Well, I ended up with roughly 50 songs on it, but since I wanted to burn a CD as well, I had to cut it down to 25. I tried sticking to the less depressing showtunes for the most part. These are my top 25 choices (and it was really tough choosing), and obviously other people will disagree, overall AWESOME suggestions, I found a bunch of new romantic showtunes that I'm in love with now thanks to this thread. Oh, and for fairness, I specifically stuck to one song per show which was SO tough. Thanks to everyone! Let me know what you guys think. These are my top 25 listed alphabetically not in order of preference:
1. "With So Little to Be Sure Of"-ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, '95 Carnegie Hall Concert (I adore the original rendition, and Hearn's and Mallory's concert version is touching, but I'm a sucker for Peters' and Bakula's perfect version).
2. "Eve"-THE APPLE TREE, Encores! concert soundboard ("What Makes Me Love Him" is beautiful but I love the ambivalence of "Eve," the line "and suddenly I saw that she was beautiful...beautiful? Yes, that's the word" is too romantic not to be included).
3. "Fifty Percent"-BALLROOM, OBCR
4. "I Loved You Once in Silence"-CAMELOT, OBCR (So sad but so romantic).
5. "I Had a Dream About You"-DECEMBER SONGS, Betty Buckley's rendition from THE MAURY YESTON SONGBOOK
6. "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"-DREAMGIRLS, OBCR
7. "What Would I Do?"-FALSETTOLAND (One of those I had never listened to before, and fell in love with after someone suggested it on this thread, thanks!)
8. "Too Many Mornings"-FOLLIES
9. "People"-FUNNY GIRL
10. "Shouldn't I Be Less In Love with You?"-I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE (if you haven't listened to it, you must, thanks to Craig for suggesting it, gorgeous song)
11. "Shall We Dance?"-THE KING & I, '96 Revival (the sexual tension, the unspoken love...*sigh*)
12. "Say It Somehow"-THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (might as well include the whole score, one of the most romantic scores ever)
13. "September Song"-LOVEMUSIK, OBCR (I know it's from KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY but I think the Murphy/Scherer duet is perfect)
14. "The Last Night of the World"-MISS SAIGON, OLCR (I have a history with this song, it brings back great memories)
15. "My Heart is So Full of You"-THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, OBCR
16. "Lida Rose/Will I Ever Tell You?"-THE MUSIC MAN, OBCR
17. "Unusual Way"-NINE, '03 Roundabout Revival
18. "Loving You"-PASSION, OBCR (so simple and short yet it says so much, Murphy's rendition can't be matched)
19. "All I Ask Of You"-PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, OLCR (I HATE the show but this one song actually does it for me)
20. "Bill"-SHOWBOAT, '94 Hal Prince revival.
21. "Unexpected Song"-SONG & DANCE, OBCR
22. "Younger than Springtime"-SOUTH PACIFIC, Carnegie Hall concert.
23. "Move On"-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, OBCR
24. "Gimme, Gimme"-THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, OBCR
25. "Tonight"-WEST SIDE STORY, from A PLACE FOR US, with Kristin Chenoweth and Hugh Panaro.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
