Favorite Cut Songs
Favorite Cut Songs
rougeduck
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/07
#1Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:18pm
What are everyone's favorite songs that ended up being omitted from the actual musicals? One number that comes to mind is the powerful "Think Again" from Turn Off the Dark that was clearly the best song in the show but could never have worked with the new plot.
Also "More to the Story" from Shrek was just gorgeous.
#2Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:21pmI love the "Momma's Talkin' Soft" counterpoint to "Small World" that was originally in Gypsy. If the show wasn't perfect as it is, I would definitely be in favor of putting it back in. It actually gives the little girls something to do other than act as glorified scenery.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#2Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:27pm
The "Lost in Boston" series of recordings is full of them.
Lost In Boston
#3Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:37pmI really like "Growing Up Unstable" from Next to Normal
ajh
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/11
#4Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:44pmI really love "Maid Of The Mist" that was cut from The Full Monty....just beautiful.
carolinaguy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/06
#5Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:45pmAs a separate song, I love "Little People" from LES MIS. But I completely understand and support the decision to cut it from the show.
Just remembering you've had an "and"
When you're back to "or"
Makes the "or" mean more than it did before
#6Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:46pm
I've always liked 'Multitudes of Amys' from COMPANY
You don't go to the dragon without a present - Mark Rylance
Updated On: 8/2/11 at 02:46 PM
#7Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:51pm
It's not a cut song -- but when they made the cuts to shorten LES MIS, I really missed the extra lines between Valjean and Cosette in 'In My Life'
They cut the lines that showed how much Cosette loved Valjean ('In my life, I have all that I want, you are loving and gentle and good')
What they leave just makes her sound angry with him, and I think it totally changes the tone of their relationship at that point
You don't go to the dragon without a present - Mark Rylance
#8Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 3:35pmI quite liked "tattletale" from 9 to 5
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#9Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 4:00pmI've been obsessed with the Women on the Verge recording... was supposed to see it, but it closed a week before our day of going. I just found out Shoes From Heaven was cut during previews. Why?? It's gorgeous and is a great song to end the show!
::bust a move::
#10Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 4:06pm
Follies has several wonderful cut songs: "Who Could Be Blue?"; "It Wasn't Meant to Happen"; "Little White House"; "Can That Boy Foxtrot!" Most of these songs ended up in Marry Me A Little and have been recorded on Sondheim compilations and solo albums.
"Evenin' Star" from 110 in the Shade, which was restored for the 2007 revival. I think it really defines the character of Starbuck in an intriguing way.
Of course, "There Won't Be Trumpets," which most people don't realize was cut from the original production of Anyone Can Whistle because it was recorded.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#11Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 4:17pm
"Heroes"- Wonderland
"For Goodness Sake"- WICKED
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
#12Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 4:18pmI really like "She's Gone" which was cut from SideShow. It's on the Ripley/Skinner Raw at Town Hall CD and Alice sounds great singing it. Who was originally supposed to sing it?
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul
#13Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 4:24pmAlice sang "She's Gone". I'm not sure how it fit into the context of the show, but she sang the hell out of it in concert.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#14Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 4:57pm
There's Always A Woman, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
Growing Up Unstable, NEXT TO NORMAL
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#16Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 6:30pm
"I Have a Feeling" - Ragtime
"I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World" - Bonnie & Clyde
"Heroes," "Love Begins," "Worst Day of My Life," "Down the Rabbit Hole" (as a solo), and "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" all from WONDERLAND
#17Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 6:50pm"There's Something about a War" from FORUM. Yes, it brings everything to a dead halt, but it's still a great number.
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#18Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 6:58pm"Where Do I Go From Here?" from Fiorello. Liz Callaway sings it exquisitely on Lost in Boston II.
bk
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/03
#19Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 7:35pm
Yes, the Lost In Boston series is a treasure trove of great cut material - it was such fun to do them, and we're actually about to do a trial fully-staged production combining Lost In Boston and Unsung Musicals (one act each) at the end of this year.
""Evenin' Star" from 110 in the Shade, which was restored for the 2007 revival. I think it really defines the character of Starbuck in an intriguing way."
Very few people know the story of how this came to be. It's not quite accurate to say it was "restored" for the 2007 revival (it had been in other productions just prior to that). So, here's the real story:
I'd wanted to record Evening Star on the very first volume of LIB - and then on the second and third - I wanted my close personal friend Guy Haines to sing it. And every time I'd listen to it there was just something that didn't work for me and I couldn't put my finger on it. But I knew whatever was bugging me about it was why the song had been cut in the first place and why every director who's done the show since had tried to work it in only to end up not using it.
When we got to LIB IV, I listened again and it finally came to me - I finally figured out that the song was simply not complete. It had two A sections and a short two-line coda. I called Harvey Schmidt immediately and told him about my brainstorm. He wasn't immediately convinced and hemmed and hawed, but I'm quite pushy when I believe in something and I was determined to do the damn song. I asked him to think about it overnight and that we'd talk the next day. The next day arrived and so did a Fed Ex package containing a cassette. On the cassette was the most perfect bridge for Evening Star - it made the song - and it made the song complete, at long last. I was in tears. Of course, it was only the music.
I called Harvey and told him it was absolute perfection. He then told me that he'd spoken to Tom and Tom had said he would never write a lyric to it. I told Harvey to just remind Tom about all the Schmidt and Jones songs I'd recorded, as well as the revival cast of I Do! I Do! and a studio cast album that Tom really wanted done, Collette Collage. I told him I'd be happy to call and be pushy, but Harvey said he'd call but not to get my hopes up. Later that afternoon I got a fax with that wonderful lyric. We recorded it, they loved it. And the next thing you know, it went into a production in Washington and then LA (with Marin Mazzie and Jason Daniely) and now it is an official part of the show. Sometimes it pays to be pushy :)
And now, I'm about to hear it again as we're rehearsing for a Schmidt and Jones evening that plays tomorrow night at the Gardenia in LA - for any LA folks we've been doing these Kritzerland at the Gardenia shows (all based on albums I've done) for a year now - they're grand fun. We have great casts, and I'm told Guy Haines will be there to sing Evening Star :). We also have Will Collyer, Michael G. Hawkins, Michaelia Leigh, Lauren Rubin, and Camille Saviola, along with Melody Hollis and special guest Rex Smith.
Updated On: 8/2/11 at 07:35 PM
rougeduck
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/07
#21Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 8:20pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Duuj_FIg4 I just found this and am so happy...I don't really care about deeply furious though.
willrogers2008
Featured Actor Joined: 12/9/08
#23Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 8:37pmBlood On the Pavement from Hairspray!
Jealous? I ain't jealous. I can take on these fellas whateva.
#24Favorite Cut Songs
Posted: 8/2/11 at 10:09pmCome Down From the Tree and When Daniel Marries Me from "Once On This Island.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
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