Best Prostitution Songs
Best Prostitution Songs
sweeneytodd2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/28/04
#0Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:14am
What are the best showtunes about or relating to being a hooker? I'll start:
"Hey Big Spender" from Sweet Charity
and "My Body" from The Life.
Updated On: 8/31/06 at 02:14 AM
bigrab1018
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/05
#1re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:17am"Bring on the Men" from Jekyll & Hyde
"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee
#2re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:17am"The Girls of the Night" from Jekyll and Hyde
broadjay
Understudy Joined: 8/26/06
broadjay
Understudy Joined: 8/26/06
Pinky
Broadway Star Joined: 3/31/04
#5re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:23am
Whore's Lament from Amour
Penn State Forever!!!!
#6re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:27am
What a fun topic!
Miller's Son, from A Little Night Music (Not a true whore, cause she didn't charge...)
The entire score of Tenderloin.
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
sweeneytodd2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/28/04
#7re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:28amAlms for A Miserable Woman from Sweeney Todd
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#8re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:30amThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas has quite a few...(obviously)
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#9re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:35am
Thanks, SweeneyTodd2, I just got back from a performance of the show.
Beggar woman doesn't charge, although the price is still high in the end...
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
Pinky
Broadway Star Joined: 3/31/04
#10re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:36amI think The Heat is On in Saigon could work too...
Penn State Forever!!!!
#11re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:47amIrma La Douce has some great songs about the subject.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#12re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 6:15am
How about "Good Night And Thank You" (EVITA)? Eva basically sleeps her way to the top during the course of this number.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Updated On: 8/31/06 at 06:15 AM
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#13re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 6:43amSorry, folks, but you have to go back to the 1920's and Cole Porter's LOVE FOR SALE - the first great showtune about prostitution.
#14re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:31amOne I like is "Pretty Lady" from Pacific Overtures.
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#15re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:36am"My Body" from THE LIFE is good, but I prefer "I'm getting to old for the oldest profession."
". . . POP . . ."
elmore3003
Leading Actor Joined: 3/31/04
#17re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:45am
Pirate Jenny- The Threepenny Opera
Tango Ballad (depending on the translation)- The Threepenny Opera
Black is a Moocher- The Wild Party
Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.
#18re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:15am"the movie in my mind" from miss saigon.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
VeuveClicquot
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#19re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:18am
"Pirate Jenny," indeed.
Also, "Ten Cents a Dance." Rogers and Hart. Can't go wrong with that.
Updated On: 8/31/06 at 08:18 AM
coolphantom919
Broadway Star Joined: 6/6/06
#20re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:19amLovely Ladies From Les Miserables! (And Fantine's Arrest!)
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#21re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:20am
Rodgers and Hart's "Ten Cents a Dance"
Cole Porter's "Love for Sale"
#22re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:21am
BRING ON THE MEN and THE GIRLS OF THE NIGHT from JEKYLL & HYDE
LOVELY LADIES from LES MIZ
"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
#23re: Best Prostitution Songs
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:14amOh I'll second Tango Ballad and Pirate Jenny.
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