Cheesiest musical theatre songs

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Cheesiest musical theatre songs

Posted: 5/11/05 at 11:56pm

Songs you're embarrassed to sing or songs you can't listen to because they're so cheesy.

I Don't Know How to Love Him from JCS (I felt like the biggest dork whenever I sang this in musical theatre class)
Anything from The Music Man

re: Cheesiest musical theatre songs

Posted: 5/12/05 at 12:06am

suddenly seymour... i love it so much, really, it's one of my favorite songs ever... but it's so cheesy and so overdone... especially sung like ellen greene... ugh.

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:12am

Anything Rogers & Hammerstein...

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:14am

Cheesiest and possibly the most oversung audition song:
"Blue Skies"

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:15am

The one from State Fair...well, I guess "our State Fair is a great State Fair" is pretty cheesy, but the one about Iowa..."All I Owe, I Owe Io-way" or something. Geeeeez Louise.

Not today, Geraldine.

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:24am

Oklahoma.....*quivers*

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:28am

"it's a grand night for singing..."

god help us all.

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:49am

I don't think anything listed yet counts as truly awful. Simplistic, maybe. Overly sentimental, perhaps. I grew up in the 1960s and my family had all the R&H shows on record plus MUSIC MAN and MY FAIR LADY and the rest. I can see them appearing dated to modern audiences. (What would some of you think if they brought back THE DESERT SONG or ROSE MARIE today??)

One of the worst Broadway songs I have ever encountered was "Paris Makes Me Horny" from VICTOR VICTORIA. Just about anything by Frank Wildhorn sends me into convulsions. And SUNSET BLVD still ranks as one of my most miserable experiences in the theatre. These are what I consider the bottom of the barrel amongst the shows that reached Broadway.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:51am

Anything from MT...it's just cheesy! but that's what makes it wonderful.

I mean honestly, can you blast OBCRs from your car stereo with the windows rolled down and look cool??? NO. Is that what I do anyway??? YOU BETCHA.

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

Updated On: 5/12/05 at 01:51 AM

#10

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:56am

I don't think R&H is cheesy. Just simple and beautiful. I'll tell you what's cheesy: Once Upon a Time from BKLYN. I have to admit though that that song is one of my guilty pleasures, even though the lyrics are awful.

#11

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:58am

frc! are you kidding... i adore paris makes me horny... it's such a great song!

#12

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 1:59am

Agreed, RentBoy--anything from Rodgers and Hammerstein. Except "Soliloquy" from Carousel--that song rocks.

#13

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 2:00am

basically any ballad by wildhorn.

#14

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:27am

songs I skip on the cd player when the windows are open:

castles on the cloud, Les Miz
the song with the Goat and Elphaba from Wicked

I'm sure there are others.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

#15

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:41am

Just about the dumbest song ever: "I had a Dream" from Gypsy - it's like the wrighter decided to throw the lyrics together in 10 minutes - it's so random and cheezy.

#16

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:58am

all of them?

#17

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 10:07am

There is no song in Gypsy called "I Had a Dream". There is "Rose's Turn" which is considered one of the greatest 11 o'clock numbers ever written, if that's what you mean. The random and cheesy lyrics would be by Sondheim.

The two cheesiest songs ever written for musical thatre have to be:

Happiness - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Do Re Mi - The Sound of Music

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#18

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 10:38am

I agree with Matt....even though I would add the song from SOM when the kids go to bed....
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu.....BLEECH

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#19

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 10:39am

i think people are getting confused w/ worst and cheesiest. just because a song is cheesy, it doesn't mean it's bad.

mistermatt-you're so right, but i think aspiringactor meant "everything's coming up roses"...i could be wrong though. wouldn't be the first time.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

#20

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 2:38pm

I second Elphaba. I don't think most R & H is cheesey, I mean some, sure, but most of I think is lovely.

"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea." -Marie Christine

#21

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 2:56pm

Any song from Brooklyn is cheesy. R&H is brilliant.

"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman

#22

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 2:57pm

If it is "Everything Coming Up Roses", then how are the lyrics random and cheesey? It's the anthem of the ultimate stagemother's delusional fantasy. Granted, the song has been used out of context ad nauseum, but in the show, it's rather chilling.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#23

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 3:06pm

Maybe aspiringactor means the "All that I need is 88 bucks papa, part of the song... I'm not saying I agree, just that maybe that's where that was going...

For my money, the cheesiest has to be "Happy Talk" - not only the song, but that little movement you do with your fingers - yuk!

"Not a day goes by..."

#24

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 3:19pm

Young and Healthy from 42nd street...I'm young and healthy and you've got charm it would really be a sin not to have you in my arms.

I dare someone to use it as a pickup line in a bar

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#25

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Posted: 5/12/05 at 3:31pm

Um... CHILDREN OF EDEN!

Pretty much anything from it, but especially "The Naming." Which was affectionately called by my friends musical theater garbage.

Feel the flow, Hear what's happening: We're what's happening. Don't you know? We're the movers and we're the shapers. We're the names in tomorrow's papers ~Merrily We Roll Along

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