Female duets
Female duets
-Celine-
Swing Joined: 12/6/09
#1Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:31am
Heey Everyone,
Im looking for ideas for female duets preferably happy / funny / easy-to-listen-to songs..
any suggestions? Has anyone got a favorite female duet?
Greetz! Celine
chiuptown
Stand-by Joined: 4/28/09
#2re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:44amSondheim, "There's Always a Woman" -from Anyone Can Whistle, has hilarious lyrics. Might be tough finding the music though. I have the original score and its not in there, I believe it was cut.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#3re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:27am
Though not specifically written for women try "We Got Us" from Golden Rainbow
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brochatkid
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/08
#4re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:40amI posted something a while back too about this and got some responses. Can't remember them all now, but you can search. Someone suggested looking at the Alice Ripley/Emily Skinner duet CDS. They have some great songs.
#5re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:46am
"Marry the Man Today"--Guys and Dolls
"The Apple Doesn't Fall"--The Rink
"The Grass is Always Greener"--Woman of the Year
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 12:33pmFor happy/funny... I know someone just said it, but def. 'Marry The Man Today' from Guys and Dolls.
jigblob
Stand-by Joined: 11/30/07
#8re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 12:50pm"Perfect Strangers" from THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#9re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:20pm
Unsuspecting Hearts from Carrie, mayhaps?
I feel like there's a really important one that I'm TOTALLY missing. :>
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bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#11re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:53pm
If Momma Was Married from Gypsy
When You Believe from The Prince of Egypt
Tell Him by Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand
Get Happy/ Happy Days are Here Agein by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand
#12re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 9:55pm
LOL! The suggestions in this thread are really hilarious especially since the OP asked for songs that were "happy / funny / easy-to-listen-to songs..." and there's everything from Sondheim, Brecht, Weill and CARRIE to obscure Kander & Ebb flops and "Tell Him" by Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion, possibly the worst song ever written. Just an observation, LOL.
The "Bosom Buddies" and the GREASE, GUYS & DOLLS and GYPSY selections are more like it.
To answer the OP, look through all the old RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN music books at your local library. I can think of fifteen or twenty off the top of my head. Stephen Schwartz has written quite a few female duets and such things and someone mentioned "When You Believe" which may be a nice song for you.
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#13re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:34pm
I was the one who suggested checking the song lists of the Skinner and Ripley CDs. Some examples:
I Know Him So Well
Ohio
If Momma Was Married
Perfect Strangers (from "Drood")
Friendship (not specifically for women, but Lucy and Ethel made it work)
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#15re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 11:21pmWell, "Tell Him" is easy-listening, and at least I like it lol.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#16re: Female duets
Posted: 12/6/09 at 11:24pmWhat You Don't Know About Women from City of Angels
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#17re: Female duets
Posted: 12/7/09 at 1:28am
"Little Me" from Little Me
"Two's Company" or "Solid Silver Platform Shoes" from The Magic Show
"Best Friend" from LaChiusa's Wild Party
"Broadway, My Street" from 70, Girls, 70
"We Share Everything" from Side Show
luvbrdway
Featured Actor Joined: 10/21/08
#18re: Female duets
Posted: 12/7/09 at 11:39am
"Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better"
Is that from Annie Get Your Gun? Drawing a blank.
#19re: Female duets
Posted: 12/7/09 at 2:52pm
"No Me Diga" - In The Heights. Although it's written for more than 2 women.
"The More You Ruv Someone"- Avenue Q. has funny lyrics.
"It's about the Benjamins, not the Bernsteins."-CapnHook
#20re: Female duets
Posted: 12/7/09 at 8:31pm
Peas in a Pod - Grey Gardens
Bosom Buddies - Mame
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I know you.
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#21re: Female duets
Posted: 12/8/09 at 12:09am
I do miracles from Kiss of the Spider Woman
Wrong Note Rag from Wonderful Town
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#22re: Female duets
Posted: 12/8/09 at 12:09am
I do miracles from Kiss of the Spider Woman
Wrong Note Rag from Wonderful Town
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
-Celine-
Swing Joined: 12/6/09
#23re: Female duets
Posted: 12/8/09 at 1:05pm
Thanks everyone for all your ideas!
Really helpful!
Greetz
#24re: Female duets
Posted: 12/8/09 at 1:19pmSomeone already said it - "What You Don't Know About Women" from City of Angels. Very smart lyrics and lots of fun.
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