Pleasant Little Kingdom from Follies. I Don't Care Much from Cabaret, which was cut when it originally opened, and most of the songs cut in the 1998 revival of Cabaret. Dot, Dot, Dot, from It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
On a side note, I REALLY hated Alan Cumming as the Emcee, he was too over the top for my taste. But that's irrelevant.
"She's Gone" was cut from Side Show during previews. According to the program I had it was in between "Buddy's Confession" and "Marry Me, Terry." While I do like Alice's performance of the song I can see why they cut it. The song, at least in the arrangement that Alice seemed to perform most often after the show had closed, just seems like a bit much for Violet to suddenly bust out with, especially since it was serving as a sort of lead-in to "I Will Never Leave You." By that point the show didn't really need a mad-as-hell power ballad.
She's Gone - Side Show Growing Up Unstable - Next to Normal (I was at an event where Tom Kitt played this on the piano and it was wonderful) Feeling Electric - Next to Normal (It obviously didn't belong but it was so much fun)
"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."
"Bring on the Men" should NEVER have been cut from "Jekyll and Hyde"-the song that replaced it, "Good and Evil" was terrible. I actually loved the lyrics to "Bring On the Men". (Can't remember much of "Good and Evil". Yawn.)
The key thing about good'n'evil - each man has to choose. Heaven and hell is a hell of a gamble to lose!
I actually find that an amusingly clever song. Maybe this belongs in "unpopular opinions"... ha!
That being said, it's not a cut SONG so much as a cut PART in Phantom. I always and forever lament the loss of Raoul's harmony in "Wandering Child"... one of my favorite musical moments in the show!
I suppose it counts, but Proud Lady (what a song to cut) is in all the revised versions of Bake'rs Wife (I'm sure you know that...) albeit with some different lyrics, which I don't like as much even if they make the character less of a cartoon.
I love a lot of the Sondheim ones from the 70s. If we're talking about songs that were performed on stage, and not just ones cut during or before rehearsals, then Happily Ever After from Company (a song I find myself oddly singing in my head a lot), Uptown Downtown from Follies, and Bang! and Silly People from Night Music top my list. I'm also pretty fond of the Second Midnight from Into the Woods and how it becomes Children Will Listen later on.
I love the 'Christmas will be thrilling' section of "Our Finest Dreams" (Little Women), shame they had to cut it, the harmonies were beautiful. Re: 'Bring on the Men', they use that in the UK amateur version; rather than 'Good and Evil'. I much prefer Bring on the Men.
Pink Taffeta from Sweet Charity I'm Lost from The Apple Tree Flamchen from Grand Hotel Honey from Merrily We Roll Along Suddenly There's You from Ballroom Pick Up The Pieces from Seesaw
"Come Down From the Tree" from Once on this Island "It Was Always You" from Applause
I LOVE the Unsung and Lost In cds!
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"Tick Tock" (Goes the Clock) from PROMISES, PROMISES. It was cut during the out-of-town tryout in Boston.
I was lucky to talk to Donna McKechnie about this number and she said that the song took place in Act 1 and was sung by 3 secretaries (Donna, Barbara Lang and Adrienne Angel -- who had bigger parts in the beginning), who were later joined by the dancing female chorus. This trio also performed the original simple incarnation of "Turkey Lurkey Time", which was later changed to the big production number we know (and love) today. Baayork Lee and Margo Sappington replaced Lang and Angel. Donna was spared getting 'let go' thanks to Michael Bennett. There was also another song called "Hot Food" that was cut.