Broadway Songs about lying or not believing someone

[linnys]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:19pm

Can anyone help me make a list of songs about liars? I'm hitting a wall and can't come up with any! Thanks!!

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:23pm

"Making Things Up Again" - BOOK OF MORMON

[Rabekriegerin]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:29pm

"Facade" - Jekyll&Hyde

[philly03]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:33pm

"When I Look At You" - The Scarlet Pimpernel (..well maybe more uncertainty of someone)
"The Riddle" - The Scarlet Pimpernel Updated On: 11/29/11 at 11:33 PM

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:38pm

Also,
"Lie To Me" and "Island" from WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:40pm

'Sue Me' from Guys and Dolls.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:41pm

"It Needs Work" from City of Angels

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 11:58pm

"Flattery" from WHOOP-UP!

[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 12:31am

I GUESS "I know the truth" from Aida can fit into that.
And in that regard MAYBE the ending section of "Thank Goodness" but that's a stretch.
Am I mistaken but isn't there a great song from Passions that would fit there? I have to catch up on that show.

[staunchcharacter]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 12:33am

would "you don't know" work?

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 2:45am

"You're Not Fooling Me" from 110 in the Shade might work.

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 7:08am

"You're a Liar" from Wildcat.

"Talk to Me, Baby" from Foxy:
"Talk to me, baby, tell me lies,
Tell me lies as sweet as apple pies." Updated On: 11/30/11 at 07:08 AM

[Elke]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 8:07am

"Tell Me It's Not True" - Blood Brothers

[NakedMaid]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 8:46am

Almost every song in L5Y, but IF I DIDN"T BELIEVE IN YOU and NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 9:05am

some of these are "in a way" but here goes:

'We Both Reached For The Gun" from "Chicago"
"Cell Block Tango" from "Chicago"
"Razzle Dazzle" from "Chicago"
"Prima Donna" from "Phantom of the Opera"
"Master of the House" from "Les Miserables"
"Hello Little Girl" from "Into The Woods"
"I Resolve" from "She Loves Me"
"I Don't Know His Name" from "She Loves Me"
"Ilona" from "She Loves Me"
"What Did I Have That I Don't Have" from "On A Clear Day"
"They Didn't Believe Me" from "Girl of the Golden West"

Updated On: 11/30/11 at 09:05 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 9:27am

"Now you're lyin', you're lyin', I've never been so thin ..."

It's All Over - Dreamgirls

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 9:55am

"How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life?"

http://youtu.be/NSyDHpgcQUs

[once a month]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 9:56am

No Ones Side from Chess...great anger song

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 10:53am

"Live, Laugh, Love" from FOLLIES

It seems to me that most of the songs listed here are either about not believing someone else ("A Boy Like That" anyone?) or are songs where the character believes s/he is telling the truth only to change his/her mind later in the plot. (That Ilona fails to keep her resolution doesn't mean she is lying when she makes it. Even a song like "I Hate Men": it isn't true, but doesn't Lily/Kate believe it when she sings it?)

Songs where characters are deliberately lying are rare because, as with the Shakespearean soliloquy, our convention is that characters singing to the audience always tell the truth (at least to the extent they know it at the time).
Updated On: 11/30/11 at 10:53 AM

[NoName3]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 12:51pm

"You're a Liar" from Wildcat

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 3:23pm

Good grief. No one's mentioned "Barcelona" from COMPANY?

[egghumor]

Posted: 11/30/11 at 6:19pm

An ALL-TIME favorite show song from Off-Broadway: "Rita's Confession" from LUCKY STIFF -- performed brilliantly on the cast recording by Mary Testa.