#151
Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:52am
Neither of these is a thatre song, but "You Riase Me Up" IS "Danny Boy" with different lyrics.
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#152
Posted: 7/10/09 at 9:58am
"The funny thing about it is that Marc Shaiman seemed to deliberately lift exact chord progressions and grooves from various 60's hits for his Hairspray score, yet he still created completely new and original pieces."
I forget who the composers of "Over Here!" were, but they did the same thing for the Big Band songs, perhaps consciously. As an example, listen to Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train" (actually, Billy Strayhorn wrote it)and "Over Here1"'s "Dream Drumming". The similarities are scary!
I forget who the composers of "Over Here!" were, but they did the same thing for the Big Band songs, perhaps consciously. As an example, listen to Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train" (actually, Billy Strayhorn wrote it)and "Over Here1"'s "Dream Drumming". The similarities are scary!
#153
Posted: 7/18/09 at 11:58pm
"Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie sounds remarkably like "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" from The Pirates of Penzance.
#154
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:07am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLR35ftc6s
No one wants to see a musical called Thoroughly Modern Mildred.
#155
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:43am
I've always thought that when Mrs. Lovett sings "I know why nobody cares to take them, I should know, I make them, but good? No!" it sounds like "Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya Tomorrow!"
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#156
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:45am
I think Speed Test was intentionally similar.
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#157
Posted: 7/19/09 at 1:57pm
No, Speed Test acutally IS ANOTHER Gilbert & Sullivan song (with different lyrics). It is "My Eyes are Fully Opened" from RUDDIGORE (which was also interpolated into the Joe Papp production of Pirates of Penzance in the early 1980's.)
My Eyes are fully opened to my awful situation
I should go at once to Roderick and make him a oration
I shall tell him I've recovered my forgotten moral senses
And I do not give a damn about the pending consequences
Now I do not want to perish by the sword or by the dagger
But a martyr may indulge a little pardonable swagger
And a word or two of compliment my vanity would flatter
But I've got to die tomorrow so it really doesn't matter
No it really doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter
et cetera
Stage Manager - The Worst Pies/Tomorrow thing was an intentional musical in-joke by Sondheim. ANNIE was the biggest hit on Broadway when he was writing Sweeney.
Timmer - every song in KISMET is based on a theme by Borodin.
My Eyes are fully opened to my awful situation
I should go at once to Roderick and make him a oration
I shall tell him I've recovered my forgotten moral senses
And I do not give a damn about the pending consequences
Now I do not want to perish by the sword or by the dagger
But a martyr may indulge a little pardonable swagger
And a word or two of compliment my vanity would flatter
But I've got to die tomorrow so it really doesn't matter
No it really doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter
et cetera
Stage Manager - The Worst Pies/Tomorrow thing was an intentional musical in-joke by Sondheim. ANNIE was the biggest hit on Broadway when he was writing Sweeney.
Timmer - every song in KISMET is based on a theme by Borodin.
Updated On: 7/19/09 at 01:57 PM
#158
Posted: 7/19/09 at 3:10pm
Stars and Love Changes Everything.
No one wants to see a musical called Thoroughly Modern Mildred.
#159
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:38pm
Hmmm... really? Those are two of my favorite songs. I've never really listened for a similarity between them before... Whoa, I think I do see what you mean.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#160
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:49pm
"I'll Never Have That Chance" from LESTAT reminds me of "I Know The Truth" from AIDA, and I have no idea why...because they sound nothing alike.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#161
Posted: 7/19/09 at 6:56pm
Which parts of Stars and Love Changes Everything sound similar? I don't hear it.
#162
Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:02pm
This is pretty off-topic, but has anyone else noticed the suspicious similarities between Passing Strange's set and Spring Awakening's set?
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#163
Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:56pm
The music in Shine Like the Sun between Doralee's verse and Judy's verse reminds me SO, so much of some of the music from High Fidelity, but I can't for the life of me think of what song.
#164
Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:07pm
Which parts of Stars and Love Changes Everything sound similar? I don't hear it.
I think it's just the structure. "There... out in the darkness/A fugitive running, fallen from grace." "Love... love changes everything/Hands and faces, earth and sky." The way the first syllable is extended and the way both grow higher toward the middle of the line and lower at the end.
I think it's just the structure. "There... out in the darkness/A fugitive running, fallen from grace." "Love... love changes everything/Hands and faces, earth and sky." The way the first syllable is extended and the way both grow higher toward the middle of the line and lower at the end.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#165
Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:13pm
Yup. Not the exact same melodies, but they are very similar structurally.
No one wants to see a musical called Thoroughly Modern Mildred.
#166
Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:17pm
One of The Boys from 9 to 5 reminds me of a mix between When Violet Takes the Stand and Roxie from Chicago.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#167
Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:41pm
"Little Shop of Horrors" = "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus" from HAMLET 2
#168
Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:43pm
Oh, my, god RogerBat. I never even realized that till now, and now I can't stop thinking about it.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#169
Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:00pm
RogerBart the only reason I realized it was because during a dress rehearsal the girls changed their lyric to "Rock Me Sexy Jesus." It was hysterical
I think the Bali Ha'i (Just the words Bali Ha'i in the frist line of the chorus) sounds like the beginning "Ahs" of the Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.
Also I think the part of "A Boy Like That" where Anita says "A boy who kills cannot love, A boy who kills has no heart. And he's the boy who gets your love And gets your heart" sound like the "Ahs" Ariel singing in The Little Mermaid when she is singing into Ursula's shell.
I know these aren't entire songs but these parts get me everytime. And I always change the lyrics.
I think the Bali Ha'i (Just the words Bali Ha'i in the frist line of the chorus) sounds like the beginning "Ahs" of the Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.
Also I think the part of "A Boy Like That" where Anita says "A boy who kills cannot love, A boy who kills has no heart. And he's the boy who gets your love And gets your heart" sound like the "Ahs" Ariel singing in The Little Mermaid when she is singing into Ursula's shell.
I know these aren't entire songs but these parts get me everytime. And I always change the lyrics.
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#170
Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:05pm
"NYC" from ANNIE and "Edelweiss" from SOM
Sirius XM Broadway channel uses the instrumental NYC as part of their promo and I always start sining Edelweiss
Sirius XM Broadway channel uses the instrumental NYC as part of their promo and I always start sining Edelweiss
#171
Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:07pm
"The beginning of "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show always reminds me of "For Good" from Wicked. "
YES!! They sound very similar.
YES!! They sound very similar.
#172
Posted: 7/19/09 at 11:25pm
I know we're not talking about Andrew Lloyd Webber stealing from himself, but if we were there are a few bars in "Song & Dance" that are ripped right out of "Cats".
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#173
Posted: 7/20/09 at 1:13am
I always assumed the Rock me Sexy Jesus was intentionally exactly like Little Shop of Horrors.
#174
Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:02am
Serious and Positive from Legally Blonde.
Only the part where they sing the words "Serious" and "Positive." It's SO similar. I was always like, "How did they get away with that??"
Only the part where they sing the words "Serious" and "Positive." It's SO similar. I was always like, "How did they get away with that??"
#175
Posted: 7/20/09 at 9:52am
when doing children of eden, the director and i noticed that the beginning of "the wasteland" is exactly the same as "do you hear the people sing" from les mis.
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