Bway songs that sound blantantly like other songs!- Page 2

[Nothatsmrt]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:17pm

Wow, I opened a can of worms here...this is too funny!

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:25pm

Last Midnight and Is This What You Call Love have some similar music

"everywhere I go, there you are"

"and the gloom, and the doom"

[NCGuy]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:34pm

There’s a guitar riff in “Damned For All Time” in JCS that sounds just like the theme to the old Batman series.

[Hoof]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:44pm

Whoa, isn't it weird how AIDA sounds like every one of Elton John's hits? Weird. . .

[greeneyed_one]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:54pm

>>This could quite possibly have been intentional but...
The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ. <<

I'm a little freaked out I never noticed this before...

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:04pm

Everything in Woman In White sounds like other ALW songs.

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:10pm

>>This could quite possibly have been intentional but...
The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ.

It was intentiol, as was the allusion to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the recurring "Unlimited" motif.

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:10pm

One of the most obvious:

Thuy and Kim's first confrontation after Dju Vui Vai in Miss Saigon echoes the "Look Down" motif from Les Miserables. It's most obvious on the London recording.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:13pm

OMG Miss Saigon and Les Mis have similar sounds? I'm shocked, Shocked I say.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:16pm

SWEET CHARITY's "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" is a virtual, perhaps knowing/honoring re-write of WEST SIDE STORY's "America"

[Now Ulla Dance]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:18pm

Lammastide from The Woman in White sounds EXACTLY like the Macarena...

trust me

[Nif1025]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:19pm

Here's another one from Miss Saigon. My old band director pointed it out to us (as a rip-off) when we played a Miss Saigon medley, and I couldn't believe I never noticed it before:

In "The Heat is on in Saigon" (etc), the phrase "the heat is on in Saigon" and all similar melody lines sound just like the phrase "That ain't no way to have fun, son" from 3 Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (except for the "son" part). Now I can't think of that song without hearing the other one in my head!

-Jennifer

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:26pm

NCGUY I noticed the BATMAN/JCS similarity. I've also thought that "The Worst Pies in London" (SWEENEY TODD) sounds very much like "Tomorrow" (ANNIE).

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:31pm

OMG Miss Saigon and Les Mis have similar sounds? I'm shocked, Shocked I say.

Ummm...that's why I said it was obvious. I didn't say it was a discovery on par with Planck's constant.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:37pm

Ulla i totally agree with you

[other321]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 2:41pm

every new pop/rock musical sounds like every other pop/rock musical... not that its all bad. I fall for that crap too.

There are only a few (contemporary) composers out there who have "found there own voice."
Adam Guettel
LaChuisa
Sondheim

any others you can think of?

[MissMonika]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 3:30pm

to me, whenever i listen to Dance of the Robe (Aida) and when it comes to the part when the slaves are singing, "Aida," I always think of when the Argentinians are singing, "Evita!" hehehe

[sweeneyfan]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 3:36pm

There are whole sections of Evita that sound just like Jesus Christ Superstar... Oh, What A Circus and Heaven on Their Mind, for example.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 3:44pm

Pilate's entrance music in Act 2 of Superstar was pulled verbatim from an earlier version of Joseph, as well.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 5:01pm

JRB definitely has is own style. When I listened to Parade for the first time I actually laughed during the Funeral sequence because the piano does a riff that is EXACTLY like other piano riffs in The Last 5 Years.

And Top of the Tree from Me and My Girl is almost EXACTLY the same melody as Shy from Once Upon A Mattress.

[hot_brdwy_diva]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 6:58pm

At about 1:40 in Octet from Light in the Piazza it sounds like No Moon No Wind in Titanic. Except the very end of the phrase is a different note.

Also in Stephen Swartz's musical Company you can hear some very similar melodies to Wicked. I forget exactly what song

[JackiesBroJoe]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 7:04pm

there's someone named Stephen Swartz? There's someone named Stephen Swartz who wrote a show called Company?

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 7:14pm

"There are only a few (contemporary) composers out there who have "found there own voice."
Adam Guettel
LaChuisa "

Oh, please, that is too hilarious. I've been involved with countless readings of new musicals by unknowns over the last two decades. They are all the same and Guettel and LaChiusa sound like every last one of them: churning, pretentious, and melodically bereft with nary an emotional payoff in sight.

Jerusha Bromley
Walpole, Massachusetts

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 7:29pm

Miss Monika- That is so true! It does remind me of that too now that I think about it.

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 8:34pm

The beginning of "As Long As You're Mine" from Wicked reminds me of SOMETHING, but I can't think of what it is! 'Tis driving me crazy. Can anyone help?