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Post by theatre-turtle on Aug 6, 2016 21:08:52 GMT
I cringe every time I hear Mrs Brown in Guys and Dolls sing 'If I were a salad I'd be splashing my dressing'. What are your least favourite lines?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 4:48:14 GMT
This is a tricky one as I tend to blank on things I dislike, so it has to come down to least favourite lyrics that mar songs I otherwise love.
Right now the one that comes to mind is in It's Your Fault from Drat! The Cat! The song is an argument arranged as a duet and some lines need to rhyme not only with adjacent lines but also with the corresponding parts of the other person's section of the song, and there are places where it's clear that it was a bit of a struggle to find words that would fit. It's when the song gets to "you spared the rod and spoilt the child like rotten apple cores" that I find myself wincing.
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Post by barricadegirl86 on Aug 7, 2016 6:59:37 GMT
I know it wasn't on for long so I didn't get to hear much more about the show, but I cringed when I heard an except of I Can't Sing included something about "a quaver being a cheese-based snack" [these may not be the exact words, I only heard it once].
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 7:26:42 GMT
They're always popping their cork - I hate that line. Merrily We Roll Along ;-)
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Post by ptwest on Aug 7, 2016 7:41:44 GMT
I cringe when Javert sings about "garbage" in Les Mis. The Americanism doesn't sit well with the language used in the show up to that point.
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Post by shady23 on Aug 7, 2016 8:16:43 GMT
When the British actors kept talking about candy in the remake film of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I wanted to scream!
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Post by crabtree on Aug 7, 2016 9:18:51 GMT
Is the line in Grease ' the chicks will cream?'. Ghastly.
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Post by lilyrose on Aug 7, 2016 9:33:19 GMT
I can't remember exact line from Jekyll and Hyde but it some like 'a person copped it and the man that did it hopped it' !
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Post by firefingers on Aug 7, 2016 9:41:49 GMT
About half of RENT's lyrics are guff, but the title sing is the worst offender:
How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? How we gonna lay? Last year's rent.
Rent rent rent rent rent. We're not gonna pay rent.
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Post by max on Aug 7, 2016 9:44:29 GMT
"And her withers whither with her". (Into The Woods).
Yes, we see what you did there. And?
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Post by firefingers on Aug 7, 2016 9:47:57 GMT
They're always popping their cork - I hate that line. Merrily We Roll Along ;-) Charlie never did fix that line. |
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Post by Raven on Aug 7, 2016 12:46:54 GMT
Is the line in Grease ' the chicks will cream?'. Ghastly. I was going to mention this lyric! Makes me cringe every time. |
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Post by Seriously on Aug 7, 2016 13:31:28 GMT
Mamma Mia: "I've played all my cards, and that's what you've done too".
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Post by d'James on Aug 7, 2016 13:33:57 GMT
Mamma Mia: "I've played all my cards, and that's what you've done too". I will never be able to hear that line without thinking of Jennifer Saunders. |
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Post by mallardo on Aug 7, 2016 14:16:52 GMT
They're always popping their cork - I hate that line. Merrily We Roll Along ;-)
How do you feel about "I don't pop my cork for every man I see" in Hey, Big Spender?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 14:50:53 GMT
From "the Lady's Got Potential" on the the original album of Evita: "kapow, die they don't have a chance/in a fly killing world it's a major advance".
Fortunately the song was changed by the time it reached the stage. A wise decision.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 14:54:47 GMT
They're always popping their cork - I hate that line. Merrily We Roll Along ;-)
How do you feel about "I don't pop my cork for every man I see" in Hey, Big Spender?
Quite effervescent about it really - I like to have fun, fun, fun. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 15:20:34 GMT
"And her withers whither with her". (Into The Woods). Yes, we see what you did there. And? I love this line. It is witty and in my opinion maybe one of his most creative and just makes me smile whenever I hear it. |
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Post by whygodwhytoday on Aug 8, 2016 0:39:46 GMT
Pretty much every line in "Too Much In Love To Care" from Sunset. One of my favourite shows has my most loathed song in it... Would anyone here who likes that song care to enlighten me? X
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2016 21:30:10 GMT
Also in into the woods I do not like at the end of Giants in the sky when jack says awesome , I just feel this word does not keep in with the show.
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Post by theatre-turtle on Aug 10, 2016 21:34:39 GMT
Oh, I'm also not the biggest fan of 'greasy chinks make life so sleazy' in Miss Saigon. Interesting they didn't choose to update this when they re-did all the lyrics this time round.
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Post by whygodwhytoday on Aug 10, 2016 21:39:04 GMT
"Chris and I are totally together on that"
Always cringe.
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Post by PhantomNcl on Aug 11, 2016 9:29:12 GMT
Just about every single line in 'Don't Like You' from The Beautiful Game.
"Don't like you. Don't like you. I don't think i like you.
You're bad. You're sad. And i know nicer boys."
John
You're gagging for a date, i know you're dying to meet.
Mary
I don't think so while there's still
A dog left out on the street.
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Post by primitivewallflower on Aug 11, 2016 12:55:00 GMT
All of Gavroche's lines from "Little People" in Les Mis. No doubt it's a challenge to write musical theatre roles for kids, but... yep, I still cringe at this.
Also, "Over the Moon" from Rent.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 11, 2016 16:59:33 GMT
Pretty much every line in "Too Much In Love To Care" from Sunset. One of my favourite shows has my most loathed song in it... Would anyone here who likes that song care to enlighten me? X The song is wrong. The characters just want to f@ k but ALW thought it best to give them a soppy duet |
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