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#1

Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 2:01pm

Hey all,

Looking for a song that I can do with some friends for a competition. I haven't really chosen the people I want it, it kind of is based on the song. But we need it to be between 3-7 people, a mix of guys and girls (exact number doesn't really matter but no more than 5 of either), and preferably something with humor. Just searching for ideas, I'd like to listen to any of them so if you know of any really great songs (that aren't overdone, no one wants to do a song that everybody knows) please help me out and list them here. Thanks a bunch in advance everyone!

#2

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 2:12pm

Whenever I think of a mixed group number I think of "Company" (from Company), which would just barely fit your criteria but is still a great song.

#3

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:13pm

There is a great song from Damn Yankees titled Six Month's out of the Year. It's basically a "Boys" aagainst the "Girls" number. Very fun!

#4

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:18pm

What about Summer Lovin' From Grease? That's Girls/Boys?

#5

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:19pm

"The Devil You Know" from SIDE SHOW

"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

#6

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:46pm

how about you cant stop the beat from hairspray?

#7

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:48pm

Umm edgar allen poe from snoopy is a really good one and fun to stage. Or you could do Gordos Law of Genetics from A new Brain very funny and seldom done. Umm lets see...Crime of the Century from Ragtime is a good one. I cant think of any more now.

#8

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 4:55pm

How about That song from Bye Bye Birdie........cant remember the name but they are all talking on the telephone

"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

#9

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 5:32pm

Telephone hour? I don't know, that involves a lot of high-pitched screeching on phones.

#10

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 6:07pm

how about "I Feel So Much Spring" from A NEW BRAIN...that's a great song

when you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance you have to believe mercy has its own country and that it's round and borderless ~Animal, Ani Difranco

#11

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 6:08pm

also the opening of Songs For A New World is a good one. It is written for two men and two women but you could probably make it work with more

when you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance you have to believe mercy has its own country and that it's round and borderless ~Animal, Ani Difranco

#12

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 7:38pm

I was gonna say A New World from SFANW. It can definately be stretched, but one of the guys is basically a male alto--so unless you have a guy with a really high voice that'd have to be worked out. I'm doing it with some friends for a performance but that part is being sung by a girl so I'm the only guy singing.

#13

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 7:56pm

the opening number from "Company" needs 14 people....and it is VERY hard--big surprise....

if it's for a competition, something that's flashy would probably be better....like Summer Nights, We Both Reached For the Gun, Brotherhood of Man....

#14

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 8:02pm

This is a weird suggestion, but if you really want to be out there, you could do Keep It Gay from The Producers. Max, Leo can be played by girls, and Shirley Markowitz is a girl. Kevin could probably be a girl, too.

Horrible suggestion, I know, but I just got the sudden urge to suggest it. I would totally do Keep It Gay for a talent show if I had people to perform with.

#15

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/1/04 at 8:07pm

you could also do "Gee, Officer Krupke" with boys and girls--and it requires fewer people...

#16

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/4/04 at 3:35pm

Just a bump, lots of good suggestions here but we've ran into a couple issues the last couple days on getting people to do it that are dedicated for this competition. Our original plan months ago was to do The Opening from SFANW but the two guys who are putting this group together (myself included) are actually a bass and a baritone and singing up for us just didn't sound too good so we ditched that idea. Grease, too overplayed. Listened to the songs from A New Brain and weren't overly impressed, they were okay, possibilities. Bye Bye Birdie is too cheesy for us, lol. The others I haven't looked into yet but will soon.

We have for sure three guys (a bass and two high baritones/low tenors) and a girl (a soprano in chorus but could pretty much do anything other than opera) that would be in a group if needed. We'd need to work to find more. I'm just brainstorming, I know I'm a pain in the ass

but thanks for all the help guys.

#17

re: Need Song Ideas

Posted: 9/4/04 at 4:10pm

DO "WHAT IS THIS FEELING"!!!!

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

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