Favorite songs
Favorite songs
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#0Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:36pm
I'm pretty positive that there has been a post exactly like this in the past but I haven't come across it, so I will ask one of the most frequently asked questions.
What is your favorite song in the whole world, by who, and if it is from a musical, which musical?
#1re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:44pmthat's really tough! um.. I like "Dentist!" from LSOH it's really funnie! but for a more melotic(sp?) song it would have to be "Home" from Beauty and the Beast! i love singing that song! it's right in my range!
"Sink me! The man's lost his senses!" -Percival Blakeney (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#2re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:48pm
Favorite song overall? Probably 'Dream On' by Aerosmith.
Favorite showtune? Currently 'Role of a Lifetime' from Bare
#3re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:52pmdephiying garvity becawse idena minzal is reallly taelented and wiked is tha bst musikl eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#5re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 8:59pm
Belle, that's a toughy. I don't think I can list just one. There is the whole raft of Sondheim songs from 'Being Alive' and 'Not Getting Married Today' and 'A Little Priest' to 'Loving You.' Then there are the songs that fit a theatrical moment such as 'Betrayed' from the Producers.
Oh, Belle there are too many. My head hurts. So, with Tylenol in hand I give you a song that is apt but doesn't come from a musical - 'Unwell' from Matchbox Twenty. It's a good shower song.
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#6re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:03pmMy favorite song.....hmmm.....let's see...it's probaly No Good Deed Goes Unpunished from Wicked! I love that song!!!
Thus is how the book of man and woman shall be written endlessly crashing into each other like 2 vengeful bumper cars - I Love You You're Perfect Now Change
#7re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 9:08pm
The Quartet (Johanna, Anthony, Judge, Beadle) from Sweeney Todd
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#8re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 11:50pm
What You Own from Rent
Although 30/90 from tick, tick, BOOM is slowly growing on me.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#9re: Favorite songs
Posted: 11/30/04 at 11:51pm'A Little Priest' and 'Not While I'm Around'~SWEENEY TODD
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#10re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:00am
"Don't rain on my parade" from Funny Girl and "Nobodys Side" from Chess are my favorite showtunes. (But mad cheers for "30/90" and the rest of Tick Tick Boom as well.)
As for other music, for me it always comes back to Tori Amos, and especially "Fire on the side"
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#11re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:03am
hell yea, magic to do
funny girl all the way
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#12re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 1:06am
Yay for Funny Girl. Revive THAT show, with Stephanie J. Block (Who has played the role before) and it would make my life complete.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#13re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 4:32am
There are so many, i can't even begin to start, but i think some of my all time favorite songs would be:
"Gee Officer Krupkie" ~West Side Story~
"Edelweiss" ~Sound of Music~
"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd ~Sweeney Todd~
and
The entire show of RENT has had a profound effect on my life
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#14re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:19am
You mean favorite showtune?
SOMETHING WONDERFUL from The King And I.
JaiLuver2007
Chorus Member Joined: 7/27/04
#15re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 11:22am
Favorite Song Overall~Measure of a Man~ Clay Aiken
Broadway Showtune~People Will Say We're in Love~OKLAHOMA! (just did it with my school as you can tell by the pic)
Off Broadway Showtune~Someday You Might Love Me~Zanna Don't!
#16re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 11:29amThe greatest song ever written is 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen.
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#17re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 11:37amDitto to that one, JohnPopa!
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
Immortal
Swing Joined: 11/22/04
#18re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 3:32pmAll right, I'm sure that I'll be the only one to post a rap song, but I love a song called "Groovin Tonight" by St. Lunatics/Brian McKnight. Its hard to say, though.
CrAzIaBoUtReNt
Leading Actor Joined: 11/26/04
#19re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 5:37pmI love the song Out Tonight from Rent because Daphne Rubin-Vega is an awsome Mimi and I love it when she sings it! I also enjoy listening to Cell Block Tango from the Chicago London Cast Recording.
#20re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 6:05pm
Hard to choose-
comes down between "Back To Before" or "Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee
"It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#21re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 6:09pm
"Stairway To Heaven" Led Zep
Favorite showtoon:
tie, "Sweet Tranvestite" and "Timewarp", Rocky Horror
dabster
Swing Joined: 10/8/04
#22re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 6:17pm"Im not afraid of anything!" songs for a new world.isnt it funny that as singers you always love songs that are in your range and you can belt out (although this song is not in my range)the other is also "make them hear you" from ragtime.
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#23re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 6:34pmSant - although I don't have a favorite song (its impossible for me to choose one) I LOVE Something Wonderful from The King and I. Good choice. I also love I Have Dreamed from The King and I. That is also good, no?
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#24re: Favorite songs
Posted: 12/1/04 at 6:36pm
JaiLuver2007,
I love Zanna Don't. I saw it when it off-broadway. Is it true that its coming to broadway? I haven't been keeping tabs on that.
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