Favorite gay showtunes?

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Favorite gay showtunes?

Posted: 3/3/04 at 2:55pm

Oh, like all showtunes aren't gay. I'm talking about showtunes performed by gay characters or from gay-themed shows. What are your favorites? Mine are "Unlikely Lovers" from Falsettos and "You Walk With Me" from Full Monty.


In honor of us getting the 2006 Gay Games here in Chicago and in response to our current administration, I've put several hours of gay showtunes (gay characters or performers, gay shows, or simply from Dreamgirls!) up on my personal internet station. Feel free to check it out...
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Posted: 3/3/04 at 2:59pm

I love "What More Can I Say?" From Falsettos...beautiful piece of writing.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 3:06pm

It's such a classic now that it's cliche, but you gotta love "I Am What I Am" from La Cage.

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Favorite gay showtunes?

Posted: 3/3/04 at 3:08pm

"I'd do anything for him" from Spiderwoman.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 3:14pm

Will He Like Me? from She Loves Me

Who Will Love Me As I Am? from Side Show

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 3:19pm

How could I have forgotten I Am What I Am?? It's pretty much an anthem!

(Adding it to the line-up)

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 3:22pm

"I'll Cover You" from RENT. It's so sweet... I wish I had a friend like Angel.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 3:23pm

-Something that SUCH a renthead would say, but I'm a sucker for "Take me or Leave Me."

-Almost everything from Zanna Don't

-"Fantasies Come True" and "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada" from Avenue Q.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 3:45pm

I am what I am...La Cage...

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:01pm

"Fantasies Come True" is so awesome! And yes the lesbian song from RENT "Take me or Leave Me". I'm a RENThead and I forgot about it! But, that too is beautiful.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:05pm

"What More Can I Say?" From Falsettos ... Oh man.. it brings me back very fond memories.

It wasn't written with that intention, or maybe it was, but I think about this song from a gay point of view and I love it...

I am talking about "Our kind of love" from The Beautiful Game

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:15pm

"Our Kind Of Love" is the stand out song from that show. There are a few others, but that one was worth the price of the CD alone. But, I guess you have to be an ALW fan....

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:17pm

Ohhh I second "I'll cover you" and I Zanna!!

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:19pm

Oh, I've seen "Almost Paradise" from Footloose sung by two guys before! It was so cute....

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:28pm

Jarico - I know why both of those songs are special to you. Especially What More Can I Say. It is also one of my favorites as you know very well. I think Our Kind of Love is especially appropriate for the issue of gay marriage right now.

I also like Robert Mitchum from Naked Boys Singing. I wonderful tribute to those who aren't caught up in the obsessive gym fad.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:37pm

Mister Matt - I think that you are right !!

From "Our kind of love"

"I AM IN LOVE.
NO ONE CAN BLAME ME.
SUCH IS MY STORY,
AND MY FATE.

MY KIND OF LOVE
WILL NEVER SHAME ME.
MY LOVE IS STRONGER
THAN THEIR HATE.
MY LOVE IS STRONGER
THAN THEIR HATE

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PEOPLE MUST LOVE,
NOW AND FOREVER.
THERE'S ONLY ONE LOVE IN THE END.
THERE'S ONLY ONE LOVE IN THE END."

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:43pm

from RENT - I'll Cover You and Take Me or Leave Me
most of the music from Zanna, Don't!
and If You Were Gay from Avenue Q is sooo cute (if that counts)

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 4:43pm

ah, damn. Now I have to pull out my CD and listen to that song!

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 5:08pm

"If You Were Gay" - Avenue Q

I love that song, it's so funny.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 5:30pm

there are a lot of good ones

avenue q
if you were gay
fantasies come true

la cage
i am what i am

zanna dont
do you know what its like
someday you might love me

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 5:35pm

"ill cover you" from rent and "an old fashion love story" from the wild party.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 5:41pm

"Will He Like Me? from She Loves Me

Who Will Love Me As I Am? from Side Show "

i'm sorry, maybe im confused, but how do either of these songs qualify as a gay showtune? I'm pretty sure Who Will Love Me is sung by two sisters, not a gay couple...and it's been a while since i;'ve seen She Loves Me but I don't remember a gay couple in that show either? Please tell me i'm not losing it!!

To be totally cliche, I have to back up I'll Cover You and Take Me or Leave Me from RENT =)

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 5:52pm

I'm wondering if everyone has purposely avoided saying KEEP IT GAY from The Producers. When I first heard it I laughed a lot. When I saw it I laughed even more. Anyway, that's the only gay song I can think of, but it's good all the same.

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 6:09pm

Some of the other ones I put up on my station:

A Man of No Importance - Love Who You Love
A New Brain - Invitation to Sleep in My Arms
Dame Edna Everage - Friends Of Kenny
The Boy From Oz - I Honestly Love You
Plus stuff from Taboo, Elegies-A Song Cycle, Whoop-Dee-Doo, Ballad of Little Mikey, Rocky Horror Show, When Pigs Fly and many other shows with gay themes.

Even some with veiled gay themes like "AC/DC" from Starlight Express.

Also, songs by our favorite, brave, out performers, like Nathan, Lea, Harvey, Malcolm, Rosie, B.D., Christopher Sieber, John Barrowman, Michael Jeter, and Boy George.

Others to add??

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Posted: 3/3/04 at 6:20pm

I know they have been listed already but I adore "What More Can I Say" and "Unlikely Lovers" from Falsettoland.

My other favorite is "What Would I Do" also from Falsettoland. This song is very special to me. One of my very favorites of all time.