it's funny. i remember when i was 18, 19 or so, i used to say that i would never become one of those queens who could sing along with broadway musicals or know the librettos by heart. i thought i was too alternative and too hip to ever be pigeon-holed like that (corn-holed..yes, pigeon-holed..no)
but now that i have reached the ripening years, i find that my enjoyment and my retention of broadway musicals of all sorts and from all decades has expanded and become an integral part of who i am now. here are just a very few of my favorite lines from broadway musicals:(can you name the show they are from?)
i feel pretty and witty and gay- and i pity any girl who isn't me today...
west side story
live is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death...
mame
i don't know how to love him -what to do how to woo him he's a man....
jesus christ superstar
we got the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. where did we go right?...
the producers
i felt nothing....
a chorus line
i'm as corny as kansas in august...
oklahoma
i'm still here....
follies
and the lyrics from this song really fit my mood today. this features the very campy gay bar scene from "applause" with lauren bacall.
6 comments:
I won't judge you :lol: I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to recite broadway tunes.
I felt pretty much the same until I moved away from New York and discovered Sondheim in my old age.
I recognized about half of them. I've never even heard of Applause, I'm embarrassed to say, but I like that clip.
Its ridiculously amaing ain't it! Everything we were so sure we'd never be and whooops.
I blame the theatre queen I dated for three years. The playbills, after my final pack-up; revealed we'd seen everything on the boards that opened as well as choice revivals 2002 thru early '05. I still blame that bitch V. Williams for keeping me at the dressing room door before another fan told me "she never comes out. she left the theatre right after the show". Ugly Betty my ass.
the saying goes, where I am now- you'll someday be... where you are now, I already came and went and the footwear ain't got no better either.
Can't wait for Equus!!!
Thank God you've finally emigrated from the Land of the Tragically Hip over here to Camp Camp. My only disappointment is that you named the musicals where each line is from--your readers should be required to know them by heart. When I'm finally made Gay Emperor, this will be a matter of law.
I agree with Marc that you should have forced us to guess which musical the line was from. You quoted my favorite line from Mame, but how could you not include a lyric from Cabaret?
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