
Sons of shame and sorrow,
Will you cheer tomorrow
For the crown of Burgundy?
Onward! Onward! Swords against the Foe
Forward! Forward the lily banners go!
Sons of France around us,
Break the chain that bound us,
And to Hell with Burgundy!

[Lyric]

74. I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs

Not giving you more than that. :P

[Dangerously Amused]

76. It's a living...

RENT: "Light My Candle."

[Lyric]

81. ...

:yourock:

[kentauros]

82. "You can keep Alvarado, Santa Monica, even Beverly Drive."

You can keep Alvarado, Santa Monica, even Beverly Drive.
Vine may be fine, but for mine I want to feel a-live and settle down in my

La Brea... (Pico and Sepulveda, Pico and Sepulveda)
...Tar Pits (Pico and Sepulveda, Pico and Sepulveda)

[IntravenousDemilo]

87. This one is hard unless you know it, in which case it's easy.

My ship has sails that are made of silk.
The decks are trimmed with gold.
And of jam and spice, there's a paradise
In the hold.

My ship's aglow with a million pearls
And rubies fill each bin.
The sun sits high in a sapphire sky
When my ship comes in.

I could wait the years till he appears
One fine day one spring,
But the pearls and such, they won't mean much,
If there's missing just one thing.

I do not care if that day arrives.
That dream need never be,
If the ship I sing doesn't also bring
My own true love to me,
If the ship I sing doesn't also bring
My own true love to me.

[Zuiderelle]

91. Just guessing, sounds like M Butterfly

[IntravenousDemilo]

95. Nope, much older than that. And "M Butterfly" is a straight play.

Hint: Ira Gershwin

[Zuiderelle]

101. Ah, then it was a rather bad guess.

:) I never saw the play.

Oh, and "Lady in the Dark?" Cool. I thought I knew all of Weill's stuff. Guess not.

[IntravenousDemilo]

110. Give PelosiFan a cigar!

The melody of "My Ship" is one of Weill's best. Here's Dawn Upshaw to sing it for you.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-UszILJkC-I

[flygal]

88. Oh listen Sister

I love my mister man,
And I can't tell you' why
Dere ain't no reason
Why I should love dat man,
It mus' be sumpin dat de angels done plan.

[IntravenousDemilo]

89. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly.

I'm gonna love Show Boat till I die.


In the '60s, Tom Lehrer wrote the song "Pollution" for That Was the Week that Was, which includes the lines:

See the halibuts and the sturgeons
Being wiped out by detergeons.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
But they don't last long if they try.

[CBHagman]

93. Who remembers this one?

You'll never find a virtue unstatusing my quo, or making my Beelzebubble burst.
Let others take the high road; I will take the low.
I cannot wait to rush in where angels fear to go.

Name that musical! Bonus points: Name the song and the character.

[IntravenousDemilo]

96. Camelot. The Seven Deadly Virtues. Mordred. Roddy McDowall (additional bonus points?) n/m

[CBHagman]

107. You win the kewpie doll, the stuffed snake, and the Pink Panther...

...and anything else we have in the booth. Looks like someone else grew up on the original Broadway cast album of Camelot.

[IntravenousDemilo]

111. Now I have to find space for all that stuff.

Yes, I devoured Camelot, Gypsy, West Side Story, The King and I etc when I was a kid -- on vinyl! I think "The Seven Deadly Virtues" was side 2, cut 2, right after "If Ever I Would Leave You", but I could be wrong about that.

[JCMach1]

94. Supposin' that he says that you're sweeter 'n cream,

And he's gotta have cream or die?

[LeftinOH]

97. Okla homa

[elleng]

99. OH,

Why o Why o Why-o!!!!

[elleng]

98. Oklahoma

Ado Annie

I'm just a girl who caint say no!

[grasswire]

102. try this one

Do-wee-oo
Do-wee-oo-ee
Do-wee-oo
Do-wee-oo-ee
Do-wee-oo
Do-wee-oo
Boo-diddly-ba-bau!
(Boo-diddly-ba-bau!)
Boo-diddly-ba-baa-pa-daa!

Can't (can't do it with) make-up
You (you've just got to) wake up
And (and startin' to) take up
A life delirious
Nothing serious

[grasswire]

109. stumped the audience, eh?

Or did everyone just go for coffee?

It's from the most catchy song-and-dance I've ever seen in a movie. Audrey Hepburn was the ultimate IT girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVX9OhKy_-g

[Mad_Dem_X]

105. I *think* these are the right words:

For the sun will rise
And the moon will set
And you learn how to settle
For what you get
It'll all go on
If we're here or not
So who cares, so what?
So who cares, so what?

[SPQR]

115. Cabaret

Fraulein Schneider's philosophy.

[jmowreader]

116. This one, all you pevs should get right away

Grab your dick and double-click.

[lightningandsnow]

117. AVENUE Q!!!

Yess!!! I heart Avenue Q.