All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
#1All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 6:20am
A couple of weeks ago, I started a thread about people's least favourite/worst broadway show-tune. The least popular of the lot seemed to be Little Lamb from Gypsy aswell as Something Bad and Sentimental Man from Wicked.
Now i'm curious, what are the better and more popular showtunes that people like?
Personally, my all-time favourite is Don't Rain On My Parade from Funny Girl, but more recently I have enjoyed The Bitch Of Living from Spring Awakening.
A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#2re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 6:22am
It's recently new to me, but it quickly replaced everything else...
"Is It Really Me?" from 110 In The Shade
Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
algy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#2re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 6:25am
In terms of songs that I can hear over and over and never tire of, I *love* "Wouldn't it be Loverly" from the OLC of My Fair Lady.
I also really like:
Oklahoma! (Oklahoma!)
Merry Wives (Merry Wives: The Musical!)
Sunday (Sunday in the Park...)
Make Him Mine (Witches of Eastwick)
Schadenfreude (Avenue Q)
#3re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 6:56amI'll never not get chills from "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line.
"...and in a bed."
#4re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:11am
It changes nearly every week, but songs I could hear every day and not mind are:
I've grown accustomed to her face - My Fair Lady
And they're off - A New Brain
Finishing the hat - Sunday in the Park with George
Overture/The beauty is/Divising Day/Fable - Light in the Piazza
#5re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:28am
"Something's Coming" from West Side Story and
"I'll Know When My Love Comes Along" from Guys and Dolls
will never get old to me.
"To love another person is to see the face of God!"
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#7re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 2:39pm
Now/Later/Soon from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
Heaven...
#8re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 2:42pm
/hangs head
Probably "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Mis. I freaking love that song.
chris d
Broadway Star Joined: 4/21/07
#9re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 2:46pmI love "Turkey Lurkey Time" from Promises, Promises, and ummm... "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd and "Origin of Love" from Hedwig, and yeah, "The Bitch of Living" is great, as is "Touch Me" from SA.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#10re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 2:47pm
"One Hallowe'en" from APPLAUSE
"An English Teacher" from BYE BYE BIRDIE
"Charity's Soliloquoy" from SWEET CHARITY
"Bushel and a Peck" from GUYS & DOLLS
"24 Hours a Day" from GOLDEN RAINBOW
#11re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 2:54pm
The Ladies Who Lunch (Company)
On My Own (Les Miserables)
I'm Still Here (Follies)
I'm The Greatest Star (Funny Girl)
"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
#12re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 3:05pm"A Weekend in the Country"-A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
SondheimFan2
Chorus Member Joined: 5/20/07
#13re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 3:59pm
i'm currently obsessed with "introduction to the audience" from the frogs. of course the vocals are nothing special but the lyrics are HYSTERICAL. especially if you see the '04 cast with nathan lane instead of the original.
and literally anything from les miz i will NEVER get sick of.
#14re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:04pm
"Anthem" Chess
"Willkomen" Cabaret (LOVE THE VAMPS IN THAT SHOW PERIOD)
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
stynefan
Swing Joined: 9/27/06
#15re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:17pm"Everything's Coming Up Roses" from (what else ?) "Gypsy"
#16re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:23pm
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" from GYPSY comes first to mind, but there are so many songs on my favorites list.
Dramarama2, you mentioned that "Little Lamb" from GYPSY was the least favorite song when you spearheaded the Worst Broadway Song thread a few weeks ago. That reminded me of the story about Jerome Robbins wanting to cut "Little Lamb" from the score because it was too slow. That got Jule Styne mad enough to announce to Jerome Robbins, "Mr. Robbins, if you cut "Little Lamb" from the show I am instructing my lawyers to remove my entire score to GYPSY." Styne rightly won that battle with Robbins and of course the song stayed.
I am surprised that people on this Board selected "Little Lamb" as the worst song from a Broadway show. It is a delicate, questioning song which illustrates Louise's bewilderment as to exactly who she is and what part she plays in her mother's plans. I think it is a beautiful, moving song sung with a live lamb which helps to comfort Louise.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
Updated On: 5/23/07 at 04:23 PM
#17re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:25pm
It Never Was You from Knickerbocker Holiday
Ice Cream form She Loves Me
What great ones do the less will prattle of
Updated On: 5/23/07 at 04:25 PM
#18re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:35pm
DAMN! I was just told by a dear friend that I was lying in my earlier post! HAHA!
Those who know me best tell me my favorite song is "BRING HIM HOME" from Les Miz.
Oh well. I stand corrected! That's why I keep them around!
:)
"To love another person is to see the face of God!"
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#19re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:39pm
Let's see. I have some 'classic' songs and contemporary ones, too.
Top 5:
In no particular order:
Something Wonderful from "The King and I"
Somewhere from "West Side Story"
Around the World from "Grey Gardens"
Revolutionary Costume for Today from "Grey Gardens"
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from "Phantom of the Opera" (first solo-can't help but love it)
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
#20re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:42pm
What I look for in a great show tune is a combination of moving music and words that paint a mental picture of the character(s) thoughts. As said before this is very tough>
Old School (Tie): Rose's Turn (Gypsy) & Favorite Things (Sound of Music)
New School: Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind (Spring Awakening)
#21re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:53pmI'm the Greatest Star from Funny Girl and Rich and Happy from Merrily We Roll Along
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#22re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 4:56pm
One Day More - Les Miserables (the song that started my musical theatre obsession)
You Can't Stop the Beat - Hairspray
Hey There Good Times - I Love My Wife
I Hate the Bus - Caroline, or Change
Make Him Mine - Witches of Eastwick
Waiting for Life to Begin - Once on This Island
Love Me - Two Gentlemen of Verona
I'm All Ablaze - The Canterbury Tales
Heart and Music - A New Brain
If I Loved You - Carousel
Wonderful - The King and I
What More Can I Say - Falsettos
I Never Know When to Say When - Goldilocks
You Can Always Count on Me - City of Angels
Vanilla Ice Cream - She Loves Me
Sunrise Sunset - Fiddler on the Roof
Children of the Wind - Rags
When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
fairygodmother
Featured Actor Joined: 4/30/06
#23re: All-Time Favourite Show-Tune
Posted: 5/23/07 at 5:19pm
ooh...too many but some include;
broadway baby
worst pies in london
spark of creation
seasons of love (still!)
one day more (another person started on their obsession with that)
angels punks and raging queens
daddy's son
song of purple summer and left behind (partic. the new arrangement of purple summer)
good morning baltimore
somewhere
summertime
better stop now.
Videos