Best Song From 2014-2015 Season
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#1
Posted: 7/18/15 at 3:09pm
Why doesnt broadway have the award for best song of the season?
(can be ANY song from the current recent season, from an original composition, a jukebox or revival)
This is a super savvy board, so what are your five nominees and winner for the 2014-2015 broadway season (same eligible shows as for Tonys)
Mine from this season are:
Ring of Keys-Fun Home
A Musical-Something Rotten
Shall We Dance-The King & I
Love and Love Alone-The Visit
Hard to be the Bard-Something Rotten
my winner-Ring of Keys
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#3
Posted: 7/18/15 at 3:56pm
It's Ring of Keys. Just Ring of Keys. Simple.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#4
Posted: 7/18/15 at 4:19pm
My Favorite Original Songs:
Days and Days-Fun Home
Love and Love Alone-The Visit
A Musical-Something Rotten!
Now-Doctor Zhivago
Ring of Keys-Fun Home
When You Say Vegas-Honeymoon in Vegas
Favorite Oldies:
Getting to Know You-The King & I
I Got Rhythm-An American in Paris
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise-An American in Paris
I Will Never Leave You-Side Show
Lucky to Be Me-On the Town
They Can't Take That Away From Me-An American in Paris
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#5
Posted: 7/18/15 at 4:35pm
playbill use to do the playbill yearbook and had all that
Featured Actor Joined: 7/31/03
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#6
Posted: 7/18/15 at 4:43pm
Are they not going to do the playbill yearbook anymore
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#7
Posted: 7/18/15 at 5:24pm
NOMINEES
'Changing My Major', Fun Home
'I Love Betsy', Honeymoon in Vegas
'Love and Love Alone', The Visit
'Ring of Keys', Fun Home
'Welcome to the Renaissance', Something Rotten!
WINNER
'Ring of Keys' is an easy winner by a landslide.
I dont really think putting old songs in with the new is really fair. But my favorite performances from revivals are:
'I Can Cook Too', On the Town
'I Will Never Leave You', Side Show
'Shall We Dance', The King and I
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#8
Posted: 7/18/15 at 7:23pm
FUN HOME
Ring of Keys
Changing My Major
Raincoat of Love
Telephone Wire
Days and Days
Welcome to our house on Maple Ave
Finding Neverland
All of London is here Tonight
Believe
All That Matters
Circus of your mind
Stronger
When Your Feet don't Touch the Ground
Neverland
Play
Honeymoon in Vegas
I love Betsy
Anywhere But Here
Friki Friki
Do Something
Honeymoon in Vegas
Side Show
basically every song...
I have to say I really love the background music to Curious Incident
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#11
Posted: 7/19/15 at 3:44am
1. Telephone Wire
2. Days and Days
3. Flying Away
4. Ring of Keys
wait..... I've watched all shows on Broadway last season except "Holler If You Hear Me" and yet all I can remember by heart are the songs from "Fun Home" (well those and "Musical" from SR but that was more of a visual treat than a fantastic song).... I guess Fun Home was, by far, the best musical of the past two seasons.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#12
Posted: 7/19/15 at 2:32pm
Days and Days-Fun Home
Welcome to the Renaissance-SR!
there are other great songs from this season, but those ones are my two favorites
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#13
Posted: 7/19/15 at 3:13pm
The score of The Last Ship.
"Why doesnt broadway have the award for best song of the season?"
Because the whole idea of musical theater is to have a good overall score, not just one good song. Oof.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#14
Posted: 7/19/15 at 3:36pm
"You, You You". From The Visit
"Come to the Fun Home" Fun Home
"Getting to know you" The King and I
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#15
Posted: 7/19/15 at 3:42pm
"The score of The Last Ship.
"Why doesnt broadway have the award for best song of the season?"
Because the whole idea of musical theater is to have a good overall score, not just one good song. Oof. "
hi neonlights
I love that the best broadway scores tell an entire story in a very seamless and integrated way(Sondheim of course being the master if this)
a great song also can tell an entire story within the story
and
one truly great song can make an entire musical or even a tony winning best musical (like for "Once")
If broadway composers placed a little more focus on writing truly great and memorable individual songs within a score that could stand alone as hit songs or at least garnish high volumes of youtube and social media plays, more shows would probably play much longer with bigger audiences....
i still believe having best song in a musical is a great idea and would help further musical theater.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#16
Posted: 7/19/15 at 3:54pm
"If broadway composers placed a little more focus on writing truly great and memorable individual songs..."
They have enough trouble delivering serviceable scores; I don't think asking them to focus elsewhere is a good plan if musical theatre is to maintain any integrity as an art form at all.
I think the scary thing is that, except perhaps for several songs from The Last Ship, last season was painfully bereft of any songs that will resonate for very long. But for heavens sake before we start worrying about transcendent songs, let's see if we can just improve on the mediocre quality of most Broadway songwriting to start with. The aborning season seems to offer more hope.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#17
Posted: 7/19/15 at 8:13pm
hi hoganshero
I can dare to dream cant I?
one of the underlying reasons for this post is I COMPLETELY agree with you ( and read your posts whenever you do post because i respect your opinions), that this was not a great season for scores in general or memorable songs....
I loved a few of the new shows with original songs, including FH and SR, but I do not have songs from either cast album on my favorite musical songs playlist
I think you are right, we may be in for a rich 2015-16 season of new shows and Im excited about Hamilton, Waitress, Up here ( if it makes it this season) and others....
shouldn't great musicals have great music and songs?
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#18
Posted: 7/19/15 at 8:18pm
Days and Days was definitely a highlight of the season for me. I also LOVE All That Matters.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#19
Posted: 7/19/15 at 9:05pm
Besides the score to Fun Home which has several greats, I'd have to add "Show Some Respect" from The Last Ship. Love the song, loved the choreography, thought it should have been a showstopper.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#20
Posted: 7/20/15 at 9:05am
"If broadway composers placed a little more focus on writing truly great and memorable individual songs within a score that could stand alone as hit songs or at least garnish high volumes of youtube and social media plays, more shows would probably play much longer with bigger audiences...."
Are you effing kidding? Go away.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#21
Posted: 7/20/15 at 9:56am
@ broadwaysfguy: "shouldn't great musicals have great music and songs?"
you bet. But if the focus shifts to songs instead of storytelling, musicals fail. The trick is to write great scores that have broader appeal. Then the youtube hits etc will follow on their own. Right now, even the most successful songs from cast recordings are just a footnote on billboard, spotify, youtube, grammys etc. When there have been exceptions in this century (21 guns), the way they have been shoehorned into shows demonstrates the point.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#22
Posted: 7/20/15 at 11:00am
I believe critics have place so much emphasis on "songs that advance the plot" that the the songs are so rooted in the show they cannot be pulled out of the show to become standards.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#23
Posted: 7/20/15 at 11:18am
First of all, that "advance the plot" nonsense isn't from the critics; it is a silly BMI canard. Secondly, while it is obviously true that there are some songs that do not really works as standalone pieces, there are many that would, if they were (a) good enough, (b) accessible and (c) resonant. The problem is that there is never going to be mainstream appeal for songs that are rooted in a style that appeals to grandparents. Grandparents don't buy music much, and there are not enough hardcore oldschool musical theatre fans to make most of the mediocrity that traffics as musical theatre songs into hits. Unless and until musical theatre songs regularly sound popular again, it will be the rare, rare exception for a song that crosses over.
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#24
Posted: 7/20/15 at 2:25pm
hi hoganshero
I get what you are saying about classic "showtunes" type songs
So what about Hamilton and the hip-hop appeal?
the president of the united states just gave it a standing ovation (on camera)
Cant they release a single from hamilton and use the president as a defacto endorsement....
also rock songs like
Im Alive from next to normal
Totally F*CKed from spring awakenings
soul of a man, step one from kinky boots
Here right now-ghost
and others
All seem to have very current pop/rock sensibilities and i could see and hear them being on top 100 singles charts and radio.
I dont however get the sense that producers have a strategy to access or promote singles to the billboard charts or see that as a viable strategy to draw attendance
or that any pop artists are accessing top musical songs and releasing singles, like they used to in the old days(last was was "if I were a rich girl" from gwen stefani in 2004)
why do you think most scores and songs are so mediocre now? is it the pressure to get something out, or the fact that the best songwriters today are writing for name artists or disney movies where they can make song royalties, or something else?
Best Song From 2014-2015 Season#25
Posted: 7/20/15 at 2:52pm
I agree about some of those songs, but it is a chicken and egg thing-someone has to pull out the stops to try. Could and might Hamilton? Perhaps; it is groundbreaking in so many ways, it could add this one. But it is one thing to make a push and another to have it succeed. Many try, few do.
I think it because the best songwriters have, for the most part, been unwelcome on Broadway for decades until fairly recently. That's changing and hopefully this situation will fix itself. It is not a quick process, but we are evolving from where things were (Jason Robert Brown, Andrew Lippa, etc) to a point where aging rockers (Lauper, Sting, etc) started writing shows and now we are finally seeing some legit contemporary songwriters (Duncan Sheik, Sara Bareilles) come into these treacherous waters. The next step is to gain respect-how about a song that's actually on the grammys instead of in the "and also receiving a grammy" category? Recuperating from 50+ years of exile doesn't happen overnight.
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