Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
#1Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:45am
The short-lived Broadway play PRYMATE featured André De Shields as a monkey who communicated with his deaf scientist friends through sign language:
[title of show] features a song called "Monkeys And Playbills," in which the authors reminisce about Broadway flops of the past:
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE features a Monkey Ballet in the song "Bride's Lament," poignantly originated by Sutton Foster and currently featuring Mara Davi:
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#2re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:47am
"Monkey Around" from SEUSSICAL.
Flying Monkeys in WICKED and THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Though not monkeys, the gorillas in TARZAN.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Updated On: 8/14/07 at 11:47 AM
--Aristotle
#2re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:50am
Post photos with your examples if you can. 
Let's have ourselves a bit of a mid-day Monkey Fest.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:51amI am rather monkey obsessed. I pride myself on being able to relate any musical to monkeys- for example, Gypsy is a musical about a mean woman who doesn't want to share a birthday cake with her monkey.
#4re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:56am
I hate every ape I see from chimpan-A to chimpanzee.
No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!
Oh, my God! I was wrong! It was Earth all along.
So, you finally made a monkey (Yes, we finally made a monkey)
You finally made a monkey out of me! I love you, Dr. Zaius!
OK, it's not a REAL musical, but still...
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#5re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:59amMonkey in a Suit from "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
#6re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:02pm
Monkey music box at the openning of "Phantom of the Opera."
Man in ape suit in "Cabaret."
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#7re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:04pm
bwaygal1: It's actually called Chimp in a Suit.
I actually thought someone was gonna walk out in a chimp suit during that number.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#8re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:08pm
BAH
cows are better
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#9re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:11pmmillie-thanks! Gotta dust off DRS OBCR I guess. I just remembered something in there about monkeys and suits!
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
Up In Lost
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/05
#10re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:15pmThat "I Go Ape" song from Jersey Boys.
Well, I'm glad he got away with it.
#11re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:21pmAnd, of course, "Inherit the Wind."
#12re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 12:52am
Dr. Doolittle the Musical-
Chee-chee the Monkey played by Aaron Burr
here is one other tap number in the show, the "Monkey-Monkey Island Dance." Tune shares the stage with Aaron Burr, a twelve-year-old tapper playing Chee-Chee, the monkey.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/la/la209.html
Updated On: 8/15/07 at 12:52 AM
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#13re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:15am
The Marx Brothers stage musical THE COCOANUTS (which also became their first movie) had a big song and dance number called "The Monkey-Doodle-Doo", written by Irving Berlin.
TulitaPepsi
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/04
#14re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:49am
"Abba Dabba Honeymoon" from TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE!
Do the Archies count?
Monkey See, Monkey Do
"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"
TulitaPepsi
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/04
#15re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:52am
Here's the best "Abba Dabba Honeymoon" EVER!!!
DALIDA!!!!
"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"
#16re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:28pm
The Monkey Song from the original LA version of Reefer Madness that was later replaced with The Brownie Song
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
Tom148502
Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/07
#17re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:32pmThere was a British musical (it was also recorded) called HIS MONKEY WIFE
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#18re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:52pmThe "Keystone Kops Ballet" in HIGH BUTTON SHOES (also recreated in JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY) featured a gorilla.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#19re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/15/07 at 11:10pm
The number from CABARET, "If You Could See Her".
Also, an old cabaret favorite, "Boris Was Nice."
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#20re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:31amNobodys mentioned The Jungle Book?? Sure, it's animated, but there's monkeys galore. They've got that whole 'I Wan'na Be Like You' song and everything...
"I am the Phantom of the Opera! I'm the gayest supervillian ever! OoooOOOooooOOOoooh...Beware of my scented candles...OoooOOOooooh...Scented!"
#21re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:57amI'm waiting for the Musical. I have always liked the songs in it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:25am
Fantasmic! at Disneyland Updated On: 8/16/07 at 04:25 AM
#23re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/16/07 at 9:01amOh my goodness. Those are the gayest monkeys I have ever seen.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#24re: Shows With Monkey-Themed Characters/Songs
Posted: 8/16/07 at 9:06amThey look like Teletubbies on acid.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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