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#1

Songs and musicals about letters

Hello,

Excuse me, I came here for your help - I look for songs and musicals where are LETTERS (1st September is International day of writing letters)
I have this:



"Three Letters + Dear Friend" from SHE LOVES ME
"First Letter Home" from TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
"Letter" from BILLY ELLIOT
"What Is This Feeling" from WICKED
"Things I Didn't Know" from DADDY LONG LEGS
"Fifth Letter" from PASSION



Any next tips please? I need 1 or 2 other songs...
Thank you :)

#4

Songs and musicals about letters

Damn, looking at my Playbills writing letters/notes is kind of a cliché... Beaches, Mamma Mia, Gypsy, Dear Evan Hansen.

#5

Songs and musicals about letters

Letters (Baker Street)

Letter to the Children (A Doll's Life)



And if you wish to use a song from a movie, there's I've Written a Letter to Daddy from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

#6

Songs and musicals about letters

Letters from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.


I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#8

Songs and musicals about letters

There are so many. These are the ones I could think of off the top of my head:

Pretty much the entire musical Daddy Long Legs.

Desiree's sections of "The Glamorous Life" from A Little Night Music

"Dear One" from Kiss of the Spider Woman

"Here Alone" from Little Women

"At the Glen" from Dessa Rose

"Eleanor's Letter" from First Lady Suite

"Letter to the Governor" from Parade

"She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress starts out as Jenna writing a letter to her baby.

"Edges of the World" from Fun Home

"A Summer in Ohio" from The Last Five Years

"And Then There Were None" from Spring Awakening...kind of (the song is framed around Frau Gabor writing Moritz a letter, to which Moritz responds in song)

"The Proposal/The Night Was Alive" from Titanic is set around sending a telegram


"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
#9

Songs and musicals about letters

Thank you so much for your messages and tips, super cooperation!

Have a nice summer!!

#10

Songs and musicals about letters

Daddy Long Legs. It's a sweet, intimate musical (mostly) about the correspondence between a girl from an orphanage and the man who provides her financial support for college and eventually falls for her.

#11

Songs and musicals about letters

"What is This Feeling" from Wicked starts with the two witches writing letters home.


I like a good rhyme more than a good time
#12

Songs and musicals about letters

"'Till Then" from 1776

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Updated On: 7/12/16 at 09:41 AM

#13

Songs and musicals about letters

You probably don't need anymore examples, but what about "The Letter Song" from The Secret Garden?


"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure." ~Roger Bart
#17

Songs and musicals about letters

A large portion of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is also centered around letters

#18

Songs and musicals about letters

Dear Friend SHE LOVES ME (and, of course, the show itself)

You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) THE HONEYMOON EXPRESS and, most famously and with new lyrics in the film BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938

The Letter SWEENEY TODD

#19

Songs and musicals about letters

A song called "Letter From The Refuge" was added to the national tour of Newsies, and it centers around Crutchie writing a letter to the other newsboys. It is not on the OBCR, however, since it was written for the tour.

#21

Songs and musicals about letters

"Notes" from Phantom of the Opera has various cast members reading letters that the Phantom has written to them.

#22

Songs and musicals about letters

"The school song" from Matilda....


My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades
#23

Songs and musicals about letters

From one of the biggest successes in Broadway history...



The Letter- A Year with Frog and Toad

#25

Songs and musicals about letters

TFMH18 said: "This isn't a musical per se, but "A Letter from Cecile" from Smash!

Good one. Especially since that's from the LIAISON'S musical in Smash, and Les Laisons Dangereueses (the novel) is all letters (or as we say in lit. an epistolary novel).

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