Favorite Story Songs

#1

Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 7:02pm

Just a random, fun topic. As a character actress, I often want to use a story song for vocal auditions. Unfortunately, there is usually a time limit so the song only makes sense in its entirety, not in segments.

A) What are your favorites?

FUNNY
*A Trip to the Library - "She Loves Me"
*Nothing - "A Chorus Line"
*Swamps of Home - "Once Upon a Mattress"

Feel free to give me serious ones too.

B) What DO you use in case for a time limit.
*Sensitivity - "...Mattress"
I WOULD USE: *"Can't Get a Man with A Gun" "Sun in the Morning" "Doin' What comes Naturally" - Annie Get Your Gun
*"Little Known Facts" - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

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#2

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 7:57pm

Not Broadway, but Kitty's Back by Bruce Springsteen is the best story song I've heard.

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#3

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 8:00pm

'Poor Thing' from "Sweeney Todd"

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#4

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 8:16pm

All of The Last Five Years.

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#5

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 9:26pm

"Origin of Love" from HEDWIG :)

#6

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 9:43pm

Stars and the Moon from Songs for a New World

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#7

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 9:43pm

Song & Dance (all of it)

#8

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 11:15pm

Joshua Noveck is really funny/cute

#9

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/20/04 at 11:49pm

This didn't start off on Broadway, but "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel is a good one.

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#10

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 12:11am

"Oh What A Circus"(I think that counts)
Non-B'Way: "Adrian" by Jewel, "Painter" by Jewel

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#11

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 4:17am

Saga of Jenny
Summer in Ohio(Does that count?)
Surabya (or howeva u spell it) Santa from Songs from a new world)

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#12

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 9:31am

"Can't Get A Man With A Gun" - Annie Get Your Gun
"Little Girls" - Annie (Not really a "story" song, but a character song.)

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#13

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:15am

The first one that comes to mind is Meg's "The Love of My Life" from Brigadoon. Any nympho rant is all right in my book!!
Other -- although perhaps predictable -- favorites are "Charity's Soliloquy" from Sweet Charity and Billy Bigelow's "Soliloquy" from Carousel.

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Updated On: 11/21/04 at 10:15 AM

#14

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 11:39am

FUNNY
Joshua Noveck
Taylor the Latte Boy



SERIOUS
Meadowlark
Stars and the Moon

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#15

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 1:28pm

"My Book" and "I Won't Mind" by Jeff Blumenkrantz
"I Eat" by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
"Ring Them Bells" by Kander & Ebb

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#16

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 2:33pm

Tom is a gr8 one. LOVE it.
Any of the songs from closer than ever or starting here starting now.

Many Moons ago - Mattress

#17

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 3:13pm

Oy-how could I forget L5Y and Hedwig? Oh, and AndyH a girl last year tried out w/ "I Can't Say No" and the teacher assigned her to "Love of my Life" and it was HYSTERICAL! This beautiful girl, w/ not a great voice but a great character belt was just AWESOME-she was one of the best.

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Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

#18

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 4:06pm

I second "Taylor the Latte Boy"! I also enjoy "And They're Off" from A New Brain and most of the songs from Elegies.

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#19

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 5:34pm

I adore Meadowlark, but it is very long.

#20

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 5:39pm

over the moon from rent. nothing better.

#21

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 5:43pm

How about "All For You" from Seussical or "The Writing on the Wall" from Drood. Both good character/story songs.

#22

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 6:25pm

What about some parts in Cabaret? I am listening to it now.. and the whole "I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie.." reminded me of a story song. yeah okay it's a stretch

#23

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 7:15pm

"A Trip to the Library" from She Loves me:)

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#24

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 8:11pm

Oh, Magic, how "...Library" would've been an absolutely perfect audition song for me if the teacher hadn't had a 1.5 minute limit. Grr---it's SO fabulous, fun, adorable and has SO many different emotions. I just love it! "So many books!"

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Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

#25

re: Favorite Story Songs

Posted: 11/21/04 at 8:19pm

You guys keep saying stuff from Once Upon a Mattress... we had our last show today... I being Winnifred... ugh, I hate that show. But another song in it that kinda tells a story is Happily Ever After... after all, she is telling the fairy tales.