Broadway Christmas Songs
Broadway Christmas Songs
#1Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 2:14pm
I'm putting together a playlist of showtunes for the holiday season. They don't just need to be from Christmas shows, or even songs that take place during the holidays, but songs that deal with the "meaning of Christmas" would work too.
Thanks!
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
Nettik
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
#2Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 3:21pm
"A New Deal for Christmas" from Annie
"Christmas is My Favorite Time of Year" from Catch Me If You Can
Most of Menken's A Christmas Carol
"The Schmuel Song" from The Last Five Years
"Christmas Lullaby" from Songs For a New World
"Surabaya Santa" from Songs For a New World
"Christmas" from The Who's Tommy
Most of White Christmas
Also look at the Carols For a Cure albums. "I Wonder as I Wander" from the cast of Spring Awakening is a personal favorite.
#2Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 3:59pm^I adore Alan Menken's Christmas Carol. "A Place Called Home" is particularly wonderful.
eperkins
Broadway Star Joined: 5/21/07
djb
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/06
#5Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 6:18pm"Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher," although that may not convey the message you're hoping for!
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#6Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 6:19pm
"I Saw Three Ships" from Caroline, or Change
"Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher" from Billy Elliott
I second "A Place Called Home"--a really lovely song, well-performed on the cast album by a then-unknown Emily Skinner.
"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
Updated On: 11/24/12 at 06:19 PM
Nettik
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
#7Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 7:43pmMenken's Christmas Carol is one of my holiday staples each year. I've seen three regional productions and I adore the cast album. Definitely one of my favs.
raker
Stand-by Joined: 12/27/08
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#9Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 10:23pmHarold Gould, the cartoonist who created Little Orphan Annie, would roll over in his grave at "A New Deal for Christmas." Gould LOATHED FDR, as many people did then.
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#10Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/24/12 at 10:40pm"Hard Candy Christmas" from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
"We Need a Little Christmas" from Mame.
Updated On: 11/24/12 at 10:40 PM
#11Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 12:24am
The alternate "festive pop single version" of "Christmas Is My Favorite Time Of Year" that is briefly played in the stage show of Catch Me If You Can, can be found in its entirety on Carols for a Cure.
Additionally, Elton John's pop version of "Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher" is more fun than the stage version- partially because it is a pitch-perfect deconstruction of the mid-Eighties Christmas pop tunes the song satirizes in the stage show.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#12Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 1:11amMeredith Wilson's IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS, which is done in counterpoint (?) with his lovely PINE CONES AND HOLY BERRIES in HERE'S LOVE.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#14Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 11:00amYou're killing me here, Curtain. Does everyone but me know SAFS is SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING?
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#15Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 11:51am
"Christmas Day" from PROMISES, PROMISES is rather haunting, even though it's muted and only sung by the chorus. The ending, "time to live each day like Christmas Day..." is eloquent in its simplicity.
I always loved "Big Clown Balloons" from HERE'S, LOVE, even though it's technically a Thanksgiving song. Maybe the only Thanksgiving song in musical theater?
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#16Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 12:07pm
"Twelve Days to Christmas/Dear Friend" from SLM (kidding-- SHE LOVES ME).
One of the best tear-inducing Christmas finales ever written for the musical stage.
Updated On: 11/25/12 at 12:07 PM
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#17Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:16pmDoes "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" count? It's from a musical that didn't run on Broadway (Meet Me in St. Louis) which seems to be done quite a bit in community theaters these days.
#18Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:26pmMeet Me in Saint Louis ran on Broadway in 1989.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#19Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:38pmThree Wishes For Christmas-Cut song from Gypsy. I know it was included on the LuPone cast recording.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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#20Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/25/12 at 9:26pm
Not yet mentioned (on this thread) -
Lovers On Christmas Eve - I LOVE MY WIFE
Greenwillow Christmas - GREENWILLOW
Snowflakes And Sweethearts - ANYA
At Christmastime - SONG OF NORWAY
Ribbons And Wrappings - SONG OF NORWAY (film)
Happy Christmas, Little Friend - Rodgers and Hammerstein
Thank You For Your Love - Jones and Schmidt
Most of SCROOGE and THE STINGIEST MAN IN TOWN
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
Updated On: 11/25/12 at 09:26 PM
#21Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/11/18 at 8:26pm
Bringing this old one back. Any new additions? Old additions?
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#22Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/11/18 at 8:38pmIs it just me or did nobody mention Christmas Bells from RENT?
jessepp
Chorus Member Joined: 11/28/11
#23Broadway Christmas Songs
Posted: 11/12/18 at 6:34pm
I Don't Remember Christmas
...is a puzzlement.
jessepp
Chorus Member Joined: 11/28/11
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