Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
Somewhere I have an LP transfer of "Sweatin' to Broadway" or something like that...it's all disco-jazzercize esque covers of showtunes.
harajuku has an album of showtunes remixed into dance jams.
They're mostly from the popera era.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
"What You Want" from Legally Blonde
"Dreamgirls" from Dreamgirls (I think it's fun to listen to while on the treadmill or exercise bike)
"Mary Jane / Mary Lane" from Reefer Madness: the Movie Musical (again, fun to listen to)
"Let Me Come Home" from The Wedding Singer
"Superstar" from Jesus Christ Superstar
"Without Love" from Hairspray (again, depends on what you're doing)
Actually, I've even worked out to "Alive" from Jekyll and Hyde, haha.
I never tried "Whipped Into Shape!" Funny, because it essentially is about working out. I'll have to try it sometime.
For Running:
Joseph Megamix
Rent (Title Song)
You can't stop the beat
For Situps - Holding out for a hero.
well i have an "upbeat" play list so some of them might be good to work out to:
Like Father Like Son - Aida
Good Morning Baltimore - Hairspray
You Can't Stop the Beat - Hairspray
Ces Soirees-la - Jersey Boys
December 1963 - Jersey Boys
Bend and Snap - Legally Blonde
Whipped into Shape - Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde Remix - Legally Blonde
What you own - Rent
The B*tch of Living - Spring Awakening
My Junk - Spring Awakening
Totally F*cked - Spring Awakening
It's your wedding day - The Wedding Singer
Transylvania Mania - Young Frankenstein
Bright Lights, Big City - Bright Lights, Big City
Odeon - Bright Lights, Big City
Coma Baby - Bright Lights, Big City
30/90 - Tick, Tick... Boom!
Sugar - Tick, Tick... Boom!
What ever happened to saturday night - rocky horror
planet, schmanet, janet - rocky horror
time warp - rocky horror
Hopefully some of those will be helpful
I love to work out to...
Wedding Singer!
Legally Blonde
Xanadu
Dreamgirls
They are all uptempo and are great for the eliptical!
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
Physical Fitness from All American, anyone?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
I don't have a mix but I've worked out to these cast albums.
Jersey Boys
Spring Awakening
Sweeney Todd(Lansburry and Cariou)
Sweeney Todd(LuPone and Cerveris)
Sweeney Todd(Depp and Carter)
Young Frankenstein
Bat Boy
Hairspray(movie soundtrack)
I will say that if anyone listens to the Lansburry/Cariou Sweeney recording be advised not to turn the volume up during Prelude/Ballad of Sweeney Todd due in large part to the whistle. I was listening to it recently at the gym and I had the volume up and I knew it was coming and it came and scared the s*** out of me, but luckily no one saw me do that.
Swing Joined: 1/12/08
My favorite Broadway songs...ha! There are way to many to list but anything that Ethel Merman ever sang always gets me up and ready for action. (except her disco album!) an FYI this album was not the greatest. I highly recommend There's No Business Like Show Business: Merman's Greatest Hits or The Gypsy Recording Original Cast. Those are good starters.
Stand-by Joined: 5/31/07
If only "Carrie" had a cast recording..."In" would totally be on my workout playlist.
Feeling Electric & Let There Be Light from N2N.
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WIG IN A BOX - "Hedwig"
THE AGGIE SONG - "Best Little Whorehouse"
WHERE YOU ARE - "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
ONE OF THE BOYS - "Woman of the Year"
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
Mama Will Provide from Once on this Island
When I actually ran I ALWAYS started with "Into the Woods (Prologue)" because it's ten minutes long and by then I was warmed up and almost not regretting my decision to run in the first place. Then I would move on to:
All That Jazz from Chicago
Raise You Up/Just Be from Kinky Boots
La Vie Boheme from RENT
One Day More from Les Mis
And basically all the long medium-fast paced songs I could think of at the time.
Swing Joined: 10/3/13
Don't Break the Rules from Catch Me if You Can is a great one for cardio once you're warmed up.
If you absolutely have to work out to show tunes, I like CapnHook's list best.
A real good one is Raise You Up/Just Be from Kinky Boots, which I know people already said. Other ones for me are:
Without Love and You Cant Stop the Beat- Hairspray
Here I go Again- Rock of Ages (I only listen to the Bway recording)
Two By Two- Book of Mormon
Seize the Day and King of New York- Newsies
A lot of Sister Act
Steal Your Rock and Roll- Memphis
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
I've never been to a gym, nor have I ever worked out (and a gym seems about as compatible with show music as sloppy joes with candied violets. Well, maybe not show music like Brooklyn, Rent, etc., compared to which a gym itself seems like candied violets.) I do encounter some fairly steep hills in my path on a daily basis, however, though I do my utmost to avoid them ( Anyone else notice just how hilly Manhattan can be?). In any event, when I meet up with one of the darned things, I soldier up the incline to the strains of Climb, Every Mountain. Then, after having reached the summit of my own personal Mt. Everest, I sing to myself, "A hundred million miracles are happening every day."
Updated On: 2/6/14 at 06:52 AM
This CD on random adds a lot of energy:
Another Openin', Another Show: Broadway Overtures
In my fantasy world, After Eight and Pal Joey live on the same block and don't realize it.
I, however, do belong to a gym. I have never eaten a "candied violet," and there are no hills in my neighborhood, or none I particularly notice.
I've never had a candied violet (except maybe once, if that's what it was, and I loathed it), but I've had violet flavored candies- JuJuBees have a "violet" flavor which isn't too bad.
The overture to Promises Promises (especially the somewhat faster revival version) is a good one for on the treadmill.
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