That IS my real job.

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A Chorus Line

Just noticed that Marvin Hamlisch / Ed Kleban uses this technique where everybody says a certain phrase twice right in a row…in almost every single song.

“God, I hope I get it. I hope I get.”

“How many people does he need? How many people does he need?”

“How many boys how many girls? How many boys how many -“

“Look at all the people. At all the people”

“I really need this job, dear God I need this job”

“God, I really blew it, I really blew it”

“Now I’ll never make it. I’ll never make it”

“God, I think I’ve got it. I think I’ve got it”

“I can do that, I can do that”

“That’s what he said, that’s what he said.”

“Thought she was twenty-two, though she was twenty-two”

“It wasn’t paradise, it wasn’t paradise”

“When I grew up, when I grew up”

“Though I was eight or nine, though I was eight or nine”

“At the ballet, at the ballet”

“4’ 10”, 4’ 10”“

“Feel the motion, feel the motion”

“Hear the wind rush, hear the wind rush”

“And I tried, I tried”

“The kids called me nothing, they called me nothing.”

“Send me guidance, send me guidance”

“I’d be hard, I’d be hard”

“Gimme the ball, gimme the ball”

“Scholarship to college, scholarship to college”

“That ain’t it kid, that ain’t it kid.”

“Tits and ass, yes tits and ass”

“What I did for love, what I did for love”

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Cory Monteith once said of Glee, “It’s as if High School Musical was punched in the stomach and had its lunch money stolen.” If that’s the case, then Smashed punched Glee in the stomach but then looked at Glee and said, “Except we already have real talent and original music so we don’t need to steal your auto tune, bad writing, or Top 40 score.

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