Well, the puzzle here was filled with enough recognizable phrases in one of my (relatively) strong areas of knowledge that there wasn’t much of an Aha.  It was just a matter of looking up what I didn’t know, and putting things together the obvious way.  Solved in under 11 minutes.

The puzzle, hints(!), and solution are available here: http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/puzzles.php and my brief solving log is after the jump.

Log:

0:00:00

Opening puzzle

0:00:23

Printing, just for the heck of it.

0:00:40

Are these lines from songs? From musicals? Last one looks man of la mancha. [I was reading Don Quixote at the time… Still am, actually. It helped again with a Final Jeopardy this week.  I may finish it someday, but in the meantime it helps me get trivia questions right, at least.]

0:01:18

Yep, first one is matchmaker, fiddler on the roof.

0:01:39

Into the woods, I know things

0:02:06

I recognized #3, Rent, seasons of love

0:02:31

spamalot, he is not yet dead

0:02:51

so far: FIRS? or MISH? or both? we’ll see.  [Using first letters of songs or first letters of shows]

0:03:02

T(horougly), N(ot for the life of me)

0:03:35

S(weeney Todd) N(o place like london)

0:04:06

(I’m googling for ‘“phrase in line” lyrics’) [Another strength of mine… knowing how to Google for things… although Google keeps making “helpful” changes that make it harder for me to precisely search for things I want.]

0:05:16

N(o no nanette), T(ea for two)

0:05:49

G(rease), G(reased lightning) (pretty sure the song titles don’t matter, looking at what I have so far.

0:06:16

O liver

0:06:35

L(es) Mis

0:07:05

D(reamgirls)

0:07:23

C(ats) Memory!

0:07:46

H(ello Dolly), another one I recongized (I didn’t recognize Memory, which I’m okay with)

0:08:14

U(nsinkable Molly Brown)

0:08:24

M(an of La Mancha), didn’t need to look that up.

0:08:34

OLD CHUM first song huh? google…

0:08:55

Cabaret… 

0:10:34

Checked on amazon for the sound track, the first song is WILLKOMMEN, which is correct!