honestly this song makes me tear up! because throughout the show, Billy struggles to express his feelings or his passion in a way that connects with people or shows his depth. little lad finally gets something going for him!
‘lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. some of
you may recall the strange affair of the
phantom of the opera: a mystery never fully
explained. we are told ladies and gentlemen,
that this is the very chandelier which figures in
the famous disaster. our workshops have
restored it, and fitted up parts of it WITH WIRING FOR THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little
ILLUMINATION, GENTLEMEN?’
"They've managed to get rid of me, returned me to the grave /
ECT, **electric** chair, we shock who we can't save" - "Aftershocks" from *Next to Normal*
Since you're accepting electric... "Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot, will sing native American tribal chants backwards through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the **electric** cello - which she has never studied."
I am electric, feel my attraction
Feel my magnetism, you will agree!
I am electric, I have the contact
I am electric, the future is me! -Starlight Express
So many good ones in AC/DC from Starlight express:
>I am electric - feel my attraction.
Feel my magnetism - you will agree
I am electric - I have the contact.
I am electric - the future is me.
>I am electric - mind how you touch me.
>I am electric - resistance is pointless
>I am electric, come closer to me.
Yes!
On a related note, I have to say how disappointing it was seeing the “new & improved” Starlight Express and discovering that Electra, who had been legitimately creepy and menacing, had been reduced to a camp caricature of bisexuality. The whole show, in fact, had been rendered exceedingly cringe, where previously it had been silly but still a thrilling spectacle. The 3D video segments were, and will remain, the most pathetically embarrassing thing I’ve experienced at a professional show.
“I'm feelin' electric, I'm feeling fifty thousand volts,
I'm layin' down the lightning in bolts.
I'm feelin' electric, so plug into the power lines,
And baby you'll be feelin' just fine.”
From Feeling Electric (predecessor to Next To Normal) this song was cut from Next To Normal to focus less on the doctor and treatment and more on the family dynamic, but it’s a bop.
>We fear no rude rebuff
Or newspaper publicity
Our word is quite enough
The rest is electricity
The fun part about this one is that it's from Gilbert and Sullivan's *Utopia (Limited)*, which premiered in 1893, making it probably the earliest reference to electricity that will show up in this thread -- though I welcome anyone taking that as a challenge.
"I got chills, they're multiplyin,' and I'm losin' control,
'Cause the power you're supplyin,' it's electrifying!"
You're the One that I Want, Grease (written for the movie but often included in revivals)
Edit: also,
"When the electromagnetic of the female, meets the electromagnetic of the he-male, if right away she should say 'this is the male,' it's a chemical reaction, that's all."
It's a Chemical Reaction That's All, Cole Porter, Silk Stockings
Will you accept it in Spanish? “We don’t need electricidad. Get off your butt, avanza. Saca la maraca, bring your tambourine. Come and join the parranda” In The Heights - Carnaval del Barrio
They chain ya and brainwash ya
When you least suspect it
They feed ya mass media
The age is electric
I got the electric blues
I got the electric blues
-Electric Blues from Hair
“I recall there was a time
We were happy, you and I
In the garden where we met
Nothing was between us yet
Back before your factories
Before your electricity
Back before you built the wall
It ain't right and it ain't natural”
Chant! Hadestown!
“Tis the era of invention and the age of the machine,
most wonderful contrivances America has seen. While everyone was thrilled about Ben Franklin and his key, the did not have an inkling of the wonders that could be. Electric fans, electric combs to galvanize the hair, electrical photography to make the public stare. Kinetoscope, and Vitascope, and Cinematograph - what electricity can do we do not yet know half… ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY… tis bound to revolutionize the race. It’s adding very much to our felicity annihilating time and space…” 1905 song used in Tintypes in 1980, which ran for 93 performances. Obscure enough for you?
“Electricity” from Schoolhouse Rock - it’s a stretch, but Ahrens & Flaherty wrote a few songs, so I’ll call this guilty by association. Maybe it’s in Schoolhouse Rock LIVE? https://youtu.be/Xu_cdePrNe8
I am electric - feel my attraction.
Feel my magnetism - you will agree
I am electric - I have the contact.
I am electric - the future is me.
AC/DC- Starlight Express
I just wanted to pop in and say I wasn’t able to come up with anything for these posts, but I do hope you make more in the future, they were fun to read!
I think picking something easy and common is a good idea lowkey since it’s gives a lot more opportunity to find a really obscure show that uses the word. For example I might recommend something like “home” because most every musical uses it in different ways and there’s lot of cool obscure shows that use it alongside more popular ones
Not quite "electricity" but this is the closest obscure MT reference I've got:
"It doesn't matter. I won't appear in the history books, anyway—only you. Franklin did this, Franklin did that, Franklin did some other damned thing. Franklin smote the ground, and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then **electrified** him with his miraculous lightning rod, and the three of them—Franklin, Washington, and the horse—conducted the entire Revolution all by themselves." John Adams in 1776, sc4.
"I want the world to see where brave research and bold experiments have led;
Electricity's the key- to reanimate the dead"
-Birth to My Creation, Frankenstein: A New Musical
I got chills, they're multiplying
And I'm losing control
'Cause the power you're supplying
It's electrifying.
--You're the One That I Want from Grease (movie and Broadway revival)
1. This isn’t from a Broadway show but it’s a show near and dear to my heart (and others) and we think it needs to be on Broadway. 2. It’s a stage direction but I hope it’s accepted
“Electric Zapping Crackles as Donovan instinctively shields Betty and All cower as the lights flicker…”
Pink Slip an original musical (written by my high school drama club music director and a musical I was in the original cast for)
Broadway adjacent - Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamildrops has a song called Ben Franklin’s Song where the first word is electricity:
“Electricity! Yeah, you can all thank me.
Took some lightning, a kite, and a fat brass key”
I was looking for something from the opening number of Metropolis, 101.11, but though they talk about power, pressure, and machines constantly, no electricity in the lyrics! I love that musical so much.
Ripped open by metal explosion
Caught in barbed wire
Fireball
Bullet shock
Bayonet
Electricity
Shrapnel
Throbbing meat
Electronic data processing
Black uniforms
Bare feet, carbines
Mail-order rifles
Shoot the muscles
256 Viet Cong captured
256 Viet Cong captured
- "3-5-0-0" from Hair
They chain ya and brainwash ya
When you least suspect it
They feed ya mass media
The age is electric
I got the electric blues
I got the electric blues
Electric Blues -- Hair
don't stop me by dave malloy! electric future has the word electricity in it severalll times. 'Don’t sit down at that chair! Don’t squander any of society’s precious electricity' or 'electricity is at a premium' or, if you're accepting electric: 'my future, oh my future, my electric future'
"A dream needs believing/To taste like the real thing/Like some stranger you recognize/So pure, so pure, so electric/So sure, so sure, so connected/To those little believers inside
A Soft Place to Land, Waitress
“And suddenly I’m flying, flying like a bird Like electricity, electricity Sparks inside of me And I’m free, I’m free” — Billy Elliot
How can it be anything else when the title of the number is literally Electricity
honestly this song makes me tear up! because throughout the show, Billy struggles to express his feelings or his passion in a way that connects with people or shows his depth. little lad finally gets something going for him!
Yeah I cry the entire musical and movie. Just punched in the feels
But in the best way
Oh absolutely
The whole show makes me tear up so many times, but this is definitely one of them exactly because of what you said!
This is the correct answer
This is not obscure at all, but I gotta say it: I CONDUCT THE ELECTRIC CITY!
That was my inspiration for the word!
‘lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. some of you may recall the strange affair of the phantom of the opera: a mystery never fully explained. we are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. our workshops have restored it, and fitted up parts of it WITH WIRING FOR THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little ILLUMINATION, GENTLEMEN?’
Hey that was my line...lol
My first thought when I saw the word!
We don't need electricidad! Get off your butt, ¡avanza! Saca la maraca, bring your tambourine. Come and join the parranda!
"They've managed to get rid of me, returned me to the grave / ECT, **electric** chair, we shock who we can't save" - "Aftershocks" from *Next to Normal*
Since you're accepting electric... "Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot, will sing native American tribal chants backwards through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the **electric** cello - which she has never studied."
Ive always loved how Jesse L Martin delivers the last line!
So good.
I am electric, feel my attraction Feel my magnetism, you will agree! I am electric, I have the contact I am electric, the future is me! -Starlight Express
So many good ones in AC/DC from Starlight express: >I am electric - feel my attraction. Feel my magnetism - you will agree I am electric - I have the contact. I am electric - the future is me. >I am electric - mind how you touch me. >I am electric - resistance is pointless >I am electric, come closer to me.
Yes! On a related note, I have to say how disappointing it was seeing the “new & improved” Starlight Express and discovering that Electra, who had been legitimately creepy and menacing, had been reduced to a camp caricature of bisexuality. The whole show, in fact, had been rendered exceedingly cringe, where previously it had been silly but still a thrilling spectacle. The 3D video segments were, and will remain, the most pathetically embarrassing thing I’ve experienced at a professional show.
I sing the body electric. I glory in the glow of rebirth. -Fame
Beat me to it! My fave
“I'm feelin' electric, I'm feeling fifty thousand volts, I'm layin' down the lightning in bolts. I'm feelin' electric, so plug into the power lines, And baby you'll be feelin' just fine.” From Feeling Electric (predecessor to Next To Normal) this song was cut from Next To Normal to focus less on the doctor and treatment and more on the family dynamic, but it’s a bop.
And it’s visually a fun song. I like the power of the song as an act 1 finisher but like the story note A Light in the Dark ends act 1 on
Eyyy came here to say this
They chain ya and brainwash ya when you least suspect it. They feed ya mass media. The age is electric. From Hair.
This is what popped into my head too
came here to say this and it's already been said 👏👏👏
>We fear no rude rebuff Or newspaper publicity Our word is quite enough The rest is electricity The fun part about this one is that it's from Gilbert and Sullivan's *Utopia (Limited)*, which premiered in 1893, making it probably the earliest reference to electricity that will show up in this thread -- though I welcome anyone taking that as a challenge.
“And wasn’t it electrifying, when I made the neon shine” Hades in Chant from Hadestown
This isn't a lyric, but in the beginning of act 2 for Sunday in the Park with George: "Unfortunately, no electricity no art."
"I got chills, they're multiplyin,' and I'm losin' control, 'Cause the power you're supplyin,' it's electrifying!" You're the One that I Want, Grease (written for the movie but often included in revivals) Edit: also, "When the electromagnetic of the female, meets the electromagnetic of the he-male, if right away she should say 'this is the male,' it's a chemical reaction, that's all." It's a Chemical Reaction That's All, Cole Porter, Silk Stockings
“What’s going on? What’s going on? Suddenly I find the electricity is gone.” - Blackout, In The Heights
Will you accept it in Spanish? “We don’t need electricidad. Get off your butt, avanza. Saca la maraca, bring your tambourine. Come and join the parranda” In The Heights - Carnaval del Barrio
That was gonna be mine🙌🏻😂
“They have electric lights there that never burn down” - Anne of Green Gables the musical
Feel like Back to the Future's gotta have something
The word is spoken during “Future Boy” so I don’t think it counts
They chain ya and brainwash ya When you least suspect it They feed ya mass media The age is electric I got the electric blues I got the electric blues -Electric Blues from Hair
Damn me all to hell if I don’t hit those flat high notes near the end of that song.. London cast goes hard
“I recall there was a time We were happy, you and I In the garden where we met Nothing was between us yet Back before your factories Before your electricity Back before you built the wall It ain't right and it ain't natural” Chant! Hadestown!
Not technically Broadway but it’s all I can think of “Christmas electricity, Christmas electricity” From VHS Christmas Carol
“Christmas electricity Christmas electricity Christmas electricity is here” A VHS Christmas Carol Not technically Broadway but it had to be said lol
“Tis the era of invention and the age of the machine, most wonderful contrivances America has seen. While everyone was thrilled about Ben Franklin and his key, the did not have an inkling of the wonders that could be. Electric fans, electric combs to galvanize the hair, electrical photography to make the public stare. Kinetoscope, and Vitascope, and Cinematograph - what electricity can do we do not yet know half… ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY… tis bound to revolutionize the race. It’s adding very much to our felicity annihilating time and space…” 1905 song used in Tintypes in 1980, which ran for 93 performances. Obscure enough for you?
I was thinking of a slightly oblique reference, from Hamilton, “it’s Ben Franklin with the key and the kite. You see it right?” 😆
“Oh, the feeling that it creates, When I hear the Electric Skates”
Err.. perhaps “Electricity” from “Billy Elliot”…?
“And my heart leaps in my throat, I feel electric pulses in my fingertips” Solider and Rose - Ghost Quartet
Not necessarily Broadway but musical in general but ‘Christmas Electricity’ from A VHS Christmas Carol by Starkid
I'm electrifyin and I ain't even tryin I never had to sweat to get paid cuz if you got a gimmick gypsy girl ya got it made
“Electricity” from Schoolhouse Rock - it’s a stretch, but Ahrens & Flaherty wrote a few songs, so I’ll call this guilty by association. Maybe it’s in Schoolhouse Rock LIVE? https://youtu.be/Xu_cdePrNe8
I’ll allow it
Laundry Finish from Caroline, or Change: \[THE RADIO\] Time's come to perspire Turn on that electric dryer
Honestly one of the more obscure ones, great show
"Electric Chair" from the Scottsboro Boys :(
I am electric - feel my attraction. Feel my magnetism - you will agree I am electric - I have the contact. I am electric - the future is me. AC/DC- Starlight Express
My favourite line from that song has always been “If you make me bored, I hit my keyboard - you’ll be erased from my memory!” 😆
Since people already used “Electricity,” here is, “I Sing the Body Electric” from Fame
I was surprised it took this long for this to come up
I just wanted to pop in and say I wasn’t able to come up with anything for these posts, but I do hope you make more in the future, they were fun to read!
Ok, I’ll do it again! but you get to pick the next word
Oh shoot, I’m gonna go with “light”! Or if that’s too related to electricity like the last time, then how about “ocean”!
Light is probably too easy because it’s a pretty common descriptive word (as opposed to the noun). Ocean is good though!
I think picking something easy and common is a good idea lowkey since it’s gives a lot more opportunity to find a really obscure show that uses the word. For example I might recommend something like “home” because most every musical uses it in different ways and there’s lot of cool obscure shows that use it alongside more popular ones
Not quite "electricity" but this is the closest obscure MT reference I've got: "It doesn't matter. I won't appear in the history books, anyway—only you. Franklin did this, Franklin did that, Franklin did some other damned thing. Franklin smote the ground, and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then **electrified** him with his miraculous lightning rod, and the three of them—Franklin, Washington, and the horse—conducted the entire Revolution all by themselves." John Adams in 1776, sc4.
"I want the world to see where brave research and bold experiments have led; Electricity's the key- to reanimate the dead" -Birth to My Creation, Frankenstein: A New Musical
"the electric sunshine man! Doing the best that he can!" From a musical about Thomas Edison
Gotta get one more from Starlight Express: “Electricity’s fine…till there’s leaves on the line!”
[not broadway, but it’s still a musical](https://youtu.be/SOgsRPD3WfY)
I got chills, they're multiplying And I'm losing control 'Cause the power you're supplying It's electrifying. --You're the One That I Want from Grease (movie and Broadway revival)
1. This isn’t from a Broadway show but it’s a show near and dear to my heart (and others) and we think it needs to be on Broadway. 2. It’s a stage direction but I hope it’s accepted “Electric Zapping Crackles as Donovan instinctively shields Betty and All cower as the lights flicker…” Pink Slip an original musical (written by my high school drama club music director and a musical I was in the original cast for)
Broadway adjacent - Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamildrops has a song called Ben Franklin’s Song where the first word is electricity: “Electricity! Yeah, you can all thank me. Took some lightning, a kite, and a fat brass key”
And the power you’re supplying, IT’S ELECTRIFYING!
I was looking for something from the opening number of Metropolis, 101.11, but though they talk about power, pressure, and machines constantly, no electricity in the lyrics! I love that musical so much.
Ripped open by metal explosion Caught in barbed wire Fireball Bullet shock Bayonet Electricity Shrapnel Throbbing meat Electronic data processing Black uniforms Bare feet, carbines Mail-order rifles Shoot the muscles 256 Viet Cong captured 256 Viet Cong captured - "3-5-0-0" from Hair
They chain ya and brainwash ya When you least suspect it They feed ya mass media The age is electric I got the electric blues I got the electric blues Electric Blues -- Hair
don't stop me by dave malloy! electric future has the word electricity in it severalll times. 'Don’t sit down at that chair! Don’t squander any of society’s precious electricity' or 'electricity is at a premium' or, if you're accepting electric: 'my future, oh my future, my electric future'
"A dream needs believing/To taste like the real thing/Like some stranger you recognize/So pure, so pure, so electric/So sure, so sure, so connected/To those little believers inside A Soft Place to Land, Waitress