Yeah, I know this is reaching down pretty deep into the barrel, but we've had thread about underrated scores, best scores, most beautiful scores, etc. etc. etc.
Now what is the single catchiest score in the Broadway musical canon?
Just a few titles to throw out there to get your mind jogging....
KISS ME, KATE SOUTH PACIFIC HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING OLIVER! HELLO, DOLLY! FIDDLER ON THE ROOF SWEET CHARITY MAME CABARET THE WIZ CHICAGO ANNIE JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT CATS LA CAGE AUX FOLLES THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA RAGTIME THE PRODUCERS THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE HAIRSPRAY AVENUE Q
What do you think?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
I would say South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Cats, Hairspray, Avenue Q and 42nd Street. As hard as I try, I can't get most of those songs out of my head after I see them.
Avenue Q is really catchy, because they all sound like simple children's, Sesame Street type melodies. A New Brain gets stuck in my head easily too, but that might just be me.
um well Oklahoma is just one of those score that creeps into my brain every single day in some way. It doesn't help the CBS Morning show uses a song as its theme.
I would say Little Shop is one of those scores that just never gets old. So very catchy. "Downtown" is song I can never skip on my ipod no matter what version.
Do-Re-Mi! Many others but that`s all I have time for!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Ever? For the overall score (not individual songs), I would say...
Oklahoma! The Sound of Music Hello, Dolly! The Music Man
I don't consider the scores to Fiddler, Charity, Kiss Me Kate, Q or even Annie to be universally catchy. Just some of their songs. Some also have tricky intervals or rhythms that your "average Joe" can't do or even remember.
Honestly... the most catchy of late would be Drowsy Chaperone (regardless of many bitchy opinions I've read on this score). I walked out of the theatre remembering at least 5 or 6 of the melodies. That hasn't happened in a long time.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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