Favorite Broadway song

[Mike Barrett]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 10:59am

What are some of your favorite Broadway songs? As crazy as it sounds one of mine right now is Raise You Up/Just Be from Kinky Boots haha. Great uplifting song and awesome way to end the show. Others for me include Man Up from Book of Mormon, Memphis Lives in Me and Steal Your Rock and Roll from Memphis, and For Good from Wicked. What are yours?

[After Eight]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:11am

I guess I would pick "On the Sreet Where You Live," from My Fair Lady.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:13am

"Downtown" from Little Shop.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:14am

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught, from South Pacific

[suestorm]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:16am

ANYTHING GOES!!!

The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
When most guys today
That women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
And though I'm not a great romancer
I know that I'm bound to answer
When you propose,
Anything goes

[sally1112]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:32am

Next to Normal- Just Another Day

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:37am

Steppin' To The Bad Side from "Dreamgirls"

[PattyO'Furniture]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:46am

"Another Winter in a Summer Town" - GG

[suestorm]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:47am

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES is great song is catchy with clever lyrics.

*****
Don't you understand
That I've been true to you, but I'm in demand,
Because gentlemen prefer blondes like me?


They buy me champagne
Because they say that they admire my brain.
Because gentlemen prefer blondes like me.
****

The fact that theyre true makes them that much better! haha

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 11:48am

Currently:



I, To The World - OH BROTHER

[all that jazz]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 12:04pm

Sometimes it's Memory, sometimes it's All That Jazz. It's always a different one.

[icedtea]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 12:33pm

"The Little Things You Do Together" from Company

[gossipguy215]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 12:42pm

"Losing My Mind" - Follies

But only when Dorothy Collins or Bernadette Peters sings it!

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 12:45pm

Mike, you should really look into some shows that haven't played Broadway in the past couple of years.

You might be amazed by what you find.

This is so hard but I think I'm settled on "Pretty Women."

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:00pm

That's tough because I like so many songs for very different reasons. Some of my favorite songs aren't even from my favorite shows. If I had to pick only one, it would probably be If I Loved You from Carousel. The emotional tension of the lyrics and the scene coupled with the romantic melody are almost unbearable.

[Buddy's blues]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 1:27pm

Not While I'm Around - Sweeney Todd

[jnb9872]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 3:20pm

If I were to pick solely based on what's played on my iPod most this year, it'd be the wonderful new "Loneliness of Evening" arrangement from CINDERELLA.

But as a former college radio DJ and musical omnivore, I can never ever claim a single favorite when there are so many varied and incomparable choices.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 3:26pm

Oh god, don't even ask me to pick.

[broadwayishome]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 4:00pm

Right now for me its "In My Own Little Corner" from Cinderella and "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" from The Sound of Music

[binau]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 5:17pm

In Buddy's Eyes, which I seem to have listened to 1431 times on iTunes in various recordings (mostly Bernadette's). I love the arc of the song and subtext - Bernadette in particular does a great job at sounding incredibly sad by the end of the song. And the song sits so well with her voice. I love the texture of her voice when she sings the higher "And all I'd ever thought I'd BEEEE" notes. I love her controlled, slow vibrato - particularly near the end of the song. It is great song and performance right there. A peak in both Sondheim and Bernadette's careers.


What I can't stand about the song is when the last section is sung too fast. Not sure what is going on with many recordings (e.g. OBC) but the tempo Bernadette sings it is more consistent with what is written on the score.

Updated On: 7/29/13 at 05:17 PM

[rorschach37]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 5:23pm

Finale B from Rent has me in tears everytime...

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 5:32pm

I don't really have one but there are two songs which made me tear up just from the beauty of voice that a human being can have.

1. Memory only by Betty Buckley
2. Petrified by Raul

[canmark]

Posted: 7/29/13 at 7:10pm

Too many to choose from. Among my favorites would include:

On the Street Where You Live, My Fair Lady
Lonely Town, On The Town
Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love, Paris
You'll Never Walk Alone, Carousel
Somewhere, West Side Story

Updated On: 7/30/13 at 07:10 PM

[Comden Green]

Posted: 7/30/13 at 10:23am

My all time favorite (for several years now, anyway) is "Some Other Time" from On the Town.
The best interpreter is Barbara Cook on her cd "No One is Alone". It's funny how the lyrics change from version to version. Bab's is the best.

Strangely, I had never heard the song until the HBO show "Six Feet Under". The David character sings it as his audition song for the gay men's chorus. omg. I had to find out what that song was. wistful lyrics, unorthodox melody. perfect.

It would even be good at my funeral, right?
"Where has the time all gone to?
Haven't done half the things I want to.
Oh Well....we'll catch up some other time."

[N2N Nate.]

Posted: 7/30/13 at 10:30am

"Light" From N2N.