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posted by [personal profile] mitchy at 07:30pm on 03/11/2009 under ,
I was bored at work earlier so I thought up a song lyric meme :) Guess the song and the musical these lyrics come from!


1) Selling your mom is a wrench, Perfume can cover a stench, That's what I learned from the French - "American Dream" from Miss Saigon (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] thessalian)

2) Fighting with microphones, Freezing down to my bones, And to top it all off, I'm with you! - "Tango:Maureen" from Rent (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] halcyon_shift)

3) But where on earth can people hide their little piece of heaven? Thank God for Switzerland. - "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" from Evita (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] vissy)

4) You can go to Philadelphia, Take a hack to Hackensack. Hey, I'll never ring a bell for yer, or yell fer yer to come back! - "I Can Do Without You" from Calamity Jane (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] minmorton)

5) He looks like he's asleep, it's a shame that he won't keep, but it's summer an' we're runnin' outta ice - "Pore Jud is Daid" from Oklahoma! (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] halcyon_shift)

6) And I'm a genius genius, and I believe in God - "Manchester, England" from Hair (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] vickita)

7) If I were a duck, I'd quack! And if I were a goose, I'd be cooked! - "If I Were A Bell" from Guys and Dolls (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] jenni411)

8) He took a flower in its prime. And then he used it and he abused it, it was murder but not a crime! - "The Cell Block Tango" from Chicago (mostly nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] jenni411)

9) I'll be wetting down the razor then I figure "what's the point?" so I go into the living room, roll another joint

10) No father is not proud of you, no sister acts ashamed - "The Wizard and I" from Wicked (nabbed by [livejournal.com profile] voluta)
Mood:: 'amused' amused
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posted by [identity profile] vickita.livejournal.com at 07:50pm on 03/11/2009
#6 -- Hair, "Manchester England"
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 08:35pm on 03/11/2009
Hurrah! I'm glad you got this, I didn't think anyone on my flist would know the musical well enough(except maybe [livejournal.com profile] jenni411 who saw it with me in NYC recently).
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posted by [identity profile] vickita.livejournal.com at 08:41pm on 03/11/2009
Oh, I fell all in lurv with "Hair" when the movie version with Treat Williams and Beverly D'Angelo came out a million years ago. I bought the original Broadway cast recording and listened to it over and over and over and... I know all of the words to all of the songs. My favorite is "Easy to be Hard," although I love "What a Piece of Work is Man" a lot. (They had a really excellent lyricist for that one. ;-D )
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 08:43pm on 03/11/2009
Oh yes, that movie was the first time I saw it too! Didn't realise how different it was from the show until I saw it on stage, though. Both versions are excellent, I think, although I prefer Claude doing "I got life".
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posted by [identity profile] halcyon-shift.livejournal.com at 07:50pm on 03/11/2009
2. Rent - The Tango Maureen
5. Oklahoma - Por Jud Is Daid (or something like that, I remember you mentioning it a little while ago :P)
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 08:37pm on 03/11/2009
Oh bravo!! I didn't think anyone would get the Oklahoma one :) PJID is still, for my money, one of the cleverest songs for a musical ever written. Not necessary the best, but one of the cleverest.

I'm going to have to twist your arm to let me play you Rent sometime (either the movie or the taping of the Broadway show) because protestations aside, you seem to know it rather well :D
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posted by [identity profile] halcyon-shift.livejournal.com at 08:49pm on 03/11/2009
I've heard the songs from Rent *g* I like Tango Maureen, Take Me Or Leave Me and La Vie Boheme :)
 
posted by [identity profile] thessalian.livejournal.com at 08:10pm on 03/11/2009
Eee! I actually know one!

1) The American Dream, from Miss Saigon.
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 08:36pm on 03/11/2009
Bravo! :)
 
posted by [identity profile] voluta.livejournal.com at 08:42pm on 03/11/2009
# 10 - The Wizard and I from Wicked.
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 09:16pm on 03/11/2009
*giggles* I wasn't sure who'd get this first, you, [livejournal.com profile] kelemvor or [livejournal.com profile] adelpha. Bravo! :)
 
posted by [identity profile] voluta.livejournal.com at 12:01am on 04/11/2009
Well I knew the RENT and Cell Block Tango references too - but somebody already had those... Wicked it is.. Hee.
 
posted by [identity profile] jenni411.livejournal.com at 09:17pm on 03/11/2009
7 - "If I Were a Bell" from Guys & Dolls
8 - Forget the name of the song, but that's from Chicago. "He Had it Coming," or something like that?
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 09:58pm on 03/11/2009
Correct! and close enough :) Bravo!
 
posted by [identity profile] jenni411.livejournal.com at 12:17am on 04/11/2009
*snaps fingers* Cell Block Tango, that's it!
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posted by [identity profile] vissy.livejournal.com at 09:54pm on 03/11/2009
#3 is And the money kept rolling in and out from Evita?
(Yes, I'm just a random person wandering in from the yuletide flist.)
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 09:58pm on 03/11/2009
Correct!

(Hello, random person wandering in from the Yuletide flist. Welcome!)
 
posted by [identity profile] minmorton.livejournal.com at 11:22pm on 03/11/2009
You can go to Philadelphia, Take a hack to Hackensack. Hey, I'll never ring a bell for yer, or yell fer yer to come back! - 'I Can Do Without You!' from Calamity Jane - Calamity and Bill sing it ...
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 08:01am on 04/11/2009
Correct! Great song :)

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