Stand-by Joined: 12/11/05
The boss is out and my coworker and I are playing a little game with my iPod - thought I'd see if those of you out in BroadwayWorldLand wanted to join in.
Right now we're pulling up all the showtunes we can that are about food. Here are the first things that came to my mind. Please add to our list!
Jerry Likes My Corn - Grey Gardens
Garlic - Dance of the Vampires
Growing Boy - Babe (from Emily Skinner's album)
Too Good to be Bad - Goodbye Girl
Calamari - A New Brain
Vanilla Ice Cream - She Loves Me
Sara Lee - And The World Goes 'round
Buffet - Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know
Plenty of Pennsylvania from Plain and Fancy lists foods from A to Z (with a few missteps for Z!).
Perhaps the most obvious: Food, Glorious Food from Oliver!.
Stand-by Joined: 2/26/09
Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm - How to Succeed in Business
The Worst Pies in London - Sweeney Todd
Of course there's always A Little Priest from Sweeney and Feed Me from Litte Shop of Horrors...
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/06
Uhhhhh.....La vie Boheme from RENT!!! That talks about food....lol
"Perhaps the most obvious: Food, Glorious Food from Oliver!.:
This was the first thing to come to mind when I saw this subject!
Same here!
"Nine People's Favorite Thing" from [title of show]
"Les Poissons" from The Little Mermaid
That's all I got right now.
Stand-by Joined: 12/11/05
Embarrassingly enough, I was thinking the line "All we ever get is gruel" but couldn't come up with the song title!
[tos] is a good one - mmm rice krispie treats.
keep 'em coming!
"Clambake" from Carousel
"Be Our Guest"
"Les Poissons"
"Big, Blonde and Beautiful" makes several food references
"Donkey Pot Pie" - Shrek
"Mr. Goldstone" - Gypsy
I know it's not really about food but what about Tapioca from the Thoroughly Modern Millie film.
Stand-by Joined: 2/26/09
Chrysanthemum Tea - Pacific Overtures
I'm not very familiar with the songs, but Pump Boys and Dinettes obviously has some food songs.
How about the shows that aren't about food at all:
Jelly's Last Jam
Bubbling Brown Sugar
Sugar Babies
Sugar
sugar from tick tick boom
Suppertime from YAGMCB
The Last Supper from JCS
If you consider sugar a food, then, how about "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
Hominy Grits- Grey Gardens
Hungry Men- 110 in the Shade
Speaking of Grey Gardens, "Jerry Likes My Corn."
Understudy Joined: 3/14/09
The beginning of "Oklahoma!" - carrots and pertaters
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
"The Worst Pies in London" -Sweeney Todd
"Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" -Hairspray
"God That's Good" -Sweeney Todd
"A Little Priest" -Sweeney Todd.
...uh "Mr. Goldstone" from Gypsy, would that count?
ETA: Sorry, tons of other people mentioned some of those food songs before I did.
"Coffee Break"--How to Succeed in Business...
"...uh "Mr. Goldstone" from Gypsy, would that count?"
Yeah, I mentioned that too...eggrolls, kumquat, etc. I don't know if the poster is looking for songs specifically about food or also songs with many food references in it, but not actually about a food.
"Toot Sweets" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Well, I guess it's about food...technically.
"Kitchen Man" - ONE MO' TIME
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