There's an amazing musical that you can't get enough of. The music is fantastic, haunting, near perfection... except for ONE song. You know: the one song you always skip over when you listen to the CD.
What bad songs are in good musicals?
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Seasons of Love in RENT.
Like Father, Like Son in Aida.
For a while, I always skipped the Schmuel Song in The Last Five Years. I like it now, though.
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Please don't say any of the Wizard songs or "Something Bad" from Wicked.
We won't. The topic is bad songs from GOOD musicals.
Updated On: 8/27/05 at 02:53 PM
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"Little People" in Les Miserables.
Cute song for a little boy to sing but damn distracting in the context of the show.
'Hand for the Hog' from Big River
"Green Finch and Linnet Bird" from Sweeney Todd. Not really bad just sort of annoying in the original DVD. Definitely the only song I could skip in that show.
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without you from RENT. its a nice song, i just skip it usually.
"A Sentimental Man" (Wicked) - I always skip past it on my iPod. This could have (and should have) been done with just dialogue.
Pirelli's barber song/scene in Sweeney Todd goes on WAY too long. The show always stops dead in its tracks there. I skip past that one too, after only a few humorous bars. The competition is definitely necessary to the plot, but this LONG song isn't.
"It Was a Real Nice Clam Bake" in Carousel. Way too much information about an event that has happened off stage before Act 2 even starts. Skip.
"It's a Scandal, It's an Outrage" in Oklahoma! Not neeeded and not a very good song.
People will probably hate me for this one, but "Make Them Hear You" in Ragtime should be cut. One too many power-ballads in a row right then, and this one is the weakest. Coalhouse's sentiments would have been much more effecitve in simple gut-wrenching dialogue. I would rather hear a pin drop in deafening silence as he makes up his mind what to do right then, not have a repetetive "anthem" shoved down my throat. Ugh. It totally pulls me out of the moment. See the non-musical movie "Ragtime" if you want to see this moment done far better.
"Rare Song Birds On Display" from Side Show
TURNING from Les Miserables and SANTA FE from Rent. Those are the first two that pop into my head.
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"Little Bird" from Man of La Mancha. This scene is too violent and dramatically powerful for this insipid song - for any song really.
"The Naming" from Children of Eden
"Two of a Kind" from Lippa's The Wild Party
"Love, Dad" from Bare
"Today 4 U" from Rent
"The Joy You Feel" from Piazza
"Come Spirit, Come Charm" from The Secret Garden
"The Last Supper" from Jesus Christ Superstar--I have always disliked these lyrics!
LovinLovett- I know what you mean about 'Green Finch", I personally love it on the OBC with Sarah Rice who does it beautifully. But the woman who did it on the DVD makes me cringe every time she opened her mouth, let alone sang Johanna's big number.
"Your Eyes" from RENT.
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'that face' from The Producers.
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Something Bad & A Sentimental Man - Wicked
more I cannot wish you-guys and dolls
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forgot the name of the dog song in cats too!
"All I care about" from Chicago
"Benjamin Calypso" from Joseph (It hurts me to say it)
The song about the pineapple, I don't remember the name from Cabaret
"Like father like son" from Aida
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