Close every door to me,
Hide all the world from me
Bar all the windows
And shut out the light
Do what you want with me,
Hate me and laugh at me
Darken my daytime
And toture my night
If my life were important I
Would ask will I live or die
But I know the answers lie
Far from this world
Close every door to me,
Keep those I love from me
Children of Israel
Are never alone
For I know I shall find
My own peace of mind
For I have been promised
A land of my own


I am going to see Joseph tonight for the 2nd time.

...don't let it be forgot
that once there was a spot
for one brief shining moment...

Then, there's the other show...

"We're Knights of the Round Table.
We dance whene'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot."

Eek!
Officer Krupke, you've done it again.
This boy don't need a job, he needs a year in the pen.
It ain't just a question of misunderstood;
Deep down inside him, he's no good!

A boy like that. He killed your brother. Forget that boy and find another.

"We'll never be as young
as we are right now.
Those good girls never
know what they're missing,
but us bad girls almost always do.
And what we're missing now
is a real good time.
I want it bad,
and I want it now.
We were born going
faster than the limits allow."

(From ALW's Whistle Down the Wind -- I'm the only person I know who ever saw it, but I suspect a few others saw it in London like me, or during the week or so it was on Broadway)

I am the very model of
a modern major general...


(wishful thinking, with apologies to
the late Messrs. G&S)

scary.... we just finished our run of Pirates last Friday night.

Poor wondering one
though thou has surely strayed
take heart of grace
my steps retrace
poor wondering one

A wandering minstrel I —
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs and snatches,
And dreamy lullaby!

Are you in sentimental mood...I'll sigh with you. Oh, sorrow.



(I will play Katisha one day before I die...)

(Another tidbit - the Grad student that played Katisha - a contralto role - when I was in the Mikado in college went on the next year to play The Queen of the Night - a coloratura soprano role... odd, no?)

"Kiss me to fiercely,
Hold me too tight."

And if I'm lonely, doesn't matter. I think there's worse than being lonely. They's people who freeze while they wait on their knees and they don't know for what and they just been forgot. And I aint waiting no more. You just wait forever if you can't say what for. The day come soon, I'll pack up the nothing I own. And I'll live in my house and I'll make it ok, by myself, all alone.

"Give me a head with hair,
Long, beautiful hair..."

A Captain with seven children, what's so fearsome about that?

"Why'd you choose such a backward time
In such a strange land?"

I have a little list
of those who won't be missed

"Kill the witch..."

Ding dong the Witch is dead.

Ask me how do I feel, little me with my quiet upbringing.
Well sir, all I can say is if gate I'd be swinging!
And if I were a watch I'd start popping my springs!
Or if I were a bell I'd go ding dong, ding dong ding!

Silly me, but I wish, as folks walk by...they'd stop and see me, say hi.

"For the first time,
I feel wicked..."

I wish to go to the Festival.
The Festival?
The Festival.

Then you may take me to the fair,
If you do all the things you promise
In fact, my heart would break should you not take me to the fair.

C'est moi, c'est moi, I blush to admit,
'Tis I, I humbly reply...

"God I hope I get it ! I hope I get it! how many people does he need ? "

"No man, no madness,
Though their sad power may prevail,
Can possess, conquer, my country's heart...
They rise to fail.
She is eternal,
Long before nations' lines were drawn,
When no flags flew, when no armies stood
My land was born.

And you ask me why I love her
Through wars, death and despair.
She is the constant, we who don't care.
And you wonder will I leave her -- but how?
I cross over borders but I'm still there now.

How can I leave her?
Where would I start?
Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart
My land's only borders lie around my heart."

(Perhaps one of the best male solos in musical theatre history. At least in my opinion...)

For all these years, I’ve faced the world alone
And now that the time has come to prove to them I’ve made it on my own

(Might as well stay with Chess for a moment...)

"You and I,
We've seen it all,
Been down this road before.

But I still go on pretending,
Stories like ours
Have happy endings."

Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

I am in the royal palace, of all places!
I am chatting with the prince, and king, and queen.
And the color of my two stepsisters' faces
Is a queer sort of sour apple green.

"Love can make a summer fly,
Or a night seem like a lifetime..."

"Ohmigod OHmigod you guys"

"Love, love changes everything,
Live or Perish in its flame.
Nothing in the world,
Will ever be the same."

"Bad is good for me--I'm bored, so clean and so ignored
I've only been predictable--respectable!
Birds fly out of here so why oh why oh why the hell can't I
I only want variety--of society!
I want to be a part of B.A.--Buenos Aires--Big Apple!"

"Just don't say I'm,
Damed for all time..."

Don't tell me not to live
Just sit and putter.
Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter.
Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?

"think's he quite a lover, but there's not much there"

"You gave it away,
Including my share..."

"And now we're lost in the wilderness."

And if anyone's watching, it seems they couldn't care less.