Group: rec.arts.theatre.musicals
From: "Andy on Long Island"
Date: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:18 PM
Subject: Hilarious songs/numbers in musicals

I always liked Gigi's "I Remember It Well," but my new gal-pal and I just
saw a terrific production (by community-theatre standards, which can be very
good) of "Damn Yankees." (The production for which I auditioned and didn't
get the "Van Buren" role. The gal-pal says I'm too good looking for that
part anyhow. Maybe she's right.)

So evidently this got cut from the movie version, but, c'mon . . .
Is there a more hilarious song than "The Game" from DY?!

From /lyrics/damnyankees/:

[ROCKY]
There was that waitress back in Kansas City,
Built for comfort, dumb but pretty!

[ALL]
Yeah? Yeah?

[ROCKY]
Man, her perfume sure smelt sweet,
Got her up to my hotel suite!

[ALL]
Yeah? Yeah?

[ROCKY]
She killed a pint of gin more or less,
The lights were low and she slips off her dress!

[ALL]
Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?

[ROCKY]
But then I thought about the game!

[ALL]
The game, the game!

Et cetera . . . et cetera . . . et cetera . . . . What a great number!