Lines from movies? How about lines from plays?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Okay, theatre goers, can you identify the following lines from the stage? They are all either "classic" plays, Broadway musicals, or recently popular ones.

1. "A haaandbaaag?"

2. "Man, I hope I never get THAT tense!"

3. "My own son, and I don't like him. I think I even like Oscar better."

4. "You keep handing me the wrong pig!"

5. "I don't bray!"

6. "People don't do such things!"

7. "Just the other day I saw him at the creamery eating butter with a tablespoon."

8. "Spring forth o Republic from the dust of my bosom." (Hint: This one isn't really a play, but a series of poems that have been put into a set of staged readings.)

9. "Don't say you ain't never been asked!"

10. "You smell of roses." --"So do you. But you're warm."

[chiburb]

1. Wow!

I can't believe it, but you've stumped me on ALL of them.
Are you sure these weren't from school plays?
:-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Well, we did one of them in high school

but it WAS a hit Broadway musical in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

And come to think of it, one of my brothers had the title role in #10 when he was in high school. It was written by a well-known poet.

[Richardo]

2. "It's either very new cheese or very old meat"

I know that one from a scene we did in High School from that play. Should be an easy one.

I don't know any of the ones you listed. I do not get to the theater very often, if at all. :-(

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

5. The Odd Couple

[Richardo]

6. ding ding ding

You are correct, sir!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. None of them are from The Odd Couple

despite the reference to "Oscar." That line refers to an entirely different character named Oscar.

[Richardo]

11. no - *mine* was from the Odd Couple...

You've stumped me with your list.... :shrug:

[Loonman]

3. Plays?

You mean over-acting without commercials?


D'oh!


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[eek]

4. great topic -tough one!

I' m quite theatre mad myself; more of a drama person than a musicals one but live huimans onstage talking and sharing the same air never ceases to thrill, whatever the format.

Tough test but I'll have a go at a few:

1. Importance of Being Earnest
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
8. errm..Metamorphoses?
9. Streetcar?

on edit typo

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. You got two of them!

#1 and #5 are correct.

[arwalden]

10. I'm not crazy, M'Lynn,I've just been a very bad mood for the last 40 years

I'm pleasant. Damn it! I saw Drum Eatenton at the Piggly Wiggly this morning, and I smiled at the son of a bitch 'fore I could help myself.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. That's from a movie

not a play.

[displacedtexan]

14. It was a play before it became a movie.

n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I didn't know that!

But there are still no takers for the rest of my lines.

[Snow]

12. Figaro, in the Barber of Seville, says

"I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.",

and Lord Byron says something very like that in Don Juan

"And if I laught at any mortal thing, Tis that I may not weep."

not sure what kind of outlook on life this demonstrates.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Here are some extra-credit lines for all of you and some clues

11. "Gabrielle is a virgin."--"Oh, she can't be as innocent as all that. She keeps canaries." (This play was originally written in French.)

12. "A prayer meetin'?" (Broadway musical)

13. "I want to put Wittgenstein on film!" (first play of a Pulitzer-prize winning author)

Clues for the others:

1. Already correctly identified by eek

2. Broadway musical

3. By Southern playwright who wrote memoir of the McCarthy era

4. Comedy by the "Neil Simon of the U.K."

5. Already identified by eek

6. By a playwright whose work scandalized nineteenth century Europe

7. Which Gilbert and Sullivan play is this from?

8. Clue given in another post

9. In the film version, this is addressed to Katherine Hepburn

10. Clue already given

[CBHagman]

17. Two answers

#12 is from "Guys and Dolls" (Frank Loesser, from stories by Damon Runyon).

#13 is from "Uncommon Women and Others" by Wendy Wasserstein.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Congratulations to CBHagman

for getting two more correct answers!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. Ready for the answers?

1. "A haaandbaaag?"
"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
2. "Man, I hope I never get THAT tense!"
"Bye Bye Birdie," although I forget who wrote it
3. "My own son, and I don't like him. I think I even like Oscar better."
"The Little Foxes" by Lillian Hellman
4. "You keep handing me the wrong pig!"
"Season's Greetings" by Alan Ayckbourn
5. "I don't bray!"
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"" by Edward Albee
6. "People don't do such things!"
"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen
7. "Just the other day I saw him at the creamery eating butter with a tablespoon."
"Patience" by Gilbert and Sullivan
8. "Spring forth o Republic from the dust of my bosom." (Hint: This one isn't really a play, but a series of poems that have been put into a set of staged readings.)
"Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters
9. "Don't say you ain't never been asked!"
"The Rainmaker" by ??
10. "You smell of roses." --"So do you. But you're warm."
"J.B." by Archibald McLeish
11. "The Madwoman of Chaillot" by Jean Giraudoux
12. "Guys and Dolls" by Frank Loesser
13. "Uncommon Women and Others" by Wendy Wasserstein

Thanks to everyone who played, and here's one more bonus question:

14. "Daddy's going to blush and giggle." (Hint: This is by the author of one of the plays listed above.)