Favorite Cut Songs- Page 2

[twinbelters]

Favorite Cut Songs#25

Posted: 8/2/11 at 10:56pm

Great story, bk! I love Jones and Schmidt. Wish I could be in L.A.for the Gardenia show. Tell Guy Haines "hi." =)

With Irma you gotta do something!

[twinbelters]

Favorite Cut Songs#26

Posted: 8/2/11 at 11:05pm

Oh, and I like "Proud Lady," cut from The Bakers Wife during tryouts. Still it is included in the original cast recording.

With Irma you gotta do something!

[pinoyidol2006]

Favorite Cut Songs#27

Posted: 8/2/11 at 11:43pm

"Too Much for One Heart" from Miss Saigon. At least, I like the way Lea Salonga sings it.

I like your imperturbable perspicacity.

[PennybankBill]

Favorite Cut Songs#28

Posted: 8/2/11 at 11:57pm

Pleasant Little Kingdom from Follies.
I Don't Care Much from Cabaret, which was cut when it originally opened, and most of the songs cut in the 1998 revival of Cabaret.
Dot, Dot, Dot, from It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!

On a side note, I REALLY hated Alan Cumming as the Emcee, he was too over the top for my taste. But that's irrelevant.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Favorite Cut Songs#29

Posted: 8/3/11 at 12:03am

"She's Gone" was cut from Side Show during previews. According to the program I had it was in between "Buddy's Confession" and "Marry Me, Terry." While I do like Alice's performance of the song I can see why they cut it. The song, at least in the arrangement that Alice seemed to perform most often after the show had closed, just seems like a bit much for Violet to suddenly bust out with, especially since it was serving as a sort of lead-in to "I Will Never Leave You." By that point the show didn't really need a mad-as-hell power ballad.

[kindersnow]

Favorite Cut Songs#30

Posted: 8/3/11 at 12:27am

I'm with jasonf. "Come Down from the Tree" from Once on This Island speaks to so many people so many ways, I still get choked up when I hear it.

[littlegreen2]

Favorite Cut Songs#31

Posted: 8/3/11 at 2:15pm

She's Gone - Side Show
Growing Up Unstable - Next to Normal (I was at an event where Tom Kitt played this on the piano and it was wonderful)
Feeling Electric - Next to Normal (It obviously didn't belong but it was so much fun)

"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."

[quizking101]

Favorite Cut Songs#32

Posted: 8/3/11 at 2:21pm

"Costco" from NEXT TO NORMAL!

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[dreaming]

Favorite Cut Songs#33

Posted: 8/3/11 at 4:22pm

"Bring on the Men" should NEVER have been cut from "Jekyll and Hyde"-the song that replaced it, "Good and Evil" was terrible. I actually loved the lyrics to "Bring On the Men". (Can't remember much of "Good and Evil". Yawn.)

[Rabekriegerin]

Favorite Cut Songs#34

Posted: 8/3/11 at 4:28pm

The key thing about good'n'evil -
each man has to choose.
Heaven and hell is a hell of a gamble to lose!

I actually find that an amusingly clever song. Maybe this belongs in "unpopular opinions"... ha!

That being said, it's not a cut SONG so much as a cut PART in Phantom. I always and forever lament the loss of Raoul's harmony in "Wandering Child"... one of my favorite musical moments in the show!

[philly03]

Favorite Cut Songs#35

Posted: 8/3/11 at 6:18pm

"Good & Evil" was good in it's own right, but it isn't better than "Bring on the Men." I think the lyrics are (mostly) clever as well.

The song was originally written for Hyde to sing (way back when), if I'm not mistaken.

[fingerlakessinger]

Favorite Cut Songs#36

Posted: 8/3/11 at 6:23pm

I can see why they put "Good n Evil" in the show. It fit with the plot of the show more (fight between inner good and evil) then Bring on the Men

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[suttonequalslove]

Favorite Cut Songs#37

Posted: 8/3/11 at 6:33pm

more to the story- shrek .

Wicked~West Side Story~Cats~Mamma Mia~Beauty and the Beast~Wicked~Anything Goes~

[wiggum2]

Favorite Cut Songs#38

Posted: 8/3/11 at 6:51pm

I love Uptown, Downtown from Follies

[Nettik]

Favorite Cut Songs#39

Posted: 8/3/11 at 7:12pm

"The Messenger" from AIDA
"Growing Up Unstable" from NEXT TO NORMAL
"Johanna (Judge's reprise)" from SWEENEY TODD

[rougeduck]

Favorite Cut Songs#40

Posted: 8/3/11 at 7:22pm

Oh I love the messenger. The way it's sung in the reading is gorgeous. It gives a very disney (in a good way) ending to the two leads.

[rougeduck]

Favorite Cut Songs#41

Posted: 8/3/11 at 7:27pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VpQxQKMUMc
I personally love Simone. She sounds kinda like Stephanie Mills.

[Unknown User]

Favorite Cut Songs#42

Posted: 8/4/11 at 5:35am

I suppose it counts, but Proud Lady (what a song to cut) is in all the revised versions of Bake'rs Wife (I'm sure you know that...) albeit with some different lyrics, which I don't like as much even if they make the character less of a cartoon.

I love a lot of the Sondheim ones from the 70s. If we're talking about songs that were performed on stage, and not just ones cut during or before rehearsals, then Happily Ever After from Company (a song I find myself oddly singing in my head a lot), Uptown Downtown from Follies, and Bang! and Silly People from Night Music top my list. I'm also pretty fond of the Second Midnight from Into the Woods and how it becomes Children Will Listen later on.

[Wilmingtom]

Favorite Cut Songs#43

Posted: 8/4/11 at 11:42am

When Messiah Comes from FIDDLER.

[AngusN]

Favorite Cut Songs#44

Posted: 8/4/11 at 1:24pm

I love the 'Christmas will be thrilling' section of "Our Finest Dreams" (Little Women), shame they had to cut it, the harmonies were beautiful.
Re: 'Bring on the Men', they use that in the UK amateur version; rather than 'Good and Evil'. I much prefer Bring on the Men.

[Mark_E]

Favorite Cut Songs#45

Posted: 8/4/11 at 1:52pm

Bring on the Men was back in Jekyll for the recent UK tour. Too bad the production was so terrible.

[tazber]

Favorite Cut Songs#46

Posted: 8/4/11 at 1:59pm

Pink Taffeta from Sweet Charity
I'm Lost from The Apple Tree
Flamchen from Grand Hotel
Honey from Merrily We Roll Along
Suddenly There's You from Ballroom
Pick Up The Pieces from Seesaw

....but the world goes 'round

[doodlenyc]

Favorite Cut Songs#47

Posted: 8/4/11 at 2:15pm

"Come Down From the Tree" from Once on this Island
"It Was Always You" from Applause

I LOVE the Unsung and Lost In cds!

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

[BrodyFosse123]

Favorite Cut Songs#48

Posted: 8/4/11 at 5:14pm

"Tick Tock" (Goes the Clock) from PROMISES, PROMISES. It was cut during the out-of-town tryout in Boston.

I was lucky to talk to Donna McKechnie about this number and she said that the song took place in Act 1 and was sung by 3 secretaries (Donna, Barbara Lang and Adrienne Angel -- who had bigger parts in the beginning), who were later joined by the dancing female chorus. This trio also performed the original simple incarnation of "Turkey Lurkey Time", which was later changed to the big production number we know (and love) today. Baayork Lee and Margo Sappington replaced Lang and Angel. Donna was spared getting 'let go' thanks to Michael Bennett. There was also another song called "Hot Food" that was cut.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Favorite Cut Songs#49

Posted: 8/4/11 at 5:39pm

"Cut" from NAKED BOYS SINGING!

"Bang!" from ALNM

"A Mess-a in Odessa" and "Promoting Homosexuality" from TRICKS THE DEVIL TAUGHT ME

"Pleasant Little Kingdom" from FOLLIES

Really, hell, every Sondheim song ever cut except for one or two I can't think of.

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