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#26

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:16am

Love "I'm Breaking Down" from FALSETTOS

Also, VIOLET has a great climax number where she finds out she can't be healed by the preacher: "Raise Me Up reprise" into "Look At Me." Very stirring.

A funny breakdown song is "Old Fashioned Love Story" from Lippas Wild Party.

#27

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:37am

I can't believe no one's said Judas' Death from Jesus Christ Superstar.

Anyone who doesn't like that show (and I'm not exactly a huge fan) should listen to the Ben Vereen recording (OBC). He's pretty brilliant, especially in that number.

#28

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:41am

what is it about her? from lippa's wild party
amsterdam from jaques Brel

#29

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:19am

One Hallow'een-Applause

"I am concocting a seduction. I do not require a patissiere."-Boston Marriage

#30

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:24am

Great thread!

01 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (DREAMGIRLS) Jennifer Holliday
02 Little Girls (ANNIE) Dorothy Loudon
03 Later (A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC) Mark Lambert
04 Cabaret (CABARET) Liza Minnelli
05 Losing My Mind (FOLLIES) Barbara Cook

#31

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:29am

My favorites:

Rose's Turn
Octet
And I Am Telling You
Getting Married
Bride's Lament

I don't know what my ablsolute favorite is but it MIGHT be Bride's Lament.

#32

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:12am

"Hysteria," "Octet," and "Clara's Interlude" from The Light in the Piazza (it's FULL of them!)

"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls

#33

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:11am

People mentioned most of the major SOndheim, etc, ones but some I didn't see listed....

Simple in Anyone Can Whistle (surely this counts?)
Gun Song and Booth's song in Assassins
Umm one of the later pieces in Passion (hahah I'm not really good at the official names of songs for much of Passion)
ALOT of LaChiusa in general but like much of the last half of Marie Christine and Wild Party.

I'm thinking there has to be one from Kiss of the Spider WOman but...

E

#34

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:28am

"There is a fountain" (the funeral song) from Parade.
The Frankie parts of the song are simply overwhelming.

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#35

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 7:13am

Bride's Lament - DC
Hysteria - TLITP

#36

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:18am

Betrayed - The Producers

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

#37

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:26am

Bride's Lament definitely for me. It's hilarious.
And on a sadder note, The Light in the Piazza. as someone earlier said, it's full of 'them'

#38

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:57am

1. The Judge's Return - Sweeney Todd

2. I Can't Do It Alone- Chicago

3. Do You Know what It's Like - Zanna, Don't!

4. One Step - Songs For A New World

5. Once Upon A Time/Cross/Absolution/No Voice - Bare

I kind of consider everything after Once Upon a huge breakdown just because its so emotional.

#39

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:33am

Bride's Lament from The Drowsy Chaperone

#40

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:18am

Three Bedroom House - BATBOY!

"Now she wants to know WHY, if I'm so fabulous, I would WANT to take care of her child.....I answer with as much filigree and insouciance as I can muster, trying to slightly cock my head like Snow White listening to the animals. She, in turn, is aiming for more of a Diane-Sawyer-pose, looking for answers which will confirm that I am not there to steal her husband, jewelry, friends, or child. In that order." The Nanny Diaries

#41

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:08am

"It's like I'm loosing my mind" . . . . Follies!

#42

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:21am

"Getting Married Today" from Company goes without saying, but I loved the mention of "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada." Hee, hee. My GIRLFRIEND....who LIVES....in CANADAAAAAAA!!!!!!

"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"

#43

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:34pm

No Good Deed - Wicked
Petrified - Taboo
Someday' is for suckers - The Life
Last Midnight - Into The Woods

#44

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:37pm

THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE is a psychotic stalkers anthem and no one can convince me otherwise.

"You can't just leave a meringue once you start it!"

#45

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:38pm

...and I am telling you... is the ultimate in breakdown songs.

"There's a Fine Fine Line" is not really a mental breakdown song but it is more of a fed up/broke down song.

Sarabya Santa is a meltdown song too

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

#46

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:46pm

sondhead: I totally forgot to say that song! My favorite version is Carl Anderson's

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

#47

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:22pm

Also gotta add:

Mummies at the Met - Bright Lights Big City
Final Storm - The Secret Garden
Make Me Happy - The Wild Party

#48

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:56pm

I have a lot...

piphany - Sweeney Todd
Lots Wife - Caroline Or Change
How Many Women In the World? - The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Beautiful (Reprise) - Marie Christine
Gin - The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Tell Me - Marie Christine
Can You Hear Me Now? - A Dolls Life
Down - Grind
Clara's Tirade - Light in the Piazza
The Ladies Who Lunch - Company
The Right Girl - Follies
Last Midnight - Into the Woods
Bernardas Prayer - Bernarda Alba
Confrontation - Jekyll and Hyde
The Christian Thing To Do - By LaChiusa for Audra McDonald's "7 Deadly Sins" Concert
The Smallest Thing - First Lady Suite
Hedwig's Lament - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Superheros - The Rocky Horror Show
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Boom Boom - Elegies
You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos (Falsettoland)

There are more, these are just off the top of my head.

#49

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:59pm

Definitely HOW MANY WOMAN IN THE WORLD? from LaChiusa's The Wild Party.

Also, PRISON IN A PRISON from Marie Christine.

#50

re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song

Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:02pm

Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Cabaret - Cabaret
Make Me Happy - The Wild Party (Lippa)

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