Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
DirtySouthTapDancingFool
Swing Joined: 1/5/05
#0Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 10:38pm
Alright. So I was doing this scene from Tennessee William's "Summer & Smoke" all last semester. This semester I need a song to "drop into it." I.E. a song that would work in the scene. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it just has to work. The scene's a bit complicated...but the song I drop in could deal with any of the following themes--
"It's not about sex, it's about love."
"I loved you, but you broke my heart."
"Get your act together and be the man I know you can be."
"This is your fault because your immoral."
Basically. I'm a preacher's daughter, he's a doctor's daughter. He thinks everything is about lust, i believe in the power of love, but he broke my heart, and now his father is on his deathbed and it's both of our faults. I still love him...we both obviously love each other, but it just ain't gonna happen.
If you guys have any ideas, hook a sister up! I'm down to the wire here. It can be a guy's or girl's song. Range isn't an issue.
Thanks!
#1re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 10:51pm
I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but it sounds like it might be.
Is This What You Call Love?~Passion
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
DirtySouthTapDancingFool
Swing Joined: 1/5/05
#2re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 10:55pmWow!!! I recommended that song to my friend the other day, and now that you mention it...that might reeeeally work. i gotta find the lyrics, but wow. it might! thanks! I was afraid no one was man enough to come up w/anything
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#3re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 10:57pm
Priest, you must be psychic. I was thinking about the same song.
While we are still on the Passion theme - 'Loving You.'
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#4re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 10:58pm
I Don't Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar. Not sure if that would work.
Or maybe As Long As You're Mine from Wicked since it's about a love that can never be.
DirtySouthTapDancingFool
Swing Joined: 1/5/05
#5re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 11:00pmNah. "is this what you call love" isn't quite right. But thanks everyone. keep 'em coming. i'm looking up the lyrics as you suggest 'em.
#6re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 11:00pm
Is This What You Call Love?
Is this what you call love?
This endless and insatiable
Smothering pursuit of me.
You think that this is love?
I'm sorry that you're lonely,
I'm sorry that you want me as you do.
I'm sorry that I fail to feel
The way you want me to feel.
I'm sorry that you're ill,
I'm sorry you're in pain.
I'm sorry that you aren't beautiful.
But yes, I wish you'd go away
And leave me alone!
Everywhere I turn, there you are
This is not love
Just some kind of obsession.
Will you never learn when too far is too far,
Have you no concern
For what I want, what I feel?
(pointing at Clara's letter)
Love is what you earn and return
When you care for another
So much that the other's set free.
Don't you see?
Can't you understand?
Love's not a constant demand,
It's a gift you bestow
Love isn't sudden surrender
It's tender and slow, it must grow.
Yet everywhere I go,
You appear or I know you are near
This is now love just a need for possession.
Call it what you will
This is not love, this is a reverse
Like a curse, something out of control
I've begun to fear
For my soul...
EDIT: Nevermind then. 
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Updated On: 1/5/05 at 11:00 PM
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#7re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 11:03pmOr, from Passion, 'No One Has Ever Loved Me'
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
DirtySouthTapDancingFool
Swing Joined: 1/5/05
#8re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 11:06pmor actually...maybe a number of their songs would work. can anyone hook me up w/a website that has all the lyrics to the show? Passion, that is?
#9re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 11:07pm
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Updated On: 1/5/05 at 11:07 PM
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
DirtySouthTapDancingFool
Swing Joined: 1/5/05
#10re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 1/5/05 at 11:23pmNone of them are really going to work! Argh! Thank you so much, though. i might...a stretch is better than nothing. I'll see if i can cut in paste one of them to work. but if anyone else thinks of anything...PLEASE
kateerin
Swing Joined: 2/8/05
#11re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 2/11/05 at 3:38pmUnworthy of your Love... Assasins?
"If your wanting a beginner, I shan't do..."
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#12re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 2/11/05 at 4:24pm
How Could I Ever Know? from The Secret Garden
Who Will Love Me As I Am? from Side Show
All The Wasted Time from Parade
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#13re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 2/11/05 at 5:11pm
Possibilities:
When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Back to Before - Ragtime
You and I - Chess
Heaven Help My Heart - Chess
Wanting - Rags
I Hate Him - Destry Rides Again
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#14re: Here's a challenge...find me a song for class.
Posted: 2/11/05 at 5:13pmI hate to start sounding, redundant, but "The Money Tree"...
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