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Broadway 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

Broadway 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.

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/24/12 at 3:59pm

^I adore Alan Menken's Christmas Carol. "A Place Called Home" is particularly wonderful.

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/24/12 at 4:47pm

"Hard Candy Christmas" from Whorehouse

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/24/12 at 6:10pm

Updated On: 11/28/22 at 06:10 PM

Broadway 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.

Broadway 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

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/24/12 at 7:43pm

Menken'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.

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/24/12 at 9:12pm

Turkey Lurkey Time

#10

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/24/12 at 10:23pm

Harold 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.

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Broadway 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

#12

Broadway 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.

#13

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/25/12 at 1:11am

Meredith 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.

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Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/25/12 at 1:14am

And BE A SANTA from SAFS.

#15

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/25/12 at 11:00am

You're killing me here, Curtain. Does everyone but me know SAFS is SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING?

#16

Broadway 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

#17

Broadway 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

#18

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:16pm

Does "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.

#19

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:26pm

Meet Me in Saint Louis ran on Broadway in 1989.

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#20

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:38pm

Three 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. Ignored Users: suestorm, N2N Nate., Owen22, master bates

#21

Broadway 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

#22

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/11/18 at 8:26pm

Bringing this old one back. Any new additions? Old additions?

#23

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/11/18 at 8:38pm

Is it just me or did nobody mention Christmas Bells from RENT?

#24

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/12/18 at 6:34pm

I Don't Remember Christmas

...is a puzzlement.

#25

Broadway Christmas Songs

Posted: 11/12/18 at 6:36pm

Rod's Christmas

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...is a puzzlement.

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