Help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
LauraLou
Swing Joined: 1/8/10
#1Help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 3:27pm
HELP!!
I am wanting to organize a cabaret night as a fundraiser for the Susan G Komen 3 Day Walk. The benefit performance is going to take place at a local piano bar with intimate space. Anywho, I'm trying to think of songs with a contemporary broadway feel that speak of hope, inspiration, dreams, and love. I know that I want to use "Light" from N2N and "Seize the Day" from Newsies. If anyone can think of suggestions I would greatly appreciate it!!
Thanks :)
#2Help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 3:30pmBosom Buddies from Mame
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2Help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 3:46pmJune is Busting Out All Over.
#3Help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 3:52pm
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#5help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 3:57pmtitties 'n beer
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 4:01pm
Phyllis that was going to be my encore.
LauraLou
Swing Joined: 1/8/10
#7help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 4:01pmwhat shows are ring them bells and titties n' beer from? Also, I do need some songs of hope as well as fun boobie songs :)
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#8help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 4:09pm
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Updated On: 1/8/10 at 04:09 PM
#9help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 4:15pm
Ring Them Bells is a song written for Liza Minnelli by Kander and Ebb.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#10help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 9:28pmYa want an uplifting( soory!) song? @ a Gilda's Club Fundraiser they sang "I Know Where I've Been" from Hairspray. I know it's a civil rights song but it is also a song about endurance and survival and ultimately persevering through. Can I tell you- not a dry eye and a 2 min standing ovation. But do you have sa belter who can do the song (sic) justice? Otherwise don't.
LauraLou
Swing Joined: 1/8/10
#11help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 11:02pm
I'm picking the songs first and then auditioning people for the benefit. That way I can see the talent level first and assign songs second. I love "Where I've Been" from Hairspray, that will be a great fit.
Thanks for all the ideas so far, please keep them coming :c)
#12help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 11:23pmYou Can't Stop the Beat could also work as a closing group number. It could be as if they're telling the disease they won't be stopped.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/8/10 at 11:28pm
Diva I was RACKING MY BRAIN to think of that song- I AM SO GLAD YOU POSTED IT!
Meanwhile how about Titty Titty Bang Bang?
#14help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/9/10 at 12:54amIslands in the Stream
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#15help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/9/10 at 6:18am
LauraLou
Swing Joined: 1/8/10
#16help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/9/10 at 12:20pm
I love the song You Can't Stop the Beat, but I want to close the show with Light from N2N because it has a feel of times are tough now, but eventually it will all work out and be good. If I do another benefit though, You Can't Stop the Beat would be the finale for me.
JerseyGirl-what is Islands in the Stream from?
ghostlight-what is Look What Happened to Mabel from?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#17help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/9/10 at 1:01pm
'Islands In The Stream' is a Dolly Parton and Kenny Rodgers duet
'Look What Happened To Mabel' is from MACK & MABEL
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#18help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/10/10 at 4:52pm
Charles DeForrest wrote a song called "Know What I've Learned" that should work.
And David Feldman wrote a song inspired by the death of Nancy LaMott's death from cancer called "Trust the Wind"
"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
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#19help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/10/10 at 4:58pm
Impossible Dream
You'll Never Walk Alone
Being Alive
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#20help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/10/10 at 6:22pm
Knockers Up! A Rusty Warren classic!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Updated On: 1/10/10 at 06:22 PM
#21help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/10/10 at 6:37pmMy Humps by the Black Eyed Peas
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#22help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/10/10 at 8:09pm
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#23help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/10/10 at 10:51pm
"Only for Now..." from Avenue Q. It gives the feeling of hope, that life is sometimes difficult but it can and it will pass and life will become better.
I'm Not Afraid Of Anything ~Last 5 Years
Day by Day ~Godspell
Climb Ev'ry Mountain ~The Sound of Music
You'll never Walk Alone ~Carousel
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
Updated On: 1/10/10 at 10:51 PM
LauraLou
Swing Joined: 1/8/10
#24help with song choices for a breast cancer benefit!!
Posted: 1/11/10 at 1:00pmThanks for all the suggestions so far, my list just keeps growing! There are so many songs that will work beautifully with what I'm attempting. Hopefully, I won't blow my first directorial role :c)
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