Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Timmer
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
#1Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:19pmWhat are your favorite Broadway songs about places? Favorites about places in America and favorites about other places?
#2re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:46pm
Songs from the Richard Rodgers & Stephen Sondheim show DO I HEAR A WALTZ, about Venice.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#2re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:49pmi always love "Why Do The Wrong People Travel" from SAIL AWAY
#3re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:55pm
Barcelona - Company
Itis not really about Barcelona but I like the song.
Just give the world Love.
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#4re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:27pm
Disneyland from Smile
Henry Street - Funny Girl
Christopher Street - Wonderful Town
Ballad of El Dorado - Candide (ok, not a real place)
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual."
-Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
#6re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:34pmGood morning baltimore! duh! its about baltimore. haha. it makes baltimore sound beautiful and fairy-tale like!
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster.
"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
#8re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:56pm"Nicer in Nice" from THE BOY FRIEND
"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
FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#9re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:04pm"Santa Fe" from Rent
Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
"Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield
#10re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:08pm
I have a lot.
New York, New York. The Frank Sinatra or Liza Minelli version. (Not sure if that counts but it was an obvious contender.)
Disneyland from Smile.
Arkansas from Big River
A good 75% of Bright Lights, Big City.
Buenos Aires from Evita.
Never Neverland from Piece (it's a real place, afterall ^_^)
America from West Side Story.
Brooklyn in the Blood from Brooklyn.
A Summer in Ohio from Last Five Years.
"Love all; Trust a few; Do wrong to none." --William Shakespeare
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:10pm
My Hometown - What Makes Sammy Run
Rome - Her First Roman
Poster Emeritus
#12re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:12pmAnother Hundred People
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:17pmDon't Forget 127 th Street - Golden Boy
Poster Emeritus
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#14re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:42pm
"South American Way" - STREETS OF PARIS
"Italy" - ANKLES AWEIGH
"Grant Avenue" - FLOWER DRUM SONG
"Montana" - WHOOP-UP!
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#15re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:52pm
New York, New York - Liza's version
Merry Old Land of Oz - Wizard of Oz
Never Land - Peter Pan (Screw 'Piece')
Another Hundred People - Company
Disneyland - Smile
Atlantic City - Ragtime
Sunset Blvd. - Sunset Blvd.
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gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#16re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:14pmVenice - Elegies: A Song Cycle
Millie Lammoreaux
Featured Actor Joined: 7/3/05
#17re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:25pm"You Don't Know Paree" from Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen." If you've never heard the song, do yourself a favor and find a recording. It's heartbreakingly beautiful.
It's too early for noches.
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#18re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:26pm"What Is Urinetown?" from... well, Urinetown.
#19re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:28pm
Paris Makes Me Horny from Victor/Victoria.
Okay, not really. Just needed to get it in there.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
being.jeremiah
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#20re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:33pm"There Is Life Outside Your Apartment" from Avenue Q!
ElFantasma14
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/06
#21re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:29pm
42nd Street - 42nd Street
No Place Like London - Sweeney Todd - I guess you'd count "There's a whole in the world" under that
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:32pmWhen You Meet A Man In Chicago - Sugar
Poster Emeritus
#23re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:34pm
New York, New York (Liza Minnelli)
Christopher Street
New York, New York (On the Town)
Another Hundred People
America
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#24re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places
Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:37pm
Wilkes Barre, Pa - Tovarich
Poster Emeritus
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