Answer Sheet

May 2008 Quiz
"Lyrically Speaking"
Winner: MZMAZEPPA


Take the lyric fragment and name the song & show.

1. "Where the acrobats are whirling on their digits, where the balcony's so high you get the fidgets, Where the actors seem to be a lot of midgets."
At The Roxy Music Hall from I MARRIED AN ANGEL

2. "I"ll fill the screen with Jan & Jane & Joan & Janet & Jean."
I Wanna Make The World Laugh from MACK & MABEL

3. "What a mess of a mishmash this is."
The Best Years Of His Life from LADY IN THE DARK

4. "The hands on the clock turn but don't sing a nocturne just yet."
The Sun Won't Set from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

5. "Poor young chap, what a night he spent. Tights all torn and his rapier bent."
Flash! Bang! Wallop! from HALF A SIXPENCE

6. "Crow and Sioux who're going to be showing you some rowing through a model of the rapids on the Delaware."
Museum Song from BARNUM

7. "Long as they've got a bosom, I woos 'em!"
When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love from FINIAN'S RAINBOW

8. "Their every whozit, whatzit and thingmabob, inside my head I visualize."
I Keep Undressing Girls With My Eyes from SO LONG 174th STREET

9. "We'll stuff our schnozzolas into rum & colas."
Sun On My Face from SUGAR

10. "If you don't save me the things the Lord gave me may never be any use to me at all."
Nobody Makes A Pass At Me from PINS & NEEDLES

11. "A superior mental I.Q. makes inferior minds dislike you."
Nobody Steps on Kafritz from HENRY, SWEET HENRY

12. "Make his every last wish my first choice..."
All Things To One Man from GRIND

13. "They'll get splinters in their little fannies..."
Don't Marry Me from FLOWER DRUM SONG

14. "Could still she be drinking in her stinking pink palazzo?"
Where Is The Life That Late I Led? from KISS ME, KATE

15. "Weren't we chuckleheads then?"
Waiting For The Girls Upstairs from FOLLIES

16. " Cause with the zig and the zug and the zig-zug-zing,
There aint nothing you cant be."
Positoovity from THE LITTLE MERMAID

17.  "This is so not life at all, help me out, out of this nightmare"
The Bitch of Living from SPRING AWAKENING

18. " The world was the rustle of silk, purple and puce, crystal and lace, fresh orange juice, ginger and lime."
Garbage from DEAR WORLD

19.  "Ev'rything's suddenly Viennese, Can't be you! Must be me!"
Do I Hear A Waltz from DO I HEAR A WALTZ?

20.  "It's an herb that's superb for disturbances at sea."
Chrysanthemum Tea from PACIFIC OVERTURES

21.  "I don't care for Whistler's mother, Charlie's aunt, or Shubert's brother."
Zip from PAL JOEY

22.  "Nobody dished, Nobody swished when I was a Foreign Legionnaire."
Cocktail Counterpoint from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

23.  "If things get broken, they stay broken in Fredrichstrasse!"
I Want To Go To Hollywood from GRAND HOTEL

24.  "Country air means zilch to me, I won't breathe nothing I can't see."
City Lights from THE ACT

25.  "For them it's a tips, see? For me, I'm a gypsy!  Just toss me a coin and I suddenly feel like I'm Carmen."
It's An Art from WORKING


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