Incredibly Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs

[Sumofallthings]

Incredibly Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#0

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:08pm

"Children Will Listen" -Into the Woods
"Move On" -Sunday in the Park with George
"We Do Not Belong Together" -Sunday in the Park with George
"Beautiful" -Sunday in the Park with George
"Children and Art" -Sunday in the Park with George
"Anyone Can Whistle" -Anyone Can Whistle
"There Won't Be Trumpets" -Anyone Can Whistle

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

Updated On: 10/2/05 at 10:08 PM

[ashley0139]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#1

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:10pm

"If I Didn't Believe in You"- The Last 5 Years

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[Sumofallthings]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#2

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:14pm

Oh Ashley I completely agree. I recently broke up with my girlfriend of 14 months and that song gets me.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[ashley0139]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#3

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:16pm

I think it's absolutely gorgeous, but no one thinks of it when they think of L5Y. It's my favorite Jamie song.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[My Fair Lady]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#4

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:24pm

Simple-Nine

[BwayLeadman]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#5

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:31pm

My favorite song from Damn Yankees "Near to you" and they didn't even put it in the movie. :.(

[ChildofDestiny]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#6

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:42pm

"Out of Fashion" & "Come on in from the Outside" - Taboo
"Heart & Soul" - Bright Lights

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#7

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:52pm

yeah, the first song that came to my mind was "Simple" from Nine

then, "Fran and Janie" from Is there Life after High School?

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

[Rose_MacShane]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#8

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:57pm

"Evening Prayers" from "Carrie." IMHO the best song in the show, and only one of the few good songs.

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[hypertruffle]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#9

Posted: 10/2/05 at 10:59pm

I second (or third or whatever) 'Simple'.

I don't see 'Every Day A Little Death' getting much attention. I'm quite fond of it. Same with 'Play the Music For Me' from Jelly's Last Jam.

"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve

[wickedrentq]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#10

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:10pm

don't really know if you could call this underrated, but at least it being fairly old and me not being around, it's at least not talked about much, one of my favs in the "god it's so beautiful" categories is "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler. Very powerful.

Again, not knowing if I could really call it understated but I've recently fell in love w/ "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[WickedOne2]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#11

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:11pm

I second Come in From the Outside from Taboo. Also:

I'm Not That Girl -- Wicked
Maybe This Time -- Cabaret

"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe

[cathywellerstein]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#12

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:14pm

"whitby bay" dracula

[orangeskittles]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#13

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:15pm

"Are You Still Holding My Hand" from Bright Lights Big City

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[allamarane]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#14

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:16pm

"Never Will I Marry" - Greenwillow
"Her Face" and "Mira" - Carnival
"It Would Have Been Wonderful" - Annie Warbucks
"Will He Like Me?" - She Loves Me
"Princess" - A Man of No Importance

"I know what the sunlight can be"

[My Fair Lady]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#15

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:18pm

Also, No One Is Alone (Into the Woods).

[munkustrap178]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#16

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:19pm

sumofallthings: I completely agree with all your choices, but I wouldn't necessarily call Sondheim's masterpieces "underrated."

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[colleen_lee]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#17

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:31pm

I do believe these have been mentioned already, but I must concur with:

"No One is Alone" - Into the Woods
"Are You Still Holding My Hand?" - Bright Lights, Big City

also:

"Your Daddy's Son" - Ragtime

"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. " --Sueleen Gay

[TheEnchantedHunter]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#18

Posted: 10/2/05 at 11:41pm

It Happens Very Softly from NEFERTITI--one of the most mature, knowing and underrated love songs in the history of musical theatre.

[Footlooser]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#19

Posted: 10/3/05 at 1:45am

I've recently fallen for "Why Should I Wake Up" ~ Cabaret

"You know just because you put a smiley face after it doesn't change the fact that it was an a-hole comment." ~ Sumofallthings

[WickedScoundrel]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#20

Posted: 10/3/05 at 1:50am

I think Sunday In The Park With George in general is underrated, and it's got beautiful songs. Absolutely agree with your songs choices.

Proud fangirl of Greg Jbara.

[Roninjoey]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#21

Posted: 10/3/05 at 1:57am

Depends on who you talk to. I would argue that Sunday in the Park With George is often viewed as Sondheim's masterpiece, as it's arguably his most personal and artistic work. Move On, It's Hot Up Here and Putting it Together have become Sondheim standards. I agree with "Beautiful" though. It's my favorite song from the show and nobody ever mentions it or sings it.

Other underrated songs...

"Love Can't Happen" - Grand Hotel

yr ronin,
joey

[pab]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#22

Posted: 10/3/05 at 1:59am

With Every Breath I Take - City of Angels

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

[wickedwitchofthechest]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#23

Posted: 10/3/05 at 2:14am

"Lonely House" from Street Scene
"Duet for Dusoleil and Isabelle" from Amour
"I'd Rather Be Sailing" from A New Brain
and I don't know if it's underrated, but "All the Things You Are" from Very Warm for May is absolutely gorgeous

"Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?"

[EponineThenardier]

re: Incredible Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs#24

Posted: 10/3/05 at 2:19am

"Live with Somebody You Love" from Martin Guerre