#1
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:48pm
You've been granted permission by the composer (or his/her estate) to cut one song from one of your favourite musicals. Which song would you cut and why?
#2
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:50pm
"So What?" from Cabaret. In a great musical, I feel like it's a weak song. It never did anything for me, and the show could do without it.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#3
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:53pm
"All I Need Is The Girl" - GYPSY
Horrible, Awful Song.
Horrible, Awful Song.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#4
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:53pm
Well, you don't mess with perfection. Nothing could ever be cut from SWEENEY TODD.
But I would like to get rid of 'Someone is Waiting' from COMPANY
But I would like to get rid of 'Someone is Waiting' from COMPANY
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#5
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:54pm
Long As I'm here With You from Thoroughly Modern Millie. Blech
#6
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:55pm
"another pyramid" in aida - it's ok when you're seeing the show b/c the dancing is awesome but i usually skip it on the cd
"something bad" from wicked - i loved dr. dillamond in the book but i don't like what they did to his character in the musical so it's another i usually skip
"something bad" from wicked - i loved dr. dillamond in the book but i don't like what they did to his character in the musical so it's another i usually skip
"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died
#7
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:56pm
I may get my head chopped off for this but I would cut "I Know Where Ive Been" from Hairspray. (that or I would speed up the tempo so the show didnt STOP dead in its tracks at that point)
Jai
Jai
#8
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:57pm
Priest, I am with you about SWEENEY, buuuuuut.
SOMEONE IS WAITING?!?!?!?!
i love it.
so much.
-d.b.j-
SOMEONE IS WAITING?!?!?!?!
i love it.
so much.
-d.b.j-
Vary My Days.
#9
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:57pm
"Bless the Lord" from Godspell. The song makes me want to throw my cd player at the wall.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#10
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:00pm
"Someone is Waiting" isn't my favorite song, but it is necessary to elucidate Bobby's state of mind. He doesn't know what he wants in relationships, and isn't ready for a real-life girlfriend, so he idealizes an almalgam of all his female friends. I would replace or edit it rather than cut it.
For some strange reason, I don't like "Ah, Paris!" from Follies. That could be cut, right? (Feel free to correct me, Priest...the plot of that show isn't exactly clear in the OBC.)
For some strange reason, I don't like "Ah, Paris!" from Follies. That could be cut, right? (Feel free to correct me, Priest...the plot of that show isn't exactly clear in the OBC.)
#11
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:01pm
JaiMonster, I'm coming to your house to chop your head off.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#12
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:03pm
Oh NO you didn't, StickToPriest,
"Someone Is Waiting" is an absolutely brilliant lyric from Sondheim and cuts to the core of what the character of Bobby and the entire show is all about (talk to me about it in about ten years -- I mean no offense, honey -- that lyric may speak to you in ways you cannot possibly imagine at you age, sweetheart).
"Someone Is Waiting" is an absolutely brilliant lyric from Sondheim and cuts to the core of what the character of Bobby and the entire show is all about (talk to me about it in about ten years -- I mean no offense, honey -- that lyric may speak to you in ways you cannot possibly imagine at you age, sweetheart).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#13
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:03pm
There are some obvious ones (i.e. "My Name" from Oliver) but I would cut "Surabaya Santa" from Songs for a New World.
#14
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:03pm
Castle on a cloud from les miserables...
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
#15
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:04pm
If Momma Was Married - the lyrics are great but the music makes me want to scream.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#16
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:04pm
"Ah, Paris" is needed because it goes together with "Rain on the Roof" and "Broadway Baby" musically. It would be difficult to cut.
And I know that 'Someone is Waiting' is necessary to the story. But I've never warmed to it. Plus, I've really never heard a great rendetion of it.
EDIT: And Margo, I adore the lyrics.
It is the music of the song which I find myself not liking.
And I know that 'Someone is Waiting' is necessary to the story. But I've never warmed to it. Plus, I've really never heard a great rendetion of it.
EDIT: And Margo, I adore the lyrics.
It is the music of the song which I find myself not liking.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Updated On: 8/23/04 at 11:04 PM
#17
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:05pm
well, songs have been cut from SWEENEY in the past... Judge Turpin's "Joanna", the toothpulling sequence, "Parlor Songs" and the original didn't even have the "Beggar Woman's Lullaby" and that too is sometimes cut... not everyone has faith in the material which is a shame....
#18
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:05pm
More I Cannot Wish You - from "Guys and Dolls." I know it's supposed to be a tender moment, but I can't stand it...
#19
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:08pm
Oh NO YOU DI'NT is right, Priest! How could you say that after I made you straight boys a perfectly nice thread to talk about all your gross heterosexual stuff?!
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#20
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:15pm
"Heart full of love" from Les Mis. Where thid sappy song come from in such a great show?
"In Old Bavaria" from the Producers Yes it's funny and great for Franz, but I think the show could do without it.
"In Old Bavaria" from the Producers Yes it's funny and great for Franz, but I think the show could do without it.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#21
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:16pm
LOL, Matt_G. :)
Can I cut "Schadenfreude" from Avenue Q? Pleeease?
Can I cut "Schadenfreude" from Avenue Q? Pleeease?
#22
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:18pm
Another Suitcase in Another Hall from EVITA. It's an okay song, but it brings the show to a grinding halt.
Germans at the Spa from NINE. Thank goodness the revival cut it.
A Little Bit of Good from CHICAGO. Unless you have an exceptionally talented actor, the audience just sits there going "huh? why is this man singing like a woman?".
Germans at the Spa from NINE. Thank goodness the revival cut it.
A Little Bit of Good from CHICAGO. Unless you have an exceptionally talented actor, the audience just sits there going "huh? why is this man singing like a woman?".
#23
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:23pm
"Another Suitcase in Another Hall" is actually my favorite song in Evita. But then, I think the rest of the show is a mess, so don't trust me. :)
#24
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:26pm
No one shoot me, but I Am Changing from Dreamgirls needs to go. Yes I realize that Effie needs more of a presence in Act 2, and it shows her progress yadda yadda, that doesnt mean its not boring.
Oh and if you cut all the songs (and all the children) from Annie except for Easy Street, Id be happy.
Oh and if you cut all the songs (and all the children) from Annie except for Easy Street, Id be happy.
Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.
#25
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:26pm
I'm Not Wearing Any Underwear Today - Avenue Q. I've yet to find this song amusing and/or its purpose (no pun intended) in the show.
"Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run" - Jeff Buckley
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