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Shows with raps
#25re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/27/09 at 3:55pm
"One Night In Bangkok" - CHESS
Not only the first rap song in a Broadway/West End musical, but the first rap song to hit #1 on the US pop single chart which cements its place in history. It may also have been the first #1 rap music video as well, but I'm not positive about that.
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P.S. tazber- is RAPMASTER RONNIE a real show?! If it weren't for Swados's name I wouldn't believe it, but she's done things far more bizarre... or maybe that's the brilliance of your parody? IS it a parody? I'm intrigued!
Updated On: 7/27/09 at 03:55 PM
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#28re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/27/09 at 4:54pm
Jordan's on a roll today. americanboy - pay him no mind.
Noise/Funk.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#30re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/27/09 at 9:57pm"Rock Island" and "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#31re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/27/09 at 10:06pmcan we consider every time Rex Harrison "sings" in My Fair Lady a rap?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#32re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 1:00pm
It's Time, the act II opener to Big.
In fact the song pokes fun of the fact that Billy is in fact rapping with him rapping this line.
"Look at me, nothings worse crap then a little,white Polish boy from Jersey talking rap."
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
#33re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 1:16pmThere's a rap in "Starlight Express." Can't remember the name, but it may have just been called, "The Rap." The lyrics are truly dreadful.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#34re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 1:20pm
AndAllThatJazz22,
Go rent or buy the video of Into The Woods now! It is the original cast and it is fabulous!
#35re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 1:41pmhaha whizzer! I hate that rap in Starlight. It's the opening of Act II in the original London version I believe and it is indeed called "The Rap".
....but the world goes 'round
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#36re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 1:55pm
RAPMASTER RONNIE is indeed a real show. it ran Off-Broadway in the early 80's.
The idea from the show is really an off-shoot of Swados' "Doonesberry" musical. There was a Ronnie Reagan Rap sequence (not heard on the cast recoding) performed by Reathel Bean, who went on to play Reagan in Rapmaster Ronnie.
fellfromthesun
Swing Joined: 10/9/08
#37re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 2:09pm
"Watcha Wanna Do?" - Bat Boy: The Musical
Someone mentioned "Play Game" from tick, tick...Boom , and they actually added it back in for the production i saw at George Street Playhouse (if my memory serves me correctly)
#38re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 2:36pm
I dont really know, atleast of the top of my head any shows with rap but I wanna say something
"Pippin" I love the Valerie Cherish icon 
"Everything in life, is only for now"
-Avenue Q
#39re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 7:45pm
Didn't Valerie have a rap about the monkey from I'M IT!?
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Soliantu
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/06
#40re: Shows with raps
Posted: 7/28/09 at 9:43pm
Hmm I didn't realize there were so many musicals with raps in them. And here I thought In the Heights was the only trashy rap musical
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