Comic Songs
Comic Songs
#0Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:33pmHelp! I've been asked to prepare a comic song for an audition and I need some suggestions. It's for an older, charactery woman. I've already sung "Baltimore Crabs" which was perfect...but now I need to prepare another one. Anyone know anything? Thanks!
#1re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:35pmI dont know if it works, but I have always found "If" to be funny
#2re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:36pmWhat about "Adelaine's Lament" from guys and dolls? Although, I'm not sure thats the greatest song for an audition...
#3re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:37pmOk...I'm theatrically iliterate. What show is "If" from?
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#4re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:37pm
"As We Stumble Along"- Drowsy
"I Hate Men"- Kiss Me, Kate
"I Caint Say No"- Oklahoma! would be funny done by an older type...
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:40pmDon't know how "older" you are looking to get but you might try "No Time At All" from Pippin.
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#8re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:45pmhow long until the audition? You don't want to do a song you aren't 110% comfortable with.
another sloe eyed vamp
Stand-by Joined: 8/18/04
#9re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:46pmI Never Do Anything Twice, by Sondheim. I think it was in a movie, not a musical, but it's on at least a few compilations.
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#10re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:47pm
"Little Girls"-Annie
"I've Got You to Lean On"-Anyone Can Whistle
"Me and My Town"-Anyone Can Whistle
"So Long, Dearie"-Hello, Dolly!
#11re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:48pmI have a week to prepare. I love these ideas everyone! Thank you!
kateerin
Swing Joined: 2/8/05
#12re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/27/06 at 4:36pm"You Don't Know" from ...Millie
"If your wanting a beginner, I shan't do..."
#13re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/27/06 at 4:54pm
"Everybody Wants To Do A Musical" from NICK AND NORA
"He Had Refinement" from A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#14re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/27/06 at 4:55pm
Men - Nick & Nora
You Can Always Count On Me - City Of Angels
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#15re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/27/06 at 5:48pm
I Was a Shoo-In from Subways are for Sleeping
It might be hard to find the lyrics but it would be great for an audition!
Pretty is what changes. What the eye arranges is what is beautiful.
#16re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/27/06 at 6:36pm
"Repent" from "On the Twentieth Century" by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
"Everybody's Girl" from "Steel Pier" by John Kander and Fred Ebb.
And if anyone has the sheet music to "He Had Refinement", let me know. I've been looking for a copy of it for ages.
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
#17re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/27/06 at 6:41pmYOu Can Always Count On Me is one of my most favorite songs ever! The lyrics to that one have me cracking up and rolling on the floor every time I hear it.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#18re: Comic Songs
Posted: 7/27/06 at 8:42pm
"Crime of the Century" from Ragtime
"Fancy Meeting You Here" from Lucky Stiff
"Ooh, My Feet" from The Most Happy Fella
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