Most popular song?
Most popular song?
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#0Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 2:58pm
Okay, what is the song from a broadway show that almost anyone who hears it, even people who have never stepped in a theater, would know?
I vote probably Summer Nights from Grease because it's done so much at Karaoke bars.
#1re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 2:59pmseasons of love is very popular...
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#6re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:09pm
oh what a beautiful morning
didnt good morning america use that as their theme song?
::bust a move::
JohnnyTlover216
Swing Joined: 9/3/04
#9re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:17pmIt's a hard knock life
Ruv and hate, they like to brothers, who go on a date
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#10re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:17pm
Tomorrow
Memory
Impossible Dream
Everythings Coming Up Roses
Dont Cry For Me Argentina
Music of the Night
Cant Help Lovin Dat Man
Seasons of Love
Songs that are destined to be popular Bway songs:
Defying Gravity
For Good or Popular
You Cant Stop the Beat
We Can Do It
Springtime for Hitler
I Go To Rio
Lots Wife
Circle of Life
Beauty and the Beast
and there are SOOO many more! 
#11re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:19pmi see circle of life and beauty and the beast already as hits... only because people knew the songs before the shows opened on broadway
::bust a move::
#12re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:53pm
Some Enchanted Evening (i think everyone's heard this song...)
Oooooooooooklahoma.. (same applies here)
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
#13re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 4:33pm
All the old standards (some of which even I was surprised to find out are from musicals):
My Funny Valentine
The Lady is a Tramp
There's No Business like Show Business
Luck Be a Lady
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Also:
Send In The Clowns
Age of Aquarius
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
There are many, many more. It's only recently that Broadway music hasn't become more popular with the masses.
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#14re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 4:57pm
All I Ask Of You
"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "
#15re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 4:59pmI highly doubt that Lots Wife will become a household standard.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#16re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 5:00pm
look at me I'm sandra dee...
almost everyone has that memorized!
TheGirlinTheFrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/26/04
#17re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 5:02pm
Luck Be a Lady
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
and now w/ Diana Digarmo's single
Don't Cry out Loud
Though scattered and divided we are still its heart...AIDA SEPTEMBER 5th, 2004...one more longing backward glance...
I AM NOW "TGIF!"
#18re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 5:23pmI don't think that Diana DiGarmo's version (or the one from TBFO) will ever make Melissa Manchester's hit a household standard either.
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#19re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 5:44pm
Well, with Chicago being one of the highest-grossing movies of all-time, I think maybe All That Jazz would be pretty recognizable.
I also thnk people will know "And I am telling you" -- it has been odne a few times on American Idol.
Besides that, I concur that the movie-musicals tend to have the songs more people know.
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Updated On: 9/3/04 at 05:44 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 6:57pm
funny honey
all for the best
cabaret
lets hear it for the boy
one song glory (whenever rent comes up. people are always like.. OMG osg!!! lalalala)
steam heat
42nd street
those are some
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 7:20pmI love "On My Own" but a lot of my friends didn't know it when a friend sang it at a recital. If we're going with musicals, not specifically Broadway, I'd say "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from Meet Me in St. Louis. It's a Christmas standard that almost everyone of every age knows. "Tomorrow" is also known by a lot of people.
#22re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 7:21pmFOR GOOD!!!
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
Updated On: 9/3/04 at 07:21 PM
#23re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 7:46pmyou're effing kidding me right?
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
megannn33
Stand-by Joined: 8/6/04
#24re: Most popular song?
Posted: 9/3/04 at 7:52pm
i don't think for good is.. i mean ask anyone that doesn't see broadway shows that much they would be like WTF?!
i say
tomorrow - annie
or
it's a hard knock life - annie
or any grease song probably (well that was in the movie)
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