Showtunes about food

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Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:12pm

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

#2

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:16pm

Sara Lee - And The World Goes 'round
Buffet - Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know

#3

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:16pm

Plenty of Pennsylvania from Plain and Fancy lists foods from A to Z (with a few missteps for Z!).

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#4

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:19pm

Perhaps the most obvious: Food, Glorious Food from Oliver!.

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#5

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:28pm

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...

#6

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:39pm

Uhhhhh.....La vie Boheme from RENT!!! That talks about food....lol

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#7

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:40pm

"Perhaps the most obvious: Food, Glorious Food from Oliver!.:

This was the first thing to come to mind when I saw this subject!

#8

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:42pm

Same here!

"Nine People's Favorite Thing" from [title of show]
"Les Poissons" from The Little Mermaid

That's all I got right now.

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#9

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:45pm

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!

#10

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:46pm

"Clambake" from Carousel
"Be Our Guest"
"Les Poissons"
"Big, Blonde and Beautiful" makes several food references

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#11

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:52pm

"Donkey Pot Pie" - Shrek
"Mr. Goldstone" - Gypsy

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#12

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:58pm

"I Can Cook Too" from On the Town

#13

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 12:59pm

I know it's not really about food but what about Tapioca from the Thoroughly Modern Millie film.

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#14

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 1:05pm

Piragua from In the Heights :)

#15

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 1:07pm

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

#16

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 1:10pm

sugar from tick tick boom
Suppertime from YAGMCB
The Last Supper from JCS

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#17

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 1:15pm

If you consider sugar a food, then, how about "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins?

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re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 1:19pm

Hominy Grits- Grey Gardens
Hungry Men- 110 in the Shade

#19

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Posted: 8/20/09 at 3:34pm

Speaking of Grey Gardens, "Jerry Likes My Corn."

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Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters. ~ Wicked
Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent

"He's a tramp, but I love him."

#20

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 3:43pm

The beginning of "Oklahoma!" - carrots and pertaters

#21

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 4:15pm

"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.

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#22

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 4:54pm

"Coffee Break"--How to Succeed in Business...

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#23

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 4:56pm

"...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.

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#24

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 5:41pm

"Toot Sweets" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Well, I guess it's about food...technically.

#25

re: Showtunes about food

Posted: 8/20/09 at 7:04pm

"Kitchen Man" - ONE MO' TIME

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