Best Prostitution Songs

[sweeneytodd2]

Best Prostitution Songs#0

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:14am

What are the best showtunes about or relating to being a hooker? I'll start:
"Hey Big Spender" from Sweet Charity
and "My Body" from The Life.
Updated On: 8/31/06 at 02:14 AM

[bigrab1018]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#1

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:17am

"Bring on the Men" from Jekyll & Hyde

"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#2

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:17am

"The Girls of the Night" from Jekyll and Hyde

[broadjay]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#3

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:20am

Lovely Ladies, Les Mis

[broadjay]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#4

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:20am

Lovely Ladies, Les Mis

[Pinky]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#5

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:23am

Whore's Lament from Amour

Penn State Forever!!!!

[TomMonster]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#6

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:27am

What a fun topic!

Miller's Son, from A Little Night Music (Not a true whore, cause she didn't charge...)

The entire score of Tenderloin.

"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

[sweeneytodd2]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#7

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:28am

Alms for A Miserable Woman from Sweeney Todd

[blaxx]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#8

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:30am

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas has quite a few...(obviously)

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[TomMonster]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#9

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:35am

Thanks, SweeneyTodd2, I just got back from a performance of the show.

Beggar woman doesn't charge, although the price is still high in the end...

"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

[Pinky]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#10

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:36am

I think The Heat is On in Saigon could work too...

Penn State Forever!!!!

[allofmylife]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#11

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:47am

Irma La Douce has some great songs about the subject.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699

[StageManager2]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#12

Posted: 8/31/06 at 6:15am

How about "Good Night And Thank You" (EVITA)? Eva basically sleeps her way to the top during the course of this number.

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

Updated On: 8/31/06 at 06:15 AM

[Jon]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#13

Posted: 8/31/06 at 6:43am

Sorry, folks, but you have to go back to the 1920's and Cole Porter's LOVE FOR SALE - the first great showtune about prostitution.

[James2]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#14

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:31am

One I like is "Pretty Lady" from Pacific Overtures.

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[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#15

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:36am

"My Body" from THE LIFE is good, but I prefer "I'm getting to old for the oldest profession."

". . . POP . . ."

[elmore3003]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#16

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:45am

"Edie Was a Lady"

[LuvUrBatBoy]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#17

Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:45am

Pirate Jenny- The Threepenny Opera
Tango Ballad (depending on the translation)- The Threepenny Opera
Black is a Moocher- The Wild Party

Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.

[muscle23ftl]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#18

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:15am

"the movie in my mind" from miss saigon.

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[VeuveClicquot]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#19

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:18am

"Pirate Jenny," indeed.

Also, "Ten Cents a Dance." Rogers and Hart. Can't go wrong with that.
Updated On: 8/31/06 at 08:18 AM

[coolphantom919]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#20

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:19am

Lovely Ladies From Les Miserables! (And Fantine's Arrest!)

[philcrosby]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#21

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:20am

Rodgers and Hart's "Ten Cents a Dance"

Cole Porter's "Love for Sale"

[EponineAmneris]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#22

Posted: 8/31/06 at 8:21am

BRING ON THE MEN and THE GIRLS OF THE NIGHT from JEKYLL & HYDE
LOVELY LADIES from LES MIZ

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[jv92]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#23

Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:14am

Oh I'll second Tango Ballad and Pirate Jenny.

[Producer2]

re: Best Prostitution Songs#24

Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:24am

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