Favorite cut song?- Page 3

[bobbybaby85]

Posted: 12/5/11 at 11:06pm

Updated On: 2/20/18 at 11:06 PM

[nycsonya]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 8:31am

I love "Small World/Momma's Talking Soft," from Gypsy.
I like a lot of cut songs from Gypsy, like, "Mother's Day."
"Send a dozen gardenias to your mother..."

[jamiekennywicked]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 8:38am

Tattletale from 9 to 5

[Nettik]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 1:48pm

"Growing Up Unstable" - Next to Normal
"Plain Jane Fat Ass" - Bare: A Pop Opera

I'm really attached to a few songs that were cut from movie musicals too.
"Come Up and Try My New Parts" - Repo: The Genetic Opera
"The Jitterbug" - Wizard of Oz (though I support the reason for cutting it as it would date the film)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 7:08pm

But that wasn't the reason for cutting it was it? it was more that a dance number at that point in the movie seemed a bit much?

I had no idea Plain Jane Fat Ass was cut from Bare--isn't it on BOTH recordings?

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 7:14pm

Love & War from Legally Blonde

[chewy5000]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 7:33pm

Pretty Little Picture - FORUM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 7:37pm

Is Pretty Little Picture usually cut? I know it was from the last revival--though they recorded it, but it's been in each of the many productions I've seen.

[MermansMan]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 9:03pm

From Follies- All Things Bright and Beautiful, Can That Boy Foxtrot (Though I love I'm Still Here 10X's more), Updown/Downtown.
Bang!- ALNM
Smile Girls- Gypsy
Penny in My Pocket- Hello, Dolly!
Judge's Johanna- Sweeney Todd (Though of course, it has been reinstated since.)
My Crazy Heart- Women on the Verge

[rorschach37]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 9:51pm

Who I'd Be (Reprise) from Shrek

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 2:11am

I'm gonna have to go with "Darling!" from Merrily We Roll Along. It was in the show for four previews and it's absolutely wonderful. I can understand why it wouldn't be recorded (or saved) like "Honey" because it's so plot-specific but it's still really good. If I'm ever in charge of some sort of Lost Sondheim album "Darling!" and the historical "Bump" transitions would certainly make it on (the transitions were great, though, like Darling!, I can understand why they were removed).

Here's a Youtube clip of "Darling!", sadly just the audio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDDWHvypZw

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:08am

I love Darling, but have never heard of these Bump transitions before--what were they?

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 7:15am

Judge Turpin's "Joanna" from Sweeney Todd.
"Patterns" from Baby.

But I agree that the ultimate cut song is George & Ira's "The Man I Love."

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 10:57am

Follies:
Uptown/Downtown
Ah, But Underneath

Next to Normal:
Growing Up Unstable
Everything

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 12:36pm

"Who Ordered The Pork Lo Mein?" from Chu Chem

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 1:24pm

Bang! - A Little Night Music
There's Always a Woman - Anyone Can Whistle
Home Again, Believe, Marguerite, Only Love - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Bring on the Men, Girls of the Night - Jekyll & Hyde
When Messiah Comes, How Much Richer Can One Man Be - Fiddler on the Roof
Come Down From the Tree - Once on This Island
The Bed - Hair
Call Me Rusty, Belle, There's Me - Starlight Express
We'll Have Tomorrow, Crystal Ronnette & Chiffon - Little Shop of Horrors
Burn Her! - Spamalot

And often cut from productions, Dead End and The War from Hair

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 1:46pm

There's Always a Woman - Anyone Can Whistle

Girls of the Night - Jekyll & Hyde

Come Down From the Tree - Once on This Island

It Was Always You - Applause

Those Unsung/Lost cds, by bk, are a treasure trove of wonderful lost songs. I LOVE the idea of building a show around these gems!!

I find myself singing Come Down From the Tree alot. It's really perfect.

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:27pm

"Is Pretty Little Picture usually cut? I know it was from the last revival--though they recorded it, but it's been in each of the many productions I've seen."

Eric, I have by no means conducted a formal survey, but my general impression is that "Picture" is in or out depending on the ability of the Pseudolus to sing it.

(When I did the show in stock with Milton Berle, the song was out and portions of his stand-up routine, including references to local eateries, were in. And still the show not only survived but killed: it really is a miracle of comedic structure!)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 12:39am

I played Miles twice--omnce in high school and once in a semi pro production when I still had aspirations of acting (I filled in atr the last minute for a missing actor because I knew the director and he knew I knew the role). The school production was pretty raged though we had good leads--but yes, the show really is hard to mess up.

I forgot about We'll Have Tomorrow from Little Shop-- Was it replaced by the Somewhere That's Green reprise? Love the song but never was sure where it was originally and assumed maybe it was there but they thought it was a bad place in the show for a brand new song (of course a brief line from it remains in the finale). I also love Crystal Ronette and Chiffon though technically it was cut from the end credits for the movie, where it was written for, not the show

[Kad]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 1:14am

"We'll Have Tomorrow" wasn't actually replaced by anything. It was an additional duet for Act 2, presumably after "The Meek Shall Inherit" but before "Sominex/Suppertime". It was cut because, like you said, it was a bad place for another song- especially so close on the heels of "Suddenly, Seymour". It dragged the pace and introduced nothing new (or nothing that couldn't be more efficiently introduced in dialogue).

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 1:41am

EricMontreal22: "I love Darling, but have never heard of these Bump transitions before--what were they?"

The scene transitions were originally more involved in the era's current events, working backwards. I think my favorite line is the reference to the Cuban Missile Crisis:

"Cuba has missiles
Washington bristles
There go the good cigars..."

There are a couple sections that go something like:

"Bump! Disappointment!
Bump! Disillusion!
Bump! What was that?
The wrong conclusion!
Bump! Bump!
That's the one that can kill..."

Therefore the Bump transitions. You can read the lyrics in Sondheim's "Finishing The Hat" but they're more fun to hear (particularly if you can read along). I might have to put those up with "Darling!".

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 2:28am

Thanks--that's something I've wondered ever since I heard the song as a kid on Debbie Gravitte's Menken album, but never thought to look up or ask, lol. It's a great song and has a haunting quality that's pretty creepy given the situation on stage, but, as you say, it really does come too soon after Seymour and at a point in the show that shouldn't be held up by a ballad... (Though I did always wonder why the "We'll have tomorrow" in the very end of Don't Feed the Plants was kept in, though I guess people don't really notice it unless they know the song).

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 5:06am

When Messiah Comes from Fiddler
Growing Up Unstable from N2N

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 5:14pm

I'd be curious in regards to the songs that weren't cut outright but were replaced with new songs, which ones people think were superior to their replacement.

[bobbybaby85]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 9:32pm

Updated On: 2/20/18 at 09:32 PM