Songs About Fashion?
Songs About Fashion?
#1Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 1:41pmSelf-explanatory. One of the students at my school has been diagnosed with cancer, and the club committed to raising money for her is giving a fashion show as a fundraiser. I got put on the committee for music, and, lo and behold, the genre they assigned me was musical theatre. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#2re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 1:44pm
Paris Original - How To Succeed
Welcome To The 60's - Hairspray (kind of)
I Enjoy Being a Girl - FLower Drum Song
How Lovely To Be A Woman - Bye Bye Birdie
I Feel Pretty - West Side Story.
-not about fashion per se.. but femininity.
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
fakemyway2thetop
Understudy Joined: 3/16/07
#2re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 1:45pmSomething from Coco? I don't know the score but I know the show is about Coco Chanel, the fashion designer.
From32ndStreet
Swing Joined: 3/2/07
#4re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 1:48pmRainbow High- Evita
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#5re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 1:49pmDressing them up - Kiss of the spider woman
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#6re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 1:56pm
"Paris Original" from How to Succeed by Frank Loesser; this is a very funny song. All the women are wearing the exact same knockoff dress.
And then the score to Coco (which is about Chanel and starred Kate Hepburn who couldn't carry a tune in a bag) has some fashion songs with some fairly clever Alan Jay Lerner lyrics and pretty simple music by Andre Previn. "A Brand New Dress" is awful, but could work in a fashion show context.
Comden/Green/Styne wrote a comic number for Subways are for Sleeping that could work for a bathing suit sequence. It has to be sung by a member of the opposite sex than the one that is modelling. It is called "I Just Can't Wait (To See You With Clothes On)".
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#7re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 3:22pm
"Think Pink!" and "On How To Be Lovely" both from the film Funny Face have to do with fashion.
Z.
"You're not a kid anymore, Robby. I don't think you'll ever be a kid again, kiddo." - Joanne, Company
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#9re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 3:39pm"Creation of Man" from The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Sarcasm is an allergic reaction to stupid people.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#10re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 3:42pm
PUT ON YOUR SUNDAY CLOTHES from HELLO DOLLY
TAKE IT LIKE A MAN from LEGALLY BLONDE
#11re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 3:45pm
Always True To You (In My Fashion) - from KISS ME KATE
J*
#12re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 4:13pm
Miss Celie's Pants from The Color Purple
Green, Green Dress from Tick, Tick, Boom
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#13re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 5:06pm
Here's a rare one:
JUST SO from George Stiles and Anthony Drewe's "Just So" (the version that they do now, not the one that's on the CD)
"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid
Keelay
Swing Joined: 11/26/04
#14re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 5:18pm
Life With Harold - The Full Monty
"I really love that man
He likes me dressed to the nines
I say two words and then ta-da
There's me completely in Prada
And I've got the boots that go with the belt
That goes with the bag
That goes with my wonderful life with Harold
You gotta love that man"
Updated On: 11/16/07 at 05:18 PM
#15re: Songs About Fashion?
Posted: 11/16/07 at 6:02pmI was thinking "Popular" from Wicked. It mentions fashion, it's about being pretty and popular, and I think it would work really well.
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster.
"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
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