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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
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Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:48pmYou'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?
re: Snip snip#1
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
re: Snip snip#2
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:53pm
"All I Need Is The Girl" - GYPSY
Horrible, Awful Song.
re: Snip snip#3
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
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
re: Snip snip#4
Posted: 8/23/04 at 10:54pmLong As I'm here With You from Thoroughly Modern Millie. Blech
re: Snip snip#5
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
Chorus Member Joined: 10/21/03
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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
re: Snip snip#7
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-
re: Snip snip#8
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.
re: Snip snip#9
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.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
re: Snip snip#10
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:01pmJaiMonster, I'm coming to your house to chop your head off.
re: Snip snip#11
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).
Swing Joined: 11/19/03
re: Snip snip#12
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:03pmThere are some obvious ones (i.e. "My Name" from Oliver) but I would cut "Surabaya Santa" from Songs for a New World.
re: Snip snip#13
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:03pm
Castle on a cloud from les miserables...
re: Snip snip#14
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:04pmIf Momma Was Married - the lyrics are great but the music makes me want to scream.
re: Snip snip#15
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.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
re: Snip snip#16
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:05pmwell, 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....
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
re: Snip snip#17
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:05pmMore I Cannot Wish You - from "Guys and Dolls." I know it's supposed to be a tender moment, but I can't stand it...
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
re: Snip snip#18
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:08pmOh 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?!
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
re: Snip snip#19
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.
re: Snip snip#20
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:16pm
LOL, Matt_G. :)
Can I cut "Schadenfreude" from Avenue Q? Pleeease?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
re: Snip snip#21
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?".
re: Snip snip#22
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. :)
re: Snip snip#23
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.
re: Snip snip#24
Posted: 8/23/04 at 11:26pmI'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.
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