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Forbidden Broadway

Listening to Volume 6 at the moment. Oh, it is soooooooo good.
Well, if you like musicals in the first place that is. And have that slightly cynical, paradoxical sense of humour too...

Some of my fave lyrics...

To the tune of "This is the moment" from Jekyll and Hyde

Dr Jekyll: This is my key change
My Hyde: I'll do one too! aarooooo!
I'll do it higher! Any note you can sing, I can sing higher!
I can sing any note higher than you
No you can't, can't, can't!
Yes I can, can, can! Yes I...
Together: CAN!!!!

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To the tune of "The Lonely Goatherd" from the Sound of Music, but about the Lion King (the original lyrics are pretty much just yodelling for this bit)

Oh please, Julie, can't I play a human
Oh please, not a blade of grass

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And from volume 2...

To the tune of "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables

God, it's high
This song's too high
Pity me, change the key
Bring it down,
Bring it down
It's too high
It's too high
Much too high

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To the tune of "the Rain in Spain" from My Fair Lady, but about Madonna playing Evita. The original lyrics start off with "the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain..."

Madonna: I strain in vain to train Madonna's brain
Professor Higgins: now once again, where do you strain?
In my brain, in my brain!
And what's your tiny brain?
Insane! Insane!
Together: We strain in vain to train Madonna's brain
And what are you doing on Broadway?
Training for the film Evita.
How kind of you to let me act
Now once again, where does it rain?
In my brain, in my brain
Who wed your soggy brain?
Sean Penn, Sean Penn
We strain in vain to train Madonna's brain!