Poll: Best "Title" Songs?

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Poll: Best "Title" Songs?

Posted: 2/27/04 at 3:37pm

What do you think is the best "title" song from a musical (i.e. the song has the same name as the show in which it appears)? Examples include "The Phantom of the Opera," "Kiss of the SpiderWoman," "Jesus Christ Superstar"... And which ones are just plain bad "Title" songs?

Updated On: 2/27/04 at 03:37 PM

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 3:44pm

Cabaret!!!

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 4:27pm

Best: Anyone Can Whistle

and as a sub-topic
Worst: Dear World

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 4:35pm

Best: Lost In The Stars

Worst: Sunset Boulevard

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 5:14pm

this is a tough one.. either Phantom of the Opera or Cabaret

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 6:42pm

Best: RENT or JCS or Cabaret

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 6:46pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Little Shop of Horrors
42nd Street

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 7:03pm

1. Hello Dolly
2. Mame

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 7:15pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie
42nd Street
Cabaret

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 7:48pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Sound of Music

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 8:25pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Into the Woods
Sunday in the Park With George
Phantom of the Opera

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 9:44pm

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!!!!

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 9:46pm

RENT
Little Shop of Horrors
Thouroughly Modern Millie
Into The Woods
Mamma Mia!

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 9:55pm

Sweeney Todd.

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Posted: 2/27/04 at 10:28pm

RENT
Thouroughly Modern Millie
LSOH

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Posted: 2/28/04 at 12:40am

RENT by far.

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Posted: 2/28/04 at 1:35am

I would add RAGTIME to the list.

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

The Phantom of the Opera
Jesus Christ Superstar

Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet

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

I agree with that ^ !

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Posted: 2/28/04 at 6:21am

I agree with RENT and PHANTOM



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Posted: 2/28/04 at 11:28am

"Mame" It's just so catchy

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Posted: 2/28/04 at 12:04pm

Ragtime
Phantom of the Opera
42nd Street
Into the Woods
Mame
Cabaret

Worst: Hairspray

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Posted: 2/28/04 at 12:53pm

Best: Ragtime

Worst: Sunset Boulevard

Most conspicuously missing from the cast recording: A New Brain

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Posted: 2/28/04 at 4:36pm

I agree with broadway86 about Hairspray...I love the music from that show but that song is downright annoying.

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Posted: 2/28/04 at 4:53pm

Two title songs I've seen performed on Broadway completely stand out for me:

Charlie and Algernon -- PJ Benjamin's angry song and dance with a live mouse was both entertaining and chilling.

Dance a Little Closer -- A beautiful song performed by Len Cariou as a lounge singer at a ski resort. It's the brink of World War III and as he sing the couples on the dance floor begin slow dancing, then gradually they just start clinging to each other in fear for their lives.