O man...so many songs from Sunday in the Park with George...ooh...I totally forgot. AND "In his Eyes" from J/H....ah....Oh, and I love "Girls of the Night" from the Concept recording of J/H
Definatly 100% "Send in the Clowns". It was my grandfathers favorite song and it makes me cry every time I hear it. He died the day before my bday but picked out my gift ahead of time, a music box that plays the song. It's my most treasured posession.
Sunday in the Park with George? Hmmm...Let's see: We Do Not Belong Together Beautiful Sunday Putting it Together Move On And one of my faves...Everybody Loves Louis!
I agree with everyone that mentioned "Molasses to Rum" from 1776 and "Empty Chairs @ Empty Tables" from Les Miz. I'd also have to add: "I got lost in his arms" - Annie Get your Gun "House upon the hill" and "Lily's Eyes" - Secret Garden "As long as he needs me" - Oliver "Pity the Child" - Chess and "Elaborate Lives" and "How I Know You" - Aida
Does the player exist,In any human endeavour, Who's been known to resist Sirens of fame and possessions? They will destroy you, not rivals, not age, not success. - Florence in Chess
Of course the obvious ones like BSM's "Impossible Dream" and Idina doing "Defying Gravity". Also Bernadette's "Not a day goes by", certain versions of "Old Man River", SUTTON's "Gimme Gimme", "Love, look away", oh I know there are many others but I really can't think right now!
"Take a breath. Take a step. Take a chance. Take your time." -L5Y
I enjoy Wicked as much as the next person, but am I the only one who thinks Defying Gravity is really overrated? I don't even find it to be the best one in the entire show! *running from the room of angry teenyboppers*
When I think of "chilling" songs, I think:
Gods Love Nubia - Aida Elaborate Live - Aida (but those chills may come from the subsequent cold shower needed after listening to too much Adam Pascal!) Gesthemane - JCS Finale B and I'll Cover You (Reprise) - Rent
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
I'd have to go with All The Wasted Time from Parade, Move On-Sunday In The Park With George, Not A Day Goes By-Merrily We Roll Along, Back To Before and Make Them Hear You-Ragtime, and Impossible Dream from Man of LaMancha
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee
"It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza
Gypsy: Rose's Turn She Loves Me: the entire score, but in particular Ice Cream Sunday in the Park With George: Beautiful, Sunday My Fair Lady: I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face Sweeney Todd: Johanna, Epiphany, A Little Priest A Little Night Music: A Weekend in the Country, Send in the Clowns The Most Happy Fella: My Heart Is So Full of You, Finale Ragtime: Ragtime, New Music, Till We Reach That Day, He Wanted to Say, Back to Before, Make Them Hear You Shenandoah: Meditation (I & II), I've Heard it All Before On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: She Wasn't You On the Town: Some Other Time 1776: Yours, Yours, Yours, Momma Look Sharp, Is Anybody There?
"Rose's Turn" as sung by Betty Buckley, Bernadette Peters and Angela Lansbury.
"Some People" as sung by Bernadette Peters on her Sondheim, etc. from her Carnegie Hall concert. Best version of that song I've ever heard. I nearly blew the speakers out of my car last summer b/c I was playing it so loud.
"Defying Gravity"...You know who sings this one, folks. "No Good Deed"...also from Wicked.
well most of the songs that came to my head intially have already been posted! petrified, sunday, ect. so here's what i'm thinking of now...
music that makes me dance- funny girl (broadway or papermill version)
joanna- sweeny (bernadette's carnagie hall concert. i mention this in addition to people who have already listed it, only because it is this version specificly that moves me)
not a day goes by- merrily (bernadette version!!)
wheels of a dream- ragtime (didn't see this posted yet?)
everything from last 5 years and parade
stranger in this world- taboox
another nation anthem- assassins (both casts)
goodbye/boom boom- elegies (i listen to this sparingly because it actually makes me cry eeeeeevery time)
i loves you porgy- porgy and bess (esp streisand version)
finishing the hat- sunday (mentioning again only because of raul's version at the kennedy center)
West Side Story- Finale- Somewhere. The Scarlet Pimpernel- Falcon In the Dive, You Are My Home The Secret Garden- Lily's Eyes, How Could I Ever Know (really, though, that entire score is gorgeous.) "Candle in the Window" frm. Civil War, Linda Eder's version. Ragtime- Make Them Here You, Till We Reach That Day, Back to Before. Hairspray- I Know Where I've Been Rent- I'll Cover You (reprise) Les Miserables- Bring Him Home, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables. Jesus Christ Superstar- Gesthamane Into The Woods- Children Will Listen Miss Saigon- Bui Doi Man of La Mancha- Impossible Dream (BSM version)
There has to be more that I'm just incapable of thinking of at 7 AM. :)
"Lullaby Of Broadway" - 42nd Street "Marry Me A Little" - Putting it Together (John Barrowman) "I'll Cover You (reprise)" - Rent "Send in the Clowns" - on Hey, Mr Producer! (Dame Judi Dench) "No Good Deed" - Wicked "And I am Telling You (I'm Not Going)" - Dreamgirls "The Gods Love Nubia" - AIDA"Your Daddy's Son" - Ragtime"Macavity" - CATS "Lily's Eyes" - Secret Garden
SOoooo many more...
"First up was Max who sang "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" [...] I haven't seen that big of a reaction to a stair descent since Audra left the attic in Ragtime." --Seth Rudetsky
Lily's Eyes - The Secret Garden (especially sung by Philip Quast and Peter Polycarpou) The Glory of Me - Witches of Eastwick (I just wish there was a 'proper' recording) Look at Me - Witches of Eastwick Till we Reach that Day - Ragtime One Day More - Les Mis Finale - Les Mis Sunday - Sunday in the Park with George Stephen Wellers "Liiiiiiiiiiiiiivvve" on the final track of the 1999 Martin Guerre CD Send in the Clowns - but only when sung / acted by Judi Dench on the RNT A Little Night Music recording Overture from Cats - Okay, okay, it was the first show I ever saw at the tender age of seven, and I can still remember how excited I was by it. Defying Gravity - Wicked Finale from Song and Dance OBC - despite the fact that Ms Peter's accent is appalling throughout, she pulls out all the stops for the final number La Cava from (surprise) La Cava, but only when performed live. No-one is alone - Into the Woods
I'm sure that there are plenty more, but I don't have my CD collection in work with me . . .
To this day no piece moves me quite like Easy As Life from AIDA. I missed Heather in the title role but get a lump in the throat listening to her rendition on the OBC recording. Deborah Cox had me sobbing the first time I heard her perform it. The whole play turns on that song.