Duet for an Older Couple- Page 2
Duet for an Older Couple
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#25re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:29am"Three Sunny Rooms" from RAGS is very sweet and funny. It's my top reccomendation.
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
travismoser
Understudy Joined: 12/13/05
#26re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:54am"What If We Had Loved Like That" from Baby. It's perfect and beautiful!
#27re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:56amSome of the choices for "Older Couple" songs make me sad. Exactly what is older? Not 20?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#28re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:58am
Since someone beat me to it with "Do We", I'll add "Do I Love You?" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
Margo said:
"I Remember It Well" is from GIGI."
There's also a song with that title in the Weill-Lerner show LOVE LIFE.
[I'm wondering if people, like Margo, who capitalize the titles of shows are also CastRecL subscribers)
#29re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:42amIf your dad and his partner can do a soft shoe: "I Still Get Jealous" from High Button Shoes, which Nathan Lane and Faith Prince did in Jerome Robbins Broadway.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#30re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:01am"Listen to the Rain on the Roof" from Follies
#31re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:23am
For fun, "Bronxville Darby and Joan" from SAIL AWAY. ("We're a dear old couple and we hate one another, and we've hated one another for a long lone time...") It was cut from the Broadway production but put back in for the London production. Coward's demo is included on the DRG reissue of the OBC.
At the other end of teh scale we have "An Ordinary Couple" from SOUND OF MUSIC.
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
#32re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:29am
I know people might wince at this, but "Her Is" from Pajama Game is another one.
If it isn't "oversold" it can be great.
EDIT: Since they both have very large ranges (and depending on how legit their voices are), how about a few verses of "Remember" from A Little Night Music?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#33re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:34am
I agree, Rain on the Roof, is a great duet for older people! 
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
LI Larry
Stand-by Joined: 7/25/06
#34re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:35amThe first thing I thought of is "My Cup Runneth Over" from I Do, I do
#35re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:38am"In The Morning No" by Cole Porter would be hysterical!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
coolphantom919
Broadway Star Joined: 6/6/06
alicia_11212
Understudy Joined: 2/11/06
#37re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:16pm
BohemianDream:
Yeah, the recording shown here features the duet: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000002W29/sr=8-2/qid=1155953216/ref=sr_1_2/702-0625058-3588827?ie=UTF8&s=gateway
Go check it out. "Side By Side By Sondheim", 2-disc set (199
. I love their version.
"We all get blue, I say,
Hang on tight, I'll be your bodyguard."
-Tick, tick..BOOM!
#38re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:20pm
" 'What If We Had Loved Like That' from Baby. It's perfect and beautiful!"
You beat me to it, Travis. It would be perfect. It's one of my favorite duets.
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#39re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:30pm"I Remember It Well" from Gigi is adorable. I recommend that one.
#40re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:37pm
In honor of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels closing, I will say "Like Zis, Like Zat".
#41re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:38pm'Boys and Girls (Like You and Me)' from Cinderella is a good one for an older couple.
#42re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:40pm
"Too Many Mornings" from Follies
"I'll Never Be Jealous Again" from The Pajama Game
"Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun
"I Can Live With That" from I Love You, you're Perfect, Now Change
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#43re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:48pmalicia_11 sorry if I sounded condescending I am used to the solo (with the company singing at the end) version that Stritch made definite. It'd be interesting to see how it works out as a duet, and perfect for an older couple.
#44re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:48pm
Yours Yours Yours from 1776**********************
All the Wasted Time from Parade (or This is Not Over Yet)
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#45re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:13pm
Please do something that works out of context. I strongly recommend the sexy and humorous BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE.
Stay away from TIMELESS TO ME unless you're trying to pass yourselves off as a duet of grotesques.
Mayella Ewell
Maycomb, Alabama
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#46re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/19/06 at 7:56am
"Do You Love Me?" (FIDDLER)
i like the "Timeless To Me" (HAIRSPRAY) idea...
:)
#47re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/19/06 at 12:41pm"Let's Walk" from Light in the Piazza.
So, that was the Drowsy Chaperone. Oh, I love it so much. I know it's not a perfect show...but it does what a musical is supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue. Ya know?
#48re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/20/06 at 12:58am
O.k., in the show, only the man is "older", but they have the voices, "My Heart is So Full of You" from Frank Loesser's "Most Happy Fella" is gorgeousness itself.
If they don't have big, legit voices, I second (or fourth or fifth at this point) "What If We Had Loved Like That" from "Baby"
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
#49re: Duet for an Older Couple
Posted: 8/20/06 at 8:18amThe Pineapple duet from Cabaret is one of my favorites for older couples.
"Peace! The charm's wound up."
--Macbeth
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