Bway Songs about Cheaters
Bway Songs about Cheaters
bwaybaby62
Swing Joined: 4/24/13
#1Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 2:23amTrying to put a revue together for school theater group; best songs about cheaters? Thanks for the help!
#2Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 6:25am
Hmmm I'm pretty sure you could count 'Get Out and Stay Out' from 9 to 5 as one. "You cheated and you lied" is right in the lyrics.
And I would count 'I Know the Truth' from Aida as a good one as it's about the discovery that you are being cheated on.
Updated On: 4/24/13 at 06:25 AM
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#2Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 6:42am
Frankie and Johnnie
That Ain't Right - Ain't Misbehavin'
#3Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 7:33am
A call from the vatican- Nine
Poor fool he makes me laugh-Phantom
#4Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 7:49am
It Needs Work - City of Angels
....but the world goes 'round
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#5Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 7:57am
You Can Always Count on Me - City of Angels
Nobody Needs to Know - Last Five Years
Always True to You in My Fashion - Kiss Me Kate
A Little Brains, A Little Talent - Damn Yankees
and in a different vein, Little Tin Box - Fiorello!
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#6Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 8:08amIn some sense "Could I Leave You?" from Follies is about cheating.
#7Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 8:09amWhatever Lola wants is related to cheating as well.
#8Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 8:48am
I'm surprised there isn't a ready made list for this something. Infidelity certainly seems like an ideal topic for a school theatre group revue. 
Seriously though, my favorite that hasn't already been mentioned is "It's Not Too Late" from Romance Romance.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
stone_blue
Swing Joined: 9/2/10
#11Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 9:44amBecause, from The Thing About Men by Roberts and DiPietro. The wife explains why his indiscretions drove her to cheat.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#12Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 9:44amNot a Broadway song but from a movie about stage performers: "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life" (ROYAL WEDDING)
#13Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 9:45am"Moments in the Woods" from Into the Woods. Cheating from the cheaters perspective.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#14Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 9:57am
From I Love My Wife:
Married Couple Seeks Married Couple (more about swingers than cheating)
Someone Wonderful I Missed
Updated On: 4/24/13 at 09:57 AM
#16Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 11:30amIf you Hadn't But You Did by Jule Styne & Comden and Green from Two On The Aisle. You can find a current recording on Liza Minnelli's Liza at the Palace cd.
Nettik
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
#17Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 3:03pm
Kristin Chenoweth also did a cover of "(If) You Hadn't But You Did" and it was the first thing that came to mind.
"Nobody Needs to Know" from L5Y came to mind as well as "See, I'm Smiling" from the same musical.
Also, how has nobody mentioned "Tango: Maureen" from Rent yet?!
#18Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 5:21pmProud Lady from The Bakers Wife from the POV of the seducer.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#19Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 5:27pmForget About the Boy from Millie.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#20Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 5:29pm"Fifty Percent"--BALLROOM
"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
xoffender45
Broadway Star Joined: 8/12/07
#21Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 5:58pmHow about "Take That Look Off Your Face" from Aspects of Love? It's the cheatee being told about the cheater from a third party, right?
#22Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 6:01pm
"Where Can You Take a Girl?" - Promises, Promises
(also, arguably, "Wanting Things" in a vague way is about cheating)
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Something_next2norml
Swing Joined: 2/23/13
#24Bway Songs about Cheaters
Posted: 4/24/13 at 6:29pm
Cell Block Tango!
Also, my personal favorite is Nobody Needs to Know from L5Y
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