| "Oh no, I love black. Just not on me. Or anyone I know.... of course... if I had YOUR complexion... I might wear black too!"�Douglas Sills as Percy in the Scarlet Pimpernel �Bring me papers, documents, Pimpies - Anything that might pertain to this Pimpernel. Now!��Chauvelin (Rex Smith) "When I am lost, you are my light. You are the love that never dies!" ��You are my Home��The Scarlet Pimpernel "Stop being dashed and DO something!"�Henry Higgins�My Fair Lady "There�s a beast at the door, and he�s wild and free But we don�t let him in, �cause we don�t want to see What is lurking right behind the fa�ade!"� "Facade Reprise"�Jekyll and Hyde "My dear little librarian, you pile up enough tomorrow's and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays."�Harold Hill�The Music Man "Things are not wrong just because they are new."�Jekyll and Hyde "Only this, Chauvelin! You may kill me, but someone will take my place. There will always be someone eager to sail into this fire!"�Percy�The Scarlet Pimpernel "Oh, the English and their STUPID sense of fair play." �Chauvelin "They seek him here, They seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven, or is he in hell? That demmed elusive Pimpernel."�Percy�Pimpernel "I just want to net butterflies!" �The Scarlet Pimpernel "La, but it do shimmer so!" �The Scarlet Pimpernel �There will always be a valley, Always mountains one must scale. There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail. Into valleys, into waters, Into jungles, into hell. Let us ride, let us ride home Again with a story to tell!���Into the Fire��The Scarlet Pimpernel �For we all are caught in the middle Of one long treacherous riddle: Can I trust you? Should you trust me, too? We shamble on through this hell, Gathering more secrets to sell Til� there comes a day When we sell our souls away.���The Riddle��The Scarlet Pimpernel �Oh every Judas once loved a Jesus, But finally treason will seize us And only fools follow golden rules.���The Riddle��The Scarlet Pimpernel "Ah but my prince if you can't be as sweet as you seem, I'd rather dream!"�The Scarlet Pimpernel "You alone can make my song take flight. It's over now, the music of the night!"�Phantom of the Opera "No-one dies upon a kiss and only fools believe in bliss."��Prayer��The Scarlet Pimpernel �The heart may freeze, Or it can burn. The pain will ease, If I can learn. There is no future. There is no past. I live this moment as my last. There�s only us. There�s only this. Forget regret, Or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today.��RENT �Don�t forget, get the moonlight out of your hair.��Roger�RENT �There�s only us. Only tonight. We must let go To know what�s right. No other course, No other way. No day but today. I can�t control (Control your temper) My destiny. (She doesn�t see.) I trust my soul. (Who say�s that there�s a soul?) My only goal is just to be. (Just let me be.) There�s only now. There�s only here. Give in to love Or live in fear. No day but today.��RENT �Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow From this nightmare?��RENT �525,600 minutes. How do you measure a woman or a man? In truths that she learned? In times that he cried? In the bridges he burned? Or the way that she died?��RENT �Do they have Jewish nuns?��Sally�Cabaret �I wonder what Democrats eat.��Oliver Warbucks�Annie "Up thine, sire."�Beggar�Pippin �Deep in December, It�s nice to remember, Although you know the snow will follow. Deep in December, It�s nice to remember, Without the hurt the heart is hollow.���Try to Remember��The Fantasticks "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."�Willy Wonka �So shines a good deed in a weary world.��Willy Wonka "Time weaves ribbons of memory, to sweeten life when youth is through"�Pippin � �I'd like to go back to San Juan.� �I know a boat you can get on!���Bernardo and Anita�West Side Story �Gee Officer Krupke, Krup you!��Officer Krupke�West Side Story � �Yes, you live a lie Tell you why You�re always preaching not to be numb When that�s how you thrive You pretend to create and observe When you really detach from being alive�� �Perhaps it�s because I�m the one of us to survive.���Roger and Mark�RENT �Manipulating the judicial system just to win a contest is un-American���Tracy�Hairspray � �To me you�ll always be home.� �Shabbat Shalom.� (Pause with some laughter from the audience) �Six of us, including you and me�.(continues the song)�I didn�t know you were Jewish.� �Sometimes you just can�t tell.� ��.Sure you can.���Ad-lib by Tracy�s parents�Hairspray [Wilbur is holding Edna from behind] �Oh, Governer Schwarzennager, is that you?�It certainly isn�t the governor of New Jersey.� �Edna�Hairspray �If we get any more white people in here, it�s gonna be a suburb.��Hairspray |
| QUOTES FROM MUSICALS |
| Musicals permeate my life in a slightly unhealthy way....Here's just a taste of that. Everything from the sappy to the ad lib to the glimmers of genius that make musicals the fabulous things they are. |