Most popular song?

[Ebonic_Singer]

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.

[meagan9848]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 2:59pm

seasons of love is very popular...

[zepka102]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 2:59pm

tomorrow from annie

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:04pm

Memory from CATS.

[Delphine]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:08pm

Tomorrow, and maybe On My Own.

[Thoroughly Modern Cara]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:09pm

The Impossible Dream

[zepka102]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:09pm

oh what a beautiful morning


didnt good morning america use that as their theme song?

[tthomas76]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:10pm

All That Jazz - Chicago

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:13pm

Guess what I'm gonna say...

[JohnnyTlover216]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:17pm

It's a hard knock life

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

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!

[zepka102]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:19pm

i see circle of life and beauty and the beast already as hits... only because people knew the songs before the shows opened on broadway

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 3:53pm

Some Enchanted Evening (i think everyone's heard this song...)
Oooooooooooklahoma.. (same applies here)

[BlueWizard]

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.

Updated On: 9/3/04 at 04:33 PM

[BwayLover]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 4:57pm

All I Ask Of You

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 4:59pm

I highly doubt that Lots Wife will become a household standard.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 5:00pm

look at me I'm sandra dee...

almost everyone has that memorized!

[TheGirlinTheFrock]

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

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 5:23pm

I don't think that Diana DiGarmo's version (or the one from TBFO) will ever make Melissa Manchester's hit a household standard either.

[touchmeinthemorning]

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.

Updated On: 9/3/04 at 05:44 PM

[Unknown User]

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

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 7:20pm

I 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.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 7:21pm

FOR GOOD!!!

Updated On: 9/3/04 at 07:21 PM

[Guido Contini]

Posted: 9/3/04 at 7:46pm

you're effing kidding me right?

[megannn33]

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)