Broadway Songs About Places
Broadway Songs About Places
#1Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 4:56pm
I'm putting together a musical revue for a local school. The theme we've been exploring is songs about places (countries, states, cities, landmarks, etc.). I have a list of about 80 songs put together so far (in alphabetical order). Any real dandies we've neglected before I start structuring medleys and making sense of which songs are the best?
42nd Street 42nd Street
A New Argentina Evita
A Night in the Ukraine A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
A Summer in Ohio The Last Five Years
African Homeland The Color Purple
Ah, Paris Follies
All I Owe Ioway State Fair
America West Side Story
Anatevka Fiddler on the Roof
Arkansas Big River
Atlantic City Ragtime
Avenue Q Avenue Q
Bali Hai South Pacific
Barcelona Company
Brigadoon Brigadoon
Broadway, My Street 70, Girls, 70
Buenos Aires Evita
Camelot Camelot
Cherry Street Cafe Rags
Chicago – A Great Big Town Pal Joey
Christopher Street Wonderful Town
Dear Old Syracuse The Boys from Syracuse
Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop The Producers
Don't Cry for Me Argentina Evita
Don't Forget 127th Street Golden Boy
Drop Me Off in Harlem Play On!
Easy Street Annie
Eldorado Candide
Finland Spamalot
Gary, Indiana The Music Man
Give Me Regards to Broadway George M!
Good Morning Baltimore Hairspray
Good Ole New York Jelly's Last Jam
Havana Guys and Dolls
Henry Street Funny Girl
Honolulu The Cradle Will Rock
I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua Kiss Me, Kate
In Old Bavaria The Producers
Kansas City Oklahoma!
Kansas City Smokey Joe's Cafe
Manchester, England Hair
Me and My Town Anyone Can Whistle
Meet Me in St. Louis Meet Me in St. Louis
New York, NY New York, New York (film)
New York, NY On the Town
Nicer in Nice The Boyfriend
No Place Like London Sweeney Todd
Ohio Wonderful Town
Oklahoma! Oklahoma!
Oklahoma? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Old Red Hills of Home Parade
One Night in Bangkok Chess
One Short Day (in the Emerald City) Wicked
Ozone Heights One Touch of Venus
Paree, What Did You Do to Me? Fifty Million Frenchmen
Paris Makes Me Horny Victor/Victoria
Paris Through the Window A Class Act
Santa Fe Newsies (film)
Santa Fe Rent
Shadowland The Lion King
Shangri-La Forever Plaid
Shuffle Off to Buffalo 42nd Street
Skid Row/Downtown Little Shop of Horrors
Solla Sollew Seussical
Song of Singapore Song of Singapore
Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard
Sur la Plage The Boyfriend
Take Me Back to Manhattan Anything Goes
The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea Pacific Overtures
The Heat is on in Saigon Miss Saigon
The Journey to the Heavyside Layer Cats
The Lambeth Walk Me and My Girl
The Riviera The Boyfriend
The World Goes 'Round New York, New York (film)
Transylvania Mania Young Frankenstein
Under the Sea The Little Mermaid
Wall Street Dames at Sea
We're Gonna Go to Chicago Marie Christine
Welcome to Kanagawa Pacific Overtures
Welcome to Transvlvania Young Frankenstein
West End Avenue The Magic Show
Xanadu Xanadu
#2re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 5:07pm
Since you even mentioned The Boyfriend, how can you leave out "It's Nicer in Nice" or "A Room in Bloomsbury"?
#2re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 5:09pmI Want to Go to Hollywood from Grand Hotel!
#3re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 5:11pm"Home" from "The Wiz". Technically home is a place!
Just give the world Love.
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#4re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 5:13pm"Bus From Amarillo" is at least about a journey...and places are named in it.
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#5re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 5:16pmThe Streets of Dublin (A Man of No Importance)
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
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#6re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 6:11pm
My Hometown (Hollywood) - What Makes Sammy Run
Rome - Her First Roman
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#7re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 6:22pmHow Are Things in Gloca Morra? - FR
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#9re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 6:27pm
I don't suppose "I Still Call Australia Home" from The Boy From Oz would count, would it?
Also, "Amsterdam" from Jacques Brel (there's actually a few from Jacques Brel, like "Brussels").
Oh! and "What is Urinetown" from Urinetown.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Updated On: 6/10/08 at 06:27 PM
#10re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 6:29pm"Only in New York" from Millie
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#11re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:32pmThese are all wonderful suggestions. What a wealth of songs to choose from! I'll have to let you know how it turns out.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#12re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:35pm
Chicago- Chicago?
Spelling Bee- India
"‘Cause my mother’s in an ashram In India."
Annie- NYC
Oliver- London Bridge
Bye Bye Birdie- Normal American Boy
The Wedding Singer- Saturday night in the city (not sure you would consider "city" as a place...)
Wedding Singer- Today you are a man.
"Your goyim friends have been agog since they left the SYNAGOGUE.
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
Updated On: 6/10/08 at 09:35 PM
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#13re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:47pm
ASTORIA GLORIA from Angel. Obscure but catchy: "Astoria Gloria-girl of my dreams-why did you have to live way out in Queens"
Chris (from Astoria)
Updated On: 6/10/08 at 09:47 PM
#15re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:48pm
I Want to Go to Hollywood - Grand Hotel
Another Saturday Night in New York - I Love You Because
Summer in Ohio - The Last Five Years
Alabama Song - Lovemusik
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#16re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:51pm
Egypt is Egypt Again from Nefertiti
Why do I know such useless nonsense?
#17re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 10:29pmIreland from Legally Blonde...heh
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#18re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 10:36pmIn the Heights, from In the Heights...
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#19re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 11:17pm
The Gods Love Nubia from Aida
Paris Through The Window from A Class Act
Kansasland from Curtains
14 Dwight Ave., Natick, MA from Elegies
In L.A. from Fame
A Weekend in the Country from A Little Night Music
Off to Massachusetts from Little Women
The Streets of Dublin from A Man of No Importance
Welcome to Kanagawa from Pacific Overtures
The Dream of Atlanta from Parade
Nothing Like the City from Ragtime
Only in New York from Millie
Sondheim's The Boy From...
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#20re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 11:26pm
"14 Dwight Ave, Natick, Massachusetts" and "Venice," both from Elegies: A Song Cycle
"My Cousin in Milwaukee" - Pardon My English
"Big D" - The Most Happy Fella (about Dallas)
#21re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/10/08 at 11:46pm"What More Do I Need?" Saturday Night.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
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#22re: Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 6/11/08 at 8:15am
Paciencia y Fe from In The Heights
Another Hundred People from Company
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