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Label. Decca Broadway. Songwriter (s) Stephen Schwartz. " No Good Deed " is a musical number from the hit Broadway musical Wicked. It is sung by Elphaba, the main character of the show. It is widely regarded as the most powerful piece of the musical; and the most emotional. [1]
The modern expression "No good deed goes unpunished" is an ironic twist on this conventional morality. [ 1] The ironic usage of the phrase appears to be [weasel words] a 20th-century invention, found for example in Brendan Gill 's 1950 novel The Trouble of One House. [ 3] It is also featured prominently in the song "No Good Deed", from the 2003 ...
Much of Luce's famously acid wit ("No good deed goes unpunished", [28] "Widowhood is a fringe benefit of marriage", "A hospital is no place to be sick") can be traced back to the days when, as a wealthy young divorcee in the early 1930s, she became a caption writer at Vogue and then, associate editor and managing editor of Vanity Fair.
Lily Collias in <i>Good One</i> Credit - Courtesy of Metgrograph Pictures. T here are days when the maxim “No good deed goes unpunished” feels unbearably weighty, when having done the right ...
Two con car salesmen begin to sell their doomed cars to poor, innocent people, only to find that no "good" deed goes unpunished. (The Crypt-Keeper) 25 Jun/July 1952: Seance! Johnny Craig: Two con artists target a rich man whose wife believes in psychics, spirits, and mediums, but they find that ghosts and spirits are nothing to fool around with...
Opinion: What started as a feel-good story turned sour after people took advantage of 'Gorilla' Bob Raymer.
Professional ratings. Wicked is a cast recording containing the majority of the songs from the Tony Award -winning Broadway musical Wicked, with music and lyrics by composer Stephen Schwartz and a book by writer Winnie Holzman. Released on December 16, 2003 by Decca Broadway both in physical and digital releases.
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