Favorite Broadway Songs About Places

[Timmer]

Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #1

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #2

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!"

[folkyboy]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #2

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

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

[uncageg]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #3

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

Barcelona - Company

Itis not really about Barcelona but I like the song.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Fenchurch]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #4

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

[Viola2]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #5

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

Gary, Indiana

:)

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #6

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

Good 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..."

[Viola2]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #7

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

Good one!

[bwayboi4life42]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #8

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #9

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

[ComaBaby01]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #10

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #11

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

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

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[raphael06]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #12

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

Another 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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #13

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

Don't Forget 127 th Street - Golden Boy

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[MasterLcZ]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #14

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #15

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.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[gumbo2]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #16

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

Venice - Elegies: A Song Cycle

[Millie Lammoreaux]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #17

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #18

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

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

[wickedfan]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #19

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #20

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

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

[ElFantasma14]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #21

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #22

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

When You Meet A Man In Chicago - Sugar

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[GYPSY1527]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #23

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places #24

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

Wilkes Barre, Pa - Tovarich

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