Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
onesongfrom
Swing Joined: 9/20/19
#1Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/20/19 at 12:53pm
My girlfriend and I have been working on this project called One Song From for a few months now and thought people here might enjoy what we're up to! We're writing original 1-minute songs from made up musicals, and working with local Chicago musical performers to bring them to life on video via Instagram and Facebook.
Here's the Instagram feed if you're feeling like checking it out: https://www.instagram.com/onesongfrom/
And our most popular vid so far on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/iOComedyNetwork/videos/2386648181449212/
Midnight Radio
Broadway Star Joined: 5/26/07
#3Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/20/19 at 2:18pm
"In Germany Before the War" by Randy Newman is a complete one-off in his catalogue, a chilling approximation of the Sondheim/Wheeler sound written several years before Sweeney Todd. It's not from a musical but it seems like it would have been, and it paints the picture of an alternate universe where Newman became one of Broadway's most acclaimed and adventurous composers.
#4Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/20/19 at 5:07pm
Sometimes it's important to read the post and not just the title.
chestercopperpot
Swing Joined: 11/11/14
#5Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/20/19 at 5:49pm
Wowowow, I just went and listened to this song by both Randy Newman and Marianne Faithfall and I'm in tears. It's just chilling and beautiful and so, so sad. Thank you for posting.
darquegk said: ""In Germany Before the War" by Randy Newman is a complete one-off in his catalogue, a chilling approximation of the Sondheim/Wheeler sound written several years before Sweeney Todd. It's not from a musical but it seems like it would have been, and it paints the picture of an alternate universe where Newman became one of Broadway's most acclaimed and adventurous composers."
chestercopperpot
Swing Joined: 11/11/14
#6Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/20/19 at 5:51pm
Even so, I'm glad to have been introduced to that Randy Newman song. Sometimes chat board mistakes are beautiful. :)
CATSNYrevival said: "Sometimes it's important to read the post and not just the title."
#7Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/21/19 at 9:08amRandy Newman once said “the prettiest song I ever wrote was the one about the child molester.”
chestercopperpot
Swing Joined: 11/11/14
#8Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/23/19 at 10:35pm
darquegk said: "Randy Newman once said “the prettiest song I ever wrote was the one about the child molester.”"
Ew, really? Wow--I don't know much about him or his preferences...how disturbing.
#9Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/24/19 at 7:29am
The song mentioned above, In Germany Before the War, is the “song about the child molester.” Newman is a satirist with a famously dark sense of humor, but he plays the self-delusion and queasy nostalgia of an old monster for his glory days pitch-black straight. It’s haunting.
But no worries, Newman is no more a pedophile than Sondheim is a cannibal baker.
chestercopperpot
Swing Joined: 11/11/14
#10Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/24/19 at 3:45pm
Oh I see now. I had interpreted it totally differently. I thought it was about the holocaust and the little girl was a relative or neighbor to the man and she had been killed. I guess that's the great thing about art, it can evoke different emotions and meanings depending on a person's experiences or history.
#11Songs From Musicals That Don't Exist
Posted: 9/24/19 at 7:57pm
Interesting! I had never even thought about it that way.
I think canonically the “man who owns the store” is the same child predator that inspired the famous movie M, in which he was played by Peter Lorre.
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