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Another week, another theme! This week's theme is musicians--singers who are playing instruments of singing about instruments.

THIS WEEK'S THEME: Musicians

CURRENT PLAYLIST:
Come Follow the Band--Barnum
Strike Up the Band--My One and Only
Alexander's Ragtime Band--Irving Berlin
The New Ashmolean Marching Society & Student Conservatory Band--Where's Charley
Cornet Man--Funny Girl
If I Sing--Closer Than Ever
I Love the Piano--Easter Parade
He Plays the Violin--1776

Go to it! :)

"Your Daddy's Son" ("Daddy played piano...") or "New Music" from Ragtime

"I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity

"Later" from A Little Night Music- Henrik's playing the cello as he plays, though it doesn't figure into the lyrics

"Ten Cents a Dance" from A Connecticut Yankee (is that where the song's from?)- "Seven to midnight I hear drums, loudly the saxophone blows, trumpets are bursting my eardrums..."

"I Miss the Music" from Curtains

"When the Kids Get Married" from I Do! I Do!- Agnes and Michael discuss taking up different instruments when the kids get married and then play them

"Everything Else" from Next to Normal

Hope some of those are helpful

Hello to you all! First of all let me say thanks so much for all of the great suggestions!! You're making my great job a whole lot easier! I've had good momentum for a few weeks, but do I need your help with this week's show. Last semester I did a show with the theme "on the wrong side of the law" featuring songs about rogues, thieves, con men, murderers etc. Now I want to do the flip, so:

THIS WEEK'S THEME: On the Right Side of the Law, songs about cops, detectives, judges--anything to do with law and order.

CURRENT PLAYLIST:
--Theme from City of Angels
--The Man Inside The Clues or Don't Break the Rules from Catch Me If You Can
--Stars from Les Miserables
--My Darlin' Eileen from Wonderful Town
--something from Baker Street, not sure what yet
--When the Foeman Bears His Steel from Pirates of Penzance
--Here Come the Mounties from Rose Marie
--Is it a Crime? from Bells Are Ringing
--Don't Be A Do-Badder from Robin & the Seven Hoods
--When You're Good to Mama from Chicago
--Coffee Shop Nights from Curtains
--Trial Before Pilate from Jesus Christ Superstar
--The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha
--The Policeman's Ball from Miss Liberty
--Falcon In the Dive from The Scarlet Pimpernel

Some of these are a stretch, and I know I've forgotten something. Any suggestions?

Maybe you can have a part where the right side goes wrong lol:
Heaven's Light/Hellfire from Hunchback of Notre Dame maybe?
Javert's Suicide from Les Miserables

Another idea for a theme would be characters in Disguise (Mystery of Edwin Drood - 'Writing on the Wall', Two Gentlemen of Verona, Into the Woods).

"I Love a Cop" from Fiorello
"My Son, Uphold the Law" from Drat! the cat
"My Heart Leaps Up" from Mack and Mabel ("Everytime a cop falls down...")

My favorite I Got Rhythmn is from Crazy for You. Thats probably the best and most well known. I would like to listen to this station

Suggested theme: the "I Want Songs"

explain how almost every musical has a number early in act one where a lead (usually while sitting on a tree stump) sings to the audience what they want, giving motivation to their character and a reason why you shelled out all that money.

They're often the second or third song, but not always

West Side Story: "Something's Coming"
Chorus Line: "God I hope I Get It"
Gypsy: "Some People"
Into The Woods: Prologue
Little Mermaid: "Part Of That World"

more I Want Songs:

My Own Morning from HALLELUJAH, BABY
On the Other Side of the Tracks from LITTLE ME
If I Were a Rich Man from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
I'm the Greatest Star from FUNNY GIRL
Free from FORUM
I Rise Again from ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
the consecutive build up of Three Letters, Tonight at Eight and I Don't Know His Name from SHE LOVES ME
I Must Get On That Ship from TITANIC
Guido's Song from NINE
Sit Down John from 1776
One Room, Sons and In My Own Lifetime from THE ROTHSCHILDS
Where is Love and Reviewing the Situation from OLIVER

Good job henrikegerman! and your name made me remember Now/Soon/Later from Little Night Music

In My Own Little Corner - Cinderella
Waiting For Life - Once On This Island
Wouldn't It Be Loverly? - My Fair Lady
Dreams Come True - Billion Dollar Baby
I Want to Go Home - Big
I Want It All - Baby
Oh, To Be a Movie Star - The Apple Tree
Wheels of a Dream - Ragtime
The Wizard and I - Wicked
Call Me Savage - Fade Out Fade In
One, Two, Three - The Fix
Make Him Mine - Witches of Eastwick
All I Need is One Good Break - Flora, The Red Menace
Free - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Different - Honk!
Sweet Liberty - Jane Eyre
I Need to Know - Jekyll & Hyde
What You Want - Legally Blonde
When I Get My Name in Lights - Legs Diamond
Mr. Witherspoon's Friday Night - Lucky Stiff
Look What Happened to Mabel - Mack & Mabel
Lion Tamer - The Magic Show
I'm Martin Guerre - Martin Guerre
The Movie in My Mind - Miss Saigon
Goodnight, My Someone - The Music Man
Santa Fe - Newsies
I Miss the Mountains - Next to Normal
Woman - The Pirate Queen
Wishing For the Normal - Soho Cinders
He Whistled at Me - Starlight Express
Surprised - Violet
Someday - The Wedding Singer
Stop and See Me - Weird Romance

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I really like the idea of the disguise theme. I'll definitely have to use it sometime! :)

Updated On: 4/17/12 at 07:29 PM

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