Bad songs in Good musicals- Page 3

[Radioactiveduck]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 3:31am

"Nicest Kids In Town" - Hairspray
"Something Bad" - Wicked (I think it's a good show)
"I Just Can't Wait to be King" - Lion King (I'm much more impressed by the non-Elton music in that show. Unless you searched, you wouldn't even know about the guy who composed the other 1/2 of the show)

[Urban]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:40am

As much as I like the sone "Beggers at the Feast" is really truly out of place in "Les Misérable". It is the 11th hour show-stopper (in more ways then one since it normally occurs at 11 o'clock) but a up-tempo funny song just doesn't work at that point of the show.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:57am

"Wait - Sweeney Todd"

Gah! I LOVE this song. Adore it.

And re: 'More I Cannot Wish You' from Guys and Dolls. I don't think it is really necessarily a bad song, but it is just SO different from every other number in the show in both tone and music that it just feels SO out of place when compared with the rest of the score.

[forget regret <3]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 12:12pm

something bad and a sentimental man from wicked. i also like the show.

magical lasso from phantom.

[way_to_spend_the_day]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:01pm

"The More you Ruv Someone"-Avenue Q
"Miss Baltimore Crabs"-Hairspray
"The Meek Shall Inherit"-Little Shop
"How I Am"-Little Women
"Something Bad"-Wicked

[grizzabella]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 3:16pm

jasonf, I appreciate your comments about "Little Bird". Thanks for the discussion, but I still don't think the song is particularly good compared to the rest of the score, which is just indescribably powerful. In context, it seems absurd to me that the men would be singing at all, and taken out of contest, I think the song is the weak spot in the score. I'm afraid my opinion is also colored by having to sing this song many years ago in a choral setting,(and completely out of context) and hating it then. I just don't think it's a great song. I found similar situations handled far better in West Side Story or Shenandoah, for instance.