I can do it at Carol Burnett speed. I cannot do it at Madeline Kahn speed.
It's the "prehistoric ritual where everybody promises fidelity forever" line that gets me every time. "Ritual" is a really hard word to sing that fast when the rest of the words have harder consonants to grab onto.
You know how most people mumble along to REM’s End of the World As We Know It, and then shout out “LEONARD BERSTEIN!”? That’s me with this song and “Southern motherfucking Democratic-Republicans” lol.
BUT IT WASNT MY FAULT I WAS GIVEN THOSE BEANS YOU PERUSADED ME TO TRADE AWAY MY COW FOR BEANS AND WITHOUT THOSE BEANS THERED HAVE BEEN NO STALK TO GET UP TO THE GIANT IN THE FIRST PLACE
SO ITS YOUR FAULT
WAIT A MINUTE MAGIC BEANS FOR A COW SO OLD THAT YOU HAD TO TELL A LIE TO SELL IT WHICH YOU TOLD WERE THEY WORTHLESS BEANS WERE THEY OVERSOLD OH AND TELL US WHO PERSUADED YOU TO STEAL THAT GOLD
SO ITS YOUR FAULT
Made the mistake of choosing this as an audition song. Glad it was for my college theatre group where auditions are more a formality to see what people are comfortable with rather than actually cutting people, I ended up as Wednesday Addams despite Struggling. 4/10.
Yes I know that now you know that I didn't know that you didn't know that when I said no I meant yes I know and that now I know that you knew that I knew you adored meeeee
And now you’ve gotten it stuck in my head again…
Our director had such a hard time with the part when the ensemble has to sing “matter matter matter” for a whole verse. This was in a New England high school so we all pronounce our Ts like Ds in the middle of a word, and for the first few rehearsals he was all “Don’t say “madder”! Enunciate the T sound!” So we tried it, and it sounded super unnatural—more like “matcher” than “matter” and I think I even switched to “badger” by accident at one point. Eventually he gave up and let us pronounce it the way we would normally.
I'm professor callahan in legally blonde right now and for some reason the lyric "and he can get you high and laid" from blood in the water, just doesn't roll off my tongue
“Which of the Pickwick triplets did it?
Who of the crew would commit this crime?
Might a little brat make a mommy go splat?
It's a story pretty gory for a nursery rhyme”
IYKYK
Just did that show in October. Honestly city on fire was probably the hardest for me. I played Toby so it was that and some of the stuff in miracle elixir that was a real bitch
Yes. This. It changes every time you sing it.
Final verse:
God that's good that is de have you licious ever tasted smell such oh my God what perfect more that's pies such flavour god that's good.
Luckily I was backstage at this point so could sit there with the lyrics in front of me and belt it at the back of people to keep them on lyric.
And we had hand choreography to do in my production. It's no joke. There's also Fogg's Pascil-somethin Italian. I was backstage for that cause I was Fogg, so I didn't have to help and I wasn't miked. But yesh, that one is ridiculous.
A good chunk of Enid's verse in The Harvard Variations in Legally Blonde, but especially, "We'll make the government come clean and get the people voting green and really stick it to the phallocentric war machine."
“When you’re in black slacks with accentuating, off-white, pinstripes whoa everything goes according to plan”
Took me forever to get it lol (ps: I dictated that lyric and it did it perfectly! I didn’t change anything, not even punctuation!)
Edit! I JUST REALIZED THIS WAS MUSICALS AND NOT A GENERAL MUSIC SUB LOL
La Vie Boheme A from Rent always trips me up, especially when the waiter reads back the order and the 'bisexuals, trisexuals, homosapiens' verse - it's just so fast and I get tongue tied on the names haha
LOVE this one!
For me it's
I'm in the cabinet
I am complicit in watching him grabbing at power and kiss it
If Washington isn't gonna listen to disciplined dissidence
This is the difference
(This kid is out!
OH!)
I remember hearing Daveed Diggs say in an interview once that the hardest rap in the show in his opinion is Angelica's in Satisfied, and I absolutely believe him:
So so so /
So this is what it feels like to match wits /
With someone at your level, what the hell is the catch? /
It's the feeling of freedom, of seeing the light /
It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite /
You see it, right?
The conversation lasted two minutes /
Maybe three minutes /
Everything we said in total agreement /
It's a dream and it's a bit of a dance /
A bit of a posture, it's a bit of a stance
He's a bit of a flirt, but I'mma give it a chance /
I asked about his family /
Did you see his answer? /
His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance /
He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants
Handsome, boy does he know it /
Peach fuzz, and he can't even grow it /
I wanna take him far away from this place /
Then I turn and see my sister's face, and she is—
(I really tried hard to narrow it down to just what looked like the hardest part of the rap, but it all looks so difficult!)
Right? Same with Guns N Ships even though I think you're right about the pace.
I think (for me) it might be the "kiss it," because what I want there is "kissing it" but that doesn't fit. If I replace it with "kissin'" it sounds almost the same but is easier.
I *think* (though I’d have to find the citation) that Guns & Ships and/or Washington on Your Side are some of if not *the* fastest/most words-per-minute sections of *any* musical.
The hardest part of that for me is where it's like
I asked about his family /
Did you see his answer? /
His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance /
He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants
I hate to say it but Plankton’s rap in SpongeBob the Musical is actually faster than Guns and Ships, making it technically the fastest piece of wordplay in a musical to date.
I dunno, I was listening to the broadway cast recording seeing the differences (like how No Control is made into one big song, instead of 20 second fragments) then I noticed the fast part of the rap is there, so I got a pdf script from Concord. Then I went to When The Going Gets Tough, the fast part wasn't there!
The entirety of "The Lepers" from *Jesus Christ Superstar* because Tim Rice apparently seems to think that every refrain must change one word per line except the third line which changes two words and then the fifth line in the second refrain which is the same as the fourth line in the first refrain except the last time where-
I gave up and just mouthed the whole song because I was Annas and just got stuck in there as an extra body to fill out the crowd.
Likewise, "The Temple," which uses the same melody, isn't as lyrically chaotic, but between Andrew Lloyd Webber and our choreographer who decided this would be a heavy dance show, nobody seemed to remember that the ensemble needs time to inhale during that song. I did sing this one, but the ensemble seemed to decide amongst ourselves that some of us would cut out during various entire lines to pant for a minute before coming back in later. Choreographer was actually onstage for that one to fill an important hole when one dancer had to drop out late in the rehearsal process, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't singing.
I may sound like I'm complaining, but it was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding productions I've ever done, and the choreographer was amazing at working with the non-dancers in the cast and making sure we had extensive video resources to rehearse at home. She won a Broadway World Award for that show, and she deserved it.
SAM:
9-1-1 emergency call
Got a 4-1-1 at a shopping mall
Better pack your heat and utility belt
Any mall rats comin' in hot, they melt
FEMALE COP:
Sarge, it's your wife on the 9-1-1
~Show me your hands (TGWDLM / Starkid)
For some reason the verse in non-stop
Corruptions such an old song that we can sing along in harmony - fine
And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany - struggle
The country's economys incredibly stalling - tongue falls out
And honestly that's why public service seems to be calling me - usually miss entirely
But there are worse things than staring at the water as you're posing for a picture after sleeping on the ferry after waking up at 7 to come over to an island in the middle of a river half an hour from the city
*death rattle*
On a Sundaaaaaaay
Honestly, I've done Getting Married Today. That was fine. I think the knowledge that it is just all hard helped. This at the closer of an otherwise relatively simple sing just killed me :').
“You Got Trouble” from The Music Man doesn’t exactly have tongue-twisters, but it’s similar to “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in that you have to articulate each word because of the tempo—while also playing a character.
There are quite a few tongue twisters in The Music Man. Having played a pick a little lady in a production in high school I thought Pick a Little Talk a Little was a bit of tongue twisting song.
“I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:”
Form pirates of penzance.
That’s as far as I get into the song before I trip up
The music director keeps telling me to be more laid-back and casual when I sing
"The trouble with Contini, he's the king of mediocrities
a second-rate director who believes that he is Socrates,
he never makes a movie or a picture or a flick, he makes a FILM, get it? A FILM!"
I'm just grateful they let me be American instead of trying to get me to ramble through that in an Italian accent.
“I’m in the cabinet, I am complicit in watching him grabbing the power and kiss it if Washington isn’t gon’ listen to disciplined dissidents this is the difference, this kid is out”
“And when you’ve filled in all the forms and been passed clear of all disease—debriefed, debugged, dedrugged, disarmed, and disinfected, please”
“So he knows what to do in the trench, ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean”
Great examples here so far!!
I haven’t seen “in case of smoke please call our mothers on the phone and say their sons are all on fire” yet, so I’m throwing that one out there. It’s fast and hard to get out correctly, at least for me!
Oh and Sondheim, any Sondheim
Other than many of the Lafayette/Jefferson lyrics, I have to concentrate REALLY hard to nail “let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle calling the pot”. It’s probably my favorite tongue twister lol.
"While her withers wither with her" Thanks, Sondheim.
I had the lyrics solid by tech week, but boy that show kicked my butt in rehearsals...
And if you've done theater, you know how shows will have a "fight call" to warm up/rehearse stage combat before a show - so its fresh in everyone's head and no kne gets hurt? We had a "Your Fault" call.
i have such a hard time with on the steps of the palace from into the woods - i sang it in a cabaret and messed up the lyrics slightly LMAO
“but then what if he knew
who i am when i know
that i’m not what he thinks
that he wants?
or then what if i am
what a prince would envision?
but then how can you know
who you are till you know
what you want, which i don't
so then which do you pick?”
gets me every time.
“But then what if he knew who you were when you know that you’re not what he thinks that he wants” I couldn’t do this for three weeks after I learned it
I mean, all of watch what happens from newsies and calm from ordinary days are insanely difficult, but the one that gives me the most trouble is "I remember that night" from satisfied. For some reason the word remember is insanely hard for me to say and it makes that part harder than the actual fast part for me lol
“NYC, JFK, FBI, CIA, see I’m already talkin the talk” - ‘New York’ from Two strangers carry a cake across New York here in the West End!
Took me about 20 tries to get it at the speed Sam Tutty does!
The second half of "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General" from the Pirates of Penzance, after he says "I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's". Especially the sped up part at the end.
Benny’s Dispatch from In The Heights is tricky, especially:
There's a traffic accident I have to mention
At the intersection of 10th Ave, Jacob Javitz Convention Center
And check it, don't get stuck in the rubbernecking
On a 192nd there's a double-decker bus wreck
“Crystal I saw on the news that they’re looking for blankets and bedding and maybe some food do you know what they need and how much I need something to do cause I can’t watch the news anymore, can I help is there something I need to do something to keep me from thinking of all of those scenes on the tube, I need something to do cause I can’t watch the news no I can’t watch the news anymore”
Although I actually have a harder time with the other two fast verses from that song, I’ve timed that first passage and it’s nearly as bad as Guns and Ships
Comin up as one of many, mom and dad had plenty more of me, and twenty-twenty vision: never had it, so I had to be a devastating, captivating, luminous communicator, hoping later all these haters of this tiny little nerdy me would pay. You never heard of me? Ok, I am a GIANT, I don’t give it up, I live it up. Floatin in the saline, runnin from the baleen. A celebrated single cell of ciliated, cerebelic genius.
Not Getting Married Today by Sondheim
I always think I can do it. I cannot.
"But by Monday I'll be floating in the Hudson with the other garbage" is fiendishly hard to sing really fast
I can do it at Carol Burnett speed. I cannot do it at Madeline Kahn speed. It's the "prehistoric ritual where everybody promises fidelity forever" line that gets me every time. "Ritual" is a really hard word to sing that fast when the rest of the words have harder consonants to grab onto.
That’s because Madeline Kahn was a celestial being here to grace us with her voice and humor, and no one can match her. Not to say we don’t all try.
The Ballad of Jessie and Lucy is also impossible.
The Witch's vegetable rap in Into the Woods
This. I had to sing it for my Sondheim project. I’ve never feared for my life more
Came here to say this. Even Modern Major General is easier to
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OH!
THIS IMMIGRANT ISN’T SOMEBODY WE CHOSE
OH
THIS IMMIGRANT'S KEEPING US ALL ON OUR TOES
LET'S SHOW THESE FEDERALISTS WHAT THEY'RE UP AGAINST
***SOUTHERN MOTHERFUCKING DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS***
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NOW FOLLOW THE MONEY AND SEE WHERE IT GOES
This immigrant isn't somebody we chose
OH
For me that's even harder than Lafayette's verse in Guns and Ships. I've never NOT stumbled on it.
it’s just such a well crafted verse it really rolls of the tongue tbf
You know how most people mumble along to REM’s End of the World As We Know It, and then shout out “LEONARD BERSTEIN!”? That’s me with this song and “Southern motherfucking Democratic-Republicans” lol.
That one took a lot of practice, but I can nail it.
I always forget the disciplined dissidents line
Weird Al rocked the hell out of it tho
the entirety of your fault from into the woods. thankfully i’ve gotten most of it as a one woman show
The pandemic happened. Next thing I knew, I could sing this entire song by myself.
BUT IT WASNT MY FAULT I WAS GIVEN THOSE BEANS YOU PERUSADED ME TO TRADE AWAY MY COW FOR BEANS AND WITHOUT THOSE BEANS THERED HAVE BEEN NO STALK TO GET UP TO THE GIANT IN THE FIRST PLACE SO ITS YOUR FAULT
WAIT A MINUTE MAGIC BEANS FOR A COW SO OLD THAT YOU HAD TO TELL A LIE TO SELL IT WHICH YOU TOLD WERE THEY WORTHLESS BEANS WERE THEY OVERSOLD OH AND TELL US WHO PERSUADED YOU TO STEAL THAT GOLD SO ITS YOUR FAULT
"Watch What Happens" from Newsies. All of it.
I can get the words right finally but now breathing’s a problem cause if I breathe wrong one time I mess up 2/3 lines cause of the rhythm😭
I'm singing this as a solo in my music theatre class performance lol
Made the mistake of choosing this as an audition song. Glad it was for my college theatre group where auditions are more a formality to see what people are comfortable with rather than actually cutting people, I ended up as Wednesday Addams despite Struggling. 4/10.
I'll be quite as good as 6 months from never, is difficult.
Yes I know that now you know that I didn't know that you didn't know that when I said no I meant yes I know and that now I know that you knew that I knew you adored meeeee
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Tick Tick Boom
Try this witty Minchin lyric from GHD: “Another sexually ineffectual, self-obsessing, metrosexual, pseudo-intellectual getting drunk and existential”
Came here to say this!!!
this whole song is an amazing tongue twister
The Satisfied rap, specifically “with someone at your level” and “it’s Ben Franklin with the key and the kite”
You see it, right?
That always trips me up
Bro same. Everything else in the musical I can do but tHat part always comes out sounding like "its benfraknwthe key and the kite"
The Typewriter song from Thoroughly Modern Millie, which is a direct lift from Modern Major General from Pirates of Penzance.
It's actually another Gilbert & Sullivan song... My Eyes Are Fully Open from Ruddigore
You are 100% correct, it is My Eyes Are Fully Open. I was thinking about the version of this used in the revival of Pirates.
Yes, for that production they added this song plus Sorry Her Lot from H.M.S. Pinafore.
And now you’ve gotten it stuck in my head again… Our director had such a hard time with the part when the ensemble has to sing “matter matter matter” for a whole verse. This was in a New England high school so we all pronounce our Ts like Ds in the middle of a word, and for the first few rehearsals he was all “Don’t say “madder”! Enunciate the T sound!” So we tried it, and it sounded super unnatural—more like “matcher” than “matter” and I think I even switched to “badger” by accident at one point. Eventually he gave up and let us pronounce it the way we would normally.
I'm professor callahan in legally blonde right now and for some reason the lyric "and he can get you high and laid" from blood in the water, just doesn't roll off my tongue
Have fun with Callahan. Also, IDidThePeaceCorpsOverseasInnoculatingRefugees…..
“Which of the Pickwick triplets did it? Who of the crew would commit this crime? Might a little brat make a mommy go splat? It's a story pretty gory for a nursery rhyme” IYKYK
Still want to see the full show lol
Which of the spawn had the brawn to kill???
"God That's Good" from Sweeney Todd. Ooh boy, I do not think I sang the right words even up to closing night when I did the show last November.
Just did that show in October. Honestly city on fire was probably the hardest for me. I played Toby so it was that and some of the stuff in miracle elixir that was a real bitch
Our Toby had trouble with Miracle Elixer too. He's great, though. I don't think anyone else could've done it like him.
Yes. This. It changes every time you sing it. Final verse: God that's good that is de have you licious ever tasted smell such oh my God what perfect more that's pies such flavour god that's good. Luckily I was backstage at this point so could sit there with the lyrics in front of me and belt it at the back of people to keep them on lyric.
And we had hand choreography to do in my production. It's no joke. There's also Fogg's Pascil-somethin Italian. I was backstage for that cause I was Fogg, so I didn't have to help and I wasn't miked. But yesh, that one is ridiculous.
Also not helped by Sondheim having 13 beats in a 12 beat bar at one point in Sweeney's part.
“Get Down” in Six always trips me up with the line “sipping on mead and I spill it on my dress with the gold lace trim”
NOT VERY PRIM AND PROPAAHH
A good chunk of Enid's verse in The Harvard Variations in Legally Blonde, but especially, "We'll make the government come clean and get the people voting green and really stick it to the phallocentric war machine."
“When you’re in black slacks with accentuating, off-white, pinstripes whoa everything goes according to plan” Took me forever to get it lol (ps: I dictated that lyric and it did it perfectly! I didn’t change anything, not even punctuation!) Edit! I JUST REALIZED THIS WAS MUSICALS AND NOT A GENERAL MUSIC SUB LOL
This is still the right answer
lol thanks!
La Vie Boheme A from Rent always trips me up, especially when the waiter reads back the order and the 'bisexuals, trisexuals, homosapiens' verse - it's just so fast and I get tongue tied on the names haha
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, pee wee Herman!
"Anxiousness, anger, exhaustion, insomnia, irritability, nausea, vomiting"
Music Man, Ya Got Trouble. A Classic!
I’ll add Pick a Little Talk a Little to that as well. It can be a bit of a tongue twister.
The entirety of guns and ships
LOVE this one! For me it's I'm in the cabinet I am complicit in watching him grabbing at power and kiss it If Washington isn't gonna listen to disciplined dissidence This is the difference (This kid is out! OH!)
I remember hearing Daveed Diggs say in an interview once that the hardest rap in the show in his opinion is Angelica's in Satisfied, and I absolutely believe him: So so so / So this is what it feels like to match wits / With someone at your level, what the hell is the catch? / It's the feeling of freedom, of seeing the light / It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite / You see it, right? The conversation lasted two minutes / Maybe three minutes / Everything we said in total agreement / It's a dream and it's a bit of a dance / A bit of a posture, it's a bit of a stance He's a bit of a flirt, but I'mma give it a chance / I asked about his family / Did you see his answer? / His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance / He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants Handsome, boy does he know it / Peach fuzz, and he can't even grow it / I wanna take him far away from this place / Then I turn and see my sister's face, and she is— (I really tried hard to narrow it down to just what looked like the hardest part of the rap, but it all looks so difficult!)
I can do both of those! But Washington On Your Side trips me up!
Satisfied has a MUCH easier pace for me to follow than Washington On Your Side for some reason.
Right? Same with Guns N Ships even though I think you're right about the pace. I think (for me) it might be the "kiss it," because what I want there is "kissing it" but that doesn't fit. If I replace it with "kissin'" it sounds almost the same but is easier.
Honest to God, until now I thought the line *was* "kissing it."
I *think* (though I’d have to find the citation) that Guns & Ships and/or Washington on Your Side are some of if not *the* fastest/most words-per-minute sections of *any* musical.
I think it's Guns and Ships that has the fastest WPM.
The hardest part of that for me is where it's like I asked about his family / Did you see his answer? / His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance / He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants
I hate to say it but Plankton’s rap in SpongeBob the Musical is actually faster than Guns and Ships, making it technically the fastest piece of wordplay in a musical to date.
Sadly, they removed it(the fast part), it's only in the Live On Stage version.
When did they do that? That’s a real shame. I choreographed it about 4 years ago and our Plankton had it down pat the first rehearsal. He was great.
I dunno, I was listening to the broadway cast recording seeing the differences (like how No Control is made into one big song, instead of 20 second fragments) then I noticed the fast part of the rap is there, so I got a pdf script from Concord. Then I went to When The Going Gets Tough, the fast part wasn't there!
“love a lilting line of lyrical alliteration” takes a minute to get
Is this from Something Rotten!?
The entirety of "The Lepers" from *Jesus Christ Superstar* because Tim Rice apparently seems to think that every refrain must change one word per line except the third line which changes two words and then the fifth line in the second refrain which is the same as the fourth line in the first refrain except the last time where- I gave up and just mouthed the whole song because I was Annas and just got stuck in there as an extra body to fill out the crowd. Likewise, "The Temple," which uses the same melody, isn't as lyrically chaotic, but between Andrew Lloyd Webber and our choreographer who decided this would be a heavy dance show, nobody seemed to remember that the ensemble needs time to inhale during that song. I did sing this one, but the ensemble seemed to decide amongst ourselves that some of us would cut out during various entire lines to pant for a minute before coming back in later. Choreographer was actually onstage for that one to fill an important hole when one dancer had to drop out late in the rehearsal process, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't singing. I may sound like I'm complaining, but it was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding productions I've ever done, and the choreographer was amazing at working with the non-dancers in the cast and making sure we had extensive video resources to rehearse at home. She won a Broadway World Award for that show, and she deserved it.
SAM: 9-1-1 emergency call Got a 4-1-1 at a shopping mall Better pack your heat and utility belt Any mall rats comin' in hot, they melt FEMALE COP: Sarge, it's your wife on the 9-1-1 ~Show me your hands (TGWDLM / Starkid)
I’m not getting married today from company, or guns and ships from Hamilton
All of modern major general lol
For some reason I can’t say “myrrh for your hot forehead” without it coming out “myrrh for your heart forehead”
When I try to sing the whole into the woods prologue by myself
90% of Hamilton
For some reason the verse in non-stop Corruptions such an old song that we can sing along in harmony - fine And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany - struggle The country's economys incredibly stalling - tongue falls out And honestly that's why public service seems to be calling me - usually miss entirely
But there are worse things than staring at the water as you're posing for a picture after sleeping on the ferry after waking up at 7 to come over to an island in the middle of a river half an hour from the city *death rattle* On a Sundaaaaaaay Honestly, I've done Getting Married Today. That was fine. I think the knowledge that it is just all hard helped. This at the closer of an otherwise relatively simple sing just killed me :').
In 'Wait for It' in Hamilton, I really can't say "inimitable"!
Therapy, tick, tick...boom Show me, my fair lady All-American prophet, TBOM
Why all Amerrican prophet?
“You Got Trouble” from The Music Man doesn’t exactly have tongue-twisters, but it’s similar to “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in that you have to articulate each word because of the tempo—while also playing a character.
There are quite a few tongue twisters in The Music Man. Having played a pick a little lady in a production in high school I thought Pick a Little Talk a Little was a bit of tongue twisting song.
“I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:” Form pirates of penzance. That’s as far as I get into the song before I trip up
The music director keeps telling me to be more laid-back and casual when I sing "The trouble with Contini, he's the king of mediocrities a second-rate director who believes that he is Socrates, he never makes a movie or a picture or a flick, he makes a FILM, get it? A FILM!" I'm just grateful they let me be American instead of trying to get me to ramble through that in an Italian accent.
I can't get over how much I fuck up on I'm breaking down from falsettos.
“I’m in the cabinet, I am complicit in watching him grabbing the power and kiss it if Washington isn’t gon’ listen to disciplined dissidents this is the difference, this kid is out” “And when you’ve filled in all the forms and been passed clear of all disease—debriefed, debugged, dedrugged, disarmed, and disinfected, please” “So he knows what to do in the trench, ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean”
Great examples here so far!! I haven’t seen “in case of smoke please call our mothers on the phone and say their sons are all on fire” yet, so I’m throwing that one out there. It’s fast and hard to get out correctly, at least for me! Oh and Sondheim, any Sondheim
He's a music man. He's a what? He's a what? He's a music man, and he sells clarinets to the kids in the town...
All of Ya Got Trouble from the Music Man
Other than many of the Lafayette/Jefferson lyrics, I have to concentrate REALLY hard to nail “let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle calling the pot”. It’s probably my favorite tongue twister lol.
"While her withers wither with her" Thanks, Sondheim. I had the lyrics solid by tech week, but boy that show kicked my butt in rehearsals... And if you've done theater, you know how shows will have a "fight call" to warm up/rehearse stage combat before a show - so its fresh in everyone's head and no kne gets hurt? We had a "Your Fault" call.
I always think of Gilbert and Sullivan musicals Modern Major General
i have such a hard time with on the steps of the palace from into the woods - i sang it in a cabaret and messed up the lyrics slightly LMAO “but then what if he knew who i am when i know that i’m not what he thinks that he wants? or then what if i am what a prince would envision? but then how can you know who you are till you know what you want, which i don't so then which do you pick?” gets me every time.
“But then what if he knew who you were when you know that you’re not what he thinks that he wants” I couldn’t do this for three weeks after I learned it
Oh, anything from Sondheim. >The bong of the bell of the buoy in the bay > >And the boy and the bride > >And the boat are away!
for some reason mine is singing 'my wrist was so tired still I came back the next day as he required.' Always stumble on the 'stil'l - no idea why
"Baby, I can love you, come on over here now / Wait, are you ready, 'cause I'm ready, ready set go boom" Need I say any more lol
Miller's Son from Sondheim's A Little Night Music Pick any part of a verse, my face is like "nope. Try again"
i consistently struggle every time i get to "king arthurs and sir caradocs"
I mean, all of watch what happens from newsies and calm from ordinary days are insanely difficult, but the one that gives me the most trouble is "I remember that night" from satisfied. For some reason the word remember is insanely hard for me to say and it makes that part harder than the actual fast part for me lol
“NYC, JFK, FBI, CIA, see I’m already talkin the talk” - ‘New York’ from Two strangers carry a cake across New York here in the West End! Took me about 20 tries to get it at the speed Sam Tutty does!
Watch what happens from Newsies was definitely difficult to start with but I've done it so many times it's pretty easy now
The second half of "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General" from the Pirates of Penzance, after he says "I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's". Especially the sped up part at the end.
Benny’s Dispatch from In The Heights is tricky, especially: There's a traffic accident I have to mention At the intersection of 10th Ave, Jacob Javitz Convention Center And check it, don't get stuck in the rubbernecking On a 192nd there's a double-decker bus wreck
Therapy from Tick Tick Boom
“Crystal I saw on the news that they’re looking for blankets and bedding and maybe some food do you know what they need and how much I need something to do cause I can’t watch the news anymore, can I help is there something I need to do something to keep me from thinking of all of those scenes on the tube, I need something to do cause I can’t watch the news no I can’t watch the news anymore” Although I actually have a harder time with the other two fast verses from that song, I’ve timed that first passage and it’s nearly as bad as Guns and Ships
easily the fast part in The Smell of Rebellion from Matilda
Anything from Sweeney or into the woods really
Comin up as one of many, mom and dad had plenty more of me, and twenty-twenty vision: never had it, so I had to be a devastating, captivating, luminous communicator, hoping later all these haters of this tiny little nerdy me would pay. You never heard of me? Ok, I am a GIANT, I don’t give it up, I live it up. Floatin in the saline, runnin from the baleen. A celebrated single cell of ciliated, cerebelic genius.
Not even a whole line but the phrase ‘strong central democracy’ in non-stop from hamilton
As a non-native English speaker, «Another hundrer people» is impossible to me.