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1. Saltpeter. Pins. Saltpeter! Pins! Saltpeter! Pins!
Dear Mrs. Adams - 1776

2. Boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy shoo-by doo-wop she-bop. Chang chang! Chang-it-ty chang shoo-bop.
We Go Together - Grease

3. True, the gun was never fired but the way events transpired I could finish him with simple laissez-faire.
It's Just the Gas - Little Shop of Horrors

4. Hey, hoy, sailor boy, want it snugly harbored? Open me gate but dock it straight, I see it lists to starboard.
Johanna - Sweeney Todd

5. This exceedingly rapid unintelligible patter isn't generally heard and if it is it doesn't matter.
It Really Doesn't Matter - Ruddigore (Gilbert & Sullivan) but added into the Kevin Kline/Linda Rondstadt/Angela Lansbury production of Pirates of Penzance


6. Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead you know – you were shot and bayonetted, too.
You Were Dead, You Know - Candide

7. It was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue.
(I have to confess that I had to google this, though when I did this play at summer camp, I won a bag of M&M's for being the first choruster to memorize it)
Jacob and Sons - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

8. Hindemuth is Hawthorne, Offenbach is Omaha, Sibelius is Sportsman's Park, Tchaikovsky is Churchill Downs.
(May be slightly out of order, these lyrics proved google-resistent)
Simple Little System - Bells Are Ringing


9. At any vegetable market from Borneo to Nome, you mustn't squeeze a melon till you get the melon home.
Marry the Man Today - Guys and Dolls

10. Fun – laughs – good time! Fun – laughs – good time!
Big Spender - Sweet Charity (Fosse, people! Come on!)

Date: 2005-11-14 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuckro.livejournal.com
I don't feel too bad about missing those--I've never seen 5 or 8, and last saw Sweet Charity when I was 11 years old. And regarding Sweeny--I was the one who gave up a tickets so that the ladies could see The Demon Barber of Orchestra Pit!

Date: 2005-11-14 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
You are noble and chivalrous. Your ladies thank you.

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