Most Un-Original Broadway Song

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Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 2:40pm

Just curious... which Broadway song's melody do you think is the most stolen from something else?

My vote would have to go to "No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods... stolen note for note from "The Candyman Can" -Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

#2

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 2:45pm

i HATE Friendship from Anything Goes. Talk about generic...

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#3

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 2:50pm

Even though I enjoy the song and it's probably the only thing good about the show, "Once Upon A Time" from "Brooklyn" is pretty cliche and unoriginal.

#4

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:21pm

The beginning of "Castle on a Cloud" in the same exact melody as a Tchaikovsky piece. Same exact melody, note for note.

#5

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:23pm

hahahaha! funny

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"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

#6

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 3:34pm

I love these songs but "What Do I Need With Love" from Millie and "Dancing Through Life" from Wicked are pretty cliche male songs.

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re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:44pm

Pretty much the entire score of "Wicked".

#8

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:50pm

Brooklyn songs sound like a Celine Dion(sp?) Concert!

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re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:52pm

"No One is Alone" Is a note for note steal from "The Candyman Can"? That's some sort of joke, right? Because, you know, the songs are completely different. Is that the joke?


And "Friendship?" My God you people are really hunting.

Of course, no thread is complete without a Wicked Bash, but I'll bite, MEF....What show, pray tell is the "Entire Score of Wicked" stolen from?


Good lord!

#10

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:55pm

"Wicked" sounds like a regurgitation of everything Schwartz has ever written.

#11

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:56pm

The entire "score" of "Mamma Mia."

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#12

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 4:58pm

I'm glad someone piped up and defended "No One Is Alone" because...ugh.

I was going to comment...but reconsidered, considering the calibre of person that would think that...I decided to go and talk to a brick wall instead.

Much more intellegent conversation.

#13

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 5:19pm

some of the songs from little women seem unoriginial...or maybe just uninspired

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#14

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 6:56pm

I'm one of the biggest Phantom fans there is, but the score is a recollection of ALW and other people's works more or less.

#15

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 7:05pm

no one is alone and candyman are completely different except for one little part.
in candyman: "Who can take a sunrise..."
sounds the same as the melody in no one is alone "Someone is on your side..."
but that's it. other than that the songs are completely different, and i'd hardly consider no one is alone to be unoriginal.

#16

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 7:11pm

Most of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and WICKED

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#17

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 8:29pm

wonderful town has songs ripping each other off musically, specifically "pass the football" is the exact melody as "what a waste"

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#18

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 9:35pm

The melody of "Streetsinger" from BROOKLYN is an obvious rip-off of Sam Cooke's signature song "A Change Is Gonna Come" (it's so dead on that they need to pay his estate royalties).

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re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 9:58pm

"No One is Alone" Is a note for note steal from "The Candyman Can"?
Wow!!! It's true!

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#20

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:24pm

the candyman/ no one is alone thing is true- minimally the first few lines

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#21

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:26pm

Mamma Mia....entire "score" of...does that even count as a score???/

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#22

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:27pm

i think "all i ask of you" and "music of the night" sound the same.

that's all i ask of you
the music of the night

you think alw would at least put the same melodic line in two different shows.

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#23

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:27pm

The ENTIRE "score" of Avenue Q

WTF!!?? Where the Hell did the WICKED crap come from!? You ppl are REALLY SAD!

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#24

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:33pm

hate to break it to you fosseboi but wicked is takes on others of schwartz's work ala andrew lloyd webber. I'll give you ave q, although whats ripped off is in my opinion to get you into the sesame street mentality (what do you do with a b.a. in english is the same melody as the rainbow connection)

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"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

#25

re: Most Un-Original Broadway Song

Posted: 3/6/05 at 10:44pm

Please! I can think of two or three Stephen Schwartz songs "Defying Gravity" sounds like. ("Up to His Old Tricks" and "West End Avenue" come immediately to mind.) Also, "On the Right Track" from PIPPIN sounds a lot like "Turn Back, O Man" from GODSPELL.


Jule Styne once pointed out that "Why God, Why" from MISS SAIGON stole some of its melody from "There's a Small Hotel" from ON YOUR TOES.

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