Recent Musical Theater Songs that Could Become Standards — Page 2

I'd say Gimme, Gimme could be a big one (it's way overdone at auditions).

candidates for future standard:

Falling Slowly

Let it Go

Defying gravity, especially the acoustic version

Most recent bway song that is now a standard(i think a standard needs about 30 years to

marinate to standard status):

I Dreamed a Dream-think Susan Boyle and 60 million youtube views cinched that one....

Falling Slowly was from the movie, not the musical.

Obviously Falling Slowly and Let it Go were launched in film musicals first

the poster did not specify stage or screen musicals, only "recent musicals"

I Miss the Mountains from Next to Normal deserves to become a standard. Great song.

they have to stick to popular music structure, i.e. some sort of clear chorus-verse distinction. Because then you can have easy excerpts of it, which means earworms are easier to come by.

"Soliloquy" from Carousel is certainly an unusually structured song that many male vocalists like to sing or record.

"Bali Ha'i" has an amazing structure. Of course, while everyone knows the song, not many record it.

I could come up with a lot of exceptions, but that would not mean that your rule is not generally correct.

Updated On: 11/11/15 at 02:32 AM

I am suprised nobody mentioned I belive from BOM. That seems like it is already starting to be one.

Safer from FIRST DATE

and

She Used To Be Mine from upcoming WAITRESS

I love a feel bad ballad

Someone in a Tree2 said: "

Before that, for better or worse, I'd say the last true standard to come out of a musical is MEMORY, God help us. I don't know if even the likes of ALL I ASK OF YOU could be considered a standard in most contexts. And if Lord Andrew can't flog a number sufficiently till it enters the subconscious of the mass public, what chance does Lin-Manuel Miranda or Bobby Lopez have of doing so?

So recent songs that could become future standards? I don't think there's a one. The world has changed and I don't think it will revert back in my lifetime.

"I do think it depends on the definition of standard here. SPeaking of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Boyzone's pop version of No Matter What from Whistle Down the Wind in the very late 90s was absolutely unavoidable in like every Western country except the USA (and I think it had a tiny bit of adult contemporary chart action there,) and would still be recognizable to a lot of people due to that. A massive worldwide hit--but the original poster asked about songs that multiple people have covered, etc--and that isn't the case there. ALW also had a lot of radio impact with other pop covers like the pop version of Love CHanges Everything and, surprisingly, I Believe My Heart from Woman in White but those would be exclusively UK things.

Chess' I Know Him So Well has been mentioned and is another song that didn't make much of an impact in the US--certainly less than One Night in Bangkok, but elsewhere, especially the UK and Australia it positively has become a standard and has been covered countless times.

If we mean standards by jazz artists and the like that's a very different matter--and some Sondheim songs aside from Send in the Clowns (like Not a Day Goes By) would probably count there.

I'm late to this thread, and I *love* Fun Home but have no idea why several people listed it here. I see songs like Ring of Keys and Telephone Wire, etc, becoming standards only in the context of Broadway style cabarets (where I suspect they absolutely will.)