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Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
#25re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/26/09 at 5:28pm"Shma" kills me. I was going to list it, but wasn't sure if it was appropriate for this thread, considering that it's usually a capella
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#26re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/26/09 at 7:46pmHaha I saw the post and I was like "I bet 'Lolita, My Love' isn't there, and Carrie prolly isn't either".... and then I saw that the OP is one smart cookie :). And I agree with SITPWG as well... The overture of Sweeney gives me chills. Marie Christine is definitely tense and beautiful. "Losing My Mind" from Follies; that gets me. and "Starfish" from La Strada.
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#27re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/26/09 at 8:54pm
Already mentioned, but Unusual Way from Nine is so beautiful and haunting.
In addition, "Around the World" along with "Another Winter in a Summer Town" (Grey Gardens) are haunting as well.
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#28re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/26/09 at 9:03pm
^^^Agreed. Unusual Way always give me that eerie feeling. Esp. in Kidman's version when she sings the last low note in the song. And "Another Winter..." just sends me into convulsing sobs when I hear it.
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Updated On: 12/26/09 at 09:03 PM
Send in the clowns...Send in the crowds!
"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."-Stephen Sondheim
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#29re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/26/09 at 9:24pm
As much as I love "You Don't Know," I'm not sure I would consider it to be "haunting."
To add a new one to the mix, I would say South Pacific's "This Nearly Was Mine." I didn't like it much before seeing the current revival. Paulo's performance of it, however, was chilling, and I'm now a fan.
Leia947
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/09
#30re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/26/09 at 9:28pmAquarius Goodnights/Ain't Got No/The Flesh Failures from Hair.
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#31re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/27/09 at 2:27am
Well thank you, myshikobit. :] I try. :P
Lolita, My Love is truly one of my top five favorite musicals in the world...it REALLY deserves a revival.
Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:: Carrie, Merrily, Ionescopade
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Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
romgitsean
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#32re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/27/09 at 2:28amAnd really, philly03, Finding Wonderland? I hate that song. Just sayin'. :P
Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:: Carrie, Merrily, Ionescopade
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
#33re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/27/09 at 3:31am
"You'll Be in My Heart" and "You'll Be in My Heart (reprise) from Tarzan, specifically the reprise.
I had never heard the Broadway version of these songs until just recently, and i got the biggest chills. It was incredible!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#34re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/27/09 at 3:35am
"And really, philly03, Finding Wonderland? I hate that song. Just sayin'. :P"
If you see it in person you'd probably think differently! I know a lot of people hate on that one, but it's caught my ear from the start. The ending in the show ends the note but the music continues and what happens on stage..chills!
#35re: Most Haunting Broadway Melodies?
Posted: 12/27/09 at 3:48am
Overture from Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Unusually Way from Nine (one of the most haunting song. I remember the first time I heard that)
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