Song For 3 people
Song For 3 people
bwayobsessed
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
#1Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:21pm
2 friends and I are performing in a showcase next week and we are having some issues picking out a song. There is one guy (me) and two girls, however, gender is not the most important thing. It does not necessarily have to be something that was written for 3 people but it has to be something that can work when divided between 3 people. It also has to be appropriate for school. We want it to be something fun and any help you can offer would be great.
Updated On: 5/28/13 at 06:21 PM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:25pm
Friendship from Anything Goes
3 Little Maids from The Mikado
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#2Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:27pm
Step Too Far from Aida (but I guess that isn't really 'fun')
Been A Long Day from How To Succeed
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#3Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:29pm
"The Riddle" - The Scarlet Pimpernel (2 males, one female)
"Are You On the Bus" - Leap of Faith (3 girls, but not really gender specific)
"Through the Looking Glass" - WONDERLAND can be slimmed down to 3
"Trying Not to Notice" - Woman in White (2 girls, one male)
"Falling Out of Love" - White Christmas (3 girls, but not really gender specific)
#4Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:32pmI mean there is Man Up from Book of Mormon but that's kinda inapproiate but it is meant for 3 people. I don't know just a thought!
broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#6Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:39pm
There's always Two Ladies from Cabaret.
If you want something really fun try something like Matchmaker or at the Ballet.
#7Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:41pmSuperboy and the Invisible Girl instantly sprang to mind, and you have the right genders too!
John Adams
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
#8Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:54pm
"Triplets" from The Band Wagon
"Old Friends" from Merrily We Roll Along
"Pretty Lady" from Pacific Overtures
Updated On: 5/28/13 at 06:54 PM
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 7:01pm
Gotta Get A Gimmick from Gypsy
Not Me from Aida
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#10Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 7:20pm"Now"/"Later"/"Soon" from A Little Night Music
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#11Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 7:25pm"Sing For Your Supper" - The Boys From Syracuse, Rodgers and Hart
#12Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 7:30pm
Depending on the level of 'drama' you want to do, I'll second The "I Love You" Song from SPELLING BEE. It's beautiful, but might not be what you're looking for. Some other ones:
Been a Long Day from HOW TO SUCCEED might be your best bet from what I've got. (2 women, 1 man.)
Three Friends from CLOSER THAN EVER (2 women, 1 man)
There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This from SWEET CHARITY (3 women)
He Plays the Violin from 1776 (2 men, 1 woman, kind of hard to do that one any other way.)
Pretty Little Picture from FORUM (2 men, 1 women, very silly.)
Fugue for Tinhorns from GUYS AND DOLLS (3 men, very short.)
Who I'd Be from SHREK (2 men, 1 women... but really, the men are an Ogre and a Donkey, so whatever.)
Also, TICK, TICK... BOOM! is written for three, 2 men and a woman, so that can be a good source for you if any suits your needs.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
hanabana
Leading Actor Joined: 5/12/12
#13Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 7:33pmSomeone mentioned "Superboy and the Invisible Girl." I'll just add a few more from Next to Normal that come to mind: "Song of Forgetting" and "Better Than Before." These are for 3 singers and I think are appropriate for school. Although if my memory is correct, Better Than Before might require some minor changes to language.
bwayobsessed
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
#14Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 9:27pmThanks to everyone for your quick suggestions, we decided to go with been a long day
#15Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/28/13 at 9:42pm
Three Friends from CLOSER THAN EVER (2 women, 1 man)
If you check the lyrics it refer to three women: Alice, Angela and Nancy. It was done with 2 women + a man in CLOSER THAN EVER because of the 4-person 2-man, 2-2woman cast.
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Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#18Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/29/13 at 12:05am
A Loud and Funny Song from Oh, Brother!
It was written for three women, but is fairly gender neutral and plays very well out of context. Plus it's peppy and fun.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#19Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/29/13 at 12:13amThere is Easy Street from Annie, too.
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Valastairekelly
Swing Joined: 12/17/10
#20Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/29/13 at 6:30am"You could drive a person crazy" from Follies could be an interesting choice as well !
#21Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/29/13 at 6:36am
"In My Life/A Heart Full of Love" from Les Miserables
"Buddy's Blues" from Follies
"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
#22Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/29/13 at 6:48am
The entire Maltby/Shire revue "Starting Here, Starting Now" was written for 2 females and one male.
Favorites from that score with all three singing:
Starting Here, Starting Now
Travel
Just Across the River
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 5/29/13 at 06:48 AM
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After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#23Song For 3 people
Posted: 5/29/13 at 6:58am
"Triplets" from Between the Devil and then the film The Band Wagon.
"3 Juvenile Delinquents" from Noel Coward's Ace of Clubs.
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