A good comedic song sung by a female?

Passover - Elegies.

If You Hadn't But You Did - Comden and Green - I don't believe this is a showtune at all, and it doesn't have to be in any specific context. It's fun and comes off as much more impressive than its actual level of difficulty.

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Surabaya Santa - Songs For A New World

I have heard 'Judy Conelli' singing this. Brilliant!

Updated On: 2/16/05 at 12:18 PM

Warning: Some of these are done all the time

"Crossword Puzzle" from Starting Here, Starting Now"

"Miss Byrd"; "The Bear, The Hamster, and The Mole"; "You Want to Be My Friend?" from Closer Than Ever

"Sara Lee" by Kander & Ebb (in 'and the World Goes Round' its sung by a man, but Kaye Ballard used to do it a lot)

"the Boy From" from the Mad show

"Lesbian Love Story" from WIld Party(Lippa)

"A Summer in Ohio" from Last Five Years is kinda Funny, right?

"Repent" from On The Twentieth Century(I never really thought it would be funy out of context, but I recently saw a gal do this, and it was hilarious)

"Paris Makes Me Horny" from Victor/Victoria

"It's An Art" rom Working

"Making Love Alone" by Marilyn miller & Cheryl Hardwick

"Zip" from Pal Joey

"I Can Cook, too" from On The Town

"Pirate Jenny" from Threepenny Opera(I have seen this performed to great comic effect)

"You Can Always Count On Me" from City of Angels

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Updated On: 2/16/05 at 12:23 PM

It would also depend on your city...."Rich, Famous and Powerful" is a signature song for one performer here in Chicago.

Best ask "those in the know" locally.

Broadway Baby

Several of the songs from Nunsense: I Just Want to Be A Star, I Could Have Gone To Nashville, Turn Up The Spotlight, etc.

Popular from Wicked

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the singular greatest comedic song ever written for a female to sing is

Adelaide's Lament from GUYS AND DOLLS

often-times known as "A Person Could Develop A Cold."

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RAITHNAIT62, IF...........is indeed a showtune.........it is from the musical TWO ON THE AISLE by Jule Styne and Comden and Green. It starred Bert Lahr and Delores Grey on Broadway. However, Comden and Green point out that when they wrote IF, they thought that Lena Horne was going to be performing it in the show.

You can hear Betty Comden perform the song IF and talk about its genesis and lots of other great stuff on the live cd A PARTY WITH COMDEN AND GREEN.

I love that cd.

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"On My Own" - Les Mis

That song cracks me up EVERY time!

WOOP!








J/K....of course...

Yes, I have her CD and it's on there. As I recall, Liza used to do it in concert and that's where I know it from...

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