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Yes, I saw "Chicago" this weekend (COMPLETELY FANTASTIC) and the "Cell Block Tango" made me think of this question. What are your favorite songs from musical theater and which ones make you CRINGE?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Destroying show tunes.

Destroy: Searching them.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I like all the Rocky Horror songs. I also really like "Age of Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine". I actually really enjoyed The Phantom Of the Opera when I saw it in Grade 8. I think Cradle Of Filth would be better if they did a metal version of Phantom. I also enjoyed my high school's production of Jesus Christ Superstar, especially "Gethsemane". I don't know that much about musicals but I should probably learn more because they seem like an unmined (for me) vault of perversity. I once saw someone do a seminar on Sondheim. He seems to have some witty lines.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "The Press Conference Rag", "Cell Block Tango", "All That Jazz" from "Chicago"; "When You're A Jet", "America", "I Feel Pretty", "A Boy Like That/I Have A Love", "Cool" from "West Side Story"; "No Way To Stop It", "Edelweiss", "The Lonely Goatherd" from "The Sound Of Music"; "Jacob and Sons", "Go Go Go Joseph", "The Pharoah's Song" from "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"; "Touch-a Touch Me", "Dammit Janet", "The Time Warp", "I'm Going Home" from "Rocky Horror".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Normally, I hate Showtunes, but I once got a tape from the 25 cent bin that had the stk to Les Girls (as in french plural, not the internet Les sense that girls sometimes have that would really make for a decent musical I suppose), and some of it is pretty awesome. Gene Kelly and all that.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a lot of amazing stuff out there, but people (straight guys mostly) really have to get over some barriers to get to it. the white stripes played the 'music man' soundtrack before their show and those are some great songs. ken russell's 'the boyfriend' is one of my favorites. ken's crazy and twiggy is so cute! i also like 'sister suffragette' from mary poppins. and what about hedwig? if the 90's were grunge, the oughts are showtunes. where do you think all that electroclash showiness is taking us?

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

SEARCH: Pretty much "Hair," "West Side Story" and....er....bits of "Camelot" hold up for me.

DESTROY: Fuckin' "Annie", "Pippin" and nine tenths of "A Chorus Line."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know the Hedwig stage show, but the songs from the movie were K-ROX0R.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

er, Gershwins? Rogers & Hart? etc etc

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Kismet (you can't really go wrong with Alexander Borodin as your composer), Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Little Shop of Horrors, Doonesbury, Jesus Christ Superstar (just admit it), some of Big River (it's Roger Freaking Miller, for chrissakes) some of One Touch of Venus

Destroy: too many to mention

TMFTML
http://intonation.blospot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole to thread!

I saw "Chicago" this weekend (COMPLETELY FANTASTIC)

Answer me this -- Richard Gere, can he sing?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I love all of Hair, but especially "The Flesh Failures", "Black Boys/White Boys" and "Easy to Be Hard". And all of Gypsy (esp. "Rose's Turn"). And most of Dreamgirls (esp. "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"). I like "Sunrise Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof, too and "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway" from the Pajama Game. And "Big Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from Sweet Charity.

Sort of related threads, not so much about specific songs, though:

Search And Destroy: Musicals

(C or D)/(S and D): musicals

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Search:

Boys from Syracuse: "Sing for Your Supper"
Calamity Jane: "The Deadwood Stage"
Carousel: main Carousel theme song, "June's Bustin' Out All Over!", and "You'll Never Walk Alone"
Evita: "Another Suitcase in Another Hall", "Rainbow High"
Free To Be You and Me: "Free to Be You and Me", "When We Grow Up", "Parents are People"
Godspell: "All Good Things", "By My Side", "On the Willows", and "Day By Day"
Good News: "Keep Your Sunny Side Up! Up! Hide the Side That Gets Blue...", "Lucky in Love"
Guys and Dolls: "Fugue for Tinhorns", "If I Were a Bell"
JCS: practically everything, but especially "Too Much Heaven on Their Minds", "Everything's Alright", "This Jesus Must Die", "Gethsemane"
Les Miz: "Look Down! Look Down!" song, "On My Own" song (in its various permutations), "Master of the House"
Miss Saigon: "The Morning of the Dragon"
Phantom: "Think of Me"
The Secret Garden: "Winter's on the Wing"
Song & Dance: "Unexpected Song", maybe "Tell Me on a Sunday"
Sound of Music: "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria", "Edelweiss", "You are Sixteen..."
Viva Las Vegas: "The Lady Loves Me"
West Side Story: "America", "Something's Coming", "Tonight"
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown: "Happiness", "The Kite Song"

Destroy:
something from Cats
A Chorus Line: "Who Am I Anyway? Am I My Resume?" [gag] and much, much more
Guys and Dolls: "I Love You a-Bushel and a-Peck"
maybe something from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Into the Woods: "Into the Woods"
Oliver: "Food Glorious Food", "Consider Yourself"
Song & Dance: "Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad"
Sound of Music: "So Long, Farewell, etc."

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "Hair" from Hair
Destroy: "Age of Aquarius"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: everything by Noël Coward!

Destroy: all those elephantine Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals from the '50s and '60s (OK, I know, lots of good songs, but I'll take The Merry Widow over South Pacific any day; does anyone else in this bitch like light opera?)

P.S. I have a weak spot for "Memories" from Cats and Starlite Express (*ducks*)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "Quiet" from _Candide_. ("I have suffered a lot/And I'm certainly not/Unaware that this life has its black side:/I have starved in a ditch/I've been burned as a witch/And I'm missing a half of my backside.")

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

If you've never seen/heard Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, you're seriously missing out. Not a pop phenomenon like Guys & Dolls, but the music might be even better.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

No one's mentioned Joseph... The 1968 & 73 versions (the only ones I've heard btw) are classic pop albums, I reckon.

I'll get me (Technicolor Dream)coat...

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the '68 version too Jez,really psychedelic.Also Bacharach & David's'Lost Horizon'.Everything on that soundtrack is brilliant-'The World is a Circle','Share the Joy','Question me an Answer','If I could go back'.Fantastic musical.Also love some of the songs from 'Sweet Charity', 'Chitty,Chitty,Bang,Bang' & 'Dr Dolittle'.'Carousel' is great too & 'Hair' of course(Phil Spector's 'Hair Suite' is my favourite thing of his)

― Paul R (paul R), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No one's mentioned Joseph...

Except for the third post... ;-)

Answer me this -- Richard Gere, can he sing?

He can hit the notes. He's doing a character thing, which is completely appropriate since it's a musical and all, but it's kind of glaringly obvious that he's the weakest singer in the group (and probably factors into why all of the other major characters got Oscar nominations and he didn't).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: 'One Night In Bangkok' (Chess), 'Heaven On There Minds', 'Simon Zealotes', 'Blood Money/Dammed For All Time' (from Jewison's Jesus Christ Superstar), most of Cats, 'Master of the House', 'One More Day', (Les Miz), 'La Revolution' & 'Uncle Fucker' (South Park), 'Dentist', 'Downtown' and the title track to Little Shop of Horrors.
Destroy: Annie Get Your Gun, Crazy For You and 'Empty Chairs and Empty Tables' from Les Miz.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Is anyone else familiar with the show Floyd Collins? Really wonderful stuff...

― Prude, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

At the risk of being pelted with rocks, rancid fruit and other garbage, has anyone mentioned the two fists of 70's Jesus-freakery, "Godspell" and "Jesus Christ Superstar"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Is no one here familiar with pre-WWII show tunes?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: GILBERT AND SULLIVAN!!!!!!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Avril Lavigne's stuff sounds lifted from a dull musical, i.e. I'm With You, sets up setting (bridge, dark, etc), emotions. The expository this-is-my-life song.

― Fivvy, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

But there is not enough narrative/character development no? Songs from musicals have a real context, chart songs benefit from their vagueness (apropo to many situations). Obviously this is a continuum not absolutes.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: GILBERT AND SULLIVAN!!!!!!!!!!!

And so say his sisters and his cousins and his aunts

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Look of Love as perfomed by Dusty Springfield from Casino Royale

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: most of the above searches, especially The Sound Of Music, My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins in their entirety, the majority of Grease, The Wizard Of Oz and a ton of technicolour stuff like Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and West Side Story.

Destroy: Apples, the Ian Dury "musical" I had to endure in 1990 as part of my GCSE Drama course - absobloodylutely awful in every way.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 13 February 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy Grease

(No, I do not like "fun.")

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 13 February 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never seen Grease, let alone heard the soundtrack. At the bar I frequent most often in the summer, "Summer Nights" inevitably comes on. It initially bugged me, but after hearing it too many times to count I've sorta developed a fondness.

Actually, I just downloaded a copy from slsk for the hell of it... ah memories

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 13 February 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

In regards to film:

Search: "Getting to Know You" from The King and I, all of The Band Wagon and Meet Me in St. Louis

Destroy: All of Gypsy; "Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!" (or whatever its proper name)

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Only one musical for me (movie):

"Clambake" with Elvis Presley.

"Who Needs Money" done by Elvis and Jerry Reed lookalike, riding along on two motorcycles..."cash or credit, it doesn't matter/As long as my bank book/Is getting fatter/Who says the best things are life are free/Who needs money/NOT ME!!"

"Hey, Hey, Hey" done as young-scientist Elvis and several bikini-clad cuties applie a new water-tite "goop" to a boat...

"Gloxo-oxo-tonic-phosphate, it's the latest scoop/But that's all right you can call it goop/Hey, hey, hey hey..."

So, after that, Sondheim should have just FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT.

― chicxulub (chicxulub), Thursday, 13 February 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "Hello Dolly" by Carol Channing

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 13 February 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Check out the beautiful haunting melody from Gypsy called "Small World" which became a big hit for Johnny Mathis. NO! not the Disney ride song. There are a lot of fantastic songs like this in a lot of Broadway musicals that can give you a lump in your throat and you dont have to be a girly man to enjoy them. Others are "Climb Every Mountain" from Sound of Music, "Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha, "If Ever I Would Leave You" from Camelot, "A Place for Us" from West Side Story, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, and many others.

― Big Moe in MIami, Monday, 4 October 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wow.

S: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Meet Me in St. Louis); practically all of The Wiz; a good portion of City of Angels, though I'm most partial to the prologue/epilogue numbers and "You're Nothing Without Me"; "Somewhere" (West Side Story); "Sweet Transvestite" (Rocky Horror); everything Carol Channing ever did, not only from Hello Dolly but also her handful of songs in that Irwin Allen version of Alice Through the Looking Glass ("Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday" and the math song); "The Music and the Mirror" (A Chorus Line); "Day by Day" (Godspell, but I like the Wet Hot American Summer version better); "Lullaby of Broadway" (Broadway Melody of 19...38?); "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" (Little Shop of Horrors); the wedding march (The Sound of Music); "The Race is On" (Starlight Express); "Sunrise, Sunset" (Fiddler on the Roof); "Too Darn Hot" (Kiss Me Kate; everything Bob Fosse put on film

D: every last bit of Children of Eden (wretched, wretched stuff); throw in the entirety of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with it; I guess it's Grease itself I hate, moreso than its tunes; there might be nothing more overrated than Rent; I'm sure there's actually a lot more I hate in this genre than love, but I'll stop here.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm partial to LOTS of old Gershwin and Cole Porter songs, but my favorite scores from beginning to end are probably West Side Story and A Little Night Music: hmm, both Sondheim (although he only wrote the lyrics for the former).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

"Avenue Q" has tons and tons of GREAT songs

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago)

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