great lists so far but we're missing "Losing my Mind". Good stuff. I have to agree with the other lists also.
It would be a sin not to include In Buddy's Eyes.
Stand-by Joined: 11/20/03
My list would include:
Finishing the Hat
We Do Not Belong Together
Someone in a Tree
Losing My Mind
Broadway Baby
Being Alive
A Little Priest
A Weekend in the Country
Every Day a Little Death
Loving You
Agony
Invocation/Instructions to the Audience
and even though he only wrote the lyrics, I also love "The Boy From...." and "If Momma Was Married"
- Parlor Songs
- Moments in the Wood
- Little Priest
- Unworthy of Your Love
- Children will Listen
brdlwyr, I don't mean to burst your bubble, but "Wicked" was written by Steven Swartz. sorry.
Use Company, Into the Woods and West Side Story!
I Love "The Miller's Son" "Company" "Another Hundred People" and "Getting Married Today"
Has anyone mentioned "The Miller's Son" or "Every Day A Little Death" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC?
Chorus Member Joined: 5/8/05
One More Kiss (Follies)
Could I Leave You? (Follies)
Not A Day Goes By (Merrily We Roll Along)
Old Friends (Merrily We Roll Along)
Sunday in the Park with George (Sunday)
Happiness (Passion)
Take Me to the World (Evening Primrose)
Fear No More (The Frogs)
Fanfare (The Frogs)
Overture (Merrily We Roll Along)
My favorite(s) would be Happiness, Not A Day Goes By, and Could I Leave You? (All brilliant LYRICS and music)
Chorus Member Joined: 5/8/05
I forgot...
Like It Was (Merrily)
Julie Andrews on the OBC of Putting It Together is heartbreaking. In that moment, (in my mind) she is surpassed only by Barbara Cook in sheer technique, emotion, and general incredibility, hearbreak, and fabulousness. Sorry Audra. And for that to be her next-to-last number! It just shows the strength (former) of her instrument and technique. Sorry about the tangent.
In no order...
More my favorites than the greatest...
Miller's Son
Anyone Can Whistle
Now/Later/Soon
I'm Still Here
Ladies Who Lunch
Happiness
Last Midnight
Move On
Opening Doors
A Little Priest
Quartet from Sweeney Todd
Every Day a Little Death
Please, Hello!
Losing My Mind
Another Hundred People
and many more...
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
"Putting it Together" from Sunday in the Park With George (get the Streisand version, it's better than OBCR...)
"Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music
"Some People" from Gypsy
"Tonight" from WSS (lyrics)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
<<<<<<<< from Company
Also:
"Every Day a Little Death" from A Little Night Music
"Finale" from Passion (I cry every single time I hear it)
"The Gun Song" and "Something Just Broke" from Assassins
"The Last Midnight" from Into the Woods
"Ladies Who Lunch" and "Barcelona" from Company
But honestly, aren't most of his songs a complete thrill?
No One is Alone
Another Hundred People
Worst Pies in London (just because I find it really entertaining)
The opening of Sweeney Todd because it always manages to scare the crap out of me
Moments in the Woods
Finishing the Hat
Steps of the Palace
Understudy Joined: 6/24/05
I'll vote for:
Being Alive (Company)
No More (Into the Woods)
A Little Priest (Sweeney Todd)
Every Day A Little Death (A Little Night Music)
Anyone Can Whistle (Anyone Can Whistle)
The Ladies Who Lunch (Company)
Loving You (Passion)
hmmm and tehre's a song i love that i've only heard once or twice but it really sticks with me... With So Little To Be Sure Of. I think that's the title of it. I don't recall what show it's from.
Anyway, those are the ones that immediately spring to mind, but there are sooo many.
id have to say Children Will Listen! love it!
Featured Actor Joined: 5/17/05
Loving You Losing My Mind Gosh those are wonderful songs
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/04
"Weekend in the Country" - most AMAZING theatre writing/finale ever
"Miller's Son"
"Buddy's Eyes"
"Color & Light"
"A little Priest"
"The Ladies Who Lunch"
"Another Hundred People"
"Move On"/"We Do not Belong Together"
"Children Will Listen"
"Sunday" - most gorgeous Finale
"Ah, But Underneath"
"Our Time"
"I Read"
"Happiness"
"Last Midnight"
"Stay With Me"
"Worst Pies In London"
"God, That's Good!" - the best opener of Act 2 EVER
In Buddys Eyes
Johanna
Not while I'm around
and I'm a dork, but I LOVE What can you lose, as performed by Judy Kuhn.
My votes go to "Happiness" from Passion, "If You Can Find Me I'm Here" from Evening Primrose, "Miller's Son" from A Little Night Music, "Finishing the Hat" from Sunday, and "No One Is Alone" from ITW
Okay.
I've been trying for a while to narrow my list down to 15.
I just can't do it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
I decided not to bother. A top 50 might be more realistic.
The Worst Songs in History
Little Giants
Green Witch in Black Robe
Stand-by Joined: 12/29/04
Shucks...Stephen Schwartz wrote Wicked
Hilarious that people didn't get that brdlwyr was joking.
I completly forgot about "Ah, But Underneath"
"In the depths of her interior
Were fears she was inferior
And something even eerier
But no one dared to query'er superior exterior..."
Simply, a genius...
"Iam unworthy of your words
Stephen Darling
I cannot sing your minor thirds..."
Forbidden B'way
These actually are THE BEST. No questions asked.
1) Johanna (Reprise) - Sweeney Todd
2) Green Finch & Linnet Bird - Sweeney Todd
3) By The Sea - Sweeney Todd
4) Company - Company
5) Another Hundred People - Company
6) Barcelona - Company
7) The Ladies Who Lunch - Company Sunday - Sunday In The Park With George
9) Finishing The Hat - Sunday In The Park With George
10) Prologue - Into The Woods
11) I Know Things Now - Into The Woods
12) Giants In The Sky - Into The Woods
13) No One Is Alone - Into The Woods
14) Follies - I'm Still Here
15) Follies - Losing My Mind
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