Female duets

[-Celine-]

Female duets#1

Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:31am

Heey Everyone,

Im looking for ideas for female duets preferably happy / funny / easy-to-listen-to songs..

any suggestions? Has anyone got a favorite female duet?

Greetz! Celine

[chiuptown]

re: Female duets#2

Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:44am

Sondheim, "There's Always a Woman" -from Anyone Can Whistle, has hilarious lyrics. Might be tough finding the music though. I have the original score and its not in there, I believe it was cut.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: Female duets#2

Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:21am

Jealousy Duet from The Threepenny Opera.

[Mr Roxy]

re: Female duets#3

Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:27am

Though not specifically written for women try "We Got Us" from Golden Rainbow

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[brochatkid]

re: Female duets#4

Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:40am

I posted something a while back too about this and got some responses. Can't remember them all now, but you can search. Someone suggested looking at the Alice Ripley/Emily Skinner duet CDS. They have some great songs.

[AC126748]

re: Female duets#5

Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:46am

"Marry the Man Today"--Guys and Dolls
"The Apple Doesn't Fall"--The Rink
"The Grass is Always Greener"--Woman of the Year

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Here I Am]

re: Female duets#6

Posted: 12/6/09 at 12:33pm

For happy/funny... I know someone just said it, but def. 'Marry The Man Today' from Guys and Dolls.

[jigblob]

re: Female duets#7

Posted: 12/6/09 at 12:34pm

It's Raining on Prom Night--Grease

[roseaddams]

re: Female duets#8

Posted: 12/6/09 at 12:50pm

"Perfect Strangers" from THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.

"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite

[romgitsean]

re: Female duets#9

Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:20pm

Unsuspecting Hearts from Carrie, mayhaps?

I feel like there's a really important one that I'm TOTALLY missing. :>

Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:: Carrie, Merrily, Ionescopade
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM

[dshnookie]

re: Female duets#10

Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:31pm

"Bosom Buddies" from Mame

[bwaylvsong]

re: Female duets#11

Posted: 12/6/09 at 7:53pm

If Momma Was Married from Gypsy
When You Believe from The Prince of Egypt
Tell Him by Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand
Get Happy/ Happy Days are Here Agein by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand

[Pgenre]

re: Female duets#12

Posted: 12/6/09 at 9:55pm

LOL! The suggestions in this thread are really hilarious especially since the OP asked for songs that were "happy / funny / easy-to-listen-to songs..." and there's everything from Sondheim, Brecht, Weill and CARRIE to obscure Kander & Ebb flops and "Tell Him" by Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion, possibly the worst song ever written. Just an observation, LOL.

The "Bosom Buddies" and the GREASE, GUYS & DOLLS and GYPSY selections are more like it.

To answer the OP, look through all the old RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN music books at your local library. I can think of fifteen or twenty off the top of my head. Stephen Schwartz has written quite a few female duets and such things and someone mentioned "When You Believe" which may be a nice song for you.

P

[Reginald Tresilian]

re: Female duets#13

Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:34pm

I was the one who suggested checking the song lists of the Skinner and Ripley CDs. Some examples:

I Know Him So Well
Ohio
If Momma Was Married
Perfect Strangers (from "Drood")
Friendship (not specifically for women, but Lucy and Ethel made it work)

[Jon]

re: Female duets#14

Posted: 12/6/09 at 10:37pm

Class, My Own Best Friend, Nowadays from CHICAGO.

[bwaylvsong]

re: Female duets#15

Posted: 12/6/09 at 11:21pm

Well, "Tell Him" is easy-listening, and at least I like it lol.

[blaxx]

re: Female duets#16

Posted: 12/6/09 at 11:24pm

What You Don't Know About Women from City of Angels

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[Basely Tearful]

re: Female duets#17

Posted: 12/7/09 at 1:28am

"Little Me" from Little Me
"Two's Company" or "Solid Silver Platform Shoes" from The Magic Show
"Best Friend" from LaChiusa's Wild Party
"Broadway, My Street" from 70, Girls, 70
"We Share Everything" from Side Show

[luvbrdway]

re: Female duets#18

Posted: 12/7/09 at 11:39am

"Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better"

Is that from Annie Get Your Gun? Drawing a blank.

[alightinthedark23]

re: Female duets#19

Posted: 12/7/09 at 2:52pm

"No Me Diga" - In The Heights. Although it's written for more than 2 women.

"The More You Ruv Someone"- Avenue Q. has funny lyrics.

"It's about the Benjamins, not the Bernsteins."-CapnHook

[GlindatheGood22]

re: Female duets#20

Posted: 12/7/09 at 8:31pm

Peas in a Pod - Grey Gardens
Bosom Buddies - Mame

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[muscle23ftl]

re: Female duets#21

Posted: 12/8/09 at 12:09am

I do miracles from Kiss of the Spider Woman


Wrong Note Rag from Wonderful Town

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[muscle23ftl]

re: Female duets#22

Posted: 12/8/09 at 12:09am

I do miracles from Kiss of the Spider Woman


Wrong Note Rag from Wonderful Town

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[-Celine-]

re: Female duets#23

Posted: 12/8/09 at 1:05pm

Thanks everyone for all your ideas!
Really helpful!

Greetz

[mallardo]

re: Female duets#24

Posted: 12/8/09 at 1:19pm

Someone already said it - "What You Don't Know About Women" from City of Angels. Very smart lyrics and lots of fun.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!