Poll: What is the real anthem of Broadway?

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Poll: What is the real anthem of Broadway?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:01pm

"There's No Business Like Show Business" - mentions show business but not Broadway
"Give My Regards to Broadway" - mentions Broadway but not musical theatre or anything like that

Any other suggestions?

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

re: Poll: What is the real anthem of Broadway?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:02pm

"I Am What I Am" is a real anthem for people living the Broadway life.

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

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:04pm

It doesn't actually mention the word Broadway (as far as I know...) But 'One' from a chorus line for me is pretty anthem-ish, in emotion etc if not actual lyrical content

'It was six hours! I don't even like to have sex or eat bacon for six hours!' 'You are faboulous creatures each and every one'

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:08pm

I disagree about "One" because it's about a non-existant leading lady fronting a visible chorus line.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:08pm

I'm old-fashioned here, but I love "Lullaby Of Broadway" (from 42nd Street.)

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:09pm

That's more like it. I was considering posting that as well.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:20pm

I can see the kicking now, sorry maybe I have just watched the DVD for "broadway the american musical" one too many times.

Come a long, come on a long and listen to
the lullaby of broadway

mm mmm m mmmm mm.....(sings it happily off into the sunset)

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:22pm

Well I would have gone w/ the obvious answers...No Business Like Show Business and Lullaby of Broadway.

If you're looking at Chorus Line though, I never saw the show, but isn't What I Did For Love supposed to be about what all these people did to dance, to be on broadway(not the stupid thing in the movie).

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re: Poll: What is the real anthem of Broadway?

Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:28pm

Why? How does the movie interpret it?

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:28pm

I also second "Lullaby of Broadway," or even "42nd Street," though that one might be a bit more of a stretch. Or maybe not...since we're talking about a Broadway anthem rather than all things theatrical.

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If we touch,
Warning's fair:
I don't care
Very much

#11

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:31pm

Add my vote to "The Lullaby of Broadway"

#12

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:32pm

What about "Broadway Baby?"

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#13

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:33pm

What about "On Broadway" from Smokey Joe's?

"If I have something to say, the whole world (BroadwayWorld) should hear it." - Thenardier

#14

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:44pm

Jason, the movie turns it into a song just for Cassie, and commenting on her relationship w/ the director. Stupid.

#15

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:11pm

"How you gonna make some time
When all you got is one thin dime?
And one thin dime won't even shine your shoes..."

#16

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:19pm

I think I am what I am is the clear choice because is symbolises how in theater we accept everything.

#17

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:31pm

"Give My Regards to Broadway"
"No Business Like Show business"
"Broadway Baby"

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#18

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:34pm

"Lullaby of Broadway" has my vote

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

#19

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:37pm

quote:

'why? how does the movie interpret it?'

in the movie Cassie sings the song after her confrontation with Zach and the 'Music In The Mirror' scene (altho in the movie it's a new song called 'Let Me Dance For You') while the others are doing the 'Tap Combination' where as in the stage show it's sung by Morales and Company in the scene after Paul falls and they all discuss with Zach what they would do if they couldn't dance. The movie changes the WHOLE meaning of the song with it beig ficused on Cassie and Zach's relationship rather than the original focus of being a performer and doing anything for your craft!

#20

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:39pm

"Applause, Applause"

"What is it that we're living for? Applause! Applause!
Nothing I know brings on the glow like sweet applause.
You're thinking you're through, that nobody cares...
Then suddenly you here it starting.
And all at once you know again what life is for!
Trumpets all sing, life seems to sing...
And youre the king of it all 'cause
You've had a tast of, the sound that says love..
Applause, Applause, Applause!"

"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish

#21

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:36pm

I think the best ones have already been said: Applause, Broadway Baby, What I Did For Love, Give My Regards to Broadway, Lullaby of Broadway and There's No Business Like Show Business. Also, although this is more for Manhattan than Broadway, "New York, New York" from New York, New York.

"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

#22

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:57pm

Music of the Night would be a good one.

#23

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:31pm

I'm Still Here - FOLLIES - nothing is truer!

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#24

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:34pm

Lullaby of Broadway
What I Did for Love

#25

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Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:35pm

My vote also goes to either "No Business Like Show Business" or "Lullaby of Broadway".

"Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, 'I knew he loved me when he didn't come in my mouth.'" ~ Andy Warhol

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