Musical songs about warnings
Musical songs about warnings
pattibelle
Swing Joined: 4/22/06
#1Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:03pm
Can anyone help me out with songs where a character or characters warns another character about something? A place, a person or a thing? Thanks so much in advance.
#2Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:10pm
A Boy Like That from West Side Story is the first thing that I thought of.
Kitsune
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/06
#3Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:55pm
The first thing that popped into my head was, "Something Bad is Happening" from Falsettoland.
#4Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 12:15am
The witch is warning the survivors in Into The Woods, when she sings It's The Last Midnight.
Don Quijote sings" Hear me now oh thy bleak and unbearable world" in I am I from Man of La Mancha
Little Chap warns "Stand well back I'm coming through," in Nothing Can Stop Me Now from The Roar of the Greasepaint...
And, of course, Mary Rogers rhymes warning with morning in Once Upon a Mattress. Yesterday I Loved you.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#5Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 12:32am
You'll See from ReNt
Voter
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/20
#7Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 5:07am
Murder Murder from Jekyll & Hyde
And the title songs from Reefer Madness and Little Shop
seaweedjstubbs
Broadway Star Joined: 3/21/07
rabymon10
Stand-by Joined: 10/30/06
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#11Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 9:26am
BARE has one entitled WARNING, sung by one of the mum's, Claire. It's more about not getting a warning for her son's coming out.
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#12Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 11:19am
Small Craft Warnings from ROMANCE, ROMANCE
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
#13Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 3:38pm
Sixteen Going on Seventeen from The Sound of Music.
Sample:
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I´ll take care of you
The Bittersweets
Chorus Member Joined: 1/14/23
#14Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 7:24pm
First thing that comes to mind is A Warning to Monty from A Gentleman’s Guide.
Dan6
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/10
FranklinDickson2018
Stand-by Joined: 4/6/18
#16Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 7:35pm
I personally like "Fair Warning" from Harold Rome's "Destry Rides Again." (1959) and would "Just you Wait Henry Higgins " also be a warning song?
Strange Lupone
Stand-by Joined: 5/11/22
#17Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 10:43pm
No Good Can Come From Bad
Strange Lupone
Stand-by Joined: 5/11/22
#18Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 10:49pm
Revenge from “It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Superman!”
#19Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/3/23 at 10:54pm
I'd argue "Turn Back, O Man" from Godspell counts.
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MattieIce2018
Leading Actor Joined: 5/8/19
#20Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/4/23 at 12:32am
Hadestown has “Word to the Wise,” in which the Fates warn Hades of the consequences of his decision to let Orpheus go (whether he does or does not allow it).
#21Musical songs about warnings
Posted: 4/4/23 at 1:35am
"(Ya Got) Trouble" from The Music Man. Along with its numerous parodies.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet; this seems like the obvious granddaddy of the "warning song" genre, even if the "person, place or thing" being warned-against -- a pool table -- is comically unworthy of all the fuss. Or actually maybe because of that: Hill's rabble-rousing really is pure "warning", unencumbered by any actual facts, reasonable inferences, or even any genuine concern for the people he's warning.
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