What Showtunes Would Be On Your Debut CD?

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 12:31pm

(In no particular order)

1. Black and Blue from Ain't Misbehavin'
2. Love Changes Everything from Aspects of Love
3. So Many Little Things from Bright Lights, Big City
4. I Don't Care Much from Cabaret
5. All I Care About from Chicago
6. Love Sneaks In from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
7. When I First Saw You from Dreamgirls
8. How Glory Goes from Floyd Collins
9. Where Do I Go? from Hair
10. Fallen Angel from Jersey Boys
11. I Am What I Am from La Cage Aux Folles
12. The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha
13. Only With You from Nine
14. Corner of the Sky from Pippin
15. Make Them Hear You from Ragtime
16. Lonely House from Street Scene
17. Lesson #8 from Sunday in the Park with George
18. Breeze off the River from The Full Monty
19. Joey, Joey, Joey from The Most Happy Fella
20. Look Around from The Will Rogers Follies
21. Where's The Girl from The Scarlet Pimpernel

Edit: Make that Finishing The Hat from Sunday

Updated On: 5/27/07 at 12:31 PM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:21pm

I'd get your CD, Matt
Mine would have a Broadway Backwards theme (no specific order):
1. "Arthur in the Afternoon"-THE ACT
2. "See What It Gets You"-ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
3. "What Makes Me Love Him"-THE APPLE TREE
4. "Sing Happy"-FLORA, THE RED MENACE
5. "Could I Leave You?"-FOLLIES
6. "I Want to Go to Hollywood"-GRAND HOTEL
7. "Adelaide's Lament"-GUYS & DOLLS
8. "Lot's Wife"-CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
9. "So Long, Dearie"-HELLO, DOLLY
10. "Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You?"-THE KING & I
11. "I Wish I Could Forget You"-PASSION
12. "Dividing Day"-THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
13. "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"-ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
14. "Surabaya Johnny"-HAPPY END
15. "Pirate Jenny"-THREEPENNY OPERA
16. "Wherever He Ain't"-MACK & MABEL
17. "I Had a Dream About You"-DECEMBER SONGS
18. "My Husband Makes Movies"-NINE
19. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine"-SHOWBOAT
20. "Bill"-SHOWBOAT
21. "Everybody Loves Louis"-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:26pm

"Children Will Listen" from Into the Woods
"I'm Still Here" from Follies
"A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd with Michael Cerveris
"Pretty Women" from Sweeeney Todd
"With So Little To Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle with Michael Cerveris
"In Buddy's Eyes" from Follies
"Marry Me A Little" from Company
"There's Always A Woman" from Anyone Can Whistle with Kristin Chenoweth
"Take Me to the World" from Evening Primrose
"Could I Leave You?" from Follies
"Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins
"More" from Dick Tracy
"Loving You" from Passion

Katelyn Sings Sondheim... Coming soon to a music store near you.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:28pm

"There's Always a Woman" with Kristin Chenoweth...now I wish the CD were actually happening, lol. Good choices, Rockabye.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:36pm

Hah thanks Ray. Chenoweth was the first person to pop into my head when I thought about it.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:37pm

If my CD had to be all showtunes:

1. Losing my Mind (Follies)
2. Easy to be Hard (Hair)
3. Everybody Says Don't (Anyone Can Whistle)
4. Dividing Day (The Light in the Piazza)
5. Being Alive (Company)
6. Another 100 People (Company
7. I've Got Rhythm (Girl Crazy)
8. The Trolley Song (Meet Me in St. Louis)
9. Maybe This Time (Cabaret)
10. Meadowlark (Baker's Wife)
11. I Love Paris (Can-Can)
12. Back to Before (Ragtime)
13. Not a Day Goes By (Merilly We Roll Along)
14. The Best Night of My Life (Applause)
15. No One is Alone (Into the Woods)
16. I Get a Kick Out of You (Anything Goes)
17. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (Pal Joey)
18. If He Walked Into My Life (Mame)
19. Will You? (Grey Gardens)
ETA: 20. Surabaya Johnny (Happy End)

Though I would probably only choose 5 or 6 of those songs and the rest wouldn't be showtunes. More jazz and torch stuff.

Updated On: 5/27/07 at 03:37 PM

[wickedfan]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:46pm

Mine would have the theme of switching genders for songs. Mainly because I think women have the best songs in musical theatre:
1. "Another Hundred People" from Company
2. "A Cockeyed Optimist" from South Pacific
3. "I'm the Greatest Star" from Funny Girl
4. "Simple" from Nine
5. "Stars and the Moon" from Songs for a New World
6. "The Picture Show" from Parade w/ Allison Fischer
7. "Easy to Be Hard" from Hair
8. "The Other Side of the Tracks" from Little Me
9. "You are Woman, I am Man" from Funny Girl w/ Sutton Foster
10. "The Grass is Always Greener" from Woman of the Year w/ Christopher Fitzgerald
11. "Before I Gaze at You Again" from Camelot
12. "Our Story Goes On" from Baby

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:47pm

In no particular order:

1. On My Own (Les Miserables)
2. Meadowlark (The Baker's Wife)
3. Something Wonderful (The King and I)
4. I'm Not That Girl (Wicked)
5. See What I Wanna See (See What I Wanna See)
6. Around the World (Grey Gardens)
7. I'll Cover You (Rent)
8. Revolutionary Costume for Today (Grey Gardens)
9. Many a New Day (Oklahoma)
10. Gonna Wash that Man Right Outta My Hair (South Pacific)
11. Defying Gravity (Wicked)
12. There's A Fine, Fine Line (Ave. Q)
13. As We Stumble Along (The Drowsy Chaperone)
14. Ascot Gavot (My Fair Lady)
15. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Phantom of the Opera)
16. Something Good (Sound of Music-I know, the film. But, I love that song.)
17. If I Were a Bell (Guys and Dolls)
18. Will You? (Grey Gardens)
19. I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables)
20. Your Eyes (Rent)

[ahmelie]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 3:51pm

There are a lot of songs that I would love to put on a CD that just wouldn't work. It's hard to find songs that really work out of context.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 4:08pm

I would include songs from both stage musicals and movie musicals. Disney animated films included.


I'll Cover You - RENT
Maybe This Time - Cabaret
I Know the Truth - Aida
As Long As You're Mine - Wicked
No One Is Alone - Into the Woods
Mack the Knife/Pirate Jenny - Threepenny Opera
Tell Him Anything - Slipper and the Rose
Menken Medley (Pocahontas, Little Shop, Hunchback) -
If I Never Knew You/We'll Have Tomorrow/Someday/If I Never Knew You (reprise)
A Change in Me - Beauty and the Beast
Love Heals - Rent
I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love - The Boy From Oz
You Must Love Me/Another Suitcase in Another Hall - Evita
In Denial - Closer to Heaven
Wicked Little Town - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Cabaret - Cabaret
Endless Night - The Lion King
Oz Medley : Over the Rainbow/Defying Gravity/I Couldn't Be Happier/Return to Oz/Over the Rainbow (reprise)

okay yeah the song "Return to Oz" isn't a showtune but I'd mix it in anyway.

Updated On: 5/28/07 at 04:08 PM

[Tom148502]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 4:13pm

"All Dressed Up and No Place to Go" from RUMPLE

[mrcacou]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 6:10pm

Mine would be a mix of showtunes but in different languages and I would care about the gender those songs would be written for :

1)Electricity (Billy Elliot)
2)Seul devant ces tables vides (Les Miz)
3)Verghet Hem (Aida)
4)C'est ça le Jazz (Chicago)
5)I go to Rio (The Boy from Oz)
6)Only in the movies (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
7)Sondheim medley : Loving you, Last Midnight, the Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Move on)
Le monde est stone (Starmania)
9)Live with somebody you love (Martin Guerre)
10)Dance with the Devil (Witches of Eastwick)
11) The music and the mirror (A Chorus Line)
12)Child play (The Fix)
13)The American Dream (Miss Saigon)

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 6:39pm

Not in order, but these would be on my CD [without a doubt!]


"I Don't Care Much" - Cabaret
"Another Hundred People" - Company
"Maybe My Baby Loves Me" - Grand Hotel
"Pirate Jenny" - The Threepenny Opera
"Mein Herr" - Cabaret
"Never Never Land" - Peter Pan
"Johanna" - Sweeney Todd [yes, I know it's sung by a male, but I always loved the melody of it]
"The Ballad of Mack the Knife" - The Threepenny Opera
"Maybe This Time" - Cabaret
"By The Sea" - Sweeney Todd
"Somewhere" - West Side Story
"Don't Tell Mama" - Cabaret
"Why?" - tick, tick...BOOM
"Being Alive" - Company

I'd also throw in some standards, too such as "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm".

Updated On: 5/30/07 at 06:39 PM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 8:03pm

Well, the CD would have the same name as my cabaret act:
Roles I'll Never Play

And in no order:
A Change in Me - 'Beauty and the Beast'
Fifty Percent - 'Ballroom'
I Know the Truth - 'Aida'
Bus From Amarillo - 'Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'
Home - 'The Wiz'
Before the Parade Passes By/Don't Rain on My Parade Medley
You Must Love Me - 'Evita'
In His Eyes - 'Jekyll and Hyde' duet with Tazber (Who probably isn't reading this)
Some People - 'Gypsy'
Somwhere That's Green/Part of Your World/Over the Rainbow Medley
Happily Ever After - 'Once Upon a Mattress'
Move On - 'Sunday in the Park with George'
As If We Never Said Goodbye - 'Sunset Blvd.'
I Know Where I've Been - 'Hairspray'
If I Could've Been - 'Working'
I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance - 'Carrie' with Celia Kennan Bolger
Yes - '70, Girls, 70'


My follow up would be my re-creation of "Liza with a Z"

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 8:10pm

My CD would be called "Male Diva" and would be me singing songs originally sung by women, paying tribute to some of the great ladies of the musical theatre. Sometimes I'd change the genders of the songs for radio play. Some would be flat out statements of "Hi! I'm Gay."

They would be:

"All That Jazz" - (Chicago) - Chita Rivera
"Moonshine Lullabye" - (Annie Get Your Gun) - Ethel Merman
"To a Small Degree" - (Prettybelle) - Angela Lansbury
"Chain of Love" - (The Grass Harp) - Barbara Cook
"Fifty Percent" - (Ballroom) - Dorothy Loudon
"The Saga of Jenny" - (Lady in the Dark) - Gertrude Lawrence
"Music That Makes Me Dance" - (Funny Girl) - Barbra Streisand
"Meadowlark" - (The Baker's Wife) - Patti LuPone
"If That Was Love" - (Redhead) - Gwen Verdon
"I Say Hello" - (Destry Rides Again) - Delores Gray
"Lazy Afternoon" - (The Golden Apple) - Kaye Ballard
"Mr. Right" - (Love Life) - Nanette Fabray
"Defying Gravity" - (Wicked) - Idina Menzel (and to piss off every girl in musical theater I know)
"Someone Elses Story" - (Chess) - Judy Kuhn
"Time Heals Everything" - (Mack and Mabel) - Bernadette Peters
"What Did I Have" - (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) - Barbara Harris
"I Had a Ball" - (I Had a Ball) - Karen Morrow

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 8:38pm

Hm, this is a hard decision! In no particular order, since I'm just going through my iPod, and there's going to be SO many.

-Dead End(Hair)
-I Can Do Better than That(The Last 5 Years)
-Diva's Lament(Spamalot)
-When You're Good to Mama(Chicago)
-Anyone Can Whistle(Anyone Can Whistle)
-There Won't Be Trumpets(Anyone Can Whistle)
-Every Day A Little Death(A Little Night Music)
-I Know the Truth(Aida)
-Kindness(Bright Lights, Big City)
-Heart and Soul with Michael Arden and Kaitlin Hopkins(Bright Lights, Big City)
-Getting Married Today(Company)
-The Ladies Who Lunch(Company)
-Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens(Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
-Could I Leave You?(Follies)
-Some People(Gypsy)
-Rose's Turn(Gypsy)
-I'm Not at All in Love(The Pajama Game)
-There Once Was a Man with John Barrowman(The Pajama Game)
-I Dreamed a Dream(Les Miserables)
-Maybe This Time(Cabaret)
-Suddenly Seymour with Christian Borle(Little Shop of Horrors)
-There's Always a Woman(Anyone Can Whistle) with Sutton Foster
-Piece of My Heart(Love, Janis)
-Science Fiction Double Feature(Rocky Horror)

...That's all I can think of for now. Oh, I had too much fun with this.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 8:50pm

Another Hundred People- Company
The Ballad of Mack the Knife- The Threepenny Opera
The Road You Didn't Take- Follies
Something's Coming- West Side Story
Unworthy of Your Love- Assassins (Duet with Annie Golden)
I Don't Care Much- Cabaret
Mister Cellophane- Chicago
So In Love- Kiss Me Kate
Finishing the Hat- Sunday in the Park with George
Not While I'm Around- Sweeney Todd


I'd call it: Broadway Mismatched

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 9:06pm

"Someone Else's Story" - Chess
"I'm Not Afraid of Anything" - Songs for a New World
"Maybe This Time" - Cabaret
"Another Suitcase in Another Hall" - Evita
"Another Hundred People" - Company

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 9:11pm

1. Still Hurting - The Last 5 Years
2. All That Jazz - Chicago
3.Losing My Mind - Follies
4. Hernando's Hideaway - The Pajama Game
5. All That Jazz - Chicago
6. I Wish I Could Forget You - Passion
7. I Know The Truth - Aida
8. Raise The Roof - The Wild Party(Lippa)
9. Every Story Is A Love Story - Aida
10. So In Love - Kiss Me, Kate
11. Goodbye Until Tomorrow - The Last 5 Years
12. Back To Before - Ragtime
13.On My Own - Les Miserables
14. I'm Not That Girl - Wicked
15. The Life Of The Party - The Wild Party(Lippa)

I noticed all the songs I listed were belty or balladish and torchy.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 9:29pm

"I've Never Been In Love Before"- GUYS AND DOLLS.
"Goodbye Old Girl"- DAMN YANKEES.
"Take A Chance On Me"- LITTLE WOMEN.
"Mama I'm A Big Girl Now" [featuring StylinBohemian]-HAIRSPRAY.
"It Hurts Me"- ALL SHOOK UP.
"Corner of The Sky"- PIPPIN.
"Being Alive"- COMPANY.
"Chip On My Shoulder"- LEGALLY BLONDE.
"Mr. Cellophane"- CHICAGO.

EDIT: Without Love - Hairspray (with dancingthrulife04 and two of her choosing)

"Almost Like Being in Love"- BRIGADOON
"But There For You Go I"- BRIGADOON
"You'll Never Walk Alone"- CAROUSEL
"A Bit of Earth"- SECRET GARDEN
"Fools Fall In Love"- ALL SHOOK UP
"If I Told You" (with Tchi4Lif18- THE WEDDING SINGER

Updated On: 5/28/07 at 09:29 PM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 9:45pm

Also, as a hidden track, just to rob the CD of any seriousness, I would do my rendition of And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going.

Heh heh.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 5/27/07 at 10:40pm

1)On the Steps Of the Palace - Into the Woods
2)Back to Before - Ragtime
3)Someday - The Wedding Singer
4)Nothing - A Chorus Line
5)Daddy's Girl - Grey Gardens
6)Without Love - Hairspray (with ClumsyDude15 and two of his choosing )
7)My Funny Valentine - Babes in Arms
Funny Honey - Chicago
9)Unusual Way - Nine
10)I Speak Six Languages - Spelling Bee
11)At The Glen - Dessa Rose
12)I'm Not Afraid of Anything - Songs For a New World
13)A Part of That - The Last 5 Years
14)Some Things Are Meant to Be - Little Women (with Sutton Foster)
15)Blue Wind - Spring Awakening
16)Bill - Show Boat
17)Marry Me a Little - Company (yep, I'm a girl)
1If I Were a Bell - Guys & Dolls
19)Cabaret- Cabaret

[scott68]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 1:42am

Something's Coming - West Side Story
Giants In The Sky - Into the Woods
Johanna - Sweeney Todd
Younger Than Springtime - South Pacific
Too Many Mornings - Follies (with Barbara Cook)
She Cries - Songs For A New World
Stars - Les Mis
I Could Write Books - Zanna, Don't!
When The Earth Stopped Turning - Elegies: A Song Cycle
What More Can I Say - Falsettos (Or Falsettoland, originally)

And if I went for the gender-switching...

The Spark of Creation - Children of Eden
Always True To You (In My Fashion) - Kiss Me, Kate
Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Evita
When You've Got It, Flaunt It - The Producers
Not a Day Goes By - Merrily We Roll Along
Another Hundred People - Company
I Don't Know How To Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar
Maybe This Time - Cabaret
Don't Rain On My Parade - Funny Girl
The Life of the Party - The Wild Party (Lippa)
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Kiss of the Spider Woman

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 2:03am

I know the title is semi-taken but...

CD 1: Songs I Should Not Sing
Shelia Franklin/ I Believe in Love (Hair)
A New Life (Jekyll and Hyde)
Diva's Lament (Spamalot)
Home (Piece the musical)
Three Bedroom House w/ Kaitlin Hopkins (Bat Boy The Musical)
Don't Rain on my Parade (Funny Girl)
Suddenly Seymor w/ Ellen Greene (Little Shop of Horrors
I Will Never Leave You w/ Marty Thomas (Side Show)
The Sho, Kitty, and Gamby Medley: Good Morning Baltimore, Song From Tarzan, Song From Seussical, Bless the Lord, Whipped into Shape, end For Good.

CD 2 Songs I Should Sing
Boy With Dreams (Edges: A Song Cycle)
It Takes Two (Hairspray)
Going Down (Hair)
Hot Patootie (The Rocky Horror Show)
Purpose (Avenue Q)
What Do I Need With Love (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
I'm Not That Smart (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
High Flying Adored (Evita)
Epiphany (Altar Boyz)
Finale: Impossible Dream

Updated On: 5/28/07 at 02:03 AM

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 2:25am

ok looking back...

it should just be called Rainbow Connection.