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Most Overdone Showtune
sparky310
Featured Actor Joined: 11/10/03
#25re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 9:52am
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THAT JAZZ
MrMarkCharlieBrownCohen
Stand-by Joined: 4/5/05
#26re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 9:53am
LOVED this part -
"He performs the national anthem of stalkers, Lerner and Loewe’s "On The Street Where You Live"
the national anthem of stalkers? So true!
Gooch
Understudy Joined: 3/15/05
#27re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 10:19amThe hills are alive with THS SOUND OF MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#28re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 10:22am
On My Own
Tommorow
and audition wise:
Take me or leave me
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
#29re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 10:26amIf for an audition i think Do-Re-Mi
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
riv
Leading Actor Joined: 3/6/05
#30re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 10:46am
Broadway Baby.
At least it's the most overdone Sondheim number.
#31re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 10:50am
Definitely agree with ->
On my Own
Tomorrow
All that Jazz
Going to be on this list very very soon ->
Defying Gravity.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#32re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 10:53amDefinitely "Broadway Baby".
"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman
#33re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 11:14am
In terms of auditions: I actually disagree about "Tomorrow" = that was at one time the MOST overdone song at auditions, but perhaps because of that, nobody on the professional circuit ever sings it anymore. Same goes for "Memory." I actually wouldn't mind hearing those.
From my time sitting behind the desk as a casting assistant five years ago-- these were the songs I heard more then anything else:
"Anthem" from Chess
"Unexpected Song" from Song and Dance
"On My Own" from Les Miz
"Hold On" from The Secret Garden
"Ice Cream" and "Try Me" from She Loves Me
"Show Me" from My Fair Lady
I imagine you could probably add "Defying Gravity" and "The Wizard and I" to that list now.
Updated On: 4/8/05 at 11:14 AM
#34re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 11:36amI've heard enough of "Home" from The Wiz at auditions too.
"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman
#35re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 12:17pm
Send in the Clowns (YAWN!!!!!)
What I Did For Love
". . . POP . . ."
MrMarkCharlieBrownCohen
Stand-by Joined: 4/5/05
#36re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 12:23pm
*crinches at all the bad renditions of defying gravity out there* OUCH!!
#37re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 1:11pm
Ha! I agree..so many of these are going to be overdone in 3005.
So my list
~ Tomorrow
~ over the rainbow
~on my own
~ pretty much anything from the Sound of Music
~ ALREADY added to my list...Defying Gravity,(and)
~The Wizard and I,
~For Good,
~Popular
That's all I can think of at the moment, but I was thinking...pretty much any song you can find in your run-of-the-mill Broadway Anthology that you can get at a music store seems to be overdone, at least to me...maybe I just have crappy anthologies.
Was that a fat joke?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#39re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:04pm
New York, New York isn't officially a showtune because it was written for the film NEW YORK, NEW YORK and not for the musical theater.
I think the most overdone:
What I Did For Love from A CHORUS LINE
Tomorrow from ANNIE
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
MusicalDirector109
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#40re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 4:34pm
for kids:
"Castle on a Cloud" - "Les Miserables"
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#41re: Most Overdone Showtune
Posted: 4/8/05 at 5:28pm
This Is the Moment
All That Jazz
Anthem
She Loves Me
Videos