Broadway camp songs?
Broadway camp songs?
#1Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:53pm
I'm going to be a camp counselor for the next few weeks, and I am trying to find some camp songs to bring-being a theater geek- what Broadway songs, or songs for shows would be fun to bring to a camp fire, as I want to teach the kids about theater (ages 9-14)
must be appropraite
thankls for any help!
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~Cymbeline
#2re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:58pm
(insert witty joke based on the double meaning of "camp" here)
#2re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:58pm
EVERYONE'S A LITTLE BIT RACIST!
No. Not really. Haha, "You Can't Stop The Beat" is a great song to teach to kids. hope this helps!
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broadwayrob
Featured Actor Joined: 4/14/08
#3re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:59pmhaha i was about to post yeah just pick up the cast recording of xanadu :)
anything you do let it come from you and it will be new.
#4re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:00pm
Being a bit more serious, you should look to the Golden Age. My niece LOVES 'Edelweiss', and many of the songs from 'Oliver!' would be good. You could get them to insert their own favourites into 'Food, Glorious Food' or something?
#5re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:12pm
"Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'" from Oklahoma!
"Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music
Hope those help!
Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#6re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:29pmWhat would suggestions be for 5 & 6 year olds? We are having a trip 1 week during camp to the TADA childrens theater and I am planning on making puppets with them that week but, what songs would be appropriate to teach kids who are so young? I am thinking possibly Tomorrow from Annie ? :)
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#8re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:32pm
Amneris - the SOCK PUPPET song, written by the BWW Posters.
cue the music folks.
now cue the lyrics... go!
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
seventypercentcocoa
Swing Joined: 6/3/08
#10re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:41pm
Not totally Broadway, but "Good Morning" from Singin' In The Rain went over really well with my little kids back in the day (minus insane tap break, obviously). The tune and the lyrics are really simple, and catchy. We used it as a warm up more than anything else.
Also OKLAHOMA! was really fun. There's that whole spelling finale at the end, which usually results in kids dissolving into giggles as they mess it up, but another easy tune with some simple solos and an easy chorus. Just a thought. And "101 Pounds of Fun" from SP (gag me, but meh, it works with kids).
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#11re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 5:44pm
Be deviant; sneak some 'La Cage' in. We did 'The Best Of Times' during a pantomime once when I was much younger. ^_^
#12re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 6:06pm
Getting to Know You
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#13re: Broadway camp songs?
Posted: 6/15/08 at 6:34pm
Amneris, Do Re Mi or many other R&H songs would be appropriate. R&H was my first introduction to musicals and I was younger than 5 when I was learning those songs. Do Re Mi is also in a lot of childrens' music books. I recall my sister having a toy piano with a songbook and Do Re Mi was one of the songs. Also, when I was little I had a record (yes a RECORD) called "Bob Sings". It was Bob from Sesame Street singing and several of the songs were Broadway. Do Re Mi, Getting To Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, Good Morning, Starshine, and Edlweiss.
Another Good one is "Heart" from Damn Yankees. That, along wuth I Whistle a Happy Tune, and Getting to Know You might be ideal because not only are they "easy" but they have good messages.
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