Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Top Ten Favorite Songs....
minicko88
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#1Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 7:41pm
Big Hit Musicals::::
1. Stars- Les Miserables 2. If I Can't Love Her- Beauty and the Beast 3. Gethsemane- Jesus Christ Superstar 4. All I Ask of You- Phantom of the Opera 5. Defying Gravity- Wicked 6. One Day More- Les Miserables 7. Music of the Night- The Phantom of the Opera 8. This is the Moment- Jekyll and Hyde 9. Epiphany- Sweeney Todd 10. Everything that i am- Tarzan
Comedy Musicals:::::
1. Keep it Gay- The Producers 2. Deep Love- Young Frankenstein 3. You're Timeless to me- Hairspray 4. My Girlfriend lives in Canada- Avenue Q 5. The Song that goes like this- Spamalot 6. Transylvania Mania- Young Frankenstein 7. Its your wedding day- The wedding singer 8. Springtime for Hitler- the Producers 9. Sit down, John- 1776 10. Together Again- Young Frankenstein
Musicals that didn't quite make it::::
1. I Can't Recall- Tale of Two Cities 2. Sail me Away- Lestat 3. The Coming of the Dawn- Frankenstein 4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind- Tale of Two Cities 5. She was there- The Scarlet Pimpernel 6. The Longer I Live- Dracula 7. After all this Time- Lestat 8. If Dreams came true- Tale of Two Cities 9. Where's the Girl- Scarlet Pimpernel 10. I'll Be there- The Pirate Queen
#2re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 7:44pmSomeone has too much time on their hands...
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
minicko88
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#3re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:02pm
tarzan? a big hit musical? weird
a general top ten from me would be
The Music That Makes Me Dance- Funny Girl
Will You- Grey Gardens
As We Stumble Along- The Drowsy Chaperone
Move- Dreamgirls
Sunday- Sunday In The Park With George
The Tea Party- Dear World
Anyone Can Whistle- Anyone Can Whistle
Rose's Turn- Gypsy
Lot's Wife- Caroline, or Change
I'm The Greatest Star- Funny Girl
It's the music and I'm its hapless victim
#4re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:11pm
1) "I'm Still Here"- Follies
2) "Why Can't I Speak?"- Zorba
3) "Jerry Likes My Corn"- Grey Gardens
4) "What's the Use of Wond'rin"- Carousel
5) "I Don't Know His Name"- She Loves Me
6) "Hello, Young Lovers"- The King and I
7) "Finishing the Hat"- Sunday in the Park with George
8 ) "Another Winter in a Summer Town"- Grey Gardens
9) "Someone in a Tree"- Pacific Overtures
10) "A Quiet Thing"- Flora, the Red Menace
Honorable Mention-
"What Makes Me Love Him?"- The Apple Tree
"Soliloquy"- Carousel
"Class"- Chicago
My favorite lyric line is from "She Loves Me"-
"When I undertook this correspondence
Little did I know I'd grow so fond.
Little did I know our views would so correspond"
With my second favorite also from Sheldon Harnick, from "Fiorello!"-
"Waiting for ships that never come in,
A girl is likely to miss the boat."
Updated On: 12/8/08 at 08:11 PM
Shannon Bo Dannon
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/08
#5re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:12pm
I'll do a general one too, in no particular order:
1) Move On- Sunday in the Park with George
2) Gimme Gimme- Thoroughly Modern Millie
3) Everything's Coming Up Roses- Gypsy
4) What You Own- Rent
5) Skid Row (Downtown)- Little Shop of Horrors
6) Going Down- Hair
7) Little Mary Sunshine- Reefer Madness
8 ) If I Didn't Believe In You- The Last 5 Years
9) Everyone's A Little Bit Racist- Avenue Q
10) I Know Things Now- Into the Woods
That was ridiculously hard trying to narrow it down..
Updated On: 12/8/08 at 08:12 PM
#6re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:20pm
What about the real classics?
People Will Say We're in Love from Oklahoma
Make Believe from Showboat or Old Man River, for that matter
Hey There from Pajama Game
This Can't Be Love from Boys from Syracuse
My Funny Valentine from Babes in Arms
I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady
There really were Broadway hits before 1980!
#7re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:21pmOriginal poster, since when is 1776 a "comedy musical" (or a "musical comedy")? It has its funny moments, like all musicals should, but it's hardly "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".
Shannon Bo Dannon
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/08
#8re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:24pmIf it was a longer list, I definitely would have had classics in there. It's hard to choose just 10.
#9re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:30pmPatash, are my picks from Carousel and The King and I not considered classics?
Radiana
Broadway Star Joined: 10/28/08
#10re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:37pm
The Girl that I Marry / Annie Get Your Gun
If I loved You / Carousel
When You Walk Through a Storm / Carousel
Edleweiss / Sound of Music
One Day More / Les Miserables
I Dreamed a Dream / Les Miserables
Music of the Night / Phantom
I'm Not that Girl / Wicked
Some Enchanted Evening / South Pacific
Hello Young Lovers / The King and I
I may not know a lot about theater but I know that I love it.
#11re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:41pm
sorry. I didn't mean to suggest that no one had mentioned classics -- and yours are good ones. It's just that as usual the bulk of answers to this type of questions centers on everything in the past 10 or 15 years at most -- leaving out the BEST of Broadway musical numbers. I mean, basically you could fill the category without ever getting beyond Jerome Kern, or Rodgers and Hammerstein, or Irving Berlin, or Cole Porter.
But funny how ideas can vary. I'd never think of "I Don't Know His Name" from She Loves Me -- I couldn't get beyond "Ice Cream" if I were concentrating on that show. It never fails to send chills up my spine when done well.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#12re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:43pmI'm amused that Tarzan and Jekyll and Hyde are big hit musicals.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#13re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:44pm
1. Around the World - Grey Gardens
2. Rose's Turn - Gypsy
3. I Will Never Leave You - Side Show
4. Cabaret - Cabaret
5. Paciencia y Fe - In the Heights
6. A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd
7. Getting Married Today - Company
8. My Junk - Spring Awakening
9. The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening
10. Prologue - Ragtime
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
Updated On: 12/8/08 at 08:44 PM
#14re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:47pm
No Patash, I understand completely. I was just confused. My picks are not as well known as "If I Loved You" or "Shall We Dance?", so I thought you may have been referring to me.
And I just love "I Don't Know His Name" for its counterpoint section and that one lyric line. If I could choose that entire score, I would. Harnick is the most charming lyric writer in the world.
Shannon Bo Dannon
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/08
#15re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 8:47pmI think my mind set is more focused on the past 20 years or so for some reason. I do love me some classics though, especially Wouldn't It Be Loverly? and On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady, Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' from Oklahoma, and Almost Like Being In Love from Brigadoon. =]
minicko88
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#16re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 9:02pmSorry for the Confusion... But when i said big hit musical, I mean a show that had some sort of success on Broadway.... Don't take it as BIG hits.... MY BAD!!!!!
#17re: Top Ten Favorite Songs....
Posted: 12/8/08 at 9:45pm
Just off the top of my head:
The Music of the Night - The Phantom of the Opera
Being Alive - Company
Willkommen - Cabaret
For Now - Avenue Q
There's No Business Like Show Business - Annie Get Your Gun
One Day More - Les Miserables
I Wanna Be a Producer - The Producers
Heaven On Their Minds - Jesus Christ Superstar
Easy to Love - Anything Goes
If I Were a Bell - Guys & Dolls
