Favorite Broadway Songs About Places

[Timmer]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:19pm

What are your favorite Broadway songs about places? Favorites about places in America and favorites about other places?

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:46pm

Songs from the Richard Rodgers & Stephen Sondheim show DO I HEAR A WALTZ, about Venice.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:49pm

i always love "Why Do The Wrong People Travel" from SAIL AWAY

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 4:55pm

Barcelona - Company

Itis not really about Barcelona but I like the song.

[Fenchurch]

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)

[Viola2]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:34pm

Gary, Indiana

:)

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:34pm

Good morning baltimore! duh! its about baltimore. haha. it makes baltimore sound beautiful and fairy-tale like!

[Viola2]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:35pm

Good one!

[bwayboi4life42]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 5:56pm

"Nicer in Nice" from THE BOY FRIEND

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:04pm

"Santa Fe" from Rent

[ComaBaby01]

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.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:10pm

My Hometown - What Makes Sammy Run
Rome - Her First Roman

[raphael06]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:12pm

Another Hundred People

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:17pm

Don't Forget 127 th Street - Golden Boy

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 6:42pm

"South American Way" - STREETS OF PARIS
"Italy" - ANKLES AWEIGH
"Grant Avenue" - FLOWER DRUM SONG
"Montana" - WHOOP-UP!

[husk_charmer]

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.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:14pm

Venice - Elegies: A Song Cycle

[Millie Lammoreaux]

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.

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:26pm

"What Is Urinetown?" from... well, Urinetown.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:28pm

Paris Makes Me Horny from Victor/Victoria.



Okay, not really. Just needed to get it in there.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 7:33pm

"There Is Life Outside Your Apartment" from Avenue Q!

[ElFantasma14]

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]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:32pm

When You Meet A Man In Chicago - Sugar

[GYPSY1527]

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

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:37pm

Wilkes Barre, Pa - Tovarich