Incredibly Beautiful, Understated and Underrated Songs- Page 2

[kidmanboy]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 2:24am

People Like Us - LaChiusa's Wild Party
I Hate the Bus - Caroline or Change

Two of the most heartbreaking melodies ever written.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 2:25am

Angels Arise - Dance of the Vampires. The demo version is amazing. It really lost its point in the stage-show. Also Braver Than we Are: which could be on Bat Out of Hell 3

[BwayLover]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 2:27am

Two Sondheaim songs that are definitely underrated are
"I Wish I Could Forget You" and
"Loving You" , both from PASSION. They are not only two of the most beautiful songs he's ever written, they are both heartbreaking.

Another beautiful, beautiful song I recently fell in love with is from an little off-broadway musical called "Birds Of Paradise", and the song is called "Imagining You". It is simply wonderful.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 3:16am

Christiane Noll does a beautiful version of "Who Are You Now?"

Bernadette Peters' "Nothing Like You've Ever Known" from Song and Dance.

Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner's RAGS duet, "If We Never Meet Again", and Sideshow's "Who Will Love Me as I Am?"

Camelot's "I Loved You Once in Silence".

"A Quiet Thing" from Flora the Red Menace.

I could go on and aon...

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:57am

"Loving You" from Passion

[AnnaB]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 9:14am

It's not exactly underrated but "I'll Cover You" from Rent, and "I'll Be Here" from Lippa's Wild Party

[grizzabella]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 10:03am

I'm partial to "With You" from Pippin, "To Each His Dulcinea" from Man of La Mancha, and "I Remember" from Merrily We Roll Along. Those come immediately to mind, in addition to a lot of the ones already mentioned.

[Dawn2]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 4:52pm

Oh! Yes! "City of Angels" is chock full of totally wonderful, overlooked songs - nobody I ever speak to seems to know the show except my close buddies, but the, maybe I need to widen that circle


Some (!) of my other nominees here... "Disneyland" /Smile; "Where's the Girl"/Scarlet Pimpernel; "A Change in Me"/Beauty & the Beast; "I'll Forget You"/Scarlet Pimpernel; and from Barnum, "Colors of my Life" and "I Like Your Style" (which was the first dance at our wedding, I kid you not!)

[withoutlove78]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:09pm

I Could Be Happy With You- The Boyfriend

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:09pm

"Homecoming Queen" - Is There Life After High School?

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:17pm

ooh I second I Hate The Bus and Diary of a Homecoming Queen

also upon more thought:
Wheels (A My Name Will Always Be Alice)
She Was K.C. (Three Postcards)
Father to Son (March of the Falsettos)
Paris Through The Window (A Class Act)
Breeze off the River (Full Monty)
Since You Stayed Here (Brownstone)
Life Story (Closer Than Ever)
My Brother Lived in San Francisco (Elegies for Angels...)
Venice (Elegies: A Song Cycle)
Loose Ends (Witches of Eastwick)

a LOT of Maury Yeston songs too. a LOT.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:21pm

"Remember Me" - LaChiusa's "Little Fish"

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:22pm

Not a Day Goes By -- Merrily We Roll Along

Is that underrated? But it's so beautiful and understated that it makes me cry.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:25pm

Other than the ones that've been mentioned, "Take Me to the World," and "I Remember" from Evening Primrose are incredible, beautiful, understated, and underrated (in my opinion). I've always felt "Kiss Me" from Sweeney Todd was underrated too, but then again: it's also from a Sondheim masterpiece, so maybe it doesn't count.

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:27pm

SorryGrateful- I wholeheartly agree with you with that song. My ex-boyfriend broke up with me and my party shuffle played that song the day after. I was bawling.

Updated On: 10/4/05 at 05:27 PM

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:38pm

Oh, hyper, *hugs*.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 5:42pm

Lost in the Stars - Lost in the Stars

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:17pm

Some people already mentioned some of my picks, but I will state them anyway just to reiterate.

Loving You - Passion
Father to Son - March of the Falsettos
Holding to the Ground - Falsettoland
What More Can I Say - Falsettoland
It Would Have Been Wonderful - Annie Warbucks
I Hate the Bus - Caroline, or Change
With You - Pippin
Heaven - Carrie
Look For Small Pleasures - Ben Franklin in Paris
Tom - Hello Again
I Don't Remember You - The Happy Time
A Quiet Thing - Flora, The Red Menace
Sometimes a Day Goes By - Woman of the Year
Knowing When to Leave - Promises Promises
Wanting Things - Promises Promises
I'm All A-Blaze - The Canterbury Tales
All at Once You Love Her - Pipe Dream
So Far - Allegro
The Human Heart - Once on This Island
How Many Tears? - Martin Guerre
The Journey Home - Bombay Dreams
Stop and See Me - Weird Romance
Romantic Notions - Romance/Romance (one of my all-time favorites)
Someone Else's Story - Chess
It's Only Love/Bring on the Night - Metropolis
The Sun - Metropolis

[babygiraffeboots]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 6:49pm

I Never Knew his Name- The Civil War
Nothing Really Happened- Is there life after high school?
certainly not underrated but "You've got to be carefully taught" from South Pacific because I love Rodgers & Hammerstein and people seem to forget about them a lot in recent times, that song brings me to tears.
I knwo the truth- Aida

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:42pm

I couldn't stop thinking about it...

Painting Her Portrait - Jane Eyre
I Just Wanna Dance - Jerry Springer The Opera
What Makes Me Love Him? - The Apple Tree
Irma La Douce - Irma La Douce
Dear Friend - She Loves Me
The One I Love - Hello Again
Dreamers - Jean Seberg
When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Why Should I Wake Up? - Cabaret
Only Love - Zorba
She's a Woman - Kiss of the Spider Woman
Unusual Way - Nine
The Beauty Is - The Light in the Piazza
Chanson - The Baker's Wife
Where Is the Warmth? - The Baker's Wife
Song of a Summer Night - The Most Happy Fella
Cocoa Bean Song - Kwamina
Childen of the Wind - Rags
The Girl I Mean to Be - The Secret Garden
Far From the Home I Love - Fiddler on the Roof
In My Own Lifetime - The Rothschilds
A Little Bit in Love - Wonderful Town
Once Upon a Time - All American
I Never Know When - Goldilocks
When I First Saw You - Dreamgirls
I'll Buy You a Star - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Stop, Time - Big
It Might as Well Be Spring - State Fair
Frank Mills - Hair
I Know About Love - Do Re Mi
My Unknown Someone - Will Rogers Follies
Marry Me - The Rink
Lucky to Be Me - On the Town
You Walk With Me - The Full Monty
Alone in the Universe - Seussical

[insomniak]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:48pm

Where Do I Go? and Easy to Be Hard are wonderful, though the latter is not underrated at all.

Once In A While from the Rocky Horror revival is beautiful.

[LostLeander]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 7:54pm

First, I think Your Daddy's Son is neither underrated, nor understated.
Everyone loves the song, and... "I BURRIED YOU IN THE GROUND!" isn't too understated.
But it is gorgeous.

I second "Father to Son" from March of the Falsettoes.
Monica and Mark from Elegies.. "Everthing Thanksgiving, Mark had his all male thanksgivings dinner. Where men made the turkey, and men made the cranber --- da da da, etc."

Makes me cry everytime.

I Remember from Evening Primrose
Like It Was from Merrily
Hero and Leander from Myths and Hymns
Love to Me from Piazza... so simple. So gorgeous. So heartfeldt.
Of course, Anyone Can Whistle.. but I don't think it's underrated anymore.
No More, Into the Woods.

So many Sondheim pieces.. I'll quit here.

[Madame X2]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 8:05pm

Nobody Needs To Know- Last 5 Years
Chavaleh-Fiddler on the Roof

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 11:03pm

TOM from Hello Again
HERO AND LEANDER from Myths and Hymns

I SECOND THESE!!!

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:43am

Couldn't resist:

Not Allowed to Love - Batman the Musical