Potential songs for a musical revue.

[MattcMusic]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 8:28pm

I am directing a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/ Equityt Fights AIDS at my University this December. I am looking for song suggestions for the opening and closing number of the show. I'm looking for songs that have a few solos and a strong choral part.

Any song suggestions for the opening and closing would be great. Also, if you have any suggestions at all please feel free to post them.

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 8:29pm

SUNDAY from SITPWG. A killer closer.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 9:00pm

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd -- Sweeney Todd
NYC -- Annie
Seasons of Love -- RENT
Til' We Reach That Day -- Ragtime
Funeral: There Is A Fountain/It Don't Make Sense -- Parade
Pinball Wizard -- Tommy

Updated On: 9/2/06 at 09:00 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 9:38pm

What about "Opening: The New World" for the opening, and "Our Time" or "Sunday" for the closing?

[idinawannabe2]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 9:49pm

How 'bout "Fugue For Tinhorns" from "Guys and Dolls" for the opening and "Seasons of Love" from "Rent" for the closing?

[OOTI2004]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 11:04pm

"Another Op'nin', Another Show" from Kiss Me, Kate would be a great opening. As would "Comedy Tonight" from A funny Thing Happened..., or "There's No Business Like Show Business" from Annie Get Your Gun.

I think "So Long Farewell" from the Sound of Music would be a funny closing. "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel would be a nice parting song.

Posted: 9/2/06 at 11:07pm

"hear my song" from songs for a new world

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 11:09pm

"Hear My Song" or "Flying Home" would be great closers.

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 9/3/06 at 1:26am

seasons of love would be an amazing ending

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/3/06 at 11:12am

Ok, here goes. This is actually a playlist I made of songs from my CDs on my Windows Media Player:

42nd Street (42nd Street)
All That Jazz (Chicago)
All the Wasted Time (Parade)
Alone in the Universe (Seussical)
America (West Side Story)
The American Dream (Miss Saigon)
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Dreamgirls)
Any Dream Will Do (Joseph)
Aquarius (Hair)
Astonishing (Little Women)
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)
Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Burning Love (All Shook Up)
By the Sword/Sons of Dixie (The Civil War)
Cabaret (Cabaret)
Children Will Listen (Into the Woods)
The Circle of Life (The Lion King)
Coma Baby (Bright Lights, Big City)
Comedy Tonight (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum)
Corner of the Sky (Pippin)
Day By Day (Godspell)
Defying Gravity (Wicked)
Don't Cry For Me, Argentina (Evita)
Ease on Down the Road (The Wiz)
Elaborate Lives (Aida)
Food Glorious Food (Oliver)
Girl I Mean to Be (The Secret Garden)
Great Big Stuff (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Guido's Song (Nine)
Hushabye Mountain (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
I Am What I Am (La Cage Aux Folles)
I Got Rhythm (Crazy For You)
I Wanna Be A Producer (The Producers)
If I Loved You (Carousel)
If I Were A Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof)
I'm Here (The Color Purple)
The Impossible Dream (Man of La Mancha)
Into the Fire (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
It's Your Wedding Day (The Wedding Singer)
Joey, Joey, Joey (The Most Happy Fella)
Le Jazz Hot (Victor/Victoria)
The Lees of Old Virginia (1776)
Light at the End of the Tunnel (Starlight Express)
Lot's Wife (Caroline or Change)
Loving You (Passion)
Mamma Mia (Mamma Mia)
Mean to Me (Ain't Misbehavin')
Measure the Valley (Raisin)
Memory (Cats)
Move On (Sunday in the Park With George)
Muddy Water (Big River)
The Music of the Night (The Phantom of the Opera)
Never Met A Man I Didn't Like (The Will Rogers Follies)
Neverland (Peter Pan)
Ol' Man River (Show Boat)
Once Upon A Time (Brooklyn)
One (A Chorus Line)
One Day More (Les Miserables)
Our Private World (On The Twentieth Century)
Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
Pinball Wizard (Tommy)
Rose's Turn (Gypsy)
Seasons of Love (Rent)
Seventy Six Trombones (The Music Man)
Sherry (Jersey Boys)
Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat (Guys and Dolls)
Snoopy (You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Somewhere That's Green (Little Shop of Horrors)
The Song That Goes Like This (Monty Python's Spamalot)
The Sound of Music (The Sound of Music)
Statues and Stories (The Light in the Piazza)
Step in Time (Mary Poppins)
Summer Nights (Grease)
Superstar (Jesus Christ Superstar)
That Was Nearly Us (By Jeeves)
That's How You Jazz (Jelly's Last jam)
There's No Business Like Show Business (Annie Get Your Gun)
Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts (Whistle Down the Wind)
We Will Rock You (We Will Rock You)
Wheels of a Dream (Ragtime)
Who Is Sylvia? (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
With One Look (Sunset Boulevard)
You Are the Light (Metropolis)
You Can't Stop the Beat (Hairspray)

and for your finale:

Goodbye (The Producers)

And then close the curtain. Spotlight on two guys.

Guy 1: Do you think they enjoyed that, Jeeves.

Guy 2: Impossible to tell, sir.

It's the last track of the London Cast Recording of By Jeeves. It's called In Conclusion.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 9/3/06 at 11:14am

Don't Quit While You're Ahead from The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It's a major showstopper.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/3/06 at 11:15am

And I just read the beginning of this thread. Sorry. But you know, if you need other songs, you could use one of those.