Favorite Short songs
Favorite Short songs
#1Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:04pm
I was listening to Promises, Promises and realized that the title song is only 1:47.
Can you think of some other really good short (about 2 minutes or less) songs?
Off the top of my head
Piragua (ITH)
Title song from Urinetown
I Can Do That (ACL)
and lots from Caroline, or Change but that's really just one big amazing song
Nancy Reagan, meanest and thinnest of the first ladies moves into the white house. Yabba dabba! It's the eighties.
#2re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:12pm
My favourite songs from "Little Mermaid" are really short--"The World Above (Reprise)," "Sweet Child," and "Sweet Child Reprise."
Also, I love those two little short songs from Les Miserables that start with "You at the barricades listen to this..." And, "Do You Hear The People Sing" is only 1 minute, 59 seconds.
Chauvelin's angry reprise of "Where's the Girl" in Scarlet Pimpernel.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#2re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:13pm
The Five Fifteen Reprise and Around the World Reprise from Grey Gardens, both about a minute long.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#3re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:16pmI Hate the Bus from Caroline, or Change.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
BNN
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/05
#4re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:18pmIt's part of the Montage, but I love Rain on the Roof.
Tick Tock
Broadwaynerd101
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/6/08
#5re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:26pm
Who wears Short Shorts (I love the opening especially in the actual musical) - Jersey Boys
School For Monsters - Avenue Q
That Face (Reprise) - The Producers
Brave Sir Robin - Spamalot
Opus 17 - Jersey Boys
Updated On: 9/13/08 at 12:26 PM
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#6re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:27pmI Never Knew His Name from Brooklyn.
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--Cartman: South Park
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#7re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:28pm
"Sympathy, Tenderness" from Jekyll and Hyde.
A LOT of great songs from Smokey Joe's Cafe are under 2 minutes.
#8re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 2:01pm"I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today"- Avenue Q
"You don't just stop posting horse s*** on the web!"-The [Title of Show] Show
#9re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 2:19pmHow could I forget that one?
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#10re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 2:23pm"Too Beautiful For Words" - THE COLOR PURPLE
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#11re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 2:53pm
"I Hate the Bus"-CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
"Long Distance"-CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
"A Cockeyed Optimist"-SOUTH PACIFIC
"We Just Had Sex"-PASSING STRANGE
"Tiger, Tiger"-THE APPLE TREE
"Gorgeous"-THE APPLE TREE
"Loving You"-PASSION
"Don't Look At Me"-FOLLIES
"You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan"-CAROUSEL
"Air"-HAIR
"Sodomy"-HAIR
"No Life"-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#12re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 3:22pmdefinitely ... amneris'letter from aida
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#13re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 3:57pm
I Know Your Kind [DESTRY RIDES AGAIN]
Pine Cones and Holly Berries [HERE'S LOVE]
Carefully Taught [SOUTH PACIFIC]
Love Look Away [FLOWER DRUM SONG - Original 1957 Version]
Ice Cream [ANNE OF GREEN GABLES]
My Avatar is the amazing young singer, James Anest
#14re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 6:43pmThe Tony Award Song from [Title of Show]
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#15re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 7:41pmI Am Playing Me and What Kind of Girl Is She? - [Title of Show]
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#16re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:33pmI agree with "I Hate the Bus" and...even though it's 2 minutes and 9 seconds, can I count "Three Letters" from She Loves Me?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#17re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:33pm
Johanna - Sweeney Todd
and at a little over two minutes...
I Get a Kick Out of You - Anything Goes
Updated On: 9/13/08 at 08:33 PM
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Stand-by Joined: 8/13/08
#19re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/14/08 at 11:20pm
I loved that Caroline, or Change has been mentioned!
I'll add in "Cockeyed Optimist" from South Pacific.
#20re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:30am
"The Man is Dead" (Curtains)
"Sweet Child(reprise)" and "I Want the Good Times Back(reprise)" (The Little Mermaid)
"I Need to Know" (Tarzan), if you consider that to be a short song.
Goodbye
Updated On: 9/15/08 at 12:30 AM
#21re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/15/08 at 12:44am'Learn Your Lessons Well'- GODSPELL.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/08
#22re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/15/08 at 1:12am"Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)" ~~~Spring Awakening
"I have the prettiest mother..."--Rhoda Penmark~~~ The Bad Seed
#23re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/15/08 at 2:08amMaybe My Baby Loves Me from Grand Hotel
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"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#24re: Favorite Short songs
Posted: 9/15/08 at 11:05am
"I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today" - Avenue Q
"Better" - Little Women
"How Long Must This Go On" - Beauty and the Beast
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