Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

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Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 3:42pm

Some of mine are

- TOO MANY MORNINGS (Follies)
- LOSING MY MIND (Follies)
- BEING ALIVE (Company)
- NO ONE IS ALONE (Into The Woods)
- I READ (Passion)
- LOVING YOU (Passion)
- I LOVE FOSCA (Passion)
- WHERE AM I GOING? (Sweet Charity)
- NOWADAYS (Chicago)
- WHAT WOULD YOU DO? (Cabaret)
- CABARET (Cabaret)
- FINAL SEQUENCE (Sweeney Todd)

I have so many more. These are the songs that just hit the emotional spot for me.

What songs do that for you?

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 3:53pm

definetly the finale of sweeney, defying gravity (how very pop culture of me), anything shoshana sings, alot of stuff from godspell, as long as he needs me from oliver, I think it puts a good ending to act 1, and alot of other things by sondheim (besides sweeney i mean)

Can, can I have it?

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 3:53pm

What I Did for Love (A Chorus Line)
Days of Plenty (Little Women)
Maybe I Like it this Way (Wild Party)

Those are three off the top of my head. What I Did for Love is my favorite song of all time emotionally.

"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

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 3:55pm

LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES (Fosse)
I AM WHAT I AM (La Cage Aux Folles)
SOMETHING WONDERFUL (The King And I)
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE (Carousel)
WHAT I DID FOR LOVE (A Chorus Line)

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 4:01pm

Agree with almost all of the above, especially the choices from Passion. I have to say that listening to Pity the Child and Nobody's Side are both emotionally exhausting/satisfying.

"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 4:02pm

Lot's Wife (Caroline, or Change)
I Hate the Bus (Caroline, or Change)

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 4:03pm

Pity the Child and Nobody's Side are good ones. Also from that show, Heaven Help My Heart, I Know Him So Well, and the I Know Him So Well reprise at the end

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 5:07pm

"Love, Look Away" from FLOWER DRUM SONG
"Young and Foolish" from PLAIN & FANCY
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" from GYPSY
"This Nearly Was Mine" from SOUTH PACIFIC

And this is only a fraction.

"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 5:12pm

just a note to ljay-

I agree 100% about Where Am I Going and find that it's constantly overlooked and overrated!

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#10

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 6:01pm

you mean overlooked and UNDER rated?

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re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 6:14pm

A Little Priest - Sweeney Todd
Where Am I Going - Sweet Charity
There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This - Sweet Charity
Defying Gravity - Wicked
My Own Best Friend - Chicago
and Nowadays in The Dancer's Life

I'm sure I have a zillion more but these songs stick out for me.

Tick Tock

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re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 6:34pm

Where Am I Going- SWEET CHARITY
Some Things Are Meant to Be- LITTLE WOMEN
Days of Plenty- LITTLE WOMEN
Fable- THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Johanna (Sweeney's Version)- SWEENEY TODD
The Winner Takes It All- MAMMA-MIA!

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re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 6:34pm

"Loving You" - Passion
"Back to Before", "He Wanted to Say", "Wheels of a Dream", "Gliding", "Till We Reach That Day" "Your Daddy's Son" - Ragtime
"Too Many Mornings" - Follies
"No One is Alone" - Into the Woods
"Send in the Clowns" - A Little Night Music
"I Feel So Much Spring" - A New Brain
"Monica and Mark", "Anytime" - Elegies
"What Would You Do?", "Tommorow Belongs to Me", "Maybe This Time", "I Don't Care Much", "Cabaret", "Finale" - Cabaret
"Lot's Wife" - Caroline, or Change
"If I Loved You", "What's the Use of Wondrin'?", "Soliloquy" - Carousel
"Hello, Dolly!", "Before the Parade Passes By", "It Only Takes a Moment" - Hello, Dolly!
"I Am What I Am", "Look Over There" - La Cage Aux Folles

and many more.

one of the things i like best about showtunes is that they're so emotionally accesible.

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 6:35pm

What I Did For Love (Chorus Line)
White Milk and Red Blood (Dessa Rose)
Corner of the Sky and Kind of Woman (Pippin)
Alone in the Universe (Seussical)
For Good (Wicked)
The entire score of Godspell

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 6:40pm

Some People, Everything's Coming up Roses and Rose's Turn (Gypsy)
No One Is Alone (Into The Woods)
Move On (Sunday In The Park With George)
Time Heals Everything (Mack and Mabel)
Being Alive (Company)
Not A Day Goes By (Merrily We Roll Along)

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 6:45pm

Being Alive from Company
New Music from Ragtime
Easy to Love from Anything Goes
Johanna (the quartet one) from Sweeney
The proposal/The Night was Alive fom Titanic
Bring Him Home from Les Mis
Why from tick...tick...BOOM

That's all I can think of at the moment

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re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 7:07pm

"No One Has Ever Loved Me"-Passion
"Too Many Mornings"-Follies
"Not A Day Goes By"-Merrily We Roll Along
"Nothing"-A Chorus Line
"Simple"-Nine
"Time Heals Everything"-Mack & Mabel
"I Promise You A Happy Ending"-Mack & Mabel
"I'm Way Ahead"-Seesaw
"Finale-Reprises"-Song & Dance
"A Boy Like That/I Have A Love"-West Side Story
"See What It Gets You"-Anyone Can Whistle
"One Night Only" (Effie's Version)-Dreamgirls
"Love Can't Happen"-Grand Hotel
"If He Walked Into My Life"-Mame
"Move On"-Sunday in the Park with George
"Beautiful"-Sunday in the Park with George

Updated On: 10/14/06 at 07:07 PM

#18

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 7:09pm

Almost everything, if not everything, that Fosca and ljay posted.

Plus a lot from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

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

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 9:06pm

Oh geez. So many from Ragtime, Sweeney, and Sondheim tunes.

"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" -Family Guy

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 9:23pm

Children Will Listen - Into The Woods
I Hate The Bus - Caroline or Change
I Saw Three Ships (Mamma There's Money..) - Caroline or Change
I'll Cover You (Reprise) - RENT

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#21

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 9:31pm

Almost everything from Aida especially:
Written In The Stars
A Step Too Far
The Gods Love Nubia

Also:
A Change In Me- B&B
Home-B&B
If I Can't Love her- B&B
Home- The Wiz
And I'm Telling You- Dreamgirls
I Know Where I've Been- Hairspray

"I'm that one in a million chance when the director says 'you', the small town boy who makes it big, the one that little children and grown men and women will adore, I'm that shot in the dark everyone talks about, you may not know my name yet, but you will, everyone will, someday."- Me

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Posted: 10/14/06 at 10:41pm

I can't believe I forgot...

ROSE'S TURN (Gypsy)
EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES (Gypsy)

and crap I can't believe I forgot about SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Atleast 75 percent of the score is VERY emotional for me, so I won't even list certain songs.

Also

NOT A DAY GOES BY (Merrily)
FABLE (Piazza)
SAY IT SOMEHOW (Piazza)
SEND IN THE CLOWNS (Little Night Music)

Updated On: 10/14/06 at 10:41 PM

#23

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/14/06 at 10:56pm

oh wow, there are so many. ummm..

- the majority of Les Mis, but particularly One More Day, Do Your Hear The People Sing,Empty Chairs and Empty Tables, and the Finale. But theres lots of others from it too. That whole show just gives me so, SO many shivers
-SO many songs from Last 5 Years, but particularly If I Didn't Believe in You and I Could Never Rescue You (norbert breaks my heart so. freaking. much)
-RENT. one song glory, without you, goodbye love, I'll cover you reprise, and finale B
-Wicked, For Good. yes, yes, fangirl cliche, I know, but I dont care. That song destroyed me SO MUCH when I was first discovering wicked. I would get SO shaky listening to it

I'm sure im for getting a bunch.. but thats a start!

I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.

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re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 6:45am

Make Your Garden Grow - Candide
What More Can I Say? - Falsetttos

These two make me blurt out crying eveytime...

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re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 7:23am

If it's the score of Caroline, or Change, The Light in the Piazza, and/or Parade, then yes.

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