Older Shows...

[wicked_mimi]

Older Shows...#0

Posted: 2/27/06 at 11:35pm

I am thinking of putting on a cabaret at my school with the theme "A Celebration of Broadway Over the Years." However, I am a bad theater fan and really only truly familiar with the more modern shows. What are some popular songs/shows with great songs in them, from back in the day? Can be solos... duets... group numbers... just as long as the can easily be done out of show context for a cabaret style show and also can kind of landmark a certain time frame. Thanks!

[Thesbijean]

re: Older Shows...#1

Posted: 2/27/06 at 11:43pm

You're The Top - ANYTHING GOES

Luck Be A Lady - GUYS AND DOLLS

Some Enchanted Evening - SOUTH PACIFIC

As Long as He Needs Me - OLIVER!

Another Openin' Another Show - KISS ME, KATE

Some of my favorite classics...

[thez914]

re: Older Shows...#2

Posted: 2/27/06 at 11:49pm

You gotta do "Give my regards to Broadway" and "Lullaby of Broadway"

"Art is always in crisis: you must work fast to write in the breath on the window." -Edward Bond

[munkustrap178]

re: Older Shows...#3

Posted: 2/28/06 at 12:00am

Why don't you do wonderful songs from classic shows, but the "the" song from the show? No one wants to go hear "Getting to Know You" or "The Sound of Music." Instead, so something like "Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I, and if you're going to do THE SOUND OF MUSIC, do something like "Climb Every Mountain."

I know for me, I don't want to go hear people sing the ONLY song that's ever performed from the show. Do different songs.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[BwayLeadman]

re: Older Shows...#4

Posted: 2/28/06 at 12:03am

Everything's Coming Up Roses

[munkustrap178]

re: Older Shows...#5

Posted: 2/28/06 at 12:03am

Apparantly you don't agree...

Do you guys feel the same?

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[Pasty]

re: Older Shows...#6

Posted: 2/28/06 at 12:06am

anything from annie get your gun.

[DG]

re: Older Shows...#7

Posted: 2/28/06 at 1:02am

Munk - in theory, I agree. But it's a little comical to me to present "Climb Every Mountain" as representative of the less performed. I've heard that more than most others songs from musicals combined.

[catstagestud]

re: Older Shows...#8

Posted: 2/28/06 at 1:07am

Munk I think that's a great idea! I feel that those songs that aren't always so hyped can give a lot more to an audience. I'd rather hear something like "Prayer" from Pimpernel than "She Was There" or something like "Goin' Down" from Hair as opposed to "Aquarius"

Some other great songs from older shows- "Why Was I Born" by Jerome Kern from Sweet Adeline

"Once in a While" from the Rocky Horror Show

"I Resolve" "Grand Knowing You" or "A Trip to the Library" from She Loves Me (I'm in rehearsal for it right now so kinda have the show on the brain)

"I Only Have Eyes for You" from 42nd St. (Not a show from back in the day, but not a modern musical necessarily)

"The Bus From Amarillo" from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

Another show that's not particuarly old but wonderful music, "You Can Always Count on Me" or "With Every Breath I Take" from City of Angels

If you have good African-American talent think of something like "When I First Saw You" or "I Am Changing" from Dreamgirls. Also there's the amazing (and yes, signature) song from The Wiz, "Home".

Hope that gave you some small idea of possibilities. If you have other questions for stuff I did a Kern revue last year at my university and have a bunch of songs from the 20's-40's of his.

Cheers,

C.

www.christopherviolett.com

[catstagestud]

re: Older Shows...#9

Posted: 2/28/06 at 1:10am

ooops; double post! :-P

www.christopherviolett.com

Updated On: 2/28/06 at 01:10 AM

[munkustrap178]

re: Older Shows...#10

Posted: 2/28/06 at 2:46am

Here are some of my favorites...

The Farmer and the Cowman - OKLAHOMA!
What's the Use of Wond'rin'? - CAROUSEL
Mister Snow - CAROUSEL
Nothing Like a Dame - SOUTH PACIFIC
Something Wonderful - THE KING AND I
No Way to Stop It - THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go - BIG RIVER
You Oughta Be Here With Me - BIG RIVER
Bright New Day - BLOOD BROTHERS
English Teacher - BYE BYE BIRDIE

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[wickedrentq]

re: Older Shows...#11

Posted: 2/28/06 at 4:04am

Some of my favorites:

Somewhere-West Side Story
You'll Never Walk Alone-Carousel
Look To The Rainbow-Finian's Rainbow
How Are Things in Glocca Morra-Finian's Rainbow
Wouldn't It Be Loverly-My Fair Lady
Sunrise, Sunset-Fiddler on the Roof
Heart-Damn Yankees

Ooh, and I'm starting a job playing in a Guys and Dolls pit, and No More Can I Wish You is really striking me; it's really pretty

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

Updated On: 2/28/06 at 04:04 AM