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#26

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 9:10am

Still Hurting; The Last Five Years
Raven; Brooklyn
Bernadette Peter's verison of Joanna at her Sondheim concert.

#27

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 9:17am

What I Did for Love-A Chorus Line
Nowadays-Chicago
Two Worlds-Tarzan
As Sure as Sun Turns to Moon-Tarzan
Everything That I Am-Tarzan
If I Can't Love Her-Beauty and the Beast
Home-Beauty and the Beast
Belle (Reprise)-Beauty and the Beast
No Matter What- Beauty and the Beast

#28

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 10:04am

I guess it's a Priscilla Lopez thing - the first two songs that come to mind are What I Did for Love and The Best in the World from Hollywood/Ukraine - didn't realize until I just looked it up in IBDB it was a Jerry Herman song.

Edited to add "My Brother Lived in San Francisco" from Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens".

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Updated On: 10/16/06 at 10:04 AM

#29

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

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

I really like Natalie Cortez's What I Did For Love a lot better than Priscilla's.

#30

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 9:13pm

I Could Never Rescue You/the Finale- Last Five Years (I always just wanna cry at that last "Goodbye")
Days of Plenty- Little Women
The Fire Within Me- Little Women
Why, God, Why- Miss Saigon
Bring Him Home reprise (ok, so it's not techincally a reprise, it's Valjean's prayer before Fantine comes on stage during the Finale)- Les Misérables
If I Can't Love Her- Beauty and the Beast
Written in the Stars- Aida
Elaborate Lives Reprise- Aida
'Til We Reach That Day- Ragtime
Make Them Hear You- Ragtime

#31

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 10:27pm

For me right now, I'd say The "I Love You" Song from ...Spelling Bee.

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#32

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/15/06 at 10:30pm

"TOO MANY MORNINGS (Follies)
LOSING MY MIND (Follies)
BEING ALIVE (Company)
NO ONE IS ALONE (Into the Woods)"

Those were the first I thought of, as well as Your Daddy's Son from Ragtime and Eva's Final Broadcast from Evita.

All of the above often bring me to tears.

Also Goodbye Until Tomorrow from The Last Five Years, Send In the Clowns from A Little Night Music, Rose's Turn from Gypsy, and Fable from The Light In the Piazza.

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Updated On: 10/15/06 at 10:30 PM

#33

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 4:30am

Fable and Dividing Day - The Light in the Piazza
Waiting on the Far Side Banks of Jordan - Ring of Fire
Memory - CATS
As If We Never Said Goodbye - Sunset Boulevard

#34

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 6:27am

Agree with most, great choices.
We do not belong together- Sunday in the park....
No good deed- Wicked (you can bash it all you want, but it's hella gut wrenching!)

#35

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 6:31am

Wizard and I and Defying Gravity - Wicked, just for certain lines that hit home

You Must Love Me and Another Suitcase, Another Hall (sung in the London Revival) - Evita

Once Upon a Time - Brooklyn

Being Alive - Company

Practically the whole score from TL5Y, especially - If I Didn't Believe in You and the Finale

I Know the Truth - Aida

Tell Me it's Not True - Blood Brothers

#36

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 7:26am

For me

Anytime (Elegies)
Sailing (A new brain)
Infinite Joy (Elegies)
Evermore without you (Woman in white)
Not a day goes by (Merrily we roll along)
Come to your senses (Tick Tick Boom)
Most of the last 5 years
Most of William finn

#37

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 7:34am

The I Love You Song - Spelling Bee
I Know Where I've Been - Hairspray
Can't Help Falling in Love - All Shook Up
For Good - Wicked

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#38

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 7:41am

Wizard And I (Wicked)
I Will Never Leave You (Sideshow)
What I Did For Love (A Chorus Line)
Witches Lament (Into the Woods)
As IF We Never Said Goodbye (Sunset Blvd)
Raven (Brooklyn)
Lots Wife (Caroline or Change)
Fable (Light in the Piazza)
Memory (Cats)

#39

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 9:44am

Anything from AIDA and INTO THE WOODS
THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL - MAMMA MIA!
LOSING MY MIND (espcially Michael Ball's version) *lol*
NOBODY'S SIDE and PITY THE CHILD- CHESS
LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD/I STILL BELIEVE- MISS SAIGON

There are more, I know, and I'll come back to list them when I think

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#40

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 9:56am

i'm with Tateh. i'm all about Bill Finn.

i think he captures the little 12 year old in all of us that is vulnerable and good at the same time. anything from A NEW BRAIN, SPELLING BEE, FALSETTOS, etc.

i especially love "I'm Not That Smart" right now as i have it on my MYSPACE profile <3

#41

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 11:06am

Bill Finn rulez...

I really should have put "The Music Still Plays On" on my first list, from A New Brain.

#42

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 7:47pm

POPULAR from WICKED
DANCE: 10 LOOKS: 3 from A CHORUS LINE
OUT TONIGHT from RENT
AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE from WICKED
NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED from WICKED
WONDERFUL from WICKED
FORGET ABOUT THE BOY from MILLIE
MY UNFORTUNATE ERECTION from SPELLING BEE









just kidding...

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#43

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 8:26pm

Cabaret.

Its one of those songs that after you listen to it, you feel like you're on top of the world, no matter what mood you are in or what has happened to you that day. Its one of my favorite songs ever.

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#44

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 10:56pm

The Miller's Son- A Little Night Music

#45

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/16/06 at 11:55pm

let me come in the me nobody knows wow what a song.

#46

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/17/06 at 12:28am

The top Five Sondhiem songs, In My Opinion,

1. Someone In a Tree: Pacific Overtures
2. Anotehr Hundred People: Company, only Pamela Myers
3. The Miller's Son: A Little Night Music
4. Good Thing Going: Merrily We Roll Along
5. I'm Still Here: Follies, especially Yvonne De Carlo

#47

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/17/06 at 1:41am

"I Don't Care Much" from Cabaret, preferably Jon Peterson's rendition because it's heart breaking. The song is just so sad...but I love it!

"Johanna" from Sweeney. If I were a dude, I'd totally use this song as an audition piece - it's beautiful.

"Somewhere" from West Side Story. No matter what, it makes me cry. It could be Bab's version, a marching band's version, some guy singing it on the A train...whatever. It always makes me cry.

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#48

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/17/06 at 1:57am

For Good and Defying Gravity- Wicked
The Past is Another Land and Enchantment Passing Through (Reprise)-AIDA
A bit of Earth- Secret Garden
Astonishing- Little Women
Somewhere- West Side Story
Electricity- Billy Elliot
Say it Somwehow and Dividing Day- Light in the Piazza
On the Street where you live- My Fair Lady *swoon*

Those are a few that come to mind.

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#49

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/17/06 at 12:27pm

Defying Gravity (popular cliche, but there's a reason for it!)
I Hate the Bus (Caroline or Change)
100 Million Miracles (Flower Drum Song)
I'll Cover You (Rent)
Braver Than We Are (Dance of the Vampires)
Stay with Me (Into the Woods)
Wonder(Cut) and If I Told You (The Wedding Singer)
Heaven On Their Minds and Judas' Death (JC Superstar)

#50

re: Most Emotionally Satisfying Showtunes?

Posted: 10/17/06 at 12:34pm

I'll Cover You (Rent)
I Know Where I've Been (Hairspray)
On My Own (Les Miserables)
As Long As He Needs Me (Oliver!)
You've Got To Be Taught (South Pacific)
You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel)

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Updated On: 10/17/06 at 12:34 PM