#26
Posted: 12/4/07 at 8:13pm
Oh jeez, I really dislike High School Musical, but my gosh, all I have to do is hear or think of one of those songs and it's stuck in my head!
CATCHY Showtunes! — Page 2
#27
Posted: 12/4/07 at 8:17pm
DEFINITELY You Could Drive A Person Crazy.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#28
Posted: 12/4/07 at 9:14pm
most songs from MAMMA MIA
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
#29
Posted: 12/4/07 at 9:34pm
Let's Have Lunch" - Sunset Boulevard (the "jazziness" of it!)
Sticking ot the Lloyd Webber stuff for some reason (I just realized that's all I really listened to today) "Lost Soul" and "Lammastide" from THE WOMAN IN WHITE are pretty catchy and are indeed the only chorus songs form that show? Ironic? No not really but felt the need to say it.
Sticking ot the Lloyd Webber stuff for some reason (I just realized that's all I really listened to today) "Lost Soul" and "Lammastide" from THE WOMAN IN WHITE are pretty catchy and are indeed the only chorus songs form that show? Ironic? No not really but felt the need to say it.
#30
Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:23am
"Don't Cry for me Argentina"
" Good Morning Baltimore"
"Big Spender"
"All That Jazz" and "We Both Reached for the Gun"
"Everything's coming up Roses"
I know that a lot of you will disagree, but when i saw Grey Gardens, I couldn't stop singing "The Revolutionary Costume for Today."
" Good Morning Baltimore"
"Big Spender"
"All That Jazz" and "We Both Reached for the Gun"
"Everything's coming up Roses"
I know that a lot of you will disagree, but when i saw Grey Gardens, I couldn't stop singing "The Revolutionary Costume for Today."
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
#31
"Show People" - CURTAINS
"Marry Me A Little" - COMPANY
"Being Alive" - COMPANY
"Now / Later / Soon" - A Little Night Music
"A Weekend in the Country" - A Little Night Music
"You Must Meet My Wife" - A Little Night Music
"All About Ruprecht" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Love is My Legs" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Great Big Stuff" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Here I Am" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Cest Moi" - CAMELOT
"There You Are" - DROOD
...etc., etc.
Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:35am
"Show People" - CURTAINS
"Marry Me A Little" - COMPANY
"Being Alive" - COMPANY
"Now / Later / Soon" - A Little Night Music
"A Weekend in the Country" - A Little Night Music
"You Must Meet My Wife" - A Little Night Music
"All About Ruprecht" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Love is My Legs" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Great Big Stuff" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Here I Am" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Cest Moi" - CAMELOT
"There You Are" - DROOD
...etc., etc.
Updated On: 12/5/07 at 01:35 AM
#32
Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:38am
"IISDTAWOTWTAST" - FTWMNKWTHYTA
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#33
Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:20am
I can't get the melody of "Take It Like A Man" from Legally Blonde out of my mind. I find myself singing it, which, BTW, can lead to some interesting reactions from friends.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#34
Posted: 12/5/07 at 7:49am
Most of Jule Styne's music is catchy, even his flops such as SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING and DARLING OF THE DAY. His hit songs include The Party's Over" from BELLS ARE RINGING, "Make Someone Happy" from DO RE MI, "People" and "Don't Rain On my Parade" from FUNNY GIRL and much of the score to GYPSY.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
Updated On: 12/5/07 at 07:49 AM
#35
Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:12am
"Money, money, money...
Money, money, money...
Money, money, money...
Money, money, money...
*sings*
Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money,
money, money, money! When you haven't any coal in the stove..."
Need I say more?
Money, money, money...
Money, money, money...
Money, money, money...
*sings*
Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money,
money, money, money! When you haven't any coal in the stove..."
Need I say more?
"I'm seeing the LuPone in Key West later this week. I'm hoping for great vocals and some sort of insane breakdown..." - BenjaminNicholas2
Updated On: 12/5/07 at 09:12 AM
#36
Posted: 12/5/07 at 10:00am
Revolutionary Costume and Hominy Grits are catchy
so is You Can't Stop the Beat (listened to the film soundtrack, watched the film, now it's in my head)
Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious is pretty catchy as is Spoonful of Sugar
I think Show Off is catchy as is All That Jazz and Money Makes the World Go Around
so is You Can't Stop the Beat (listened to the film soundtrack, watched the film, now it's in my head)
Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious is pretty catchy as is Spoonful of Sugar
I think Show Off is catchy as is All That Jazz and Money Makes the World Go Around
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
Updated On: 12/6/07 at 10:00 AM
#37
Posted: 12/5/07 at 10:10am
Show People- Curtains
More- Dick Tracy
Kiss Me- Sweeney Todd
More- Dick Tracy
Kiss Me- Sweeney Todd
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#38
Posted: 12/5/07 at 12:13pm
Isn't catchiness something any good show tune needs, and to be honest the reason why we love them (and at least many of us prefer to most other music)?
So to speak: my favorite catchy composers: Coleman, Herman, Kander, Sondheim, Strouse. Anything by them is catchy.
So to speak: my favorite catchy composers: Coleman, Herman, Kander, Sondheim, Strouse. Anything by them is catchy.
#39
Posted: 12/5/07 at 12:40pm
Oh geez, I get songs stuck in my head constantly and most of the time it's just one phrase looping over and over! Lately, it's been A LOT of Legally Blonde, namely Omigod. But also, There Right There, Serious, Bend and Snap, So Much Better...seriously...won't stop.
Others that really catch me-
Hairspray- Good Morning Baltimore, I Can Hear the Bells, Welcome to the Sixties
How 2 Succeed- Coffe Break, Paris Original
Avenue Q- Everyone's a Little Racist, The Internet is for Porn, Mixed Tape, If You Were Gay (found out the hard way that these aren't always the best to quietly sing to yourself if you're at work...people don't really get it and they're like whaaaa?)
Pretty much anything from Chicago
Pretty much anything from Rent
Some Cole Porter stuff...
It just goes on and on really...
Others that really catch me-
Hairspray- Good Morning Baltimore, I Can Hear the Bells, Welcome to the Sixties
How 2 Succeed- Coffe Break, Paris Original
Avenue Q- Everyone's a Little Racist, The Internet is for Porn, Mixed Tape, If You Were Gay (found out the hard way that these aren't always the best to quietly sing to yourself if you're at work...people don't really get it and they're like whaaaa?)
Pretty much anything from Chicago
Pretty much anything from Rent
Some Cole Porter stuff...
It just goes on and on really...
#40
Posted: 12/5/07 at 12:46pm
King Herod's song in JCS..maybe because I'm currently listening to it
Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Tonight
Shipoopi
See What I wanna See
Human Again
Therapy from Tick Tick BOOM
Most of the classic numbers (Oklahoma and such...)
and most of what everyone else listed...though I agree that most SA stuff is not really what I consider "Catchy"
Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Tonight
Shipoopi
See What I wanna See
Human Again
Therapy from Tick Tick BOOM
Most of the classic numbers (Oklahoma and such...)
and most of what everyone else listed...though I agree that most SA stuff is not really what I consider "Catchy"
#41
Posted: 12/5/07 at 12:48pm
Master of the House from Les Mis.
Many songs from Mamma Mia
The Wizard and I from Wicked
Many songs from Mamma Mia
The Wizard and I from Wicked
#42
Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:46pm
Catchy is a weird word subject to taste and experience of the audience member. I think tons of Sondheim/LaChiusa/Weill stuff is catchy while some find it noise.
I consider catchy to apply to the older Golden Age shows, where the songs were written to be Top 40 hits and exist outside of the show.
I hardly would call "My Junk" (one of my least favorite Spring Awakening tracks) catchy.
I consider catchy to apply to the older Golden Age shows, where the songs were written to be Top 40 hits and exist outside of the show.
I hardly would call "My Junk" (one of my least favorite Spring Awakening tracks) catchy.
#43
Posted: 12/5/07 at 2:25pm
One of my Gay buddies says "Take It Like A Man" is his new "I Am What I Am" so I guess it's got a whole second life coming...
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#44
Posted: 12/5/07 at 2:48pm
Dictionary defines "catchy' as pleasing and easily remembered.
To me that means songs that have simple, repetitive lyrics and simple, repetitive melodies that are easily picked up on in one listen and easily remembered as you hum them on your way out of the theatre.
I think you can find pleasing melodies in Sondheim (I do!) and others who write more complicated songs. But I don't consider them "catchy" because you usually have to listen to them more than once to really find, remember and appreciate their flow and logic. I think many of their works (with some exceptions) are too complicated to be considered easily remembered.
To me that means songs that have simple, repetitive lyrics and simple, repetitive melodies that are easily picked up on in one listen and easily remembered as you hum them on your way out of the theatre.
I think you can find pleasing melodies in Sondheim (I do!) and others who write more complicated songs. But I don't consider them "catchy" because you usually have to listen to them more than once to really find, remember and appreciate their flow and logic. I think many of their works (with some exceptions) are too complicated to be considered easily remembered.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#45
Posted: 12/5/07 at 3:24pm
"I think Cy Coleman and Kander & Ebb, along with Jerry Herman, could be considered "catchy" writers for the most part."
Yes. EVERYTHING they write is catchy. EVERYTHING.
I'm willing to add my own. "High Fidelity" is rather catchy even though the show itself didn't do good.
Yes. EVERYTHING they write is catchy. EVERYTHING.
I'm willing to add my own. "High Fidelity" is rather catchy even though the show itself didn't do good.
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
#46
Posted: 12/5/07 at 6:24pm
positive from legally blonde and hot honey rag from chicago get stuck in my head all the time
#47
Posted: 12/5/07 at 6:25pm
Catchy songs I don't mind being stuck in my Head:
"Last real record store"- High Fidelity
"basically anything from Hairspray
"epiphany" from Sweeney Todd
kind of random, but the music right before Lovett's entrance in "Sweeney" gets stuck in my head ALOT.
Songs I try desperately not to hear because they'll be with me for WEEKS:
"I'm just a girl who cain't say no"- Oklahomo (intentional misspelling)
"Lonely Goat herd"- Sound of Mucus
"Consider yourself"- Oliver (aaaaahhhhhhh!!!)
"Last real record store"- High Fidelity
"basically anything from Hairspray
"epiphany" from Sweeney Todd
kind of random, but the music right before Lovett's entrance in "Sweeney" gets stuck in my head ALOT.
Songs I try desperately not to hear because they'll be with me for WEEKS:
"I'm just a girl who cain't say no"- Oklahomo (intentional misspelling)
"Lonely Goat herd"- Sound of Mucus
"Consider yourself"- Oliver (aaaaahhhhhhh!!!)
#48
Posted: 12/5/07 at 6:55pm
Not everything Herman writes is catchy. Listen to Dear World. It's quite a dark score.
#49
Posted: 12/6/07 at 1:17pm
"Into the Woods" from Into the Woods
"Footloose" from Footloose
"Over the Moon" from Rent
"You've Got Possibilities" from Superman
"Footloose" from Footloose
"Over the Moon" from Rent
"You've Got Possibilities" from Superman
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#50
Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:58pm
BUMP!
Okay, I have one that's been stuck in my head all day today (happily so): "Set Those Sails" from IN TROUSERS.
Mary Testa and Alison Fraser...what's not to love?! It's such a hypnotic song. It makes me supes excited for the MAKE ME A SONG cast recording to be released, and for GYPSY (to see Alison Fraser).
Okay, I have one that's been stuck in my head all day today (happily so): "Set Those Sails" from IN TROUSERS.
Mary Testa and Alison Fraser...what's not to love?! It's such a hypnotic song. It makes me supes excited for the MAKE ME A SONG cast recording to be released, and for GYPSY (to see Alison Fraser).
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