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Best Broadway song ever?
WestEndGal
Broadway Star Joined: 6/25/18
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#26Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/17/20 at 6:22pm
The opening number from Into The Woods sets up like 5 plot threads in about 15 minutes.
Adams3
Swing Joined: 2/14/20
Owen22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#29Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/19/20 at 9:57am
"And They're Off". from A New Brain.
Not sure if it's "the best" but it's my favorite.
#30Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/19/20 at 10:20am
Are we choosing based on the construction of the song (music and lyrics) or the performance of the song? or both?
For performance, "Hello Dolly" is a thrilling number, but as a song it's pretty basic.
I'd vote for "Someone in a Tree"
hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#32Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/19/20 at 7:39pm
I think "Satisfied" from Hamilton is absolutely brilliant. The way it goes back in time in the scene and the staging, in particular, gives me chills.
blm2323
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/11
#34Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/19/20 at 8:36pm
Best Song from A Mega-Flop: Children of the Wind
Best Overall: Rose’s Turn
I LOVE that you put a song from Rags on here! It’s one of my favorite scores.
And agreed - Rose’s Turn hand’s down.
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#35Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/20/20 at 2:24am
Meadowlark
ARTc3 formerly ARTc. Actually been a poster since 2004. My name isn't Art. Drop the "3" and say the signature and you'll understand.
#36Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/20/20 at 3:21am
Here are some older songs, that have withstood the test of time, and yet are as well known I think to young as old. They are still frequently performed and recorded.
Which of these ballads is the better known and more frequently performed. Is there a third that would fit with these?
"Someone to Watch Over Me" George and Ira Gershwin, 1926, Oh, Kay! This song was written for Gertrude Lawrence, the same for whom the musical The King and I was written. It is part of the score of both "new" Gershwin musicals, Crazy for You and Nice Work.
"Till There Was You" Meredith Willson, 1957, The Music Man Famously recorded by Paul McCartney and the Beatles, but also by a few hundred others. Meredith Willson's widow like to say that the estate received more annual royalties from the Beatles' recording than from all licensing of the entire musical.
#37Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/20/20 at 2:28pm
I Am What I am - LA Cage
Alexander Hamilton - Hamilton
Don't Rain on My Parade - Funny Girl
As If We Never Said Goodbye - Sunset
Memory - CATS
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina - Evita
You'll Never Walk Alone - Carousel
Tomorrow - Annie
Sunday - Sunday in the Park with George
Back to Before - Ragtime
Big Spender - Sweet Charity
Maria - West Side Story
And I Am Telling You (I’m Not Going) - Dreamgirls
Defying Gravity - Wicked
One Day More - Les Mis
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#38Best Broadway song ever?
Posted: 5/21/20 at 4:49am
hearthemsing22 said: "I think "Satisfied" from Hamilton is absolutely brilliant. The way it goes back in time in the scene and the staging, in particular,gives me chills."
I thought “Satisfied” was a wonder as a work of imaginative writing, staging and choreography along with Renee Goldsberry’s spectacular performance. But it’s not my favorite song in Hamilton (though it’s certainly second). That honor would go to “The Room Where It Happens,” which hasn’t been mentioned.
The song definitely appeals to the historian in me, as Lin-Manuel Miranda weaves a largely accurate account of Jefferson’s version of the meeting with Hamilton - complete with an attribution to Jefferson (in Daveed Diggs’ part of the song). It’s also a pivotal character song in the musical, as Aaron Burr transitions from wry narrator to Hamilton’s angry adversary because he wants Hamilton’s political power and influence and can’t stand being left out. Hamilton’s taunts exist only in Burr’s mind but they set up the rest of the show. The song itself adds a new instrument, a banjo, that seems to come out of nowhere but works perfectly. The staging isn’t as spectacular as “Satisfied,” but Burr’s little jump as the ensemble pulls the tablecloth away is quite clever and builds to the song’s fantastic finish. And while I have seen some excellent Burrs, including Joshua Henry, Leslie Odom Jr. singing to the rafters of the Richard Rodgers (where I was sitting) was my favorite moment in a theater.
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