The Sondheim Lyrics Chain

[MartinG]

Good, you got it! 

Easy one to get it moving again:

"With love" seventy ways,
"To Bobby with love" 
From all those good and crazy people, your friends!
Those good and crazy people, your married friends!
And that's what it's all about, isn't it?

[Leighton]

Funny I'm a stranger myself here
Small world isn't it?

Funny, you're a man who goes travelling'
Rather than settling' down

[scenicdesign71]

You see, sir, a man infatuate with love:
Her ardent and eager slave!
So fetch the pomade and pumice stone
And lend me a more seductive tone --
A sprinkling, perhaps, of French cologne --
But first, sir, I think... a shave!

[MartinG]

Determined to find something not from Sweeney, so...


Saw Bill McKinley there
In the sun.
Heard Bill McKinley say,
"Folks, have fun!
Some men have everything 
And some have none,
But that's just fine...

[KathyB]

I swear I used this lyric before, but I can't think of another just fine

I could tell you someone who is finally feeling just fine!

Juicy Lucy...
Dressy Jessie... [etc.]

Tell 'em that they out to get together quick
Cause getting it together is the whole trick!


And with this post I become a Stellar Member! Woo-hoo!

[Chris L]

Congratulations on becoming a Stellar Member, Kathy! (That might be one of the new categories I added, but now I can't recall.)

If you're quick
For a kick
You could pick
Up a christening

(This should be easy.)

[MartinG]

You could drive a person crazy,
You could drive a person mad.
First you make a person hazy...

[scenicdesign71]

First you think.
Then you comment...
     [judicious murmuring]

Then you think...
Then you discuss:
    [animated conversation]

Then you read.
Then you make a quip--
    "All great truths begin as blasphemies!"

That's how you dance "The Shaw"!

[scenicdesign71]

Bump.

I was beginning to fear that the only other instance of "you dance" had scared everyone off because it's spoken in rhythm rather than sung (though I'm about 99% sure it's notated rhythmically in the score, which makes it legit for purposes of this game).

But just now I found another (and only slightly obscure) appearance of the phrase, which is legitimately sung.

Hints:
Both instances -- the better-known, rhythmically-spoken one; and the less-known, properly-sung one -- are from duets.
And in both cases, the phrase is immediately followed by a question mark.

[MartinG]

Oh dear, I was barking up the wrong hazel tree with this for ages. Thanks for the hint Dave.


BW - Did you dance?
Is he charming? They say that he's charming.

C - We did nothing but dance.

[scenicdesign71]

Well done, Martin!
(And in case anyone's curious, the legit-sung option that occurred to me the other day was a different Ella, wondering "How do you dance?" in Evening Primrose).
____________________

Yes, please ignore the man-of-war
That's anchored rather near to shore.
It's nothing but a metaphor
That acts as a preventative.

[MartinG]

Again I wasn't entirely confident that the one which leapt out at me was notated as such, though it seems to sit comfortably on the downbeat, but anyway...back to Cinderella:

B: No one acts alone.
    Careful.
    No one is alone.

B&C: People make mistakes.

B: Fathers...

C: Mothers...

B&C: People make mistakes,
Holding to their own,
Thinking they're alone.

[scenicdesign71]

Were you thinking of the same one I was (Fredrika: "Mine... acts.")?

I must admit: it didn't even occur to me to be concerned by the fact that "mine acts" is spoken rather than sung.  I guess I just assumed that it must be notated in the score, because of the way it completes the rhyme, and the stanza, in such a square and sturdy way.  (Indeed, the mild chuckle it elicits from some audiences is probably due not only to the words' slight unexpectedness, but also to the way they nevertheless sit in the rhyme-scheme with such solid, matter-of-fact guilelessness -- Fredrika to a T).

Just as importantly, as you point out, "acts" lands squarely on the first beat of the two-bar vamp leading into the song's next section (Desirée:  "Darling, I miss you a lot," etc.) -- so the word is not only locked into the entire preceding stanza (by rhyme and meter) but also into the following one (by providing the rhythmic downbeat that launches it).  Sung or not, "mine acts" is woven into the song's fabric with such precision that it almost has to be notated.

Holding

[scenicdesign71]

There are ships in the bay
With a letter to convey.
They're on permanent display,
And we must take some position
Or the Southern coalition
Will be soon holding sway, my lord.
And we'll all have to pay, my lord...

[MartinG]

Were you thinking of the same one I was (Fredrika: "Mine... acts.")?

I was. It seemed like it had to be valid for the reasons you give, I just chickened out when I remembered the other one 

Maybe one day I'll sell my car and buy all the scores to be certain...



Here's a further example where one possible instance may be safer than another... 


In a world where the kings are employers,
Where the amateur prevails
And delicacy fails
To pay,
In a world where the princes are lawyers,
What can anyone expect
Except to recollect....