Longest Showtune
Longest Showtune
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:49pm
Does anyone know what the longest song from a musical is?
Would it be one of the ones from A Chorus Line like "Hello Twelve..." or "Music and the Mirror"?
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#2Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:50pmDo Sondheim song/scenes count? If they do, "Putting it Together" is up there.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:54pmI also thought about "Meadowlark" from The Baker's Wife. I didn't check the run time, but it just seems like a long song.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#3Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:55pmI guess it depends on what you mean by length. I don't see how there could be an actual answer since tempo and arrangement will vary from production to production.
#4Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:56pmGood point, Phyl. I suppose you could count number of bars.
#5Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:58pm^ but that still isn't accurate, because it doesn't take tempo into account.
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#6Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:58pmAren't "The Coconut Girl" and the London sequence from The Girl Who Came To Supper pretty lengthy?
#7Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:00pm
But, givesmevoice, it would be accurate if that was the criterion you were measuring by.
Otherwise, as PRS points out, the question is unanswerable.
#8Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:01pm
The lengthiest songs from cast recordings I have are:
Final Sequence (Sweeney Todd OBC- 14:10)
Simple (Anyone Can Whistle OBC- 12:57)
Prologue: Into the Woods (ITW OBC 11:5
The Final Sequence from Sweeney and the opening from ITW are comprised of several smaller songs, so I don't think those would count. Simple, however, is fairly musically consistent.
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#9Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:04pm
Reg, that's true.
Kad, I had never realized how long Simple is until I saw Anyone Can Whistle at Encores.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#10Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:05pmYeah, but Simple is another Sondheim scene/song. It's not a traditional song.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#11Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:43pm
If you're talking 1 person or 2 person songs, traditional ballads, uptempos, patters, whatever... NOT scenes?
1. Soliloquy, Carousel
2. Meadowlark, The Baker's Wife,
3. Carrie, Carrie
4. The Ballad of Billy McCaw, Cats
...to name a few.
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#12Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:52pm
Hard work from Fame runs at around 12 minutes.
Notes/Prima Donna from Phantom around 11
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 9:07pmThe Baby Love Miracle Show - The Grass Harp
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#14Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 9:17pm
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#15Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 10:27pmHalleluuu, heed the call! Babylove loves you all! Exactly what I was going to say. Amazing song.
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#16Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 10:27pmHalleluuu, heed the call! Babylove loves you all! Exactly what I was going to say. Amazing song.
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#17Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/28/10 at 10:27pmHalleluuu, heed the call! Babylove loves you all! Exactly what I was going to say. Amazing song.
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Cabarob
Swing Joined: 3/31/09
#18Longest Showtune
Posted: 6/29/10 at 12:58amthey were cut down significanly on their respective cast albums, but in the shows Too Darn Hot in "Kiss Me Kate" and I've Got Rhythm in "Crazy For You" both run over 14 minutes.
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