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Speed Test! Check Out Our Video Roundup of the Fastest Patter Songs, from Company, Godspell & More by Kathy Henderson

Never mind “She sells seashells by the sea shore”: Actors who take on show-stopping patter numbers have to be able to deliver complicated lyrics at lightning speed. Gilbert & Sullivan were masters at clever wordplay, of course, and the tradition continues with Kander & Ebb (“Money,” “We Both Reached for the Gun”), Sondheim (see below, plus “Franklin Shepard Inc.&rdquo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:28PM on August 5, 2013

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