I think it's wonderful they made this list... and I agree... but would certainly have added at LEAST an Honorable Mention for A LITTLE PRIEST.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
I'd replace "Class" and "Take Me Or Leave Me" with "People Like Us" and "A Little Priest." "Another Winter in a Summer Town" should be on here, too, but I can't figure out where.
What about Ethel Merman and Mary Martin singing a whole host of duets for the Ford 50th Anniversary celebration on TV in the 1950's? They were famous for that show. It is on You Tube and a DVD is also available.
"Perfect Strangers" from Drood "He Can Do It" from Purlie "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd "Friendship" from Dubarry was a Lady "Stranger in Paradise" from Kismet "You Must Meet My Wife" from A Little Night Music "When the Children Are Asleep" from Carousel "If I Loved You" from Carousel
and, as posted below, "People Will Say We're in Love"
"People Will Say We're in Love"? "A Little Fall of Rain"? or "Confrontation"? Not even a mention of the title track of Phantom of the Opera?
Updated On: 6/19/12 at 01:26 PM
I think "Make Believe" should most definitely be on there. I think "If I Loved You" should also be there.
Was there a reason they really stayed away from love songs, which so often provide the best duets? (I also love "Lily's Eyes" from "The Secret Garden" but can understand how that might have been overlooked. "All I Ask of You" probably should be there, too.)
You're Nothing Without Me from City of Angels has to be in the top 10. Agree on Little Priest should be on the list. Also, agree with I Will Never Leave You.
I'd trade out of the original list: Sue Me, Class and I Know Him So Well.
I love many of the suggestions here, but they don't make my Top 10.
Would also add "There Once Was a Man" from the Pajama Game, "You're the Top" from Anything Goes and "Jealousy Duet" from The Threepenny Opera in addition to those mentioned.
I'd definitely take out "Every Day a LIttle Death" and sub in "Try Priest". The former, while technically a duet and a wonderful lyric, would work just as well as a solo; the latter is a true "meeting of the minds" between two, very differently motivated, psychopaths.
And I'd take out "Sue Me" just because it isn't that great a song. Certainly not compared to "People Will Say We're in Love", another song that doesn't really work except as a duet. (Yes, I know people have tried it as a solo and it sounds like half a song.)
There's always going to be people who will feel some songs should or shouldn't be on the list no matter what the list is, but I think that A Little Priest and People Will Say We're In Love should definitely be on that list.
I might include "Too Many Mornings" on the basis of the original Prince staging OR the effect of hearing Ron Raines and Victoria Clark sing it together in L.A.