Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
professor
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#0Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:10pm
Hi All-
This is my first post on this board, but I do enjoy reading your discussions. Anyway, here goes:
What shows have songs written in the rap/hip hop style?
I can think of:
Today for You (Rent)
Watcha Wanna Do (Bat Boy)
Almost all of Bring in da noise Bring in da funk
Can y'all think of any others?
Thanks,
Prof
"Inside every actor there is a Tiger, a Pig, an Ass, and a Nightingale. You never know which one is going to show up."
-John Michael Higgins in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
#1re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:14pm
They "rap" in Big-the musical.
Updated On: 7/3/05 at 04:14 PM
#2re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:24pmWell there's the witch's rap in Into The Woods.
Be the change you want in the world....
BwayBoy25
Leading Actor Joined: 6/19/05
LaVieBoheme2
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#4re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:32pmNorbert Leo Butz in Great Big Stuff (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). I love it!
Elyse. No day but Today.
My avatar: me talking to Norbert Leo Butz.
#5re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 5:55pm
Runaways and The Me Nobody Knows have rap songs...But the rap song is not available on TMNK recording.
Enterprise - Runaways
Flying Milk and runaway Plates - The Me Nobody Knows
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Updated On: 7/3/05 at 05:55 PM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#6re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:00pm"The Firing of Jimmy" from Dreamgirls
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
SahDu
Leading Actor Joined: 3/22/05
#7re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:08pm
Dancing is Not a Crime from Footloose.
Updated On: 2/15/14 at 06:08 PM
#8re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:10pmThere is a hilarious rap song in Altar Boyz.
"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"
#9re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 9:27am
That embarrassing collection of sounds that opens Act Two of Starlight Express is supposed to be a rap. There is also a bit of supposed hip-hop during the introduction to the box cars.
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#10re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 9:36amWould the opening of MUSIC MAN qualify as the first rap song in a Broadway musical?
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#11re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 10:01am
Is there a small portion of Godspell that could be rapped?
"There once was a king (yeah, yeah)
who decided to settle accounts with the men who served him (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
But on the _____ there was a man whose debts ran into the millions!
(WHAT?!) THE MILLIONS! (WOAH!)"
Or something like that...it was a really small rap in our production of it atleast.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#12re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/4/05 at 12:17pm
Fame-Tyrone's Rap
Music Man-Rock Island, Trouble
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#13re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/5/05 at 3:20pmParks - You're right. In the three I've done of it, that part has been rapped.
Be the change you want in the world....
#14re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/5/05 at 4:05pm
"Flying Milk and Runaway Plates" is NOT a rap. It's completely sung (I played Benjamin in THE ME NOBODY KNOWS, so I know).
"The Numbers Rap" (Counting numbers can be fun! Twenty-six thousand forty-one!) IS a rap from THE ME...
Wasn't there a rap in BRING IN THE NOISE/BRING IN THE FUNK?
Not quite a rap, but "Poor, Poor Joseph" from DREAMCOAT has been turned into kind of a hip-hop song.
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#15re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/5/05 at 4:18pmIf you count "Rock Island" from MUSIC MAN, then you gotta count "The Production Code" from A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE.
#16re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/5/05 at 4:21pmMight as well add "The Late Great State of New York" from SEESAW.
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Madame X
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/03
#17re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/5/05 at 6:37pmWhat ever happened to that horrid idea of a staged musical of 8 Mile?
"Some of us have it worse, you know, Dana. Some of us are dating lesbian men. Okay? C'mon."
#18re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/5/05 at 6:43pm
Chrislovesshows - The Miracle Song is an AMAZING song. "J.C.-(feeling sorry cause he knew that leprosy is a whack disease that makes a homey go to pieces)."
Now if that is good rap, ladies and gentlemen.
8 Mile would be a scarrrryyyyyyyy musical. What about when Cheddar Bob shoots himself in the .. well, in his own "area". That would be difficult to relay to the audience.
Having some random person on stage shout -
"OH MY GOD!! HE SHOT HIMSELF IN THE CROTCH!"
heart.
mel
TennesseeTwang
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/05
#19re: Shows with rap/hip hop songs?
Posted: 7/5/05 at 6:51pm
Just as some rockers stated that Hair was always closer to TinPan Alley that real Rock, some hip hop purists maintain that "real" rap has yet to hit The Great White Way and that that situation is probably best for both hip hop AND Broadway.
That's snobbery of course, and I totally disagree that Broadway should be inhospitable to ANY genre of music.
Still, considering the fact that many rap songs relegate melody and tastefulness to the back burner, I have very hard time believeing that a full-on "authentic" hip hop musical could get a fair shake with critics. Even with such bastions of liberalism as the New York Times and the Village Voice and even if the composers are the best in hip hop working at the top of their game.
Nonethesless, I get and evil thrill at the thought of rap invading Broadway.
Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
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