Is it too early to post about romantic songs/shows for Valentine's Day???

[dreaming]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 5:11pm

I know it's a few days away, but I'd love to start a thread about romantic songs/shows.

I'll start with the obvious: All I Ask of You from Phantom (I love the show anyway, but this song remains, in my opinion, one of the most romantic songs I've ever heard)

Others I find particularly romantic:

Some Enchanted Evening (I love this song-might be one of the only songs I could have playing forever on my iPod)
If I Loved You
Tonight (the duet not the quartet)


I bet I'll think of more-I'm a hopeless romantic!

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 5:14pm

I always loved "Small World".

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 5:18pm

"My Funny Valentine"

[strelimyn]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 8:38pm

Valentine's Day - Jonathan Larson

Kidding.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 9:35pm

"I'd be surprisingly good for you" -Evita
"Shall we dance" -The King and I

[all that jazz]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 9:42pm

Well, contrary to popular belief there aren't that many great love songs in the musical theater canon. The most romantic shows in my opinion are Phantom, Love Never Dies, and West Side Story. You already mentioned my favorite songs, All I ask of you, Tonight and If I loved you.

Other Songs:
It only takes a moment- Hello Dollly
People-Funny Girl
Someone like you- Jekyll and Hyde
A little fall of rain- Les Mis


Updated On: 2/11/13 at 09:42 PM

[Rabekriegerin]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 11:57pm

Say what you will about Wildhorn, the man has composed some incredible romantic ballad-y songs. "Du bist meine Welt (I Was Born for You)" from Rudolf comes to mind. It really doesn't fit the horror and tragedy of the moment, but it's a great love song...

In its own way, "Dyin' Aint So Bad" from B&C pulls on the heart. Then there's "So lange ich lebe (The longer I live)" and "Whitby Bay Reprise" from Dracula.

Since I'm thinking in German, I always loved the reprise of "Help Me Through the Night" from Rebecca...

[brian.klimowski]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 12:09am

I always have thought Lerner and Loewe to be some of the most romantic writers in mt history. Here's just a few of their offerings:
"There but for you go I"
"Come to me, Bend to me"
"From This Day On"
"Almost like being in love"
"How to Handle a Woman"
"Gigi"
"On the Street Where You Live"
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"
etc. and etc.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 6:23am

There are so many it's almost impossible to list just a few.

Of course My Funny Valentine as After Eight mentioned.

Some of my other faves are:

Say It Somehow (Piazza)
I Have Dreamed (King and I)
I Chose Right (Baby)
When I First Saw You (Dreamgirls)

and a recent addition:

More and More (Death Takes a Holiday)

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 8:36am

From "Dear Love" (Flora, the Red Menace):

"Dear Love, won't you say 'Be my Valentine?'
Dear Love, are you maybe my Valentine?"

[darquegk]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 9:36am

Regarding "My Funny Valentine," there are so many recordings of that song, but to me, none can top the performance by rock-jazz crossover artist Elvis Costello. Accompanied only by a clean jazz guitar, he sings the song simply, directly and with a definite sense of melancholy. It's haunting.

[michellek45]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 9:37am

I love "I'd Do Anything" from Oliver and "Married" from Cabaret because they're both so simple, but they're still incredibly sweet. I also think the sequence of "I Won't Send Roses" and its reprise is well done, even if it doesn't result in the most romantic relationship ever. "A Little Fall of Rain" and "I Know Him So Well" are romantic in their own tragic sort of ways. When it comes to straight-up romantic shows, I really love "I Do, I Do."

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:49pm

I just did my pre-Valentines program yesterday and played the following selections:

Nino Rota's Love theme from ROMEO & JULIET (Boston Pops)

True Love (from HIGH SOCIETY - film soundtrack)
Song on the Sand (from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES -1983 original cast)

They Say it's Wonderful (ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - B.Peters/T.Wopat)

Paula - An improvised Love Song (THE GOODBYE GIRL - OBC)

Loving You (PASSION - Peabo Bryson & Nancy Wilson)

Love Look Away (FLOWER DRUM SONG - 1958 OBC)

Lover Come Back to Me (THE NEW MOON - studio cast)
My Heart is So Full of You (THE MOST HAPPY FELLA - Percy Faith)

This is Love (THIS IS LOVE - Toronto cast)

One Face (TRISTAN - Shaw Festival cast)

My Funny Valentine (BABES IN ARMS)- Swing Shift band

[tazber]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:13pm

Oh yes! Song on the Sand is a great one frontrowcentre2.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:27pm

"Something Good" from the film version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC is a pretty romantic song.

"I Have Dreamed/We Kiss In A Shadow" as well...

[dreaming]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:31pm

Ah, I should have thought of "Something Good" and "I Have Dreamed/We Kiss in a Shadow"! (I'm a huge Rodgers and Hammerstein fan!)

These are great! (Getting me in the Valentine's Day mood!)

frontrowcentre-those are terrific selections! (Song on the Sand is a favorite song of mine, too!)

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:31pm

Gigi?

Really?

I find the song creepy. It's sung by a man in his 30's about a girl in her mid teens, who he has always treated like a little sister but now has the hots for because she's hit puberty.

Could you picture it if it was a guy in his thirties singing about a Boy who was 15? Would it still be considered a romantic song then?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:44pm

LOL @ South FL Marc's assessment of the song, "Gigi".

"Gigi" always gets a bad rap because of the song "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" being sung by the very mature Honore Lachaille but I had never given the title song a second thought....until now.

I don't think Gigi is supposed to be 15 at that point in the film is she? I didn't picture her to be THAT young?

P.S. Don't mean to veer the thread off topic...I just wanted to express my observation....

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:57pm

In the story it's based on Gigi is 15 at the start and 16 at the end.
In the movie she is in high school and has a couple years left.
Even though Ms Caron was in her 20's , Gigi is 15.

And to get on topic:
"My Heart is So Full of You" from The Most Happy Fella
"What More Can I Say" from Falsettos

Updated On: 2/11/13 at 02:57 PM

[artscallion]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:08pm

"Bill" from Showboat
"Always" Written for The Cocoanuts but dropped out of town

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:26pm

"If Ever I Would Leave You" from CAMELOT

[tomatlcm]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 4:23pm

Not sure if it's been mentioned but "They were you" from The Fantasticks is beautiful. I also love "Unworthy of your love" from Assassins.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 7:19pm

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, You are love- Show Boat