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Favorite Kander and Ebb song
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#50
Posted: 9/13/13 at 4:24pm
Agreed GoSmile. I've also always loved "How Lucky Can You Get" from the same show
Updated On: 9/13/13 at 04:24 PM
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#51
Posted: 9/13/13 at 4:37pmAfter 8, "Coffee in a Cardboard Cup" is another one of those timeless songs that seems like it's been around forever. Even though I understand that there were some issues with the show, I would love to see a production of it one day.
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#52
Posted: 9/13/13 at 4:47pmMandy Patinkin's performance of "Coffee In A Cardboard Cup," in which he plays the entire diner and every character in it, is fantastic. Even though it may not have the context of the real show, I have not yet seen or heard a performance to equal it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#53
Posted: 9/13/13 at 8:16pm
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I prefer the original performers' version of that song.
Luvcaroline,
I hope you do get to see a production of the show one day. If you do, you are in for a treat!
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/06
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#54
Posted: 10/12/16 at 4:14pm
I have several. Everyone loves songs like "All That Jazz" and the stuff from "Cabaret". I find the irony of "Class" incisive and funny. And of course, "New York, New York".
A couple of my favorites are "Yes" and "First You Dream".
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#55
Posted: 10/12/16 at 4:34pm
A QUIET THING from Flora, the Red Menace...and Liza sang it so beautifully at Carnegie Hall!
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#56
Posted: 10/12/16 at 4:50pm
Both have been said before, but "Sing Happy" and "Yes" top my list. The way that both songs transform themselves from the first to final note are genius and moving.
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#57
Posted: 10/12/16 at 5:14pm
MY OWN BEST FRIEND...from CHICAGO
Many's the guy
Who told me he cares
But they were scratchin' my back
'Cause I was scratchin' theirs
but seriously from CABARET
MAYBE THIS TIME...to me the greatest LIZA song she has ever sung...2nd place to
BUT THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND from NEW YORK NEW YORK:
And sometimes a friend starts treating you bad
But the world goes 'round
sorry i forgot A QUIET THING from Flora the Red Menace...although i love Barbra's version a lot i truly truly love LIZA singing this song in her younger voice
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#58
Posted: 10/12/16 at 5:32pm
The whole score of Cabaret is an absolute masterpiece, but "What Would You Do?" is such a beautifully heartbreaking song.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#59
Posted: 10/12/16 at 5:46pm
So What
And the World Goes Round
It's a Business
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#60
Posted: 10/12/16 at 7:33pm
Meeskite
Followed by:
Among My Yesterdays
And All That Jazz
Married
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#61
Posted: 10/12/16 at 10:20pm
Classics from their early years that bear repeating: A Quiet Thing, and My Coloring Book.
But a favorite song no-one has mentioned from THE RINK: All the Children in a Row. Perfect story telling wedded to a lovely melody. The best of the best.
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#62
Posted: 10/12/16 at 11:45pm
I feel like "My Own Best Friend" from Chicago is criminally underrated!
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#63
Posted: 10/13/16 at 12:00am
Another Winter said: "I feel like "My Own Best Friend" from Chicago is criminally underrated!
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Absolutely!!! I wish it was in the film.
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#64
Posted: 10/13/16 at 9:26am
Semi-unrelated, but how many of you guys caught the Takarazuka production of Chicago at Lincoln Center this summer? The way they staged the courtroom scene was so fresh and smart. And that Mary Sunshine...DAYUM did he have a range.
Anyway, my favorite Kander and Ebb songs are "Razzle Dazzle," "Love and Love Alone," and of course- "New York New York."
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#65
Posted: 10/13/16 at 1:39pm
What Would You Do?, which is on a short list of the most powerful songs in all musical theatre.
Life Is, Wilkommen, Only Love, My Coloring Book, Dear One...I haven't always loved the shows, but I very rarely don't love their scores.
Favorite Kander and Ebb song#68
Posted: 10/13/16 at 2:07pm
I can't really hum any melodies from "The Visit," but the whole show hands in my mind like a beautiful fever dream, and I hear the tuneless melodies of the two maimed eunuchs constantly bouncing around my head.
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